Had a customer rant to me about Juneteenth and how "the wrong race got a holiday" and the banks should be open. Dude, you're in a grocery store, please stop being racist to me đ I'm being paid minimum wage for this
I'm white and I once got called "racist against my own kind" by a white lady while working in a bible belt stateđ
I was operating a ferris wheel that needed to be balanced so it didn't get stuck, and it just so happened that the white family next in line was too large and would've gotten it stuck, so I had the smaller Black family behind them go first instead
Whenever they give you the 'our' kind shit, give them the, "You're out of your fucking mind if you think I'm one of your kind."
I'm so amazed as a white dude what complete strangers at bars (deep red county) will just sit down and say to me out of nowhere, assuming I'm just a bigot racist idiot too.
Yeah it was super baffling. I hate being surrounded by friendly (to me) bigots that I know would make me unsafe the second I were to be honest with them about what I actually believe
I work in manufacturing (think large scale welding and assembly), and while the floor workers are (mostly) perfectly genial towards me, if they knew who I actually was and what I actually believe, I think most of them wouldnât see me as a person. Hell, one of the welders has a confederate flag tattoo for all to see on his right forearm.
Someday Iâll get to leave and work somewhere else, but for now I just have to try to keep a professional distance from them.
I work at a disability law firm, when i first started i was in the intake department fielding calls from ppl who wanted help getting disability and helping to sort through who had a viable claim and who didnt. And the amount of white ppl with (per SSA standards) non-severe conditions and lack of medical care talking about the government âjust giving my money to the illegals and the nâ-â was WILD. Like, my guy, YOU dont qualify for âyour moneyâ based on the SSA guidelines, why are you making up scenarios?!???
Just wanna say, thanks for what you and the lawyers you work with do! I'm on disability, and it took me a while to get onto it. I ended up hiring a disability lawyer and they were super helpful!
Yeah I have been much happier since being on disability. It's been much less stressful, and I haven't had any Crohn's flare ups that put me in the hospital since I got on it! It's been so nice.
I've had that happen to me while I was working. Guy said we had a nice store. He'd seen stores in the Dallas areas with too many n-words. I've never been more disgusted.
I hit them with the "sorry, I'm a Christian, not white trash" that breaks them because if they try to claim Jesus I would ask them to point where Jesus said "hate (minority they are complaining about) "
My mom and I were driving down to visit my brother and his family. A truck with a big confederate flag passed us. She points at it and said "There goes our flag." I immediately replied, "Not mine. The people who fought for that flag were bigots, losers, and traitors. I'm glad they lost." Then a truck with an American flag drove by. I pointed at it and said "That's MY flag."
My sister-in-law is black. My mom and her have a good relationship. She sits her mixed race grandchild. My mom worked in literacy programs filled with people of color for decades helping them learn to read and get their diplomas. She doesn't see the contradiction. Southern white culture sucks ass.
Can see the possible headlines of those wanting to twist that around too. «white person used black family to test out dangerously unbalanced Ferris wheel, while white family was kept safe behind.â
I hated living there so much. I once had two customers call me names and ask me why I had "such a black name" (they said it with a slur tho). Not that it matters, but I was named after a white actress with a very white (though slightly uncommon) name, so they weren't even right about where it came from?
They harassed me for like 15 minutes and my supervisor had to come and shoo them away from me.
Come to mass, even the rural farm areas are blue... Every single county went blue in the last dozen elections. We're a bunch of overeducated socialists and proud of it.
I mean you very much do still see MAGA types around here. Everywhere has at least 30% voting for the other side. I remember for over a year around 2020-2021 there was a big pro-Trump banner that you could see from route 3 north just before the NH line.
There's one narrow vertical strip around Worcester where trump received ~40% of votes. That's about as conservative as it gets.
Closer to Boston (generally anywhere east of Framingham) it drops a lot lower. Most places east of lexington/Concord Trump had only like 5% to 10% of the vote.
