Posted on 01/06/2009 10:30:15 PM PST by wac3rd
It was 6:30 a.m. on a Friday in downtown Linden, N.J., when two Hispanic day laborers were struggling with their English as they tried to order a coffee and a sandwich at a deli.
But rather than getting served, they got a string of insults hurled at them from the clerk behind the counter. Their broken-English request for food was met with a barrage of racist remarks, including, "Get back in your pickup truck with the rest of your family."
This scene wasn't real. It was all part of a "What Would You Do?" experiment designed to find out what action, if any, bystanders would take after watching the men's exchange with the clerk.
Watch the story on "What Would You Do?" Tuesday at 10 p.m. ET
Seth Perlman, the manager of All Aboard Bagel and Deli, agreed to ABC News' using his business to test people's reactions to bigotry. The racist cashier standing next to him was an actor hired by ABC News, as were his victims.
Here in this working-class neighborhood 15 miles west of New York City, people have a reputation for tolerance. But, sometimes, the reactions were far less open-minded than one would expect.
In the face of blatant discrimination, many people seemed immobilized, some too stunned to react. After being turned away by the cashier, one of the day laborers asked a nearby customer for help. She suggested that he try another store down the street. Many other customers had a similar reaction, quietly walking away after being solicited to help.
Although some customers seemed indifferent, others were quite willing to let everyone know exactly how they felt.
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The Liberal nonsense forgets the 4,000 Americans murdered by illegals. It looks like the next Amnesty push will need some "softening" by the MSM to make Americans more eager to subsidize Mexico.
The media is done, it merely a Democratic, Communist garbatge heap.
The racist cashier standing next to him was an actor hired by ABC News
He didn't wear a McCain/Palin shirt and was chewing tobacco?
They NEVER are. This is horse manure from the fever swamp of diseased liberal minds. If the scene was "real" it would be a fight, probably one with the clerk getting his ass kicked.
>>He didn’t wear a McCain/Palin shirt and was chewing tobacco?<<
No, but on the wall behind the counter and in plain view, was there a picture of George Bush?
**They NEVER are. **
The next vignette showed actors playing Texans, being stupid and rude in Paris. They were wearing Bush T-shirts, of course.
Oh, and to show how really stupid Texans are, they ordered steak tartare, well done. It was over the top.
Just like shelling a beach before an amphibious invasion, the MSM is pushing the sympthathy, racism, discrimination, anti-immigrant, one-sided Leftist garbage to move public sentiment to ease the Obama Administration’s new open borders policy.
“.....the Obama Administration’s new open borders policy.”
What new open borders policy. What do you think we’ve had for the last umteen years?
Nice of the "journalist" to divine what the bystanders are thinking. Maybe they didn't care. Maybe they didn't want to subsequently be murdered by the "illegal aliens."
The sad part is that Chertoff will look like a real patriot compared to the flood Obama and his La Raza compadres will allow into the US.
Everything Hollywood or News produces in the way of dramatization about race is tawdry melodrama where the White persons are the villians.
They would have learned more by having a very BLACK Somali immigrant deliver pizza into a heavily Young & Hispanic neighborhood. Then, following an
Asian Immigrant pizza guy into a Black neighborhood.
Watch their tips wither.
Next Night; let these drivers SWITCH territories.
Very different numbers!
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Exactly,,, this is practically unheard of. Honestly, do any of you find this to be common? Thats why people are shocked,, because its so abnormal IMO, that they don’t have a template on how to respond.
These media bastards think they can mock Americans into sheepish compliance with their liberal dictates. Totalitarianism is the ONLY thing that will make them happy with America and it’s traditions and culture!!!
This show was simply disgusting, how desperate are the producers of this show?
Minorities are never racist. My college professor said so. :)
This is similar to the NBC stunt of sending Muslims in full constume to NASCAR events, trying to provoke a reaction. (They failed).
1) If racism is so common in America, why does network television CONSTANTLY HAVE TO STAGE IT? Why is it so hard for them to find actual racists in this racism-ridden country? I wish people would ponder that question every time one of these ridiculous dog and pony shows comes on.
2) I remember when network news organizations saw their job as REPORTING THE NEWS, rather than choreographing Michael Moore-style guerilla theater.
Cool ABC is searching out racists. After they are done in NJ they can go to 400 West 95th Street in Chicago Illinois. There is plenty of racists there.
Seems like a good time for some enterprising conservative to play the same game by setting up a fake book dealer or coffee stand armed with a "liberal" that starts cursing a "customer" for having something like a conservative shirt, book, whatever. The "clerk" would be way over the top while the customer is quiet and considerate.
Or you could simply reverse the situation ABC did and have a hispanic start yelling at some white guy and see the reaction.
Bottomline is if this is the game these guys are gonna do then eventually we are going to need to fight fire with fire.
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