oh hai.

malloreigh:

treeswithleaves:

notthatkindagay:

pragmatism:

rosasparks:

thatisracist:

Pair demand apology over ‘racist’ dinner receipt

That is racist.

I would like my restaurant bill printouts to read, IN ALL CAPS,

Crazy, Fraggle-looking brown lady. How ‘bout that?

WHUT? Hey, that’s um, kinda racist and shit.

Well ok, I have a legitimate question then. What if it said “UPSTAIRS WHT COUPLE’ or even better “UPSTAIRS GAY COUPLE”? I’m not so sure anyone would be all that offended… I know I am opening a can of worms with this, but race has always been one of those things that I had trouble wrapping my brain around. I think that maybe if they had received poor service or experienced some other form of discrimination it would have been racist, but actually, I think this little incident is just a little uncouth.

I dunno that’s just me. I could go on about race and ethnicity and its role in communicating identity, but that would take too long right now, and I really don’t want to get myself in trouble with Ms. Sparks.

i tend to agree, somewhat, with pragmatism. i’ve been formulating a post about racism vs ignorant white people but still haven’t gotten all the kinks worked out yet.

we refer to barack obama as the first black president. ray nagin refers to new orleans as chocolate city. i don’t think anybody thinks those things are racist. it’d be racist if this receipt said something like “upstairs black couple who don’t belong in this restaurant.” or worse.

but maybe i’m just an ignorant white boy!?

Just a note to say that I think people would be offended if it said something about a gay couple. I think I’m just confused as to why there would have to be a signifier? Do some restaurants actually do this? I mean, the table number is RIGHT THERE.

i had a friend whose receipt at a restaurant said “cute vegan.” yep. no joke. (he wasn’t offended.)

I should probably point out the obvious point of the situation.

The couple is black. I mean… it’s not like they aren’t.

There are a lot worse things that it could say you know. If someone called me white I wouldn’t take offense. Because I’m white.

(side note: they had fried chicken.)