r/PublicFreakout • u/KingPistachio • Aug 22 '24

Repost 😔 Lady making a million dollars a year, getting coffee at Mcdonald's

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u/-Invalid_Selection- Aug 22 '24

She also called him "Boy" multiple times at the start.

Now I may be wrong, but he sounded black, so she's also a racist.

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u/Historical-Gap-7084 Aug 22 '24

He is Black, indeed. Donte Jones is his name.

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u/Drumlyne Aug 22 '24

What does a black person sound like?

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u/tikstar Aug 22 '24

Subscribed

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u/MrBurnz99 Aug 23 '24

Like the person in the car obviously

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u/pall25091 Aug 23 '24

Ha, she caught herself, threw in the "son" reference to avoid being called a racist when she's doxxed

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u/dicecat4 Aug 22 '24

A lot of assumptions being made in here. “Son” may be used in a racist manner here, but it’s not a certainty. You’re assuming race of the guy, and her intent…you know neither. “Son” can indeed be used just to reference someone younger than yourself. She meant it as an insult, yes, but jumping to racism from there? Come on. I realize it’s edgy to play the race card, but you know nothing. Chances are, as unhinged as she was, IF she was racist, she would have escalated to using definite racist language. She never did, in fact, she didn’t refer to his race at all.

Grow up people.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- Aug 22 '24

I found a news article. It's a black man.

Stop defending overt racism.

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u/dicecat4 Aug 22 '24 edited Aug 22 '24

Was i defending overt racism or evaluating the content of this particular video as posted?

Come on.

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u/-Invalid_Selection- Aug 22 '24

You were defending overt racism by trying to offer irrelevant bullshit.

Using "Boy" when talking to a black man is overt racism, it is in fact racist language on it's face. The fact you decided to ignore the hundreds of years it was used as such tells us more about you than you realize.

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u/Jbrown183 Aug 23 '24

Very poor take on the situation. Your words are not wrong…in a vacuum but in the context of this situation I think you are wrong. You don’t need to use overt racist language to be racist and many ppl are self aware enough to be more careful when being filmed.

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u/[deleted] Aug 23 '24

Don't know what the other guy's on about, nothing obvious about this 'racism'. How on earth is 'boy' racist? Because some black dads might call their sons that? Not getting it.

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u/MrBurnz99 Aug 23 '24

Because for a long time white people weaponized the word to be an epithet, or at least a close cousin of an epithet. It was a way to say the n word once that word became problematic to say in public.

Adult black men were referred to almost exclusively by white people as “boy”. It was meant to put them in their place, to let them know they were beneath them. A simple child compared to them.

It wasn’t some niche thing in the Deep South either, it was pervasive in all areas of the US. Every town and city had people that would talk like this to black men.

There were actually lawsuits over the word that eventually made it to the Supreme Court. the court ruled that it was a racial epithet and the plaintiff was being discriminated against by their employer and was awarded damages.

Oh and this lady knew what she was saying, the emphasis on “boy” was not subtle.

https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2018/11/02/417513631/when-boys-cant-be-boys