The Personal Side of Bias, Prejudice, and
Oppression
This incident happened to me on Friday,
October 12, 2012. I was at the laundry
mat washing clothes when a Caucasian lady came in and was about to add her
laundry into the wash and was putting the detergent in wrong. I said, “Excuse me ma’am but the Tide Pod
goes in the drum of the washer and its best to put your detergent in after the
water start going into the wash. She
gave me a look like did I ask you for your help. She had a snobby
attitude. As she begin to start another
load of clothes she did it the way I had told her previously. She kept looking at me funny the whole time
she was there and she must have realize that I was only trying to help
her. Later, before I left she asked which
dryer gets hot. I told her 1, 2, 3, 4,
and 8. She then told me thank you and
walked away. She seem as though she didn’t
like Black people but she must have realized that Blacks are not so bad after
all.
Thank you Lakeshia,
ReplyDeleteI know that they are jealous and racist in a way. You can feel it when you walk into a room and certain people are in there. I will not let them get to me,in fact the situation has been resolve.
Lakeshia,
ReplyDeleteIt is disappointing to me that you experienced such bias in this day and age. Some people take help as criticism of the way they are doing something. They do not take help, even when offered in friendship, as a positive. It may have been the first time that this person had ever had to come to a laundromat. Just being there might have been awkward for her. Thank you for being the better person. Sometimes the way in which we act can change attitudes about a whole group of people.