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TexasTowelie

(112,125 posts)
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 03:31 AM Aug 2016

This couple didn’t tip their Latina server. They left a hateful message instead


A customer left a nasty note for Sadie Karina Elledge at a Harrisonburg, Va., restaurant on Monday, saying, “We only tip citizens.” (Courtesy of John Elledge)

The message on the receipt rattled Sadie Karina Elledge, but it made her grandfather see red.

Instead of leaving a gratuity on Monday, a couple eating at the Harrisonburg, Va., restaurant where Sadie works scrawled: “We only tip citizens.”

The dig was aimed at Sadie, 18, who was born in America but is of Honduran and Mexican descent. So, John Elledge took a photo of the grease-stained receipt left for his granddaughter and posted it on Facebook.

Beneath the photo he typed: “You are a complete and total piece of dung.”

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/08/21/this-couple-didnt-tip-their-latina-server-they-left-a-hateful-message-instead/?utm_term=.79e0a281e859
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This couple didn’t tip their Latina server. They left a hateful message instead (Original Post) TexasTowelie Aug 2016 OP
It seems like this type of nasty note is increasing. suffragette Aug 2016 #1
I am sure they were excited get the red out Aug 2016 #2
But she's not an immigrant. She's a natural-born U.S. citizen. geardaddy Aug 2016 #8
They are sickening! get the red out Aug 2016 #12
Totally agree. geardaddy Aug 2016 #13
Yes or anyone they think might be an immigrant suffragette Aug 2016 #10
Most of them turn out to be hoaxes, this one sounds legit, though. Odin2005 Aug 2016 #7
Additional info at Snopes - they are now banned from restaurant suffragette Aug 2016 #11
Good! Odin2005 Aug 2016 #14
When Donald said what he said... Divine Discontent Aug 2016 #3
Good for grandpa! Liberal_Stalwart71 Aug 2016 #4
It's a special superpower to tell someone's citizenship IronLionZion Aug 2016 #5
+1 million geardaddy Aug 2016 #9
It's a step toward being able to do physical harm. You set your irrational perspective jtuck004 Aug 2016 #6

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
1. It seems like this type of nasty note is increasing.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 03:52 AM
Aug 2016

At least I never heard of them until a few years ago and now there seems to be a new one almost every week.

Truly disgusting.

get the red out

(13,461 posts)
2. I am sure they were excited
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 05:22 AM
Aug 2016

I an sure they were happy for the opportunity to hurt a hard-working immigrant. People like this are missing natural, human compassion. Sickening.

geardaddy

(24,926 posts)
8. But she's not an immigrant. She's a natural-born U.S. citizen.
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 10:40 AM
Aug 2016

So, they based their hatred on her looks.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
10. Yes or anyone they think might be an immigrant
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 12:44 PM
Aug 2016

Remember 'random acts of kindness.'

These people go the extreme opposite for targeted acts of cruelty.

They are missing compassion and they delight in being racist.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
11. Additional info at Snopes - they are now banned from restaurant
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 12:50 PM
Aug 2016
http://www.snopes.com/2016/08/21/virginia-server-gets-racist-note-instead-of-tip/

Adding another layer to her disbelief, Elledge says the woman herself had an accent. Jess' Lunch is an immigrant-created and owned business. Here's what Elledge's boss had to say about the note.

"Coward is the word to describe what they did. I have worse words to use," said Angeliki Floros, "But let's go with coward."

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The couple — who were caught writing the message on a security camera — have now been banned from the restaurant until they apologize.

Divine Discontent

(21,056 posts)
3. When Donald said what he said...
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 05:45 AM
Aug 2016

It made a lot of people feel it was alright to say things they normally would keep in their brains, that would never reach their writing hand or tongues.


http://cafepress.com/hillaryforamerica2016

IronLionZion

(45,427 posts)
5. It's a special superpower to tell someone's citizenship
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 06:41 AM
Aug 2016

based only on how they look. I've encountered it many times. It doesn't matter what it says on someone's papers, or where they were born, or their accent, or their name. Some people think they know what an American looks like and they will be in for a very intense shock this election when they find out how wrong they are when it comes to who can vote.

Good for Grandpa for speaking up and using his white privilege and western name for good.

My family is very fortunate for having biblical names that sound more "American" since on paper people might assume we were white if they couldn't see our faces. One of my favorite comments is "you don't look like your name". And I'm sure Sadie Karina Elledge might have had similar experiences.

On the flip side I dated a girl who is from Virginia and has Latina heritage on both sides and she definitely flies a big confederate flag on the back of her loud V8 Ford Mustang, just like many other southerners.

 

jtuck004

(15,882 posts)
6. It's a step toward being able to do physical harm. You set your irrational perspective
Mon Aug 22, 2016, 07:46 AM
Aug 2016

to work, and the first chickenshit thing you can think of to do is a cowardly passive-aggressive assault on a person working in your service.

Next you deface a car, perhaps, or are mean to a child, or deny someone an opportunity, maybe say things a bit loud in the line at the grocery about people of color...

and from there, some want blood.

Beyond the criminal's future, for the server it is tantamount to being labelled a criminal, and could easily lead to questioning, and perhaps an assault or arrest.

It ought to be considered a criminal act and the police need to make a report. It is a criminal assault on the civil rights of a person who has a right to confront their accuser, who has a right to be secure in their person, and both of those were violated with a scrap of paper and some hate.

If they are called and don't at least make a report I would try to find that city negligent.




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