Bigotry, and other things you don’t want your kid picking up at WalMart
Posted on | April 29, 2007 |
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After tilling and turning all morning I finally had a spot ready for my pepper plants. I merrily skipped into the house, flug open the utility closet doors, pulled out my bucket of garden goodness, and found no pepper seeds. The packet of assorted seeds that I special ordered months ago was gone. I spent a frantic half hour tearing the entire closet apart before accepting that they were probably mistaken for trash and tossed. Damn you seed companty and your plain white seed packets!
Since A was napping I cleaned E and I up and we headed to Wal-Mart. Sure I couldn’t get the same kind of seeds, but I could get a packet of banana pepper and maybe some mixed red and green peppers. Everything seemed fine as we stood in line and paid. There was no reason to assume that anything horrible would happen in our quick shopping trip on a beautiful Sunday morning.
I was wrong.
Not even 5 feet from the doors a loud, gravelly voice began booming right behind me. “bleep bleep bleep Mexicans and their bleep bleep bleep Spanish! I can’t bleep buy a bleep thing without them bleep everywhere! bleep bleep bleep” The verbal assault went on the entire time it took to cross the parking lot and get into the car. I didn’t dare stop and turn to see who was shouting these things at the top of his lungs, half afriad that he might be carrying a weapon. I rushed E along and quickly buckled him into the car, then ran around and got inside myself without looking back. Luckily E was too concerned with rattling the seed packet in his hands and didn’t pay attention ot the angry man shouting in the parking lot.
What on earth drives a man to shout like a lunatic like that I will never know. And to direct his vile at someone based on nothing more than their ethnicity is even more disturbing.
Sadly, it happens often enough in small towns like this one.
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April 29th, 2007 @ 8:46 pm
I can’t stand it when I run across people like that and I have my kids with me … I have to be “Mommy” and protective. It’s much more fun to be alone and be a bi-ochy white chic!!
Ahhhh … the ignorance of America.
idiots.
May 3rd, 2007 @ 10:08 am
The good this that you found his words disturbing.
You would probably be surprised at the number of people that you know, who would never sqay such things, but wouldn’t be terribly upset by them.
June 19th, 2007 @ 1:28 am
I’m afraid I would have turned around and said, “Buenas Dias, Senor. Mi marido es el encargado. ¿Hay algo que él puede ayudarle con?”
It means, Good morning, sir. My husband is the manager. Is there something he can help you with?”
But I’m just quirky that way.
Shine On,
Lill
June 19th, 2007 @ 2:26 am
I get very upset by the level of incivility in our country, on both the left and the right. There are people who would never dream of making a racist remark or ethnic slur but have no qualms about spouting the most vile anti-Christian rhetoric
We need to remember to do unto others as we would have them do unto us, which is not just a Christian ethic but a universal human one.