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Waitress fired, restaurant owner sorry after customers labeled 'black couple' on receipt
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/news/national/waitress-fired-restaurant-owner-sorry-after-custom/nm6r6/ ^

Posted on 07/29/2015 10:42:05 PM PDT by TigerClaws

MARYLAND HEIGHTS, Mo. — A waitress in Maryland Heights, Missouri, is out of a job after she reportedly labeled two of her customers as "black couple" on a restaurant receipt. According to KTVI, Kimberli Wilson and a companion were at Patrick's Westport Grill on July 18 when she saw the words at the top of the bill. ADVERTISING

"I was frustrated," Wilson told KTVI. "I was angry. I was thinking, 'Really? Are we still doing this in 2015?'"

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To: jjsheridan5

Nope. Still UNCF.

But they avoid spelling it out. Like KFC avoiding “fried” they UNCF it to avoid “negro.”

http://www.uncf.org/


21 posted on 07/29/2015 11:11:14 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

“Seriously I didn’t know ‘black’ was now offensive.”

It is hard to keep up with. It seems to change daily, sometimes multiple times in a single day.


22 posted on 07/29/2015 11:13:03 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: Truthsearcher
"She could have just as easily wrote “bald guy” or “blonde couple” or whatever. It’s absurd that people are offended."

One time a friend and I were dining at a nice steakhouse.

There was a long wait.

I noticed that the hostess had written "leather and vinyl" on her pad.

She was describing our jackets. Big deal.

For the record my friend was wearing the vinyl jacket.

Maybe he should sue.

23 posted on 07/29/2015 11:13:07 PM PDT by boop (A joke? The hell kind of joke is that? 'Bout as funny as a gutful of pinworms!)
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To: TigerClaws

whip the waitress...at least 40 lashes!!!!!!!!!!

what a terrible horrible thing she did!!!!

/s

(when will all this BS end? or rather will we survive the next 19 months?


24 posted on 07/29/2015 11:15:30 PM PDT by faithhopecharity (up)
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To: TigerClaws
Free meals for life for being called... black?

This country is entering the Twilight Zone.

25 posted on 07/29/2015 11:15:46 PM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Talisker

I thought black is beautiful. Guess now hate is beautiful.


26 posted on 07/29/2015 11:20:16 PM PDT by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Truthsearcher

Should’ve written fat ass & company and been done with it.


27 posted on 07/29/2015 11:20:24 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: TigerClaws

Seems rather absurd to me. If she had used a racial slur, that would be one thing. But I don’t get the sense that’s what was going on here. It shouldn’t have wound up on the receipt, but nobody was “dissing” the couple, that I can tell. More likely just an honest mistake.

Oh yeah, and the owner is a total pansy. If I ate there, I would stop.


28 posted on 07/29/2015 11:21:39 PM PDT by DemforBush (Ex-Democrat, and NotforJeb. Just so we're clear.)
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To: TigerClaws; al baby; Albion Wilde; Allegra; BufordP; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; JRios1968; ...

I’m surprised my restaurant bills don’t describe me as Anti-social White Boy.

DANG!


29 posted on 07/29/2015 11:22:06 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Democrats and GOP-e: a difference of degree, not philosophy)
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To: TigerClaws

What is offensive about that?

Good grief some folks are twitchy!

“Black Couple”? Really?

So what? She could have been thinking they looked like a cute couple, who knows. This is just ignorance run amuk.


30 posted on 07/29/2015 11:24:54 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Now remember honey, if you can't remember your name, just tell the police JEB. John Ellis "Jeb" Bush)
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To: Truthsearcher
I still don’t know what the issue is, so she wrote black couple. It’s a descriptive term, . . ."

better description would be to add "agitators". Merely descriptive, you understand? Not a slur at all-

/s

31 posted on 07/29/2015 11:25:57 PM PDT by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: TigerClaws

I am not 100% sure that you got my obviously too-subtle joke.


32 posted on 07/29/2015 11:30:27 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (The next Ronald Reagan will not be a Republican, but rather a former Republican)
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To: DoughtyOne
I would ask,"are they green?

Are they yellow? No?

Are they white? Are they black?

Then I would give the proprietor a swift kick in the ass for being so stupid in the first place.

33 posted on 07/29/2015 11:32:11 PM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: jjsheridan5

Hint: if these patrons were to commit a crime, what would the descriptive noun be?


34 posted on 07/29/2015 11:33:29 PM PDT by jjsheridan5 (The next Ronald Reagan will not be a Republican, but rather a former Republican)
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To: Michael.SF.

Why can’t people develop a code?

Black Couple = B2


35 posted on 07/29/2015 11:35:30 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!!!)
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To: doorgunner69

Grifters table 5 ......


36 posted on 07/29/2015 11:42:47 PM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: doorgunner69

“Negro” is Spanish for “black”. What if it were a Hispanic waitress writing “la pareja negro” ? The Communists would not know WHAT to do next!!! /s ;)


37 posted on 07/29/2015 11:47:31 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: TigerClaws

Hell of a way to get out of leaving a tip


38 posted on 07/29/2015 11:47:46 PM PDT by DakotaRed (Why not just pass a law requiring criminals to obey the laws?)
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To: jjsheridan5

“Youths”


39 posted on 07/29/2015 11:57:50 PM PDT by Salamander (We're ALL Dixie, now.)
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To: sten
just label them ‘uppity a-holes’ and have no fear of being labeled a racist

In any restaurant where the descriptive "black couple" is significantly identifying and yet something which the management would flee from, I'd wager "uppity a-holes" would not be definitive enough.

40 posted on 07/30/2015 12:00:56 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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