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Lowe's delivery driver replaced after customer said they didn't want a black man to bring goods
The Daily Mail ^ | 10 Aug 2015 | Tom Wyke

Posted on 08/10/2015 9:29:48 AM PDT by brwnsuga

A black delivery driver was told by his manager that he would not be making a delivery because the customer had said she only wanted a white driver in her house.

Marcus Bradley, an African American, who has worked for Lowe's Home Improvement for the last 11 years, was left devastated after his manager complied with the customer's outrageous wish.

The shocking incident reportedly happened in the city of Danville, situated in the US state of Virginia.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; US: Georgia; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: black; danville; delvery; lowes; marcusbradley; racism; virginia
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To: Starstruck

“The customer told reporters that she could ask for whatever she wanted.”

Customers can ask for whatever they want, but that does not require a business to give it to them.


21 posted on 08/10/2015 9:48:42 AM PDT by riverdawg
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To: Mr. K

Correct, correct, and correct.

Yes, you have a racist customer, but why make it public?

And how fragile is the driver if this one jerk leaves him “devastated”?


22 posted on 08/10/2015 9:49:12 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: brwnsuga

I’d wager that they just schedule black drivers to deliver to areas with black customers, without even having a customer request.


23 posted on 08/10/2015 9:49:22 AM PDT by CSM
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To: brwnsuga

As a person of a certain color, its their house and their rules, if I was a business owner though I would have told them to take a hike and I would not have disrepected one of my hard working workers, and they are free to come to the store or go somewhere else.


24 posted on 08/10/2015 9:49:25 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: brwnsuga

So what? don’t use this to accuse the rest of Americans of racism.


25 posted on 08/10/2015 9:49:56 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country)
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To: brwnsuga

26 posted on 08/10/2015 9:50:19 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: brwnsuga

I would fire that manager.


27 posted on 08/10/2015 9:50:51 AM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: GOPJ

I do not think it is racist for the woman to have asked for a white person. Just like I don’t think it is racist to PUSH BACK on the plan by HUD to put people based on color into neighborhoods that they could not afford to be in.

I do not think it was right for her information to be leaked
out.


28 posted on 08/10/2015 9:51:09 AM PDT by funfan
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To: Conscience of a Conservative

I smell lawsuits in the wind...


29 posted on 08/10/2015 9:52:31 AM PDT by ColdSteelTalon (Light is fading to shadow, and casting its shroud over all we have known...)
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To: Conscience of a Conservative
The manager was fired, not for making it public, but for accommodating the racist request in the first place. And rightfully so. The manager’s response to the idiotic request should have been that the delivery would be made by the driver assigned to that route (whoever that driver was), and that if the customer did not want to accept delivery for whatever reason, she was free to refuse delivery, take her business elsewhere, and pay a restocking fee.

Is it okay if I say again what you just said?

30 posted on 08/10/2015 9:53:57 AM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: brwnsuga

Gonna wait to see before believing. I worked in NW Fla (aka Lower Alabama) in the early 70s at a furniture warehouse. Every single delivery person was black except for me. I never heard of a single person refusing a delivery or asking for a different driver. And again, this was the early 70s.

How dumb would you have to be to pay for items and not let someone deliver them? These days you’re lucky to get your items at all.


31 posted on 08/10/2015 9:54:20 AM PDT by Stevenc131
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To: Vendome

He was.


32 posted on 08/10/2015 9:54:34 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Mr. K

this


33 posted on 08/10/2015 9:54:46 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Tax-chick
Bingo. And not only that, if the driver was “devasted” by the existence of one racist customer, then he’s too flaky to drive a truck safely.

My guess is that a black truck driver would not use the word "devastated" (just like you couldn't). That was a reporter word. He was probably "pissed" he was pulled off his route.

34 posted on 08/10/2015 9:55:02 AM PDT by Starstruck (I'm usually sarcastic. Deal with it.)
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To: Starstruck

Well it’s not like the driver was likely to get a tip anyway.


35 posted on 08/10/2015 9:56:12 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Izzy Dunne; Mr. K
Shoe on the other foot.

Black customer demands black driver.

White driver's reaction ?

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36 posted on 08/10/2015 9:56:28 AM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: riverdawg

Unless ones’s business is baking cakes!


37 posted on 08/10/2015 9:56:57 AM PDT by GOYAKLA
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To: Vendome

I’m not sure whether I’d fire this manager for one act of stupidity, but if I did I’d consider the driver as a replacement for him if he’s qualified.


38 posted on 08/10/2015 9:57:22 AM PDT by OKSooner (Chamberlain at least loved his country, please don't insult his memory by comparing him to 0.)
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To: Tax-chick
if the driver was “devasted” by the existence of one racist customer, then he’s too flaky to drive a truck safely.

Home Mart guys are made of sterner stuff.

39 posted on 08/10/2015 9:58:16 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: brwnsuga

Don’t think this is believable.

One woman customer complained, and the black delivery driver is fired/let go.

/Riiiiiight, if only my local Lowes is as good responding to customer complaints


40 posted on 08/10/2015 9:58:40 AM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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