You still see maga types but they're definitely in the minority. The BLM signs for sure outnumber the thin blue line flags pretty much everywhere.
I met and had the displeasure of sharing a study abroad host family with a girl from Buffalo last year who was so extremely out of touch and micro aggressive that I honestly wouldn't be surprised.
I thought I passed some sidewalk chalk that said ALM in my very quiet neighbourhood but it turned out it was three kids who wrote their initials which just happen to spell A.L.M.
One of the biggest used car dealerships in Atlanta used to be Atlanta Luxury Motors but renamed as just ALM when they started getting massive. So there are tons of cars in Atlanta with "ALM" stickers. Which confused the hell out of me when they started getting big since like half the people in their cars are Black.
Whenever someone says all lives matter, say: "yes, exactly, thank you for supporting BLM". Make them explain why all lives doesn't include black lives.
And then they try to act all shooketh when you call them out on it, while supporting basically none of the policies that would actually improve everyone's lives.
I find those guys much scarier than all the Sons of Odin etc. types. The implied necessity of violence against black people of the Blue crowd, and the perpetual playing victim/pretending they're rational of the Alls, makes them more dangerous.
Ice T has a very good metal song "no lives matter" with his band Body Count
The intro has a very good explanation of why saying all lives matter is such a farce.
"It's unfortunate that we even have to say 'Black Lives Matter', I mean, if you go through history nobody ever gave a fuck. I mean, you can kill black people in the street, nobody goes to jail, nobody goes to prison. But when I say 'Black Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', that's like if I was to say 'Gay Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter'. If I said, 'Women's Lives Matter' and you say 'All Lives Matter', you're diluting what I'm saying. You're diluting the issue. The issue isn't about everybody. It's about black lives, at the moment
But the truth of the matter is, they don't really give a fuck about anybody, if you break this shit all the way down to the low fucking dirty-ass truth"
The whole all lives matter crowd is something else. You are either extremely racist, or extremely narcissistic and racist. Canât let anyone have anything unless it benefits them and really even then they want to be the only ones benefiting and would rather have things made worse for them as long as it hurts someone else as well.
I've never heard BLM spoken about positively outside my friend group. Lots of people complaining that BLM is everywhere and ruining everything though. Side tangent, when the Biden admin put the line on the WH form asking for your pronoun preference, I got nothing but texts from my MAGA older brother about how oppressed he was by trans legislation. Living in a small Alaskan town populated mainly by white Alaskan conservatives. Like brother, do you even know a single trans person? No? OK, please continue telling me how they're ruining your life. I used to live in Portland, OR. He was always telling me how it was a burned out husk because of BLM. Like... We just went there this summer and visited friends but sure, don't believe me because FOX and RT News says otherwise.
Probably because one is a fraudulent organization that collects money to fund lavish lifestyles of few and does not give back to the community in which it âaimsâ to help.
Juneteenth (a blend of "June" and "nineteenth") commemorates June 19, 1865. On this day, Union Major General Gordon Granger arrived in Galveston, Texas, to announce that the state's 250,000 remaining enslaved people were free.
So it's not even celebrating black people specifically, it's celebrating the end of slavery?
Seems worth celebrating to me. I certainly see why black Americans would celebrate it enough for it to be made a holiday, it's not like they're a tiny minority or that no workplaces would notice if they all took the day off.
Right, the only real reason many places aren't closed during it is the same "holiday erosion" that lots of modern American workplaces have, if it's not one of the "major" holidays, then they generally prefer to just stay open and have everyone work.
Banks and federal employees are about the only ones who get to keep most holidays, every other employer generally just says "you're on your own" if it's not Thanksgiving or Christmas.
Isn't it strange that conservatives constantly claim Lincoln was a Republican and that the Republicans ended slavery but then they get upset when we want to celebrate the end of slavery
They'd probably celebrate it if they could rename it to Lincoln's Day, and make it all about his accomplishments rather than the actual act of slavery ending itself.
