Posted on 04/30/2015 3:15:11 PM PDT by njslim
A Colorado heating and cooling company was caught refusing to do business in a Denver neighborhood because residents there are "colored people" and "they don't pay their bills," according to an undercover investigation by Fox affiliate KDVR.
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Maybe it’s a case of mishearing... he might have been talking about “collared people”, you know those jerks that always wear collared shirts.
Or “Collard People”, as in they like Collard Greens.
No credit check needed if they pay the estimate up front PRIOR to the beginning of work.
“If you won’t bill me, you’re a racist.”
Checkmate
As I said, you are technically correct. Us suburbanites consider everything north of Mississippi and east of Quebec the ghetto. South of Mississippi is becoming a Muslim area. There is a huge mosque on Parker road. MLK blvd runs through a mostly black neighborhood. The area provided a lot of Lexus owners who paid their bills, and we got along splendidly.
Heating and cooling is constitutional right. —
Yup. Program heater to come on at 72 deg F and up. Then cooling at 65 and below.
If they want their heating and cooling, they can keep it.
this would be a great opportunity for Revrunt Sharpton to have a REAL JOB. if he possessed any sort of skills...or initiative!
When the Cracker Turn You DOWN Call Me, Much!!
Mississippi? Yikes! That is way south of where I grew up.
I see that several neighborhoods have been built on old Stapleton property. All black I presume.
Just zoomed in on the house I grew up in. Amazing! Big Maple tree in front is gone, big Elm in back is gone, Elderberries all gone, Junipers in front all gone. Looks like a big trash pile in the backyard of the house next door. Oh, well, everything changes.
We’ll bill you just like everyone else ... :-) ... please fill out the credit form.
Bullshit. This power company can run credit checks on potential customers just like thousands of other businesses do, in order to determine if specific individuals have a history of not paying their bills. But to broad brush all blacks because some blacks don't pay their bills is absurd, and discriminatory.
This public utility company is going to get hammered for racial discrimination.
From the article:
"There are local ordinances, there are statutes and there are even federal laws that forbid this kind of discrimination based on race," Silverstein said.
He's absolutely right, and in the case of public utilities, this sort of discrimination is flat-out illegal, as it should be.
In such cases, account applicants should be judged as individuals, and I can't believe any patriotic American would assert otherwise.
It just goes to show the prejudice and hypocrisy of some.
BRAVO!!!!
Racism!!! Pure and clear racism.
I remember when conservatism shunned bigots like the ones who have posted on this thread. Any lib who wants to call conservatives racists can turn to the posts made by some of the ignorant posters on this thread and have concrete evidence.
It’s a shame what has happened to conservatism. A crying shame.
I’m a color dammit!!
I think they should have said that it was out of their “Service Area”. How stupid can you be in Obama’s America?
Who the heck used the Phrase “Colored People” nowadays except for the NAACP? Heck, you can’t even use the word “Negro” unless you’re writing a Check to the United Negro College Fund.
Can a blue man sing the whites?
Or is they all just...hippo krites?
The “working class” doesn’t pay much in income tax. Otherwise, agree with your sentiment.
First, this isn’t a public utility it is a private HVAC company who shouldn’t be forced to lose money. Second, why should all customers need a credit check because people in a bad neighborhood who happen to be black won’t pay their bills? If it were a neighborhood full of welching whites being avoided you would see zero complaints. Third, you can scream racism all you want but the fact is these people aren’t being discriminated against for being black, they are being discriminated against because a large percentage of them won’t pay their bills. The black guy “shocked” by racism got an appointment pronto outside of a zip code full of known thieves. If the people in that area who do pay their bills have a problem with this, perhaps they should take it up with their neighbors.
xenophobia is a natural human trait. this behavior can be modified, but only under certain circumstances.
Got a bad credit rating? We don't care,
Got no job? We don't care.
Got a prison record? We don't care.
Don't expect to pay us? THAT'S when we care.
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