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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsToothless, ruthless, clueless, racist Oklahoma guy just wants English spoken in his thrift store.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/youre-speaking-immigrant-oklahoma-man-goes-berserk-rant-caught-on-video-by-hispanic-woman/
An Oklahoma woman was accosted at a thrift store by another shopper who overheard her speaking Spanish on her cell phone.
The Durant woman, Maty Roberts, was speaking to her sister on the phone while shopping at Goodwill when an unshaven white man approached her and began hurling racial slurs, reported KXII-TV.
She said he also harassed her daughter and her daughters boyfriend before Roberts began recording video.
He just kept spitting out words, like, Youre an immigrant and you need to go back to your country,' said the womans daughter, Alison Roberts.
sharedvalues
(6,916 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)HAB911
(8,909 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)lamp_shade
(14,841 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)maybe they'll offer this sad specimen a job. Goodwill hires a lot of people who have trouble getting jobs elsewhere, including a lot of people with mental and physical disabilities.
Lol. Last time I was in one I watched one of the former industriously turning all the books standing vertically on the shelves to lie horizontally in heavy stacks. She felt it would make it easier for her and others because they wouldn't have to bend their necks sideways to read the titles. Couldn't argue with that. She was right. I did suggest it might make it difficult for customers to pull books out for examining, but she seemed to think I was offering another good reason. Nice, happy woman, and after chatting a bit I left her to it. Lots of bookshelves in that store, only wondered how far she'd get before a manager happened by.
ret5hd
(20,509 posts)what I mean is that he doesn't own, manage, or work at the store.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...was that since he's deciding what is and is not acceptable in the store, he acts as if he owns it, which is part of the "entitlement" sensibility that Trump has bestowed on his supporters. So yes, "his store" was irony and sarcasm and intended as such.
haveahart
(905 posts)mreilly
(2,120 posts).... about how Democrats founded the KKK (back before the racists all fled to the GOP) and Senator Byrd of West Virginia admitted to being in the Klan in the 1940's and even though that was decades ago and he's been dead for years but that really somehow proves all Democrats are the racists....
.... you know this asshole ran out to vote for Trump. So did ALL of the assholes shrieking "TALK ENGLISH ONLY! GO BACK HOME!"
But the asshole sycophants chanting crap like what I described above would have you believe this is a Hillary supporter. Or at the very least "This guy doesn't represent Trump!"
Literally the dumbest thing I've ever heard.
Orrex
(63,219 posts)by minding his own fucking business.
A now-former coworker used to lose his shit whenever he heard two members of our bilingual customer service team speaking to each other in Spanish. He seriously couldn't stand it and would gripe about it for the rest of the day.
He blamed Barry HUSSEIN Obummer for this accursed multiculturalism, of course.
Mariana
(14,860 posts)in the US before President Obama took office.
Gawd. Repukes are stupid.
Orrex
(63,219 posts)DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)...that the cop did not get this idiot's ID because it was "only verbal."
Go figure.
Deb
(3,742 posts)That jackass should learn to read US money, oh wait..
sinkingfeeling
(51,469 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,748 posts)I'll be certain to speak French.
Johonny
(20,872 posts)dalton99a
(81,565 posts)spanone
(135,857 posts)SwissTony
(2,560 posts)In most countries (AFAIA), speaking two or more languages is considered as desirable and perfectly normal.
My daughter is bringing up her daughter to speak English as well as Dutch. (We live in The Netherlands). We speak to her in English (even though we all speak Dutch) and she replies in English. To other people, she speaks Dutch. If we lived in Belgium, we'd get her to speak French as well.
Maybe an American Native speaker should have a word in this guy's ear.
dalton99a
(81,565 posts)Except for young white females from Russian-speaking lands, and Nazis