Actually I posted in here that this is factually incorrect. Read my post about the manager and tenant of my musical studio. I was in 100% agreement with you up until my manager called me and notified me. A black man INDEED asked the manager why I didn't ask him for his key and make sure he was allowed in. My experience has factually disproved this and thus leads me to ask, when is it okay then to ask? I've been told by a black person in my secure building I was wrong NOT to ask him. Now you are saying black people don't ask when its okay. Only white people do. Well we do. because we are confused. Or I am at least. Where is the point we can all just move forward and ask openly about allowability without having the race issue come up? There is a conflict here.
Last Friday on my way to the boat, I stopped in at Walmart to get a bale of socks and shorts. Don't seem to have another store that sells socks and shorts by the bale. Needed a few groceries too so I did the list at Walmart. Sorry I did the self checkout, but there I was, everything scanned but the socks and shorts. So I called for help. She comes and does a bunch of stuff on the keyboard then hand scans the two I could not. I thought, well that is fucked up, but oh well! Shit then she starts re-scanning the stuff in my sack! Why you doing this? I already scanned that stuff! No answer. She does the whole bag. When she is done, all is well and she hands me the receipt. No word. Now leaving the self check out, I am right at the exit way, about fifteen feet from the exit it checker. Sure enough, here he comes before I can even quicken my gait. Of course the receipt is sort of fucked up so he is slow checking it item by item. My blood pressure 2high/200 and I need fresh air. Damn I need to find a place that sells socks by the bale! It did occur to me though, waiting for the last security check, I bet they don't treat old black guys this rudely. Didn't Say it though!!!
Whenever anyone at the exit at Walmart asks if they can check my receipt I say NOPE and keep walking. They never do anything about it.
Oh please. I have been in a Walmart many times and them checking the receipt is hardly a big deal as they glance quickly and put a check mark on the receipt and you are on your way. Your last comment makes you sound like a racist.
A colleague of mine told me today she just took her teenage son to the dentist. Twice the dentist talked about"low income" youth. She is a well dressed well educated professional woman. Why would anyone just assume her family is low income? Because she's black?
That is the same thing my grandsons dentist did when I took him a couple years ago. She is pretty young, do you think it is the chitchat they learn in school?
Because her son, the one he referred to, probably knows some of them and the dentist would like to help them? My dentist does all kinds of community volunteering of his services, and allows strapped patients to carry a balance for years if necessary. Sad your weel-dressed, well-educated professional colleague jumped to such a hateful conclusion about a genuinely caring citizen. Guess it's true clothes don't make the man, or woman.
I was at the venetian a couple of months ago in the pool. I stay in the shade because I burn and these white college girls were talking about low income POC students. I'm sorry but the way they were talking about them was offensive to me. It was like they were talking about a pitbull that didn't bite you and how lucky they were. I could tell that they were trying to sound inclusive but it just came off as superiority masked as compassion. Like when someone says a black guy is "so well spoken" I wonder if it wasn't something similar. Trying to sound compassionate.
The woman could politely ask if he was a tenant but should never block his path. Only the police or the apartment manager have the authority to block someone's path.
