Black Oregon man with
‘cornrows’ profiled at
Dave & Buster’s after
White customer loses wallet
A trip to Dave & Busters for some downtime turned into a nightmare for an African-American family from Oregon when their dad was wrongly accused of stealing $16 from a lost wallet, the Oregonian reports.
Rachel Batiste-Barber recounted the incident on her Facebook page and said she went to the Happy Valley Dave & Buster’s with her husband, Andre, and children after finding a coupon for the restaurant chain known for its kid-friendly arcades. She said the family played peacefully for more than an hour — until a teenage girl’s purse went missing.
The girl found it at the front desk, with $16 missing from it, Batiste-Barber wrote. The employees told her a black man with cornrows had turned it in, and that she should go find him to ask him about it.
“Dre was the likely the only black person with cornrows in gahtdamb Clackamas County,” Batiste-Barber wrote. “So of course… They come find us. And accuse him of stealing SIXTEEN dollars. In front of our children.”
Batiste-Barber said she then went to talk to the employees at the counter.
When I arrived at the counter a young blonde girl was standing there. And the mother of the 16 year old girl said “she’s the one”. I asked the employee what was going on and she said “yeah. When you guys paid me, a little while ago, HE (points to my husband) paid me in all ones and turned in that purse. This was strange to me because When my family and I arrived at 5:45 this young lady was outside on her break crying on her phone about a new manger. She wasn’t even in the building. Additionally, we has already been there almost 1.5 hours. And our bill ended up being $46. Not $16. Which I had receipts for. Furthermore, the gentleman that ACTUALLY checked us in was standing right there and said “no they didn’t. They paid me. A long time ago.”
Even after a second employee refuted the claim that Dre had been the one to turn in the wallet, Batiste-Barber wrote that four security guards still approached the family — and then the police. She wrote the employees either refused or were not able to check the store’s security cameras after she asked them to.
“The police arrived. Informed us, in front of our kids, that a crime had been committed, and that we needed to be questioned,” she wrote. “After a couple of minutes they escorted my family and I outside. When we explained to the cop that the employee doesn’t even know the description so how could my husband ‘fit it’ he explained ‘he just does.’ My husband’s name was run through the system ‘checking for warrants.’ Mind you, they still hadn’t talked to the employee.”
Batiste-Barber wrote that Dave & Busters did nothing to make the situation right, even after Dre had been cleared of any wrongdoing and told by police they were free to go. She said the restaurant still asked her family to leave, even though they had done nothing wrong.
“We didn’t do anything wrong besides be black with cornrows. But we were here to have fun. We paid to be here. Our family was in the middle of game play,” she wrote. “We came here to enjoy ourselves.”
The chain released a statement apologizing for the incident.
“Dave & Buster’s is committed to maintaining an inclusive environment that’s welcoming to all guests,” a marketing executive told KATU. “We sincerely apologize to the Batiste family for their distressing experience. This matters to us and irrespective of the outcome of our internal investigation, we will be re-educating our team on sensitivity and guest relations.”
But Batiste-Barber wrote the frightening incident has shaken her. One of the saddest takeaways, she wrote, was “the fact that a white woman can point her finger at a black man and he’s automatically assumed guilty by everyone around. Even when you can and HAVE provided proof that she’s incorrect and/or lying.”
She also told KATU, “I was frustrated to the point of tears, I was angry, I was hurt… my husband was very calm and was very much like, ‘I’m used to this.’ I think that’s what hurts the most, is that this is so common.”
This...?
Is the End Result that AWAITS AND IS HERE for South African Blacks too.
A scam and a sham is always going to be a SCAM AND A SHAM.
Integration with NO POWER BASE AND ECONOMY OF YOUR OWN, is the fastest way TO EXTERMINATION when you are "INTEGRATING" into or WITH someone who has always MURDERED AND RAPED YOU!
For all of you Obama Supporters all across the globe?
Behold what he has wrought.
Nazi-America finally made flesh.
And he has passed ZERO LAWS for the VERY SAME BLACKS WHO PUT HIM IN OFFICE!
And actually DERAILED Hillary Clinton's FIRST RUN when HE MADE HIS FIRST RUN AS WELL, yet!?
No Black Person of Worth in SUPPOSED LEADERSHIP OR REPRESENTATION, said "Hold up, how can you make this bitch a part of YOUR CABINET after the shit she said about Us as Black People when she tried to win the Democratic Nomination?"
THAT!?
SHOULD HAVE BEEN, Black Americans FIRST CLUE that this Nigger-Traitor WAS OUT FOR SELF and FIT AN AGENDA.
Just like Nelson Mandela did.
