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Colorado company refuses service to 'colored people' in 'Mount Ghetto'
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Posted on 04/30/2015 3:15:11 PM PDT by njslim
A Colorado heating and cooling company was caught refusing to do business in a Denver neighborhood because residents there are "colored people" and "they don't pay their bills," according to an undercover investigation by Fox affiliate KDVR.
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TOPICS: US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: colored; ghetto; people
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To: Mears
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:13:10 PM PDT
by
Mears
(To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize."Voltaire))
To: momincombatboots
I sense a tremendous push for reparations. . [.] no proof of slave ancestors, just free money from the working class.
What does people not paying their bills in Colorado have to do with reparations?
You've been waitin' six or seven months to stick that phrase in somewhere, ain'tcha, buckaroo?
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:15:17 PM PDT
by
righttackle44
(Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
To: Osage Orange
I remember some Black comedian pondering why Black folks were called “Colored.” He said when White people get cold, they turn blue. When Blacks get cold, they’re still Black. When a White person gets nauseous, they turn green. When Blacks get nauseous, they’re still Black. When a White person gets sunburned, they turn red. When a Black person gets sunburned, they’re still Black. So how come White folks ain’t called “Colored” when they turn all different sorts of colors ?
To: sargon
84
posted on
04/30/2015 5:21:53 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Let's put the ship of state on Cruz Control with Ted Cruz.)
To: 9thLife
WSHPOOC.
85
posted on
04/30/2015 5:23:12 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
(We Should Have Picked Our Own Cotton)
To: fieldmarshaldj
Colored people ? Is the owner 90 ? "Colored People" = "People of Color" (the description often favored by liberals and, well, people of color)
Is there any linguistic difference, not counting hyper-sensitivity?
BTW, I'm not quite 90 (by a long shot) and in the South when I was growing up, "colored people" was a neutral description. "Negro" was 'high-falutin', and the other "N-word" was acknowledged to be disrespectful. "Nigra" was acceptable.
To: njslim
" Well... What do you think...??"
It is what it is. That's Germany in Colorado.
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:43:56 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: righttackle44
The day by day, moment by moment cumulative effects of how disadvantaged, dis-enfranchised and unfair non-whites have it. That, and it has been a topic of much discussion for many years. That topic is back on the front burner. Hey, if they use the one drop rule, I could get in, being from the very poor and deep south, I can pretty much bet I am every color.
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:44:04 PM PDT
by
momincombatboots
(Back to West by G-d Virginia.)
To: dfwgator
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:51:43 PM PDT
by
US_MilitaryRules
(The last suit you wear has no pockets!)
To: njslim
"The community is mostly Hispanic residents and the average household income is $45,000, just $2,000 less than Denvers average household income of $47,000."
Hitler was also happy with his queer and feminist associates, animal worship and tree worship, but he didn't like blacks either.
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posted on
04/30/2015 5:52:34 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: sipow
They arent refusing to do business with black people because of their race. They are refusing to do business with black people because they dont pay their bills. That isnt racism - that is common sense. That's nonsense. The assumption that all black people don't pay their bills, and the resulting refusal to do business with any black people, is most certainly racism. If they are afraid of people not paying their bills, then do what every other business does - run a credit check, check references, etc.
To: BwanaNdege
When I was growing up in the mid-70s there was a gentle elderly couple that lived next door to us. Good people, in their late 70s. When my cat had her one and only litter of kittens, the woman, who was widowed by that time (if I am recalling correctly), adopted the one kitten that was mostly black with a little bit of white on his paws. We called him Roscoe, after Roscoe P. Coltrane (so that dates when my cat had her kittens). She renamed him Nigger.
There was not any shame, awkwardness, or outrage... she just named the cat that, not because she was racist or hated "Colored Folks", it was just a completely appropriate name in her mind.
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:09:26 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
To: Conscience of a Conservative; sargon
That's nonsense. The assumption that all black people don't pay their bills, and the resulting refusal to do business with any black people, is most certainly racism. If a sufficiently high percentage of an identifiable group creates problems, it is sometimes more cost effective to not deal with that group, than to do the extra work to distinguish the good customers from the bad ones.
In a free market, the problem is self-correcting. If the discriminating company is correct, then they will prosper. If they incorrectly pass up too many good customers, then they will not prosper.
Regardless, it should be their right to decide who to do business with. Just like consumers have the right to arbitrarily decide who to buy from.
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:16:38 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: njslim
Boy, that Fox News sure is a conservative news outlet!
Why, next spot will endorse global warming fees, or a universal gun ban!
Conservative, conservative, conservative!
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:26:33 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Jeb Bush makes John McCain look like Barry Goldwater.)
To: sargon
Be sure to notify Sharpton. He an put this HVAC company on his list for when he’s done with Baltimore.
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:36:54 PM PDT
by
Pelham
(The refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
To: Lazamataz
Boy, that Fox News sure is a conservative news outlet!Who you callin' Boy, son?
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:51:03 PM PDT
by
Rodamala
Bring back the Community Reinvestment Act!!! Oh, wait... that didn’t work out that well...
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posted on
04/30/2015 6:52:25 PM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: fieldmarshaldj
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posted on
04/30/2015 7:04:01 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
To: njslim
As long as they don’t violate civil rights of gays. They are more important now. Coloreds are expendable. Hell we even encourage them to burn their own homes down but GLBT (whatever that’s new shit is) is important. Blacks are so 1960z.
To: Regal
Well, the quality of posters does seem to have deteriorated since 2014...
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posted on
04/30/2015 8:22:53 PM PDT
by
publius911
(If you like Obamacare, You'll LOVE ObamaWeb.)
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