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A St. Louis-area waitress was fired recently after she referred to a black couple as “black couple” on a receipt.
According to local Fox affiliate KTVI, Kimberli Wilson and a friend were at Patrick’s Westport Grill when she saw the words. “Totally, totally humiliated,” she said. “I was frustrated, I was angry, I was thinking, ‘Really, are we still doing this in 2015?'”
The waitress explained that she only used the term because she was unable to remember her table numbers. But Wilson said she should have used a different term. “She could have said first table, table at front door, man with coral shirt. There are so many other options that she could have chosen other than that. That’s unacceptable.”
Owner Patrick Hannon apologized and fired the waitress in question. “I’m also going to bring in a consultant to give some diversity training so we all understand what it’s all about,” he told KTVI.
Very silly reason to make a big deal out of it. Nothing wrong with calling black people black (I'm black). Now if they would have said "gorilla table" or "N__er couple" then I can see issues with that, but not this. The manager IMO went overboard trying to look PC and "accepting." He shouldn't have fired the waitress IMO.
Very silly reason to make a big deal out of it. Nothing wrong with calling black people black (I'm black). Now if they would have said "gorilla table" or "N__er couple" then I can see issues with that, but not this. The manager IMO went overboard trying to look PC and "accepting." He shouldn't have fired the waitress IMO.
Agreed. I was a waitress at very busy restaurant and there were lunch rushes where I had eight tables and it moved very quickly. I made notations on my order pad often to help me remember who was who. Would the offended patrons have been happier not to get the right order because the server mixed them up with another table?
Well, if you're going to be totally humiliated/offended by something ridiculous, now is the time to do it.
It is war and the black couple won because they got a young white woman fired. Victory for the black race!
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