Lowes just found how tedious it is to be between a rock and a hard place.
In Virginia, Marcus Bradley, a black delivery driver, was called off a delivery because the customer he was to deliver to had requested a whites only delivery team. Lowes, following the model “The customer is always right,” called Bradley and his delivery partner, Alex Brooks (who is white) back to the store.
“I was embarrassed because I got the phone call,” Brooks said. “I think that’s kind of how he [Bradley] 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.”
So here we have an actual example of real racism, but we also have an example of a business trying to make money and give the customer what she wanted. Who wins this one?
Brooks, who is white, added, “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.”
Okay, the female customer was clearly a racist and actively discriminated against black employees, and insisted to Lowes management that her purchased product be delivered by whites only. Is it okay to discriminate? No. Does this woman sound like someone you want on a booze cruise? No. Did the racist woman walk out of the store and take her money to a whites only business? Uh…no. Is it Lowes responsibility to “set her mind right” and teach her about race relations or common manners? Uh…no. What is Lowes’ main job? To sell its products to customers. Scumbags.
Is it okay for Lowes to discriminate against its customers? Hmmm…
Lowes management weighed their options. Sell a product to a racist…or discriminate against the racist and don’t sell a product to the racist, who will buy the product elsewhere, while she still remains a racist. Say that five times fast.
Again, we’re not condoning racism here. Okay? Okay. Some people really are racists. Some people really are sexists. And some people are just plain jerks. Does the racist woman have a right to be a racist on her own property and decide who comes on it and who doesn’t? If you answered, NO you might be missing the forest for the trees.
We’re not condoning racism! Okay? Okay. But we are asking an important question about rights and responsibilities. Lowes sold a product to a racist. A black delivery man had his feelings hurt because his company chose to make a profit over his feelings. A profit, which by the way, helps pay his salary, but you’re not supposed to think about that. FOCUS ON THE RACIST.
What if the woman had been black, and asked for only black people to deliver to her property? Or what if she asked for just women to deliver to her? What if she asked for non-Christians to deliver to her? Would it have made news if she’d asked that people with red hair be banned from delivering to her? Or if she asked for delivery men under a certain age? Or under certain weight?
Just because someone is a racist jerk doesn’t mean he/she can’t decide who is welcome on their property and who is unwelcome on their property. Jerks have rights, too.
Bradley, the black driver turned away from the racist home, still got paid his full days wage, by the way. But Lowes, not surprisingly, caved to pressure and fired the managers involved in fulfilling their racist customer’s wishes.
Lowes, never stop improving…how you handle this stuff.
REALITY CHECK: It’s America… even all the dumbasses get the same rights we do… that’ what REAL Equality means… Welcome or Buh Bye… you choose.
So, let me get their argument straight. A business doesn’t agree with a customer’s point of view, so they should have denied them service? Read that again. And again.
didn’t some bakers do the opposite and get sued?
I want to try some of those other things and see what all I can get away with.
If the store had acted as though it didn’t know this woman had requested “whites only” and sent the black deliver man anyway, it could have turned out very bad for both the store and the employee. The woman could likely have called the store and complain, wanted her money back, called the police, you name it. But I think then, even though her racist colors would be showing clearly, and any press involvement would have sided with the employees, it still would have been uncomfortable for them.
The store way trying to maintain a sale, keep the customer happy, and protect its employees, which they have a right to do. If she had come at them with a frying pan–or worse, a gun–and something had happened, remember that the store KNEW she had requested whites only. That would make the store liable for sending it employees into a potentially dangerous situation.
The racist got their product and Lowes, a notoriously liberal democrat company, made a hefty profit selling a product to a racist. See! Democrats support racism.
Sounds like a non-issue. Regardless of their large donations to anti-gun and liberal causes, when the all mighty dollar is ion the line, Lowes chooses to recognize that they are not in the social reform business.
Or… Just tell the woman that products get loaded onto trucks in the order they were received, and she gets the deliver guys she gets. Then, see? When they get there, they can’t deliver the product b/c she doesn’t want a black man in her house, etc. etc. etc. It’s so much more complicated NOT to cater to her wishes that I think management was kind of stuck determining how to expedite this deliver and keep everyone happy.
Like Steven asked, what if she had said no whites? Would it have made the news? Would any white employees have been hurt over her racist intent and the stores catering to her racist wishes? Would the manager have been fired if she had asked for no “fat” people. Would the managers have been fired then? I think top management was wrong in firing the store managers.
