Are YOU racist?

[Plaidman]

I tend to get racist alot, for doing my job (Carding, not breaking change for 50s. 100's etc)., but I'm pretty sure this one took the cake...

Man gets one SINGLE ice cream bar. He pays with twenty, I give him his 19 dollars in change, and tell him good day.. The phone rings. I answer it, it's boss lady. The man yells at me that because he's black, I didn't offer him a BAG for his freaking ice cream bar as he storms out to his car.

I don't get people these days ><. Anyone else been called racist for the stupidest thing?

[edible_hat]

During a long hot summer when the major ice company (supply around 60% of ice) around here had a major equipment breakdown. They hired all the refridgerated trucks they could to bring ice in from interstate, and the three minor companies were at full capacity, but it was nowhere near enough to meet demand (we were lucky if a delivery arrived, and even luckier if it was a quarter of what we'd ordered).

SC: "I want a bag of ice."
Me: "Unfortunately we don't have any ice..." (about to give directions to the 3 nearest other places that sell ice, he may have been lucky to get some there)
SC: "YOU'RE RACIST! YOU'RE REFUSING TO SERVE ME BECAUSE I'M ASIAN!"
Me: "No, I'm refusing to sell any ice because we don't have any. See for yourself."
SC goes outside, glares into the ice freezer, glares at me, gets into his penis-substite of a sports car, and drives off.

edit: I think I've told this one before...

[Shengirl]

I told a story on here once about a man who caused a huge scene because our Western Union machine broke. And that made us racist.

[Listerfiend]

I have two major stories that come to mind from working as cashier at my (craft) store...

1) Group of 4 black women. TONS of wedding stuff. They all had their own transactions which were made unnecessarily complex with their own lack of organization ("is that yours or mine?"...). One of them had a coupon and we're able to have customers sign a log to receive a discount if they forgot theirs, and I recall having to explain how our coupons work over and over again (it's 40% off any one regular priced item per transaction). Long story short, I have to do a bunch of returns so they can get their stupid discounts on all their crap, and they were being extraordinarily rude and pushy, and also noticed that I was getting noticeably upset/angry. One was half-assedly apologizing (it was an obvious act) and pulls out this one: "Are you mad because we're black? [to her cohorts] I think she's mad because we're black." I said nothing because I just wanted them OUT of my store so I could move on with my life.

2) Had a customer who as I was finishing her transaction decides that she had some change she wanted to offload (cash transaction). It was after I was done and had taken the change out and everything; I took the new change from her and since the cash she was receiving wasn't affected by this, I set it on the counter while re-counting the change. I'm almost done with that and she starts going on about how I was rude to have not handed the change back to her (even though she had slapped down her cash on the counter when paying--no joke). I started to tell her that I wasn't done re-counting her change (and most people only amend their change to get back an even number--she was so idiotic as to want an odd number back...), and that I always hand people back their change but she was talking over me, and when she walked away I could hear her muttering something about "god***n white motherf*****s." Because, obviously, my whiteness is to blame for her stupidity and rudeness.

[hotelnpa]

I've mentioned this before too.

We charge local cash paying guests a room deposit if they stay at our hotel. Or they may hold their room with a valid credit card and pay cash at check out. The reason being that local residents tend to trash the rooms more and cause problems.

One night a local black guy wanted a room, but wanted to pay cash. I informed him of the deposit and he went ballistic on me, calling me racist in front of a line of customers. We don't charge cash paying out of towners a deposit and the guy before him happened to fit that description. He said I didn't charge the customer in front of him, who happen to be white. Truth is, the reason why we started the deposit was mainly because of local white population trashing the rooms and doing illegal things.

Now we do make exceptions. Back in September 2003, southwestern Pennsylvania faced horrible floods and some locals couldn't get to their homes because of flooded roads. We waived the local deposit in that situation since so many locals were displaced.

[Lady Heather]

I'm not racist...

I'm ageist. If you are a teenage boy and are wearing baggey jeans that could hide a five year old, we will watch you. If you are a teenage girl and have a purse that would hide one of our diso balls, we will wach you. Usually the kids know this, but every now and then: "Your profiling!" "It's against the law! You can't follow us around!" "Just because we're Black/Mexican/Asian!"
I don't care what color you are!!
I have also been acused of being a racist by a white kid. His black friend told him to shut the hell up. Then apologized to me "for the idiot".
I saw this on the web somewhere and wish I could use it at work: " I'm sorry your race card has been declined. Is there another form of entitlement you would like to use?"

[KnitShoni]

Not me, but my husband gets it all the time. People just look at him and assume he's racist. The black folks are always shocked when they see he's married to me.

[Horsetuna]

I worked for a racist once... I think I todl you all about Wallie at the casino... ageist and racist. I was the only white girl in the kitchen and the only person under 30 (except the waitresses, who were technically this department but worked separately)

He yelled at me 'thanks a F***ing lot" on my first day for not doing something I didnt know what to do, always treated me like a retart, always yelled at me for 'slacking off' when I was reading a menu to help explain it ot one of the dealers...

I hid in the freezer a lot and cried. I was so glad to get out of there. I never have been racist myself though, although I did have one guy say the entire Casino, Country and The World was run by Russian Communists.

[Calud]

Not me, but my husband gets it all the time. People just look at him and assume he's racist. The black folks are always shocked when they see he's married to me.

Your husband does not happen to be bald, wearing one of those kkk hoods on his head or having a big swastika on his forehead, does he? Because I seriously can't imagine how someone could be called racist just by looking at them.

[DrFaroohk]

Don't you know? There's only two kinds of people out there. 1) People who are racist. Which means they are racist. 2) People who are NOT racist. Which automatically makes you racist.

[KnitShoni]

lol no, he's just white. Many black people just assume all white people are racist unless they wear baggy pants down around their asses.

[JustADude]

lol no, he's just white. Many black people just assume all white people are racist unless they wear baggy pants down around their asses.

I love getting those guys in my store.
The fact that I can go from Harvard English to Semi-Ebonic English in the space of a breath has broken the brains of more than a few guys who think that try to pull the race-card when I insist on ID before they buy their joint-wraps *ahem* I mean cigarillos.

[Calud]

Ah, hell yeah. Buying some papers, and nothing else, in the middle of the night at a gas station kind of ruins the secrecy of the whole thing. :P

[Gerrinson]

Apparently, I am racist

While just chit chatting with another cashier at the grocery store where I used to work, I happened to say that I don't like rap.

Her response: "You don't like rap? You a godd*** racist m*****f*****."

Guess I didn't get the memo that only racists hate rap music.

Did I mention she was white?

[Imogene]

I forget what year it was, but some Halloween at high school, I dressed up in grey sweats, and a white Reaper cloak/hood. I proclaimed myself a grey wizard, and went about my day. Yeah, that was smart of me.
A friend and I routinely walked to the building across from the cafeteria to have lunch in the Chess Team's classroom, where the French teacher would also give us random French lessons to compliment our German lessons.
That particular day, as we crossed the courtyard, a group of students decided to follow us, shouting at me for being racist. I hadn't opened my mouth, much less done more than glance at them. They followed us to the classroom, and the teacher intercepted them, proclaiming I was dressed as 'a superhero'. Uh, no. Thanks a ton for that, though.