Re: Something I Have Never Heard....

On Jan 30, 4:31 pm, ScottW <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 4:27 pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"





<artygu...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 6:16 pm, ScottW <Scott...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jan 30, 4:03 pm, "Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!"

<artygu...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jan 30, 12:58 pm, vinylan...@xxxxxxx wrote:

On Jan 29, 11:58�pm, Bret Ludwig <bretld...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

�It just hit me now.

�In my whole goddamned life, I have NEVER heard a white or non-black
person refer to a black person as "***" to their face or around or
in reasonable earshot of blacks. .

I have.

But then again, it might be difficult for you to witness these things
while glued to your computer screen.

I conducted an experiment once when I was on duty in Florida.

I was out to dinner with a black Lieutenant Colonel. I told him what I
wanted to do. He didn't believe what I thought would happen would
happen, but he agreed to it.

When the white waitress came to the table she walked directly to me.
When she asked me what I wanted to drink, I ignored her question,
turned to the LTC and said, "Sir, what would you like to drink?" She
served me my drink first. Then she asked what I wanted to order. I
again turned to the LTC and said, "Sir, are you ready to order?" She
served me my food first. Then she brought the bill. To me. I looked at
the LTC and smiled and shrugged my shoulders. He laughed, grabbed the
bill and said, "I'll get this."

I don't think the waitress was doing anything on a conscious level.

Then again there is the possbility that waiters and waitresses in that
establishment were trained to start taking and giving orders with
the oldest women present and go clockwise from there...women first
and then rotate through the men...if there were no women....then start
wih the
first seat on the waiters right and go clockwise from there.

Which would have been the LTC, but whatever.

 Exactly, we have no idea what that one restaurant policy was or that
one
waitress methods.  You simply assume the worst.
Probably from the guilt that you were born with.

ScottW- Hide quoted text -

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Then again, I have a friend who was once a waitress in Virginia, and
she was told to always give the check to the white person, because
black people don't tip as well. This was from a trainer, and it was
only about ten years ago.

Boon

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