But I made a remark (which I will not repeat here) and almost died laughing because of the look on his face from what I had said. I mean I was almost on the floor.
Oh come on, what did you say to him?
But I made a remark (which I will not repeat here) and almost died laughing because of the look on his face from what I had said. I mean I was almost on the floor.
Oh come on, what did you say to him?
yeah what
:tmyk:All I will say is that it had something to do with a black man (me) and his mother. I will say not more I don't want to have any more of my posts edited for inappropriate language.
You're right, but I think I can extend this a little further to accommodate you both...
The more cruder forms of racism and bigotry tend to be more overt from the lower classes - I.E. - the stereotypical brain-dead hick spending a fun-filled Friday night at a Klan cross-burning...
The "upper classes" - again, stereotypically - lean toward an economic form of racism...thus you have 'white flight' and exclusionary practices at private country clubs, etc.
It's all shapes and sizes, subjective and highly emotionally charged - but for the purposes of discussing racism as an entity itself rather than a personal, codifying set of behaviors, the class distinction is appropriate.
This episode sticks out in my head the most.
We had a passenger who waited to be the last one to deplane. The F/O and I are standing there with those wonderful "airline smiles" on our faces waiting for her to leave so we could get our crap, lock up the aircraft and get to the overnight. She stops and says to the F/O (who is white) "You must be so proud of how well this tar baby speaks....if I didn't know any better I would have thought she was white."
Needless to say the F/O's face turned bright red and he said "Huh? I don't get it?" She quickly replied. "It's just that most N****s sound so ignorant. " She then turns to me and says, "Did they teach you how to speak like that during company training dear?"
I could not help but laugh and say "No, Emory University"
By this time the F/O realized that he had to get in on it and asked her "How do you spell ignorant again?"
This woman actually wrote a letter to the company saying that we were rude to her in hopes that we would lose our jobs. All my supervisor could do was laugh. My F/O apologized to me so many times ( I still trying to figure that one out...he didn't do anything wrong) that I finally had to tell him to shut up an get over it.
Here's my F/A brief: "No drunks, no excess bags, no one give F/As any ####."
I've seen the reverse of this problem. Had a white male F/A who was confronted by an abusive black man. The guy would not comply with anything the F/A told him to do. He had been drinking. We sent for the LEOs and in the mean time the C F/A (black female) came up and tried to intervene on behalf of the passenger, calling the white male F/A a racist.
Anyway it turned out the black male passenger had an outstanding murder warrent against him in DTW, so they kept him in the pokey and extradited him to DTW.
Needless to say, our ABF (Angry Black Female) F/A ended up with a LOT of egg on her face.
taseal said:we actually tied his legs with a tiestrap and I also had a gay male FA help me during the process LOLz.
:rawk:NUFF SAIDAnother thread that makes me thank God that I don't fly passengers!
DITTO-nuff said!:bandit:Nice necropost.......this thread has become 'undead' waaay too many times now.
If you're looking to dole out advice...how about this one: Let sleeping posts lie, please.
i have noticed that its mostly lower class people who are racist.