But when you're MORE CONCERNED ABOUT EMPTY SYMBOLS AND NO SUBSTANCE...?
Then THIS IS WHAT YOU GET.
Where now?
This Blackman in the article above...?
Those Nazi-Cops could have EASILY MURDERED HIM RIGHT THEN AND THERE IN FRONT OF HIS ENTIRE FAMILY. Because some White-Trash Bitch claimed, CLAIMED, SHE SAW HIM DO X, Y, Z, yet!?
When told pull up the security footage, NOPE!
Nah we can't do that shit.
BUT WE CAN CALL THE NAZI-COPS OVER $16 FUCKIN DOLLARS!
Do you understand that?
Do you UNDERSTAND THAT?
The White-bitch could not give a FUCK, that she had called the Nazi-cops over $16 fuckin dollars where she could LITERALLY HAVE SEEN THIS BLACKMAN GET MURDERED IN FRONT OF HIS FAMILY AND EVEN IN FRONT OF HER.
But Black People forget images like this, like fools;
So for those who wanna pretend like the Whitewoman is some INNOCENT VICTIM in all of this bigotry and extermination and targetting of Us by Whites, I'm sorry but!?
How can so many Whites actively and/or PASSIVELY GO ALONG WITH THIS, unless somewhere along the way their White Mother says and/or condones AND SUPPORTS THIS.
The article also highlights The Reality that I saw and understood, again, as a 9th grader. There is NO EXCUSE. For the fact that I COULD SEE that Integration was an ABSOLUTE WASTE OF TIME when I finally sat down and started reading through the actual horrors of slavery and then I understood ON MY OWN WITHOUT ANY HELP FROM ADULT BLACKS;
The Civil War was fought strictly as an internal power struggle between Whites where We are the LITERAL PROPERTY AT STAKE. We are LITERALLY, the PRODUCT THAT PRODUCED THIS SITUATION because ONE SIDE WAS TURNED MASSIVE PROFITS ONE WAY. While THE OTHER SIDE WAS TURNING MASSIVE PROFITS BY MAKING MACHINERY AND SUPPORT PRODUCTS FOR THE OTHERS SLAVERY-INDUSTRY.
Now the question became "Why wasn't I told about this before I got to THIS POINT?" and when I looked around I understood that EVERYTHING MADE SENSE NOW. I LOOKED AT what the Bill of Rights IS. The "Constitution" and its USELESS AMENDMENTS! And I kept on reading about what it was like to BE WHITE during Slavery.
And what it was like to be Black.
And I understood that there was NO CHANCE. NONE! That a group that has been able to DOMINATE ANOTHER ONE SO THOROUGHLY LIKE THIS, WOULD EVER RESPECT ANYTHING ABOUT THEM EVER! FOR AS LONG AS THEY HAD THE POWER TO MAKE IT OTHERWISE!
Then I began looking around and observing shit around me. The school. The teachers. The students. ARE THEIR DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BLACK-N-WHITE STUDENTS, how we are treated, what IS EXPECTED, HOW WE ARE TALKED TO?
How in THEE FUCK! Is it that as a 9th grader I DID THE FUCKIN HOMEWORK OF WHAT WE'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE BLACK LEADERS AND REPS DOING WHERE BLACK PEOPLE IN GENERAL ARE SUPPOSED TO UNDERSTAND THIS WITHOUT ME TYPING THIS SHIT!
But when I watched and kept quiet and observed...?
I saw that the White Teachers who WERE INTO KEEPING THE STATUS QUO the way it has BEEN between Us as Blacks and Whites.
I saw it.
I saw how NATURAL IT WAS to them.
To simply ARBITRARILY DECIDE, meh!
This nigger is worthless, just toss him into a corner and I'll keep going with the lesson.
Meh!
You niggers don't ask so many questions, just sit still and be quiet or go play in the corner for all I care. You're not worth shit anyway.
But when Whites acted out.
Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, what's wrong!?
You're RUINING YOUR FUTURE!
YOU GOTTA STUDY STUDY STUDY!
YOU GOTTA VALUE YOURSELF!
And I saw how subtle it was at time and then OUT OF THE BLUE IT WOULD JUST TURN IN YOUR FACE AS FUCK! And I was like...? Sooooooooooooooooooooooh, if THEY HAVE A BAD DAY, and don't feel like "playing nice", then?
They get to LASH OUT AT US?
But when a White student does the EXACT SAME THING IT BECOMES "Look!? Brad, now's NOT THE TIME FOR YOUR SHENANIGANS! Just sit down before you make me angry!"
I see...
So...?
For your own kind...?
You show patience.
Give explanations.
Show understanding and tolerance and give warnings.
But for My Kind...?
