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The Racist History of Tipping
Politico ^ | July 17, 2019 | REV. DR. WILLIAM J. BARBER II

Posted on 07/20/2019 7:07:56 PM PDT by EdnaMode

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Everything is racist!
1 posted on 07/20/2019 7:07:56 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: EdnaMode

This, again?


2 posted on 07/20/2019 7:10:00 PM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: EdnaMode

I will no longer tip people of color so not to insult them.


3 posted on 07/20/2019 7:12:56 PM PDT by Raycpa
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To: EdnaMode

I can tell you this , except for a very precious few , black folks today DO NOT tip . Even though they are clearly well off and more than able to travel in style . Many are also coldly surly , in addition to not tipping . It’s ery curious....


4 posted on 07/20/2019 7:13:11 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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To: EdnaMode

Lawyers, accountants, investment bankers, professors, entertainers, doctors. Most professionals have to satisfy both their employers and their customers/patients/audience/clientele.


5 posted on 07/20/2019 7:14:49 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: EdnaMode

I don’t want a be a racist, so I guess that I better not tip black waiters anymore.

As it is, I no longer tip in places with a ‘living wage’ (i.e., a wage at or near $15/hour), since the tip is already built into the price. It took a bit getting used to, but now I don’t even give it a second thought.

By the way, in Asia they don’t even have a tip line on charge slips. In those cultures, good service is simply EXPECTED as part of the job. We could learn something from them, particularly with our ‘living wages’.


6 posted on 07/20/2019 7:14:50 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: EdnaMode
"You might not think of tipping as a legacy of slavery, but it has a far more racialized history than most Americans realize"


7 posted on 07/20/2019 7:16:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

Some people make good money on tips. Not sure they would be happy to be forced into a one-size-fits-all wage structure.

Not sure about those who steal tips.


8 posted on 07/20/2019 7:17:31 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: EdnaMode
"Tipping originated in feudal Europe"


9 posted on 07/20/2019 7:18:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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A just-released Congressional Budget Office report finds that a $15 minimum wage would have tremendous benefits for low-wage workers of all races and ethnicities.

Yep. The sub-minimum wage earner will be able to say:

I'll be making $15/hour...if I could only find a job.

10 posted on 07/20/2019 7:19:37 PM PDT by econjack
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Is this why black people are notoriously bad tippers?


11 posted on 07/20/2019 7:20:19 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (If White Privilege is real, why did Elizabeth Warren lie about being an Indian?)
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To: EdnaMode

Before: You stiffed, and you were a chintsy, ghetto a-hole

After: You stiff, and you’re a dignified egalitarian


12 posted on 07/20/2019 7:21:24 PM PDT by gaijin
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What does that make salespeople who get draws against commissions? In other words they get a draw but that draw reduces their commissions they do earn. So inreality they strictly get commissions. If they are good they get paid very well, if not they soon find themselves looking for another profession.


13 posted on 07/20/2019 7:21:43 PM PDT by Robert DeLong
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If both parties agreed to an arrangement, then it’s no one else’s business. If either party doesn’t like the arrangement, then it ends as mutually agreed.

I don’t get what is so hard to understand about this.

The government shouldn’t be regulating these agreements beyond the enforcement of legal contracts.

If a waitress is willing to work for five cents an hours, then she should be allowed to work for five cents an hour.


14 posted on 07/20/2019 7:22:15 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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I heard a rumor that shadowing urban shoplifting suspects inside stores strongly lowers the rate of climate change.


15 posted on 07/20/2019 7:23:37 PM PDT by gaijin
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“Tipping further entrenched workers must please both customer and employer to earn anything at all”

https://webmail.lerctr.org/~transit/healy/Uh_Yeah.mp3


16 posted on 07/20/2019 7:25:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: EdnaMode

I wonder why servers don’t like urban customers..?

I wonder why they often have to wait longer to be seated..?


17 posted on 07/20/2019 7:27:19 PM PDT by gaijin
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To: EdnaMode
Isn't this week supposed to be about the racist history of the Apollo moon landing?

Should've saved this article for next week.

18 posted on 07/20/2019 7:28:30 PM PDT by Drew68
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To: EdnaMode

TIP= To Insure Promptness


19 posted on 07/20/2019 7:35:56 PM PDT by COUNTrecount (If only Harvey Weinstein's bathrobe could talk.)
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To: EdnaMode

TRUE. But more to the point, it’s PLAINLY FALSE if you are a GOOD/GREAT server. = I was a server at a nice/old-school Supper Club, when I was in college in “The Dark Ages”.
(I did “quite well, thank you very much” on <1.ooUSD per hour because I took great care to be polite/helpful/attentive/kind to my customers.)

Many a week, I took home over 100.oo per shift, when lots of adults, working full-time at a salaried position, were not “clearing” 100.oo per week.

Later, when I was a partner in THE CAROUSEL, I knew that any number of our waitresses made more net profit each week than I did. = 250.oo in cash per night was commonplace for our waitresses.
(I remember one of our YL, who came to me one afternoon telling me that she had made “almost nothing” the night before & I told here, “Try a happy smile on your face & be more attentive to the customers. The money will come your way. - Watch LEAH, as she nearly always does well.”- She did watch/”copy” Leah & received a THOUSAND DOLLAR tip from a wealthy physician that same week.)

Yours, TMN78247


20 posted on 07/20/2019 7:41:55 PM PDT by TMN78247 ("VICTORY or DEATH", William Barrett Travis, LtCol, comdt., Fortress of the Alamo, Bejar, 1836)
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