Posted on 01/09/2017 9:29:13 PM PST by Timpanagos1
The Dairy Queen owner shouting the n-word at Deianeira Ford told her he could say whatever he wanted at his fast-food restaurant — that any accusations and complaints she uttered would fall on deaf ears.
Ford was vindicated two days later, when her Facebook post about the incident provoked outrage so strong that the Dairy Queen in Zion, Ill., didn’t open for business.
But her victory was tempered by something even more troubling that she heard at a protest: Although she was the most vocal victim of the owner’s racism, she was not the first.
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Agitated businessmen really can behave this foolishly on occasion, and when they do, it's often catastrophic to the overall success of their venture.
I'd like to think that there was something that must have happened earlier in the day that made this otherwise decent person lash out in frustration at the wrong target. Hopefully, he has seen the error of his ways, and this will be an important life lesson.
This guy really nailed his own coffin shut when he apparently spoke to the police officer using the same offensive language...
Public school kids have their very identifiable cliques with distinctive monikers-—jocks, nerds, gangstas, etc.
The white boys who wear droopy pants and listen to rap music are called whiggers.
My son as a Junior in H.S. started wearing nice clothes and ties to school! We thought it was a bit odd, but he said he just wanted to be a little different and look good. His younger daughter piped up “Sam Anderson is a Senior, dress like that, and always has the prettiest girl friends!” My son just smiled.
Now in college he still dresses sharp. Kids these days!
I’m just a touch suspicious when it seems to have affected her three-year-old so deeply. There’s a lot more to this story.
“whiggers”
That was a euphemism from the 80’s. Is it still used in 2017?
Unfortunately there are racists in America. Of all colors.
If you walk into almost any timber mill here in mostly white Oregon you will hear some of the worst racism in the country.
But most of them are Democrats. Go figure.
I heard the word in the late 90s. It was a derisive term blacks used for whites who tried to act black.
Since there are still plenty of whites who do that, so I’m guessing the word is still used, but IDK for sure. I don’t live in the innercity anymore. LOL.
It depends. Typically fast food chains start with a small number of stores and, if successful, they look to expand quickly and capitalize on their popularity so they sell franchises to most anyone who has the franchise fee and money to build/remodel a store. Early franchises are the most desirable because they tend to have the better royalty terms and are generally less restrictive than newer franchises. This was the case with my three stores and my franchises didn’t have language allowing Corporate to close my store for anything other than failure to use “approved” food supplies that DQ tries to tell you you have to buy from them. However, their authority is based upon qualitative language in the franchise agreement so if you use food products from another source (less expensive but of equal value) you are within the agreement. But nothing based upon customer relations.
1) Most DQ’s don’t do enough volume to establish sales perameters that can predict when you will be busy enough to confidently cook ahead of time knowing that someone will buy that burger while it’s still hot. Plus the vast majority of DQ’s use a flat grill that is hard to maintain 350 deg during peak periods as the heat goes out of the grill and takes longer to recover. You could cook ahead of time like McDonalds does and keep them under a hot lamp but then they’re dry. DQ counters with “we cook it just for you, just how you want it” but it takes more time. I re-modeled my stores and put in the same chain broilers used by Burger King with CCTV order monitors so as soon as you say it to the order taker the order would be started. Service times were reduced and quality was improved.
2) Some DQ’s don’t sell burgers because they are strictly ice cream and drinks “Treat Centers” usually located in malls where the mall operator has non-competition agreements in place with a competitor. Or sometimes it’s because the location doesn’t have the capability to have proper exhausting for a grill/broiler or for fryers. Also your insurance is substantially higher if you have fryers/grill/broiler.
Dairy Queen doesn’t take EBT cards?
He should have been subtle about it and just spit in her food like the treatment whitey gets.
The New York Daily News had an interview with the owner and he freely, proudly, admitted that it was all true. Link
He made his choice. Don't piss off your clientele if you want to stay in business.
Absolutely. Most of us have long since put race aside. It’s content of character as Dr. Martin Luther King stated, or culture. Racism itself is an existential threat to my family and I do not accept it under any circumstance. People behaving like @ssholes is a different story however. If one’s culture belongs “confined to a Petri dish” and they do not attempt to acclimate to American culture and our social contract for civil behavior, I will do my best to confine it there.
I would say that the charge of using racist verbiage carries far more weight than a charge of child molestation.
Hell, if you are a liberal, child molestation is a resume enhancer.
When asked by my father where I had been all day, as a seven year old kid I used the word to describe a part of the Virginia town I lived in when I was a kid in the early sixties.
My father was not a demonstrative man, and did not talk much. He didn’t display much emotion. But I vividly remember that day, when I answered him, and he grabbed me by both shoulders, pulled me towards him so that our faces were inches apart (something he NEVER did in his life before or after that) and said to me “Just because someone has a different color of skin than you doesn’t make you better or worse than them.”
He wasn’t angry, and he did’t yell, but he was uncharacteristically intense. It left a deep, deep, impression on me that has lasted the rest of my life.
My dad was deeply involved in AA for many years and was universally observed to be blind to those many things and was highly respected, helping people in the program get work, even hiring them himself when he could.
But I think it was his status as an officer in the Navy that made him act that way.
In any case, I don’t believe someone who owns a business should have it removed by the government because of words that come out of their mouth, but I also don’t believe an employee has 1st Amendment rights at work. I believe you surrender that when you work for someone else. If someone’s business goes belly-up because their customers decide not to patronize them because of something they said, I don’t have a problem with that. That’s business.
I must admit, I enjoy seeing liberals hoisted on their own petard (like Paula Deen, a liberal weenie) because it shows them for exactly who they are.
Yes...I do find it more appalling for someone to come out against racism for public consumption, but privately be racist. Which pretty much describes nearly any Democrat.
Yes, whigger is still in common usage
I dont think so.
Doesn’t sound like it was a mere accusation, but the good news if you’re right he’ll get to sue Dairy Queen. Deep pockets, he’ll have no problem finding a lawyer.
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