Same way they're perfectly content with enioying Mt McKinley and the gulf of America now that they renamed them, lol.
Also similar to how they love Columbus day, but hate Indigenous people's day.
You can't act like they're weird in a retail situation tho, you have to keep the customer service up you know? I was a server in the south so I got real good at being real dumb lmfaoÂ
Always the funniest way to deal with that because they WANT you to get offended. I typically ignore racist remarks by customers (I'm white, so not directed at me) and when I don't engage they talk more racist stuff cause they want to offend me??
I mean, I complain about our companyâs executives sending out emails about how they want to recognize the importance of Juneteenth, but thatâs because they send it just a few days after the email reminding us that it isnât a paid holiday and anyone taking the day off has to use a vacation day or work a different holiday. Iâm not even black, but it definitely feels like they want credit for acknowledging itâs existence while their actions are saying âitâs not a real holidayâ
That's still better than my alma mater trying to send out "Winter Greetings" and acting like it was a "happy holidays"-type letter without trying to offend anyone by saying the wrong thing. It could have literally been titled December Newsletter and then at least it'd sound less like a robot wrote it (obvs this was before LLMs did write emails). Anyone who didn't celebrate Christmas or Kwanzaa wasn't getting their holiday off of scheduled classes, either.
Oh lol okay. For us it is more like we get Juneteenth and MLK day off. There are some events and inspirational posts and such but for most people they are just nice bonus days off.
Man, the general contractor I work under got Juneteenth off, but ONLY for their employees, all of us subcontractors still had to work. Fuckin corporations, I tell ya
I suppose, but Juneteenth is the only federal holiday that we donât get the day off. Itâs not like Diwali where we work because itâs not a federal holiday, but a notable portion of our employees observe it and leadership acknowledges it in emails.
TBF while I know less about your company than you I feel like there is a good chance they aren't against recognizing Juneteenth because they are racist but rather because they would prefer if workers didn't get any holidays at all.
Which is hilarious because they looooove Christmas and are always complaining about people not respecting their Jewish Middle-Eastern messiah on that holy day.
In New Zealand in recent years, Matariki(Maori New Year) became a holiday, and the racists have to whinge about it over and over. Like it affects them in a negative way.
Take the stat day and just drink al long weekend already.
Personally I only hate the name, specifically. "Juneteenth" sounds like it came from Jim Crow. I'd rather call it "Freedom Day" to more accurately reflect what it's about.
I'm white but I still get Juneteenth off. I even had a coworker complain about it. How racist does someone have to be to get a day off and complain about it because it's not about their own race?
People who complain about Juneteenth I assume are unhappy slavery and suffering ended for a significant portion of American citizens. Or else they wouldnât be angry. Someone told me Juneteenth was racist but they just huffed and left with no explanation of why.Â
So I accidentally did this at first but after the reaction I got I keep doing it because itâs just the best. Whenever anyone complains about Juneteenth I just pretend to not know what they are talking about and half the time they just putter themselves out and then the other half they will explain it, generally with quite a bit of bias, and then Iâll say something along the lines âthatâs a great idea for a holidayâ it just completely wrecks them as they think they just made another supporter of the holiday
I had a similar experience work the register at target. It was the middle of February and they were ranting how there were books/media of or made by black people. I had to keep tell him. It was black history month and he kept arguing about people will point what was and wasn't racist. đ€Š
I'm fine with Juneteenth as a holiday but the name is bad . Why not Freedom Day or Emaciation Day or follow the 4th of July and call it the 19th of June. So many better options.
It always being called something doesn't absolve it from being a stupid name. Either the name of the holiday is stupid, or the fact that it's only one day is stupid. There are 7 days that can qualify as Juneteenth, why the hell would you pick that as the name for a single day?
Juneteenth did kinda screw me over this year. I had to mail a package by June 19th, and they would have been able to get it there on time if the post office wasn't closed for Juneteenth.
Although last year I drove to the DMV, and it was closed for Confederate Memorial Day, so I guess it evens out... sorta?
