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So I placed his order to go and I was eating my food and the waitress was very hesitant, like it took her. Like we had sat there for almost maybe 20, 25 minutes. And when she came near our area again, I asked her would she, you know, come on and take it, because I was on lunch and I needed to get my boss back his food. And she said, I'll get to you when I'll get to you. And I said, And so I went to the manager and said, Listen, I'm on lunch break. I need to get the full back to my manager. So can you just come and take. But she seems to be overworked and I need to get this food and so I can go. And so the manager said, Oh, she'll be with you in one minute. And I said, No. She told me she's not available, so I want you to come and take this order. And so he kind of is talking to her there, like in between the door. And I heard her say that she was not going to wait on any [Unrecognized]. And so we were all looking at each other at the table like, really? Is she is she really doing that today? So then when she came back the second time with the food and I said, Are you going to take our order or not take our order. And she said, I don't serve [Unrecognized]. And I said, Well, who here at this table is a [Unrecognized]? Because everybody at this table got a college degree. And and since you want to be in my business, where did you get your college degree from? Because I have one. Where's yours? And so she was like, You can't talk to me like that. And I said, Almost certainly can't, because if you stepped into the arena, you for sure have to come in. So she said, Well, it's not my responsibility to wait on [Unrecognized]. And I said, Well, who is? Because you are the. That's the position you play in society. So your job is to take orders and bring food. That's that's how this works. And I honestly, to be honest with you, I'm talking I'm 22 years old, born and raised from New York. I had never, ever been called that until I was already graduated from college, which was weird to me. Me born and raised from New York. In New York, being a very controversial state and a lot of you know, I'm a product of 80, so a lot of shenanigans going on in New York growing up and still never had that ever said to me, never, ever said to me in front of my parents or even in their friend category, I never heard my parents friends talk like that and have went through four years of college and never had heard that. So that to me was very weird. I never heard it in my workplace. And and just a clarification, Was the N-word ending an E or ending an e r e r, because A is in slang. Mm hmm. E is in a derogatory form. And it's also how words are phrased that you okay. Because if you listen to music, they're talking about their friend in, you know, their close, really close friend when someone is derogatory, pointed it at you, it's almost like someone is pointing their finger at you. So that's why the emphasis is on the E.R. She was very angry to this point. I still don't really have a clear understanding of why she was so angry. I don't know. She got angry because I was challenging her education. Or was she angry because she just felt like she was at a desolate point in her life And like here it is, some young African-American telling her, like, you're uneducated, you're the waitress. You know, I think it had to be some type of a superiority kind of situation, but I never really got clarity of it. But the manager who happened to be Puerto Rican eventually came and got our food. And I told him, like, why would you let her do that? Like that? You discrediting your whole race and the part of you being a manager, you got to the point in your career because you bettered yourself. So how can you let someone basically she's like white trash? Why would you allow her to have the upper hand? You should make her come over here and take that or fire her. And so she overheard me telling him that and he was like, I just don't want any problems. And I said, But don't you get it? Every single black person that comes in here, you're going to have a problem. I said, But do you honestly think that I'm not going to contact Denny's and tell them what happened here? Today. Do you honestly not think now we're going out almost an hour and a half. I've been waiting for food that this is not escalating life. At what point as the manager are you de-escalating something? So at this point, for sure, I'm telling you I'm about to write a letter to Denise. I'm definitely putting your name and her name in the letter. And I just feel like, um, I'm really disappointed in you because I feel like you're a discredit to your race to, like, why would you allow this to go on like your people have fought so much for you to get ahead in life? 20 years ago, you couldn't even had this job in management. So the mere fact that you're taken advantage of it, you know, that's like a slap in the face to your ancestors. And he was like, I know and I understand. He was like, But you don't understand. Am I supposed to understand you're empowered. That's why they made you the manager. And why do I need to coach you as the customer? Like, I don't even understand this dynamic with me and you right now. But lo and behold. So he orders the food. I get the food. And when I'm waiting for my manager's food, she takes his food and she throws it on the floor. Okay, So now we're like 2 hours and almost two and a half hours at this restaurant. So I am living with this lady. And I said, okay. I tried to be nice. I tried to be nice. You've done it. So at the time, I was working for the Baltimore County Police Department and my boss was the chief of police. And every day he lovingly walked into the office and said, I got 264 days before retirement in a buy and leave my office. Somebody is going to jail today. And he slammed the door every day. He would do this countdown. It's But she never left his office, you know, because no one wanted to go to jail, obviously. But I called him and I was like, hey, look, this lady won't give me your food. I don't know what's going on. You need to come over here and deal with this situation. And he was like, you know, if I come over here, someone's going to jail. And I said, I think it's escalated. I really think you need to come over here. So he came over like literally, like 10 minutes there. He walks in the door and he was like, Where's the food, mother? She throw it on the floor right there. And he said, Who threw it on the floor? And I said, She threw it on the phone. Now, my boss was white and she was white. So this was a very interesting paradigm here. He did arrest her and he was like, You don't get to talk to my assistant that way. She told you I needed the food, I needed to poop. He was like, So why are you sitting in a cell tonight? I want you to think about this moment and why you went to jail over something as simple as just giving her the food. That spoke volumes to me on many levels, too, because I appreciated the fact that he took the time to speak for me. But I also appreciate the fact that he felt like she did wrong just for being a bad human being. And I also appreciated the fact that if we never say not the one, if somebody's ever going to speak up like we have to get to the point and we can speak on these moments and I think in 2017, I think is worse than the eighties, where I really think racial tension is at a high. And I don't even understand why, because to me, life is a whole lot better now than it was back then. But it seems like now you have to be so politically correct. But then also it's like people constantly can say anything to you, but you have to be the one to turn the other cheek when at some point you're like, I only have two cheeks. And at what point do we stop this? And at what point do do I get to be angry and not because I'm African-American or that I'm a woman? But when do I get angry? Because I feel frustrated about how I'm being put into your personal paradigm of your racism and your insecurities. So I hope that helped, you know?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928#t=7.68,534.72"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928/transcript/49454/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 2:\u003c/strong\u003e Yeah, it is very helpful. Very insightful.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928#t=534.96,536.94"},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928/transcript/49454/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSpeaker 1:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928#t=537.57,537.87"}]},{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928/transcript/49454","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["English [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://archive.empathyarchive.com/collections/1733/collection_resources/56767/file/130928/transcript/49454/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"subtitling","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/049/454/original/open-uri20230831-932131-ajmu51?1693505740","format":"text/vtt","language":"en"},"target":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/file_transcripts/associated_files/000/049/454/original/open-uri20230831-932131-ajmu51?1693505740"}]}]}]}