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12733032, Were you late? How late?
Posted by Mgmt, Fri Feb-20-15 08:39 PM
>actually, I mean I wish I HAD done something. My priorities
>were messed up.
>
>I had an 8:15 AM appt this morning downtown in a 6-floor
>building. Some of the floors require sign-in before 9. The
>floor I was going to is opened at 7.
>
>Okay. So, as it happens, the security guard is Asian. As I
>came into the building today, two people who were also
>evidently involved in building management and were also Asian
>were getting on the elevator, and a young Black man was also
>getting on the elevator. I got on the elevator.
>
>The two building people watched the young man try to punch two
>different floor numbers and then asked him where he was going.
> He didn't understand them and when he finally understood what
>was being asked, he replied and they didn't understand him.
>They finally made it clear to him that he needed to register
>at the front desk before the floor he wanted would be
>unlocked.
>
>This young man looked at the white woman who could punch the
>floor she wanted and at the two Asian people who were telling
>him to get off the elevator and sign in, and he said, in real
>distress, "that's as racist as FUCK."
>
>I didn't think quickly enough. I should have gotten off the
>elevator right then and given him a better explanation -- that
>it has to do with when certain floors open and not anything to
>do with who's trying to get to those floors.
>
>I was late for my appointment and I thought I couldn't help.
>I still don't know if I could have helped in any way but it
>really bothers me that I thought more about being late than I
>thought about his distress.
>
>And you know, it's not that I'm trying to argue that there
>isn't plenty of racism here. I'm not. But this wasn't an
>example of it, and I hate for him to think that every single
>interaction he has is driven by racism.
>
>I just had to get this off my chest. I feel so bad for that
>young man.
>
>
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>All acquisition ends in dispersion
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