Popeye's is Racist!!!!!

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Do you think the staff of Popeye's was acting with racist motivations? Or was this lady simply being a fool?

You haven't given us enough detail to know. Maybe your food just got cooked faster. Maybe this particular establishment has a history of treating black customers poorly and she was noting a trend. Maybe she was making a joke. Maybe she wasn't foolish, but just lashing out in a stressful situation. Or maybe she was just inclined to see racism when there was no real reason to.

Why the hell are you asking us?

 

[civman110]

If this happened to me I wouldn't consider the worker to be racist. Then again if a white worker said "Black people your food's ready" I wouldn't consider them to be racist either, however many people would. I find minorities are much less likely to give whites the benefit of the doubt.

Another good example is me and my black friend were shopping at Wal-Mart and he bought a Blue Ray Player and I just had to pick up some deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste. Anyway when we were leaving the store the white lady at the door saw what he was carrying and asked to see his receipt. After we left my friend was convinced that the lady was a racist because she asked him for his receipt, but didn't ask to see mine.

Now from my own experiences I have been regularly asked to show a receipt leaving Wal-Mart with any item over $100, or a shopping cart full of items and I'm almost never asked when carrying a small bag of cheap items. IMO, she only asked him because what he was carrying was so expensive. Could it have been because of racism, yeah, but chances are just as high, if not higher that race had nothing to do with it. So why automatically assume the woman is a racist? I also wonder if the woman was a minority if his reaction would have been the same.

Another situation. I once asked an Iranian girl out and she said she only dates Iranians. I was like ok cool. We remained friends and I wasn't offended at all. I can understand why someone would only want to date someone within their own ethnic group. I actually felt better about it because she was honest with me and it wasn't because she thought I was ugly or had a bad personality etc. However, I have a friend who's a minority and he always tries to tell me how racist white girls are for not wanting to date him just because he's a minority. To me this is just insane.

The whole dating atmosphere is discriminatory. Some people won't date you because of your hair color, your age, your weight, your height, your religion, political beliefs, etc. People have the right to not take you to bed for whatever reason. It's not racism. It's preference.

 

[Sonereal]

So why automatically assume the woman was a racist?

Because if you assume somebody is racist, you rarely can be wrong.

 

[caketastydelish]

If this happened to me I wouldn't consider the worker to be racist. Then again if a white worker said "Black people your food's ready" I wouldn't consider them to be racist either, however many people would. I find minorities are much less likely to give whites the benefit of the doubt.

Another good example is me and my black friend were shopping at Wal-Mart and he bought a Blue Ray Player and I just had to pick up some deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste. Anyway when we were leaving the store the white lady at the door saw what he was carrying and asked to see his receipt. After we left my friend was convinced that the lady was a racist because she asked him for his receipt, but didn't ask to see mine.

Now from my own experiences I have been regularly asked to show a receipt leaving Wal-Mart with any item over $100, or a shopping cart full of items and I'm almost never asked when carrying a small bag of cheap items. IMO, she only asked him because what he was carrying was so expensive. Could it have been because of racism, yeah, but chances are just as high, if not higher that race had nothing to do with it. So why automatically assume the woman is a racist? I also wonder if the woman was a minority if his reaction would have been the same.

Another situation. I once asked an Iranian girl out and she said she only dates Iranians. I was like ok cool. We remained friends and I wasn't offended at all. I can understand why someone would only want to date someone within their own ethnic group. I actually felt better about it because she was honest with me and it wasn't because she thought I was ugly or had a bad personality etc. However, I have a friend who's a minority and he always tries to tell me how racist white girls are for not wanting to date him just because he's a minority. To me this is just insane.

The whole dating atmosphere is discriminatory. Some people won't date you because of your hair color, your age, your weight, your height, your religion, political beliefs, etc. People have the right to not take you to bed for whatever reason. It's not racism. It's preference.

It sounds like most of your "iranian friends" are imaginary internet friends to lure the bait and wait for the catch so you can feed them through the troll pass.

 

[civman110]

It sounds like most of your "iranian friends" are imaginary internet friends to lure the bait and wait for the catch so you can feed them through the troll pass.

Are you serious right now?

