The terminally offended.
“For me, it was a very clear reminder — a painful reminder — that we do not live in a post-racial era.”
Your Messiah, Barak Obama saw to that.
That question would probably pyss me off, as well.
I wouldn’t sue — but still.
More whites use EBT cards than blacks, so what's race have to do with it?
Barack Obama set race relations back DECADES in our country, to the point that there’s a whole new generation of elementary skool kids who are fully programmed to focus on skin color.
She's one of the very few blacks who did. The only place in OC whiter than HB is Irvine and the Nixon library.
Guaran-damn-tee there’s more to this.
As a person of Mexican heritage, I’ve had this happen to me (in California, significantly enough, never here in Arizona in the past 20+ years I’ve lived here.). I would have been offended, but I wouldn’t have sued. I would have taken the time to “educate” the clerk on the inappropriateness of stereotyping. That’s all that needed to be done.
I thought that the merger of Albertsons and Safeway made
Albertsons the parent company, not the other way around.
Come off it! I’m a white guy and I swipe my EBT card. No one gives me a second look.
If she has a problem with being racially offended, that’s her problem.
I bet she would have the same response if the store clerk asked her if she bought fried chicken and watermelon.
If so many of her people weren’t on food stamps (you know, the kind of folks the lady on the register sees every day), she wouldn’t have been asked the question.
Now, she’s gonna be rich.
Should we assume then that all wally world shoppers can sue walmart for demanding to see your receipt and shuffling through your bags in order for you to leave the store ? Profiling all their shoppers as criminals I would think is way over par to this gals hurt feelers that a clerk asks her if she wants to use a particular payment method.
My response to the Cashier, I wish.
It would save me a fortune. LOL
Just a little joke...
The Cashier make a silly off hand remark and next thing you know, “United Airlines”.
Obviously worse than anything the Viet Cong ever did.
This is the pettiest crap I’ve encountered in ages.
Otherwise, if I understand the referenced situation correctly, the states have never amended the Constitution to expressly protect citizens in the described context as evidenced by the following supporting excerpt.
"State inspection laws, health laws, and laws for regulating the internal commerce of a State, and those which respect turnpike roads, ferries, &c. are not within the power granted to Congress [emphases added]." -Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
In fact, the Supreme Court had clarified in United States v. Cruikshank that constitutional protections protect citizens only from actions of state and federal governments, not from actions by private citizens.
United States v. Cruikshank
So with all due respect to Ms Watkinson, unless the clerk broke some state law, this is not a federal civil rights issue imo.
Corrections, insights welcome.
Maybe it’s the way she dressed, as a “fashion brand consultant”, which misled the clerk to think she might use an EBT card.
‘African-American’, huh... When’s the last time you were in Africa?
Perpetual victimhood.