juco
Veteran Member
My best friend called awhile ago to tell me about her lunch outing with another friend. They went to a buffet style restaurant, had finished eating and were sitting there chatting.
A black lady came in, went through the line and picked a table about mid-way the dining area. My friend said they didn't pay any particular attention to her, just noticed where she sat because she walked past them. The woman then said loudly, to no one...and everyone, I guess, "Hey, anybody want to talk about Obama?" My friend said it got so quiet that you could've heard a pin drop and then a black man a few booths away stood up and raised his fists in the air and started chanting Obama, Obama, Obama and the woman joined in.
My friend and her friend left...fast, so I don't know what happened. Nothing, probably. But this is just one incident in one small town. What's going on around the country in all the other cities? I myself have encountered extreme insolence and very surly attitudes in our tiny town.
So how does a person handle this kind of antagonism? I'm already heartsick about what is happening to our country. But some folks are more than heartsick, they are p.o.'d and will take this kind of thing as a personal insult.
I can (kind of) understand the racial pride thing because it makes me proud and humbled to vote knowing what the women who went before me sacrificed so that I have the privilege. But I don't get the deliberate bating and insolent behavior.
A black lady came in, went through the line and picked a table about mid-way the dining area. My friend said they didn't pay any particular attention to her, just noticed where she sat because she walked past them. The woman then said loudly, to no one...and everyone, I guess, "Hey, anybody want to talk about Obama?" My friend said it got so quiet that you could've heard a pin drop and then a black man a few booths away stood up and raised his fists in the air and started chanting Obama, Obama, Obama and the woman joined in.
My friend and her friend left...fast, so I don't know what happened. Nothing, probably. But this is just one incident in one small town. What's going on around the country in all the other cities? I myself have encountered extreme insolence and very surly attitudes in our tiny town.
So how does a person handle this kind of antagonism? I'm already heartsick about what is happening to our country. But some folks are more than heartsick, they are p.o.'d and will take this kind of thing as a personal insult.
I can (kind of) understand the racial pride thing because it makes me proud and humbled to vote knowing what the women who went before me sacrificed so that I have the privilege. But I don't get the deliberate bating and insolent behavior.