 

[Hygro]

At least according to a certain black lady in line at Popeye's that I had the pleasure of encountering today. Here's the situation:

My wife and I swung into Popeye's chicken to pick up lunch for me, my wife, our daughter, and my parents. When we get there the place is really crowded and the workers were obviously struggling to keep up with the lunch rush. Anyway, we place our order and our order number is 42. A few minutes later they call number 42, we grab our food, and start heading towards the door. While we were leaving the black lady who was number 41 and hadn't received her food yet proclaims very loudly towards us "Oh, of course the WHITE PEOPLE get their food first!" I just shook my head with a grin on my face and walked out the door.

Anyway, what I wanted to discuss is why is it every time a member of a minority gets a little bit of poor service somewhere, they automatically blame it on racism? Did this idiotic woman ever stop to think maybe they were low on the items she ordered, so they had to cook up some more and that's why it was taking so long for her food? Or maybe they were just understaffed and her order just got forgotten in the hustle and bustle? Or maybe they did call her number and she didn't hear it (it was pretty loud in there)? No, of course not. It just absolutely must be racism! The employees of Popeye's saw me walk in and quickly decided "hey, we hate black people so much, let's make sure this nice white family gets their food before this lowly black peasant here."

So CFC, do you think the above incident can be chalked up to racism? Or was this lady just an ignorant fool who tries to blame everything bad in her life on racism? I tend towards the latter given my brief experience with her.

A broader question for you to consider is: Why do some members of minorities immediately jump to racism as the reason behind every negative experience they have in their life?

Sounds like she made a joke and then you made a racist assumption about her.

 

[JollyRoger]

I think it is feeding into racial stereotypes for Popeye's to even sell fried chicken to black people. They should be closed down.

 

[Goodfella]

Are you serious right now?

caketasty is part persian and recently made a thread about white women not wanting to date him because of it. To him, it looks as if your post was a troll. If this weren't the first time I've read one of your posts, I'd agree with him.

 

[classical_hero]

I thought this was titled "Popeye is racist!".

Expected those old comics/cartoons, and i am disappointed

That was my expectation also.

 

[Hygro]

It doesn't look like a troll comment at all. I've met more than a couple Persian gals who aren't interested in dating outside their background. I don't have much of an opinion on it.

 

[Goodfella]

Yeah, I don't think so either. But you can't deny that it could be perceived as one in the wake of caketasty's thread.

 

[Agent327]

At least according to a certain black lady in line at Popeye's that I had the pleasure of encountering today. Here's the situation:

My wife and I swung into Popeye's chicken to pick up lunch for me, my wife, our daughter, and my parents. When we get there the place is really crowded and the workers were obviously struggling to keep up with the lunch rush. Anyway, we place our order and our order number is 42. A few minutes later they call number 42, we grab our food, and start heading towards the door. While we were leaving the black lady who was number 41 and hadn't received her food yet proclaims very loudly towards us "Oh, of course the WHITE PEOPLE get their food first!" I just shook my head with a grin on my face and walked out the door.

Anyway, what I wanted to discuss is why is it every time a member of a minority gets a little bit of poor service somewhere, they automatically blame it on racism? Did this idiotic woman ever stop to think maybe they were low on the items she ordered, so they had to cook up some more and that's why it was taking so long for her food? Or maybe they were just understaffed and her order just got forgotten in the hustle and bustle? Or maybe they did call her number and she didn't hear it (it was pretty loud in there)? No, of course not. It just absolutely must be racism! The employees of Popeye's saw me walk in and quickly decided "hey, we hate black people so much, let's make sure this nice white family gets their food before this lowly black peasant here."

So CFC, do you think the above incident can be chalked up to racism? Or was this lady just an ignorant fool who tries to blame everything bad in her life on racism? I tend towards the latter given my brief experience with her.

A broader question for you to consider is: Why do some members of minorities immediately jump to racism as the reason behind every negative experience they have in their life?

And why do certain white people immediately post a thread when they encounter something which might have something vaguely to do with racism?

Mmmm.

 

[Sonereal]

And why do certain white people immediately post a thread when they encounter something which might have something vaguely to do with racism?

Mmmm.

Clearly we can come together and laugh at the black woman and tell her that she's a paranoid schizophrenic who sees racism everywhere which is silly because racism doesn't exist in America anymore.

After all, she's just a

ignorant fool who tries to blame everything bad in her life on racism

 

[civman110]

caketasty is part persian and recently made a thread about white women not wanting to date him because of it. To him, it looks as if your post was a troll. If this weren't the first time I've read one of your posts, I'd agree with him.

