Virginia Lowes Store Bends To The Will Of Racism

Marcus Bradley was set to deliver a package from Lowes’ Danville, Virginia location, until he got to the customer’s home and the owner told him she didn’t want a black man delivering packages to her home.

Naturally, the manager of that Lowe’s told the woman to fuc … oh, wait, the manager replaced Bradley with a whiter, more appropriately skin-toned driver. Even worse, if possible, when Bradley asked the manager why he should bring the package back to the store and allow another driver to deliver it, the manager said:

“Because you're black.”

America. 2020.

Alex Brooks, who has worked with Bradley for 11 years, was in the truck when the call came in from the manager:

"I was embarrassed because I got the phone call. I think that's kind of how [Marcus] felt, too. Marcus was more shocked at Lowe's doing this. He couldn't believe that the place he worked at would go along with this woman's wishes."

And Brooks acknowledged that the store knows this particular client is a racist:

"The weekend before this delivery, everybody told us that this woman in the store wouldn't deal with any of the black customer service representatives or salesmen. She said she didn't want any black delivery drivers, so they knew beforehand."

And yet they sent Marcus Bradley anyway. And when the two men returned to the store, the manager asked Alex Brooks, who is white, to go back out on the delivery with another white driver; Alex Brooks refused.

And Lowes corporate offices have also refused to allow the three managers who took part in this racist episode to continue to work at the store:

"There had been a customer who had requested only white delivery drivers to deliver an item to her home. After we learned of a situation that a manager had pulled the driver from the delivery, we did a quick investigation. The three managers who had been part of that decision are no longer part of the company. We have zero tolerance for behavior of that kind. We have apologized and our senior vice president actually went to the [Danville, Virginia] store last week and spoke to the delivery drivers personally and apologized on behalf of the company. We wanted to make sure they knew they had our full support."

Although saddened and hurt by the incident, Marcus Bradley plans to continue working for Lowe's.

"I mean, I gotta work. I'm going to keep going to work like I've always done, but I would think Lowe's would take it into consideration to think about what they're doing the next time.”

The racist homeowner, who asked not to be identified, though that's her picture up there and I'm guessing her name is Karen, was very willing to talk to the local news about the incident:

“I got a right to have whatever I want and that’s it. I don’t feel bad about nothing.”

Clearly, her ignorance and command of the English language go hand—in-hand with her racism.

Now, Lowes … I know it’s not you, but it’s the people you hired at the Danville location, so this is how you train your employees:

A customer requests to have only a white person help them, show them the door.

A customer asks to have only white people deliver to their home, tell them to pick up the goods themselves.

Better yet, tell that racist old hag—who told the news that she would still never allow a black man on her property—and any other person who makes the same request, be it about a black person, Latino, Asian, gay, Indian, Muslim, to kindly fuck off.

And show them the door.

ABC News

Random Musings

Chick-fil-A is a homophobic company, that couches it hatred of the LGBT community with Christian rhetoric so...... Don't.Eat.There.
Need another reason? In California, a Chick-fil-A has fired a staff member who mocked two Asian customers by putting made-up names on their receipts. He  typed the names 'Ching' and 'Chong'--because he couldn't be bothered with getting their actual names--into a computer with their order and the names appeared on their receipts.
How Christian.

After  pictures of the receipts appeared on a Tumblr account, and Chick-fil-A bosses found out about the incident, store managers said they'd already fired the staff member as a result of the customers' complaints. Then a spokesman said the episode says nothing about Chick-fil-A's attitude as a company and is "simply [a] case of immaturity, failed judgment and human error" by one employee.
See, Chick-fil-A really likes Asian people, as long as they're straight, because I cannot see them firing an employee for printing 'fag' and 'dyke' on a receipt.


Jon Huntsman.
Just sayin'.

TLC has a show called 'All-American Muslim' and some of the advertisers, like Lowes, have removed their ads from the show because, you know, Muslims aren't American and Muslims are terrorists. Or, maybe Lowes and those other advertisers just like to kow-tow to the religious righ....wrong.
Well, Russell Simmons has bought up all the ads for the next airing of 'All-American Muslim' and now there are all sorts of petitions online suggesting a boycott of bigoted big businesses, like Lowes.
Go online, sign one, and stand up against discrimination.


What if you gave a debate and no one came.
Not even Queen of the Wacknuts, Michele Bachmann.
After only Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum agreed to be a part of a Donald Trump moderated 'debate', the Chump, er, Trump, has called the whole thing off.
Shoot.
It would'a been kinda fun, watching The Rug, The Newt, and The Frothy Mix act like they could be president.


Everything old is new again....and yet even more offensive.
The new ABC comedy Work It offends transgender activists as it portrays men who cannot get jobs so they begin dressing as women. And hilarity and transphobia ensue. Boob jokes, makeup jokes, sexist humor!
And it's been done before, without the offensiveness.
Tom Hanks anyone?
Peter Scolari anyone?
Bosom Buddies anyone?


I watched the A&E production/adaptation of Stephen King's Bag of Bones.
Both parts.
And I found it to be less than a bag of bones and more of a sack of sh.....


Carlos has a problem with night vision, so he doesn't drive at night. That's my gig. And he gets kind of Mister Magoo-ish in the house, too, and will, at times, run into a piece of furniture or chair.
It's good for a giggle.
Not so giggle worthy:
Yesterday I walked out into the garage to get something from the freezer out there. Upon closing the door I turned and headed back into the house, apparently forgetting that one must walk up two steps to enter the kitchen.
I hit the bottom step and fell straight down onto the kitchen floor. My only thought, as the trip and fall played out before my eyes in slow motion?
We have the most hideous 70s linoleum in our kitchen.


FauxNews never met a lie they didn't like to spin as true. Like the unemployment numbers.
Note in the first picture, the graph line of unemployment this year.

Now note how the graph line should actually appear,

FauxNews is FauxNews for a reason.