Comments by "Janis Williams" (@janiswilliams2766) on "Did Marriott Racially Profile This 69 yr old Woman???" video.

  1. I’m thinking about signing up for one of those jobs with Fair housing where you go in as a person of color to see if you can rent and if you can’t that owner gets burned for discrimination.
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  2. I always escalate it to the next level when I can’t get a response. If I were told the GM was on the phone I would have asked them to send him a note and I would wait in the lobby for about 20 min. If nothing happened then I would say I needed to speak to whoever manages him and their name. And start asking for everyone’s names who work there. It’s amazing how soon someone then becomes available.
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  3. I was trying to recently explain to a group of people that this happens everywhere… restaurants, airports, hotels, basically just going about your daily activities of living as a person of color. They said some of it was probably in my mind. Slow service at a restaurant; in my mind. Followed around in a department store; in my mind. The promotion of a white man with less education and experience; in my mind. For those who are allies, who really believe in doing away with racism and vote appropriately, I really appreciate your efforts. But if you mouth that you don’t like racism and it shouldn’t exist and continue to vote for the same politicians who openly spout their ugliness, you continue to be part of the problem and the problems of racism in this country. When there is equity for people of color, there is equity for everyone.
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  4. Exactly! LOL. If it’s actually based on being a rewards member … ask her if she’s like to sign up.
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  5. Curious what the locations in the country and other countries where whites are the target.
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  6. They put the hold on when you check in.
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  7. Hate to say it, but everything is impacted by black v white … where grocery stores are located is black v white, how much car insurance is in an area of the city is black v white, quality of education in schools black v white, availability to access to health care black v white, interest percentage on bank loans black v white, getting pulled over by police black b white. There is an element of poor v rich. Which is why if poor whites got onto fighting with blacks for equity, they would benefit equally. The problem is poor whites are convinced by example the manchin’s and trumps of the world that black and brown people are trying to take stuff from you. So you keep voting for the top 1% old rich white guys and where has it gotten poor whites …. Poorer.
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  8.  @kimberlycmangusrn  on the contrary, there have been lots of studies done and they are only a Google search away.
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  9.  @kimberlycmangusrn  I have no idea what you’re talking about. I haven’t deleted anything. If you wish to operate under alternative facts, then you do you.
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  10. Actually Airbnb we’re notoriously racist… actually it was the individual home owner… Airbnb had to take action a few years to prevent discrimination.
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  11. They should be able to print the policy out from their computer. It wouldn’t have been a problem if someone could have explained the policy.
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  12. The company needs to do what Starbucks did …. Shut it down for several days and everyone gets training.
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  13. Hmmmm. I hope to be somewhat delicate here. First, I agree regarding knowing what one’s skill level is for the work they are applying for. I’m quicker than my younger peers but there are older people who have more knowledge and perfectly capable of completing tasks in a timely manner. You can’t go by age. You also can’t go by appearance. I look at least 20 to 25 years younger than my actual age, but I feel every bit of the late 50s that I am, but I’m not looking to do an Amazon job where I have to be on my feet all day because I know I can’t do it. Regarding racism. Sure you may be sick of hearing about it, but would you have to hear about it or live it? supremacists are banking on you being sick of hearing about it so you turn a deaf ear to it and it then can continue to persist. Also please note because blacks (and I also mean browns throughout this conversation) don’t have systemic power they are NOT the racists. They can be prejudiced and they can exercise discriminatory behaviors, but they are not the racists. If blacks managed and held the power and the wealth of the country and whites were then maligned by inequitable practices then blacks would be practicing racism as they would then have power. Which I suspect, is the reason for whites to keep power away from people of color, certainly wouldn’t want to risk them holding power and treating the majority culture the way they have been treated. I would agree with you, all of us are likely to practice or have some discriminatory behaviors. There’s more than a “few” people who are racist. And you must understand that you in your experience wouldn’t know it because you don’t live it. You don’t have to walk around with the color of your skin shouting what you are. You aren’t a black man trying to catch a cab… the cab driver is racist when he passes him up to go pick up a white women and the cabbie would be sexist if he passed up that white woman for a white man (because women do not hold the power in this country). Black people are shot pulled over by police while white men can brandish a gun in front of police and they don’t get shot. White men can conduct crimes and not get arrested and certainly not get incarcerated to the same percentage of the population. My white friend and her black boyfriend were at a spa in Santa Fe NM… the lounging room for the showers was coed …. Two white women approached the boyfriend when my friend stepped away and told him he shouldn’t be in there. There was another white man in there. 🤷 what’s up with that? If it were my boyfriend I would have also told him not to be in there because those white women can allege sexual assault and he would probably be found guilty. But my white friend doesn’t have to think that way because that’s not her life experience. The bird watcher in NY, the woman screams to the police she was being assaulted by a black man, that could have gotten him killed. On the west coast in San Francisco a black guy was writing Black Lives Matter in chalk on his front walk. A white women and her husband said that that was not his property and he should not be writing on someone else’s property, they further said they knew the person in that house and they were going to call the police. It was his house. I don’t feel I can freely travel across this so called great country… the least irritable thing that would happen is someone calling me the N word, or if they are quick enough to figure out my Asian heritage a ch!nk or a j@p; the worse they can do is maybe string me up to the back of a pick up and drag me along the pavement until I die (I’m looking at you texas). A couple of weeks ago I’m at a stoplight in Arizona waiting for a green light, a couple of good ole boys in their truck pull up and say “N go back to Africa”. So tell me, would you rather hear about it or live it. I think I’ll leave your “another block woman suing” comment alone. Racism exists and it’s in is full glory and was revitalized by trump and made to be ok. And those who continue to support him are supporting to continue the behavior. I’m not saying you have to go democrat … but for common sense and the betterment of this country find some other repub. Again I’m going to ask everyone who says they are tired of hearing about it. Would you rather have to hear about it everyday or live it every day? And you wouldn’t have to hear about it, if an equitable playing field was established. If it was established as recently as 1960, within the lifetime of many people who are watching YouTube videos … you wouldn’t have to hear about it now. It continues to be a problem and will be for future generations if people contour to turn away from it. This country is not making any progress, really burning books? Women don’t have rights over their own body? People don’t have clean water to drink? People don’t have health care? Unfortunately for 9/11… the country might have come together, but unfortunately it came together against Muslims and Arabic looking peoples. The country didn’t come together for COVID and thanks to trump China flu rants crimes against the API (Asian Pacific Islander has increased).
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  14. Or just go ahead and explain it. If you are a rewards customer the hold is $ if you are not the hold is $$. “Can I offer you a rewards customer card right now?” It would have helped just to explain that there are different tiers of a hold particularly when a situation like this comes up. Or print out the policy. I’m sure there’s a ten page policy on stuff that none of ever read.
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  15. I’ve never heard that before but I’m intrigued. I don’t know what she used but I called B of A , Chase, and my credit union and they said they don’t.
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  16. I e heard that Cracker Barrel can be problematic for people of color. I wish there were still the Green Book.
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  17. Is it? I didn’t know that.
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