Posted on 07/06/2018 10:11:26 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — A white man who challenged a black family's use of a private community's pool has not only resigned from the homeowner's association board — he's also lost his job.
Sonoco announced Friday that Adam Bloom is no longer employed by the packaging and industrial products company, saying it doesn't condone discrimination of any kind, even if it happens outside its workplace.
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From the HOA Letter:
“Dear Neighbors,
We sincerely regret that an incident occurred yesterday at our community pool that left neighbors feeling racially profiled. In confronting and calling the police on one of our neighbors, the pool chair escalated a situation in a way that does not reflect the inclusive values Glenridge seeks to uphold as a community.
Our HOA Board has accepted his resignation as pool chair and a board member, effective immediately.
What law grants a pool chairman the authority to demand to see a person’s identification?
That is why she didn't show her ID? He obviously didn't recognizer her. Is he supposed to know every family member of every resident in the Home owners association?
Might be feasible if there were like ten families or so, but how many are in this one?
What is he supposed to do when he doesn't recognize an owner or a family member of an owner?
That has not been established yet.
As to your other 2 comments in this post, I agree. AND I'd add:
He has a right to sue her for slander.
He also has a right to sue his employer for wrongful dismissal. (Unless of course, you know the nature of his employment terms as well as you know every HOA's pool rules?)
Typically, if a civilian demands to see my ID while I am on a property that I own, I tell them to get lost.
The HOA confirmed she was a member.
The police officer checked her ID ad he confirmed that she lived there.
Forcing me to call the police to solve something that could have been easily solved by cooperation would leave me in a bad mood too.
Had I asked a woman to show me her ID, and she then did so, I would have said I was sorry, but it is part of my job to make sure non residents didn't use the pool.
Make me call the police because you want to be an @$$hole? Nah, I wouldn't apologize either.
So he probably is a racist.
Non sequitur.
I'm confused. When you ask someone you do not recognize for their ID to see if they are a resident, is that right wing or left wing?
Lets put it this way. If you DARE challenge a POC, you are automatically a right wing, racist, Trump humping bigot who deserves the full force and anger of that clown in a James Brown wig.
And you deserve to be fired.
(I don't make the rules. I calls them as I sees them.)
But look. It works for our advantage too. That Kino fool in my home town? He got doxxed but good. Even a picture of the home he lives in with his mommy.
Citizens are not required to present their state issued identifications to civilians.
So you admit she had her ID with her and refused to show it to the pool attendant.
I don't see him making any such choice. I see the irate woman making that choice for him by accusing him of something horrible on the basis of very little if any evidence.
Considering that, it could be that his company dis not want to be associated with a person who calls the police on a family who is swimming on a pool that they own.
Because he should just be able to tell by looking at strangers whether they own the pool or not.
What is wrong with your thinking?
And everyone knows this because she has this big sign printed on her forehead that says "I am a part owner of this pool."
The man should have just read the sign. What an idiot.
Do you show your ID to any civilian who demands to see your ID.
Yes, she had her ID, she showed it to the police officer.
Who takes ID to the community pool? I never do.
I'm not going to take my wallet with me while I'm swimming. I sign my last name on the sign-in sheet and use my key card to enter.
“I don’t see him making any such choice.”
At the moment he called the police, he elected to make it public record.
My best friend has had exactly this chip on his shoulder for a long time. I think he is mostly over it now because he's doing well, but there was a time he blamed everything he didn't like on racism.
What an awful thing to have happen to you with the motel and kids!! I have been in similar situation (not a motel/kids and long dive like you had, but wondering if my lack of being a protected class had an influence on a situation) and it's miserable. I'm glad you found another room that night, but still....
My example of irrational situation in which my skin color was held against me:
Some years ago...wait...some DECADES ago!! LOL....I was volunteering at a local battered women's shelter. I was tasked with helping a young woman of a protected class with filling out an application for a class at a local community college. She didn't know how to spell the name of the town she had grown up in for the "address" part of the application. It was Baltimore. I spent an hour plus trying to help her locate Baltimore on a map of Maryland, looking at her driver's license for the spelling, sounding it out, looking on the application for the college, etc....multiple different ways to gently show her how to find resources, such as one might need to do when in college courses. She finally threw the pen at me and said, "you should just fill this out for me!!!"
I excused myself from the scene because of her escalating anger, and went to the supervisor I was reporting to that day and told her about it. Her reply was that "well, people expect things done for them sometimes, and if that's what she wants, you should do it. She might think you're looking down on her if you don't. You need to consider the culture she grew up in, and the culture you grew up in, and not be holier-than-thou because of your "privileges" in life. There's a lot of things some people just don't understand about young black women from inner city areas."
I was dumb-founded, and responded, "Well, I might be wrong, but college classes are going to be more difficult than filling out the application for college...maybe she needs some more tutoring before trying college classes?"
The supervisor's response was, "That's just not the way we do things. She clearly needs help, and it's our job to provide that."
I never did find out what the outcome was, but you are very right about trying to be rational. Common sense is not so common anymore.
According to the article, another resident put him up to it.
Did you not read the article?
"Bloom was performing his duties as pool chairman after another woman approached Bloom questioning whether Abhulimen had the right to be poolside, Vermitsky said.The lawyer said there was some confusion about the address Abhulimen gave the other woman, so Bloom asked to see her ID. Then Bloom, "not wanting a confrontation to escalate," called police to resolve the situation, according to the statement.
Publicly firing a man for being a "racist" is libel. They will have a hard time proving their actions did not deliberately smear his character.
I think they will settle out of court because I think they will lose if they go to trial.
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