Well I don't know him and I've never posted in this section before... plus I have better things to do than make up stories about Iranians. Does he honestly believe that Iranians cannot be selective about which ethnicities they date?

Anyway if he wants another example I have also been rejected by a French woman simply because I only speak English. It's the preserving the cultural identity thing and I understand that that. Her reason was "You English guys are just different." Dating someone with a similar background to you just makes life simpler, especially for your children.

 

[Kyriakos]

Me too.

It still might be so. In a "Popey's has been done is racist"

Whitelaughers love this kind of joke.

 

[warpus]

Sounds like a joke made in very poor taste.

Then again she probably doesn't know that popeye's cooked for black Americans is prepared with an extra layer of spice, due to the black favouritism preferred by the owners of the company. The chicken tastes better, but it takes longer to prepare. But of course the black owned media won't tell you that.

 

[Commodore]

I think it is feeding into racial stereotypes for Popeye's to even sell fried chicken to black people. They should be closed down.

You say this in jest (at least I hope you are), but after researching what people think about Popeye's, it seems there is a lot of people out there who actually think it is racist for them to market their product primarily to black people. I mean, do the fools who think selling fried chicken to black people is racist ever stop to think maybe Popeye's is just marketing to the demographic their product seems to be the most popular with? Popeye's started in Louisiana which has, proportionally, one of the highest black populations in the entire US, so it makes sense that black people were their majority consumer base and designed their product and corporate image around what they have seen get a positive response from the black community.

But no, according to some of the SJWs out there, Popeye's is a completely racist corporation because they market to black people. This kind of reminds me of the late 90s and early 2000s when these same idiots were accusing McDonald's of the exact same thing when they started marketing to black people as well.

Sounds like a joke made in very poor taste.

Come on, give me some credit. If the tone of her voice indicated she were joking, there would be no issue. She was legitimately angry though and I understand she had every right to be if she had been waiting for her food for a long time; but the fact that she was attributing it to racism was completely uncalled for.

 

[Timsup2nothin]

Come on, give me some credit. If the tone of her voice indicated she were joking, there would be no issue. She was legitimately angry though and I understand she had every right to be if she had been waiting for her food for a long time; but the fact that she was attributing it to racism was completely uncalled for.

People who are angry say uncalled for things. Frequently they make no sense at all. Nature of the beast.

 

[warpus]

Come on, give me some credit. If the tone of her voice indicated she were joking, there would be no issue. She was legitimately angry though and I understand she had every right to be if she had been waiting for her food for a long time; but the fact that she was attributing it to racism was completely uncalled for.

In that case you have on your hands a potentially crazy and definitely racist lady.

Hopefully there aren't too many of those where you live.

 

[thecrazyscot]

A broader question for you to consider is: Why do some members of minorities immediately jump to racism as the reason behind every negative experience they have in their life?

I didn't understand the mindset behind some situations like this until I met my wife, and I have been slowly learning since then.

Imagine the hurt or pain you would feel if you were discriminated against purely based on your appearance. Some of you probably don't need to imagine it, sadly.

Now imagine if that discrimination were systemic, where it was a simple fact of life that you expected, and that you were surprised when it didn't happen.

That is the situation that many African Americans have been in, especially if they are middle aged or older. They spent their formative years (and many adult years) being told they were worth less and deserved less by society, not just individuals.

Why do you think Treyvon Martin, Ferguson, and several other cases have been so explosive? African Americans have been systemically discriminated against so long by even the courts that these cases have taken on powerful symbolism - sometimes in spite of what actually may have happened. If justice can be gotten from these cases, maybe it will make up for some of the injustice we've seen, is the thinking.

Discrimination is alive and well still in the American south, although it is slowly receding. Just several years ago my father-in-law was refused service at a Waffle House. My wife dated one person who wouldn't introduce her to his parents. One of her best friends from college told her that her parents would never let her marry a black man.

When you've spent decades being treated a certain way because of racism, it's hard to avoid attributing similar treatment to it, even if it's not true.

Do I think that Popeye's was being racist? No - it's a far simpler explanation that her meal was simply taking longer to make or got lost in the rush. Maybe the lady was just having a bad day. Everyone is nasty at some point.

Did she jump to conclusions? Yes. But so did you, by labeling her an

ignorant fool who tries to blame everything bad in her life on racism