Had an incident at the Bezos Market in NY today.
There was an empty line and I went to use it. A lady that was standing out in the walking AISLE (in the corner of the next line over) in the center of the market and standing BETWEEN the two lines hunched over her cart and talking on a cell phone facing towards the store and away from the checkouts. This lady is nowhere near the line.
I put my two things down at the checkout and I am checking out. Then about 20 seconds later the lady that was stading in the very RUDELY accuses me of cutting in line and I need to leave.
I was startled and naturally lifted my item up for a second, but then thought wait a second and told her, “You were not in line.” I put my items back down.
The lady got incensed and said that was some white privilege , privilege, privelgge, and then starting cursing at me. She called her boyfriend or whatever on the phone and then started telling him, “This #$%^#% cut me in line. There is some white privilege going on here. Get your ass over here now! I am pissed! Privilege.” I just ignored it but she was going on about my “privilege.”
So I told her you were in not in the line, you were over there in the corner, talking on your phone. Then she started talking to me more about privilege.
The boyfriend comes over as I am paying and tells me he was gone for only a “few minutes” to get some vitamins. He says “You cut in line, you should have asked” I told him I would have asked if there was anyone here but she over there in the corner, not in the line. So he tells me over and over that’s your privilege, that’s your privilege, she was in line, did you ask? Then I said again, “She wasn’t in line and started being rude to me.”
Then some other person who wasn’t even watching anything comes over and says she was in line! I told him, no she was not and was over there in the corner talking on the phone.
Then the boyfriend says, see we have a witness, we have a witness! Then he kept repeating that’s your privilege over and over. I just ignored it and got the change for my two items and left. As I am leaving he kept on repeating the that’s your privilege.
By the way, these were black people. So I am just wondering if anyone has a snappy response to that’s “your white privilege” other than ignoring it. These people ruined my Whole Foods visit and I did nothing wrong and would never cut anyone in line - these people are just rude and totally ignorant.
See post 4. That’s the correct response.
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“By the way, these were black people”
I sensed that about three sentences in.
You should have suggested she dial 911 just like when the KFC messes up her order.....
“Guess you’ll have to take it up with God as He made me the color I am. I don’t second guess God. Shalom.”
Whole Foods. That’s your problem.
Whole Foods. That ‘s where asshat liberals shop.Totally avoid Whole Foods. They treat people with disabilities poorly.
I took my mother-in-law to Whole Foods in near Harvard Square. Liberals on steroids shop at Whole Foods. My M-i-l had a walker and these liberals were pushing her and knocking her over. I’ll never go into a Whole Foods again.
What a horrible experience. I’m sorry you were put in that position. I feel instead that there is a black privilege of lower behavioral expectations. I say that with love to all my black friends and FReepers. A white couple could not get away with that kind of public anger, shaming, and outrage against a black man who mistakenly got in line in front of the white chick who was faced away from the line on her phone. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE.
I was in the ER one night with a sick kid, waiting with the hordes. The security guard came through the waiting room and told a woman she couldn’t use an outlet on the desk to charge her cell phone. Rather than saying “I’m sorry, Officer,” and removing her charger like we white people have to do, she was able to publicly scream at him using swear words and shaming him with her personal story and such. While she did still have to remove her charger, he just left her alone and no one said anything, just sat silently, while afterward she regaled her companion, in front of all these sick and injured people, in full colorful language, about how she was wronged. White people do not have the privilege of doing that in public.
Just say - you only saying that because I’m gay or your only saying that because I’m transgender. Neither has to be true but truth isn’t the issue.
You can always say your Native American....
My privilege is having a cold, tall glass of milk. ;-)
There is nothing on this planet that is more obnoxious than an American black woman who assumes she has been wronged by a caucasian.
I have privilege? That’s great! Run this stuff out to my car for me, willya?
I am not sure if there is anything you can do in that case besides just what you did, answer every nonsensical accusation with the facts. She was not in line, so no one was cutting her. Skin color had nothing to do with it. Gutter-minded people like those you encountered live to set others up.
I think you did well by not sinking to their level. I imagine that they would have liked a dirty brawl and you deprived them of it. Probably left them a little unsatisfied.
There were likely others around who were on your side, but not willing to say so. I don’t know why it is that people remain silent and let someone fight such a battle without support. If I had been there, I would have taken your side. I can’t stand injustice.
Holy moly, I probably would have told her to not Chimp out.
“By the way, these were black people.”
As if we didn’t already know!
They are idiots.
“Bezos Market”, that’s great! So true. It no longer sells any of the products I used to go there for, even my favorite hot bar dish is gone. I refuse to use Amazon now because he ruined Whole Foods. The next closest natural market is a good drive away but they’ll get my business now.
“I Never owned Slaves and
You never Picked Cotton!”
Is what I would like to Hear.
But I wouldn’t.
Whole Foods? Avoid it like the plague. Pretentious and overpriced. Same with Starbucks..and Trader Joe’s.
Lol
You’re lucky it was Whole Foods pu$$ies
If you been at a Dagostinos in a pioneer area you woulda been attacked and bum rushed
Btw...New Yorkers don’t que well anyhow
Eight year Manhattan resident
Well if she was in line then how did I get in front if her?
Sounds like a set up to me. Other than ridicule them for the idiots they are, which would only escalate it, I don’t know. So I’ll brainstorm - be kind and don’t ridicule my attempts.
Well, we can’t all be blessed with beautiful black skin can we? Privilege is our consolation prize for having sickly looking white skin. LOL
Or: Our life on earth is but a span, and so we all must do the best we can - I’m sorry you feel that God’s gifts to you are inferior to mine.
These people are crazy. Don’t let their rhetoric make you feel guilty.