Posted on 03/22/2018 1:07:40 PM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A Facebook post is going viral in Memphis, but the people featured in it likely wish it wasnt.
The post, which has been shared more than 339,000 times, reads as follows:
I dont understand how can someone do this. Poor waiter was just doing their job and to have someone take it without reason. She left $20 tip to only have someone else take it.
It features two videos.
In the first video, you see two women getting ready to leave Casa Mexicana on Hacks Cross. One of them places money on the table a tip for the waiter and they walk away.
Once they leave, a woman in the neighboring booth points to the table with the money. She looks over her shoulder and around the restaurant and talks to the man shes sitting with.
Eventually, she gets up and takes the money off the table. After hurrying back to her booth, the woman stuffs the money in her shirt and the couple continues looking around.
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They be entitiled to it, reparations don you see?
I have heard it myself.
I stick it under a plate if for some reason the waiter is busy ... if I can I catch their eye and let them know it’s there.
When I was a waiter, we used to use the term “Canadians” to describe them.
A real piece of garbage. Especially the look on her face after she took the money.
It’s either put it in that wallet thing they give you with the bill and personally hand it back, or, if you pay by card, add the tip there; but on that note the IRS and the boss will grab part of it. Best to hand it to the server personally.
I didn’t need to SEE the vermin who stole the tip. I already knew. It’s a sad fact that a huge percentage of Blacks will steal tips, and commit other crimes.For other races, the percentage goes down significantly. It s simply a fact in America.
I didn’t need to SEE the vermin who stole the tip. I already knew. It’s a sad fact that a huge percentage of Blacks will steal tips, and commit other crimes.For other races, the percentage goes down significantly. It s simply a fact in America.
I pay with a debit card and leave it on the tab for this very reason.
At the casino I leave chips and give it to them.
I do too. Mostly potato. Some corn.
Watchu tink honeychile?
This is the late, great Memphis, land of perpetual darkness, an ink blot on the Mississippi.
Responses such as yours above can come off as gratuitously antagonistic. I've personally seen a piece of lowlife White trash do this very same thing—and when I did, I promptly reported them to the restaurant management. So I'm afraid that your "100%" comment doesn't reflect accurate reality.
Having said that, I have little doubt that there is a significantly higher rate of this sort of crime that occurs within ghetto culture. After all, the number of Black children raised in single-parent homes—eventually leading to consequences like the story cited above—is astronomical.
The higher likelihood of seeing a Black person engaging in such behavior obviously has a strong tendency to reinforce negative stereotypes. Furthermore, consider how embarrassing such behavior is to the overwhelming number of decent Black people!
To continuously fixate on the fact that it was "Obama's children" is not particularly constructive, IMHO. Why? Because a Black person visiting FR—and reading some of these responses in aggregate—could easily become alienated from joining the community. How? By having their own negative stereotypes reinforced!
Unfortunately, these stories seem to provide an opportunity to conveniently engage in the "two minutes of hate" which George Orwell incorporated into his novel 1984.
I'm not trying to be PC—I'm simply suggesting that one of our goals here at FR should be to educate, and thereby to attract more minorities into the ranks of Patriotism and Liberty-minded conservatism. After all, the demographic trends will ultimately crush us if we ignore them.
In order to achieve the goal of greater unity brought on by greater numbers, therefore, I maintain that engaging in gratuitous racial antagonism can ultimately undermine the stated goal for which Free Republic exists.
Please keep in mind that I'm not targeting your post specifically, but rather expressing my thoughtful opinion on the potential negative impact of such "harsh" responses in aggregate.
"They got insurance, they just get another one!"
When I was a waitress this usually happened with church groups, yep church groups. A couple of people would leave a nice tip and somebody else from the group would pick it up before the table was cleared. I won’t mention the usual make up of these groups but they sure did like a lot of sugar in their ice teas. Like tons.
Call 1-800-GRAB-TIT ?
but this is a good lesson for all of us now......tip the waitress not the creeps in the next booth...
Silverbacks ?
well we just ate at a buffet and I left a small tip...but there seemed to be mostly safe people around...older people....
Call 1-800-GOT-TIPS!!!!!!
Thats funny i would frequent a BBQ place in a rougher part of Los Angeles it was Black owed best ribs in the world I would stop by for a late lunch early dinner The owner would always tell me to get over the hill before the sun goes down
discrimination is the perhaps the first big lesson a baby learns...its a vital human characteristic...
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