That was my reaction at the DMV. Turns out it's regonized in many Southern States, and in Mississippi, Alabama, South Carolina, and Texas it's a state holiday. In South Carolina (where I'm from), it was made a mandatory state-close holiday in 2000 to appease racists so they could pass MLK Jr. Day.
I set up a trailer outside the post office on juneteenth and get a lot of business printing shipping labels for all the people who forget it's a holiday in my 91.7% white city (only 0.7% is black)
I'm black and I appreciate the existence of Juneteenth, but on the bank part he's kinda right. I don't think businesses realize the amount of hate they're causing the holiday which in turn leads to people blaming the black community. My entire county closed down public transportation on Juneteenth since it was a holiday. Yeah... Let's celebrate the freedom of black people by making sure none of them can get on buses again đ
My theory:
Those kind of people either thrive on the shock that being so dumbly extremist gives to reasonable people or are actually looking for people like them to build a sense of community and reduce the isolation caused by their own peers that tell them it's fucking idiotic to like Nazis.
I have to hear both ends of the spectrum because I live in South Africa and most of our black customers hate white people and most of our white customers hate black people. Racism is universal over here
My hairdresser got into a bit of a biggeted rant about Ethiopians taking over Minnesota. Pretty sure they were trans too which completely flabbergasted me. But I guess bigotry can come in all forms.
For whatever reason idiots think Iâm a safe person to speak garbage about others. Iâm not.
I would also rant about Juneteenth, but not the day, just its name. Youâd think that such an important day would have a better name. Itâs not even clear which day it is, like other holidays with their dates as their name. Which day is it? Idk, itâs either June 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, or 19. Like, really?
Maybe a bit too conspiracy-pilled, but I swear that it was named that way to downplay its significance.
I heard an old customer once rant to her (gay and italian) hair dresser about pride month then at check out make racist comments about italian immigrants to me (the bi and italian receptionist). Iâd experienced homophobia before but honestly the anti-italian racism was a new one for me, like Iâd heard stories of it from my dadâs childhood but I kinda thought the US was passed that
(Disclaimer for the europeans, I know neither of us are italian to your standards, Iâm aware we are americans. But we are italian-americans and on this side of the world the country of your ancestors means something, it means something very different than being from there yourself but it does mean something)
I ran a crawfish boil for my grocery store one year. I give samples to everyone who asks. One scraggly white man saunters up and asks for a sample. I give him a crawfish, and the tutorial on how to eat em. He says "oooh this is delicious, so this is what them (slur with a hard R) eat in louisana? Them (slur with a hard R) sure know how to eat, amirite?" He was saying it SO loud too. I felt so horrible but I couldn't leave. I just told him I refused to serve him any further. He got angry and started slur-ing louder, but eventually left.
And Juneteenth shouldnât even just be a holiday for black people. Yes, of course in some ways itâs for the African American communityâŠbut are you telling me we all shouldnât be celebrating the day our country got rid of fucking slavery
Juneteenth is a dumb federal holiday only because it wasn't even the last of the slaves being freed. It made more sense as a local holiday for local freedom.
People who call themselves republicans angry about how we celebrate like one of the greatest Republican achievements.
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Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher considerationâ - Abraham Lincoln
âThe workingmen of Europe feel sure that, as the American War of Independence initiated a new era of ascendancy for the middle class, so the American Antislavery War will do for the working classes. They consider it an earnest of the epoch to come that it fell to the lot of Abraham Lincoln, the single-minded son of the working class, to lead his country through the matchless struggle for the rescue of an enchained race and the reconstruction of a social world.â - Karl Marx congratulating Lincoln on his re-election.Â
4 and a half months later he was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth because Lincoln gave a speech supporting limited voting rights for Black Americans.Â
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Had a customer rant to me about Juneteenth and how "the wrong race got a holiday" and the banks should be open. Dude, you're in a grocery store, please stop being racist to me đ I'm being paid minimum wage for this