Posted on 08/20/2016 11:05:58 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Susquehanna Township resident Carl Shuman was heading home from a business trip in Pittsburgh Monday night, and after a pleasant drive, he pulled up to the toll booth at the Carlisle exit, ready to pay his toll.
There, he was stunned by something that in his more than four decades of driving and in his professional life as an employment-law attorney, he had never encountered -- not like this, anyway, he said.
As the car in front of him left the booth, Shuman noticed the toll collector shaking his head and smirking.
"He said something very close to, 'Them black people. You give them directions and they don't understand a thing. They can't even speak English.'" Shuman said.
He was shocked.
"I was trembling," Shuman said about that statement and what followed. "I was that offended and outraged at what had just transpired."
He filed a complaint on Tuesday, kicking off an investigation by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
"It's certainly something we want to correct and something that we don't tolerate," said Carl DeFebo, spokesman for the commission. "I want to send a very strong message. It shouldn't be happening."
(Excerpt) Read more at pennlive.com ...
I traveled a lot on the West Virginia toll interstates
I never encountered a non white toll taker
Oh, I’m sure she could tell I was from the South so she probably hated me right off. The call center was in Chicago. I have a Southern accent but it’s not extreme and I use proper grammar but it’s still very obvious that I’m Southern. :-) I sort of lost my Southern charm and manners for a second.
She’s actually a citizen. The person who signed the bill with the note on it implied she did not write the slur, however.
I have. I guess they have become rare since I switched to EZ-Pass.
One time I called the customer service department for my Discover card. The black lady on the other end was so bad I couldnt understand a word she said. >>> i called 911 once and i could not understand one word the woman said.
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