That racist customer should have been denied service. She was wrong and deliberately tried to force her beliefs on LOWES and the people who work at LOWES. Until I read this, I liked and shopped at LOWES, but not anymore. So instead of losing one sale and letting that racist person go elsewhere to force he beliefs on people, they’ve lost my (repeat) business as well as the business of people whom they will never hear from or know about. LOWE’S IS UNAMERICAN.
Then Christian cake makers can refuse service to gay marriages?
Nigger are to fuck up on drugs to understand what’s real and what’s not. All they want is a hand out and if the customer said no nigger then no nigger. To hell with all black in America they all can go to fucking Africa that would make America a better country.
You need some lead in your diet…
The world complains about blacks treatment in America, but you don’t see any countries stepping up and saying they’d take them in, and that includes African countries. Action speak louder than words. The American Colonization society had it right, but that idiot John Wilkes Booth shot Lincoln. JWB is denied a holiday during Black History Month even tough he did much more for blacks than MLK ever did. They’D all be living in Africa, the Caribbean, or South America right now if it wasn’t for JWB.
Im willing to bet your not jewish or maybe not even American. Your english sucks. I’m betting your here to drum up drama and nothing else.
i dont see a problem with it its her money and her call its sad thats shes that way but thats her right to be that way just like i want buy anthing at home depot because they support the gay agenda thats their right and its mine not to do business with them if i dont believe in it
Well if a Christian business has to make a cake for a gay couple, then Lowes should have to sell their products to a racist. After all, you can’t discriminate as a business. That’s what the libs have been saying all along and now they don’t want to follow their own BS rules.
what if it was some pervy dude demanding only hot women to serve him? Lowes should have told her off- politely and professionally. Now they have to publish their policy on this…..
Lowes should have just said, “you get the delivery crew that you get”, and she could decide to cancel or not. Would have been a much better business decision from any number of standpoints. I don’t think the racist market segment is very large, so they can probably afford to not cater to it!
Here is what should happen. She makes the purchase and either picks it up at the store herself or it is delivered by WHOEVER is delivering in her area that day. If she doesn’t want to sign for, oh well, she is Shit out of luck, I guess she’ll have to go pick it up.
I’m so sick and tired of all this politically correct BULL SHIT !! This is America Lowes should have told her in the first place that due to circumstances they could not determine who would deliver the item . They were sorry but if she wanted to cancel they would gladly refund her money . One sale is not going to make or brake Lowes . You can’t please all the people all the time , some will like you and some won’t !! One person will not effect Lowes one way or the other !! This shit would not have happened if we would have had a smart President in office instead of a bonified raciest whose been spreading raciesism through out the USA and destroying America !!! He even has 532 people so scared of him they are afraid to go to the restroom without asking him first !! We must get that Muslim out of the White House and all his commie Muslim friends that he has hired also !! Then you will see all the raciesism dissapere !!
You don’t know…
there is not enough evidence…
-that she is racist or not…
-there may be a back story…
On the surface, it appears she is against having a black delivery guy because he of his skin color with no supporting argument… if there is no other contributing factor this is racism.
Look at her history to see if there might be a pattern of abuse causing this desire. Abuse that may have her conditioned to make that request for good reason…
This is a despicable woman, who doesn’t deserve the time of day, however, she put Lowes in a difficult spot….I’m sure they didn’t want to deal with her at all but I would bet she would have sued Lowes for prejudice….I think this was a no win situation…..
All Lowe’s had to do was tell the woman upfront that we can’t accommodate a “whites only” request, and left the decision to her. Everyone is talking about her right to be a racist. Does the delivery driver not have the right to not be humiliated at work to accommodate a racist? Or would you rather go back 30 years and find a pot bust and then say he’s not perfect, either?
I promise you that if the races were reversed your perspectives would change. If a black woman said she didn’t want any white drivers in her house? “This is America! We don’t tolerate your kind of hate! Go back to Africa!” Does a man have the right to demand a female driver, and specify her proportions? “I want blondes only, under 110 lbs, D cup or above. Otherwise I’m going to Home Depot.” Do you see how absurd and inflammatory that sounds?
It’s this failure to recognize perspective that perpetuates racism. She can be a racist all day an all night, but Lowes has no obligation, or reason, to acquiesce her. “I’m sorry, ma’am. We employ black people, and other minorities. Their right to earn an honest living supersedes your right to be a racist. If that’s a problem for you, please take your business elsewhere.” That’s it. What’s the problem? a PRO racism protest?