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. > > >~ ~ ~ >All meetings end in separation >All acquisition ends in dispersion >All life ends in death >- The Buddha > >|\_/| >='_'= > >Every hundred years, all new people
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