Foot in mouth. Twice in a week.

[Plaidman]

So its early morning, my boss is going to get there real soon, so making sure everything is ready.

Man bought a coffee, and saw my boss (She's Chinese), trying to park. She got in at a bad angle, and she drives a minivan. Man goes off about how asian woman are terrible drivers, etc blah blah. I'm just smiling and shrugging. She comes in, and saying hi to me goes behind counter. Man eyes widen and he leaves.

A few days later, man buying paper and donuts was asking about the neighborhood. I tell him lots of thieves and jerks, but thats about it. Man then goes on about damn <race> and other damn <Race> and that <race> is bad because they do this. Just off and off. He doesn't realized that my manager is behind him when he says these, nor does he see that three customers of another race he said was bad was behind him. I just smiled and said I can wait on you guys, mentioning behind the racist bastard. He goes "OH!" smiles at me, takes a step to the side, said two customers glare at him, my manager frowns but doesn't say anything. Man realizes quietness and basically runs out of the store.

[l F0CUS l]

I have had people diss other races, but my silent neutral looks usually gets them to shut it. If I ever have a customer complaining about having to stand in line behind another person because of said race, I will personally check out the customer that was being discriminated against.

[RammsteinGirl]

Grr.. I can't STAND racist people like that. I have absolutely no tolerance for racists. I admit, I enjoy racial-stereotype jokes, but as for having an actual serious belief that one skin color is better than another, no way.

[GingerBiscuit]

Ah yes.
'person B is worse than me becuase they have a different skin tone and different shaped eyes'.
Almost as funny as 'Person B is worse than me cause their reproductive organs are on the inside.'


Hmmmm, did I ever tell you about 'Tigers and Lions' guy? I think I did.

[bigjimaz]

What I've never understood is how someone can hate another person because of the color of their skin or what religion they follow. I used to argue with my father about this all the time while I was growing up. I remember asking him why he didn't like people of color. He never could give me a direct answer. I loved my dad, but when he died in 1993 I promised myself that the part of my dad's legacy that I was most ashamed of would die with him. In a neatly packed box, I buried his white robe, shroud and cross with him.

The totally ironic thing about this was that as I was trying to do my family's genealogy in the late 1990's I found that my father's great-grandmother was ½ African-American. Since I discovered this, it makes me wonder if Dad's opinion would be different had he known. Somehow I doubt it.

[Bright_Star]

I figure it this way.....We ALL live on this Earth so why in the world make it harder than it has to be by being racist? What has that ever accomplished?
More wars have been fought over racism than any other reason. It seems to me that God made ALL OF US. So why not get along & make the creator proud instead of ashamed that he made us?

[Becks]

I love when rascists get what's coming to them.

[UncleImpy]

Not racism, but more of, I suppose, a discrimination bit on my part that I guess I was sucky over.

At the time I was working as a store manager for a Subway with a couple of friends of mine. The store owners were a married couple: the guy was huge, and I mean tall and more than a little overweight, and the gal was tiny, one of those short, skinny little bundles of muscle you DONT MESS WITH...ex-marine, carried a revolver in her purse, and so on.

So, its a really SLOW day at the store, slow enough that we have CNN on the little TV behind the counter, idly listening to the news while we cut stuff up. One of the stories was how some princess in Japan had just married one of the nations star sumo wrestlers. They showed a short clip of the couple, and I mean, the size disparity was...big. Big mountain of a sumo, tiny waif Japanese princess.

Me and my inhibitions obviously were not connecting. /I/ did not know that the female half of the owner couple was just then coming in the back door. Yeah...you see this train wreck coming now.

Me, watching the TV: "Dude, I mean...how do you make something like that WORK? I mean, look at that guy. He'll break her in half!"

Murad, friend of mine, co-worker, facing the other way and sees Bosslady coming up from the back, pointedly stares at me and shakes his head in his best 'Dude, shut up, your career is in serious jeopardy' without actually saying something she can hear.

Me, completely oblivious, just keeps on babbling.

Bosslady comes up, stops right next to me, sees what's on the TV, and just grins and mutters, "There are ways to make it work," and walks on up to the front.

Apparently it took the rest of the day to get the red off of my face. Murad hit the floor, having difficulty breathing he was laughing so hard.