Is this racist?

[Lonestar_logic]

Yes you're racist.

 

[Yurt]

Yurt, I'm ignoring your attempt to derail the thread. I guess an effort by Yurt to derail threads is the price one pays for making him look like a moron.

derailment....horse hockey...it is an absolutely valid question and truly does justice to your attempts to understand racism. you don't want to answer it because you know you are going to be forced to admit sherrod committed a racist act. i thought you would have more courage than that. my question fits exactly with your OP, which sought to understand the sherrod incident, however, my question more closely fits her facts.

you have no business telling anyone anything about running away

 

[Tank]

Racist?

http://naturalselectionanddeadniggerstorage.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/******-barbie-is-cheaper-than-pretty-white-barbie.jpg

 

[Tank]

Is this racist?

 

[RetiredGySgt]

What's the answer if the salseperson were David Duke?

What's the answer if the salesperson were Sheila Jackson Lee?

What's the answer if the salesperson were Mother Theresa?


In all three caes the salesperson could claim their actions were based on dislike of people with an attitude, but in the first two cases the historical reference of racial bias would either consiously or subconsiously skew that claim....

So does that make it racist?

If the person is a known racist, then that possibility most certainly exists and cannot be ignored...

This isn't rocket surgery... Why are you having a problem with it?

She only has one brain cell, give her a break.

 

[MizMolly]

You aren't being racist if you sell something inferior to someone because of their behavior, unless their race played a factor in your decision to sell the inferior product. It seems more like you decided because of their race they had the attitude. What if the person with the attitude was the same race as you, would you still sell the inferior product? If so, it has nothing to do with race, just the attitude.

 

[JakeStarkey]

I can't make my mind up about this.

Say you are working in a tractor store and someone of a different ethnic background comes in to buy something and they cop a superior attitude.

If you sell them the inferior tractor because their attitude annoyed you are you being racist?

One of the family businesses for about fifty or sixty years have been a tractor supply business. It is not the big cash cow but does well nonetheless. Those folks who are racist have learned to stay away (we won't sell to them) and we have disciplined and terminated employment of several workers for racialism in the performance of their duties.

One was a pentecostal who went after an Hispanic who looked 'illegal' to her (about seven years ago), one would chat happily with black customers then go 'sullen' with whites (her excuse: 'that's the way I am and was raised'). and a guy who simply could not talk to females without sexual innuendos ('that's a hole who wants my pole').

All their appeals for unemployment failed.

 

[Tank]

Is this Racist?