I work in a restaurant where I hold 3 job classes (gotta pay for school and live life!): server, hostess, & bartender. From all 3 perspectives within this particular restaturant, I have seen and heard so much. I know fellow servers (of all races) that "cherry-pick" (pick the tables that they'd rather serve over another simply due to the race of the table). It's sad that a lot of servers refuse to serve black tables because they automatically form a prejudice that the table will be ghetto, uncouth, unruly or will not leave a tip. I'm sorry to say but there are people of all races that act a damn fool when they go out to eat...treating their server like a
servant instead of the person that they are. On another note through a server's eyes, I've been told all my life that I talk proper or whatever. By SOME black tables I've been mocked because of the way that I talk. I was even told by a particular table that was black that that I don't have to talk
like that for them. When I asked, "Like what?" he replied, "
Like that! You don't have to
pretend for us" and he winked at me. I looked at him as if I were saying WTF, and I said "This is the way I talk and I'm not pretending about anything". I took their order and as I was walking away I heard him say, "She don't know she's black."
Also I've had white tables act like if I get to close to them at the table my skin color might rub off on them.
I've even had a particular table that wouldn't even acknowledge me standing at the table...when I turned to walk away to get a manager for them the mother said, "I wanted a white server, I didn't want that."
As a hostess, I've encountered many of the same things...and a as bartender things that are said can be rather explicative (sp?) so I won't even go there. So yes, I do believe that racism is alive and well in today's America and it's not just black/white/asian/latino/etc. thing....it's a rotten mentality that doesn't allow people to just live and appreciate God's gift of life...because indeed life is too short. Sorry about running off at the mouth..but I had to get it off my chest. Moderators feel free to delete if you deem necessary.
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