You display disregard and disrespect.
We are...?
Disposable....
Disposable....
I understand now.
But I need.
MORE INFORMATION.
I have to SEE MORE.
Before I decide what to do next.
Because I HAVE TO MAKE SURE I AM RIGHT ABOUT THIS....
So now...?
I am supposed to believe that I am thee only Black Person who sees and knows this?
I couldn't be that arrogant and conceited even if you slapped me with a wad of bills!
I spent half my 9th grade year.
Testing and analyzing, EXPERIMENTING ON PURPOSE.
OBSERVING!
What is worse is that when I got there in 8th grade My Mother warned them early;
"Shawn does not simply sit there if something doesn't make sense. If he asks questions? Please answer them. Otherwise he'll simply find the answers on his own and not care about anything else until he finds the answer to his question. And why you didn't answer him when he asked."
But when I was watching and understood why things were going on I then understood why they wouldn't give two-fucks about what My Mother said to them, so much the better. Because when someone disregards and ignore you, then?
You are as free as the shadows to move about and observe.
And no one will question a move you make, since...?
You're unimportant and invisible to them anyway.....
Thanks to that fact AT THAT TIME, where even then I wondered if the larger White Population is this nonchalant about Us as Black People. And I realized as I read more and more that, no. For a high school to be negligent is one thing, but!? For an entire nation which has external enemies and of course internal ones as well, no. And with the horrific things I read I understood that, no. We as Black People are heavily monitored under normal circumstances. Because Whites in power know that they do not do anything of any worth for Us, so with a policy like that then of course you'd have to suspect that the affected and targeted group is going to become or be a problem at some point or another.
The fact that I was witnessing what I was witnessing and had experienced what I'd experienced told me flat out that clearly Our Leaders haven't been very good, however? How can so many INDIVIDUAL BLACK BOYS BE SO GODDAMN CLUELESS ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS THIS SHIT ACTUALLY IS...?
Who in their RIGHT. MIND. Is going to ALLOW FOR THEIR POTENTIAL SOLDIERY TO BE SHOELESS AND CLUELESS AND UTTERLY UNPREPARED! And why on EARTH would you want YOUR CHILDREN BEING TAUGHT BY THE DESCENDANTS OF YOUR ENSLAVER AND DESTROYER OF YOUR CIVILIZATION...!?
THIS, is what I spent MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS LEARNING ABOUT.
Especially after I saw that WHIT SOCIETY IS NOT ABOUT HOW INTELLIGENT OR GIFTED YOU ARE! Because it is a CASTE-CLASS AUTHORITATIVELY DRIVEN STRUCTURE!
So you can be as smart as the day is long!
If you DO NOT have ACCESS TO SOMEONE WITH HIGHER STATUS WHO CAN OPEN DOORS FOR YOU, then you are DOOMED!
Thus the phrase;
It's not about what you know, but WHO YOU KNOW.
Only a bunch of fuckin IDIOTS! Would come up with such a SILLY AND STUPID SLOGAN! Because it means that YOU DON'T VALUE PEOPLE FOR WHO THEY ARE.
You value FOOLS WHO HAVE ACCESS AND CONTROL OPPORTUNITIES!
So such a PEOPLE BY DEFAULT WOULDN'T KNOW WHAT A DEMOCRACY IS EVEN IF IT DROP-KICKED THEM IN THE ASS!
Bottom line.
I lost all interest in grades and bullshit.
Because I saw that OUR PEOPLE HAD NO POWER AND WEREN'T INVESTING IN GAINING ANY IN ANY WAY! I then began TRYING TO TALK TO ADULT BLACKS. Aside from My Uncle Percy and Pastor Jeff, ALL THE OTHER BLACKMEN WERE TOO BUSY BEING PUSSIES! AND THE BLACKWOMEN WERE TOO BUSY SAYING;
DAT B WRONG WHUTCHU B SAYIN! NOW UZ STOP DAT CUZ WE CAN'T BE PREJUDICE! U TALKIN ABOUT SEGREGATION, WHERE YA MOMMA AT!? I NEEDS 2B TALKIN 2 HER RIGHT NOW! SHE NEEDS 2 B TELLIN U 2 STOP DIS HERE REBEL ROUSING!
So I pretty much asked them "So you want me to be a coward then...?"
And they would GET UPSET and "AIN'T NOBODY SAY DAT BUT!? U TALKING BOUT"
ENOUGH!
I'LL LISTEN TO YOUR BULLSHIT NO LONGER!
Just sitting here TYPING THIS...!?
I could LITERALLY be here FOR HOURS!
This post is long enough.
Lemme hit post.
I need to eat too.
Good Evening....
From Philadelphia.....
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