“They’re just using the dead kid as an excuse to be cheap.”
Bingo.
I had several very, very close friends and team mates who were black and very wealthy.
They would routintely not tip, as a cultural thing, to the point I wouldn’t go out to dinner with them.
I used to do lunch with a sales rep who was black. We'd go to "his favorite places", and I never understood why they were his favorites, because the service was always pathetic.
The 3rd or 4th time he took me to lunch, I noticed that he put a 30 cent tip on a 30 dollar bill. As we were leaving, (so as not to show him up) I excused myself, went back to the table and took care of the tip, myself.
Stopped doing business with his company not too long after that. Figured that a salesperson should know how to take care of the niceites. I also wondered if he wasn't afraid to stiff the waitstaff out of a couple of bucks, if he was stiffing me on contracts in the 100's of thousands.
They would routintely not tip, as a cultural thing, to the point I wouldn’t go out to dinner with them.
I have a brother who is the same way - cheap, and he's white.
Yep, I'm embarrassed by his cheapness. He brags about what a tight wad he is.