Everyday discrimination (racism, money, Muslim, women)

[ktalley]

I was watching Oprah today about what you would do as a person if you witnessed something that was wrong. Would you interfere?
Well, one of the things they showed stood out. Discrimination. A Muslim women walked in to a bakery to order an applestrudle but the guy behind the counter refused to serve her because she was a Muslim.
Have this happened to you? Or have you witnessed it happened to others. I am talking about obvious cases of discrimination. What is your story?

[macmeal]

I've seen some instances of rudeness and "passing over" certain customers in favor of others, that MAY have been construed as 'racism"....and a few incidents that I'd bet MONEY on....but no, I've never actually witnessed anything quite as blatant as your example. I've never actually heard the 'offender' put his racism in words...."I won't serve you, because you're a xxxxxxx"...no, nothing quite like that.

[Vanslyke]

I live in AZ which is like little mexico so we dont see alot of racism here, I think the worst Ive seen was actually aimed at me for being white...

[NewToCA]

I haven't seen anything like you have described in the original posting. I have seen rude customer behavior, but no bad organizational or company behavior.

[wehotex]

Originally Posted by ktalley

I was watching Oprah today about what you would do as a person if you witnessed something that was wrong. Would you interfere?
Well, one of the things they showed stood out. Discrimination. A Muslim women walked in to a bakery to order an applestrudle but the guy behind the counter refused to serve her because she was a Muslim.
Have this happened to you? Or have you witnessed it happened to others. I am talking about obvious cases of discrimination. What is your story?

the woman was probably drawing attention to herself by wearing her burka. if she expects to be treated "normally", she should at least try her best to dress like everyone else around her. ppl like her get no sympathy from me. she deserves the treatment that she received. if it was something benign like skin color over which she had no control, that would be a different story.

[macmeal]

I believe it was Dick Gregory, many years ago in Mississippi, who handled blatant discrimination with remarkable 'polish'. Told by a waitress, "I'm sorry, but we don't serve black people here", Gregory smiled and replied "That's OK, because I don't want to eat black people. I want to eat chicken"....

I'm not sure I would have handled it that well...

[laysayfair]

Originally Posted by wehotex

the woman was probably drawing attention to herself by wearing her burka. if she expects to be treated "normally", she should at least try her best to dress like everyone else around her. ppl like her get no sympathy from me. she deserves the treatment that she received. if it was something benign like skin color over which she had no control, that would be a different story.

"...benign like skin color over which she had no control". Well, that's mighty white of you.

[Huckleberry3911948]

i read the posts classic stuff. please dont think that reverse discrimination does not occur, please don't think that. its not discrimination that needs to be healed its hatred and violence. we dont need to look to check the color b4 we are mean, the mean is the problem not the color.
I have a dream.

[saltine]

I have been discriminated against countless times for countless reasons or reasons unknown. Big baby say waaah, big person say big deal get over it.

[buildings_and_bridges]

Originally Posted by wehotex

the woman was probably drawing attention to herself by wearing her burka. if she expects to be treated "normally", she should at least try her best to dress like everyone else around her. ppl like her get no sympathy from me. she deserves the treatment that she received. if it was something benign like skin color over which she had no control, that would be a different story.

What's wrong with wearing a burka? Why would seeing a burka persuade someone not to serve pastries to a customer? We should all dress alike; if we don't, it's considering drawing undue attention to oneself and any discrimination that results is deserved? That sounds insane. Am I missing something?