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Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
edited November 2008 in All Encompassing Trip
So I was in Canadian Tire this morning buying a new furnace filter. As I was walking down an aisle, there were these two huge biker guys looking at this toy that was two stuffed monkeys that sang that Day-O song by Harry Belafonte. So one of the guys turned it on and when it started he laughed and said to the other guy "Wonder what all them n*****'s think of a monkey singing this."

Then they both started laughing like crazy.

I wanted to say something but they already scowled at me because my bag touched one of their bike helmets or something when I walked by...and they were huge. I am not.
Now I feel like a big asshole for not saying anything. Sometimes that's just as bad as agreeing with them.
Ugh...I can't stand people.
"The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

"The world fascinates me."

"Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

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  • LikeAnOceanLikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Were they those geriatric, has-been bikers stuck in the 1960s?

    If so, you could have taken 'em.
  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    racism seems pretty rampant in outlaw biker circles.
    I was watching a boxing match between a white guy and a black guy with a at a bar one night...I saw a guy I knew that was sitting with a large group of bikers, and sat down to say hi...someone shouted 'kill that n---"... in a crowded bar....as I turned to say something, they all errupted in laughter...and I realized it might not be in my best interest to speak up, surrounded by them...no one else in the bar did either. I didn't stay long after that.
    I don't blame you for not saying anything. It's self-preservation, not acceptance.
  • MrBrianMrBrian Posts: 2,672
    I hear racist remarks quite often, sometimes of course directed towards me. when in the US or Canada, but most often while in the US.

    When I was younger it did bother me tons, I often would get into fights about it. I just shrug my shoulders or shake my head these days.

    I say let them laugh, or in that situation you were in, maybe you couldve just said to them while they were looking at the monkey doll and say "You know, that doll kinda look like you guys, only I bet it smells better"

    Then walk away with a clean exit.

    But again, it may just get them more pissed off, wont really stop them from being ignorant.
  • FahkaFahka Posts: 3,187
    Im sure their white jesus will have something special in store for them.

    You did the right thing. Had you of said something, you probably would have gotten chewed out and theres nothing more annoying than ignorant people trying to chew you out. You were also outnumbered. People like that arnt worth causing a scene in your day for...
  • DocChicagoDocChicago Posts: 653
    Had you said something, they'd still be racists and you'd likely have a fat lip.
    It is time to admit that we used to rock like hurricanes. It is time to run for the hills and go round and round. It is time for us to shout at the devil. We've got the right to choose it, there ain't no way we'll lose it, and we're not gonna take it anymore.
    - C. Klosterman
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    not all "bikers" are racists.

    I know professional people at work with Harleys. They would never make racial remarks. Someone with a harley told me that alot of nice ppl now own motorcyles are no longer like they were in that charlie sheen movie Beyond the Law.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    I can tell you something more disgusting that what happened to you at the store.

    I get newsletters from an animal shelter on the west coast. The latest horror story is written in the first person by a 3 month old cocker spaniel who was thrown away. A nice person found him filthy, half dead and injured in a dumpster and took him to the shelter.
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    iluvcats wrote:
    not all "bikers" are racists.

    I know professional people at work with Harleys. They would never make racial remarks. Someone with a harley told me that alot of nice ppl now own motorcyles are no longer like they were in that charlie sheen movie Beyond the Law.
    if that was directed at me....well duh.
    I said 'pretty rampant in outlaw biker circles'. I didn't say anything about ALL bikers, and even qualified it with the 'outlaw' tag. I wasn't talking about mid-life-crisis harley owners.
  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    I feel the need to mention that I know not all bikers are racist, but these ones obviously were.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Drowned Out wrote:
    I wasn't talking about mid-life-crisis harley owners.

    you really love motorcycles!
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Drowned OutDrowned Out Posts: 6,056
    iluvcats wrote:
    you really love motorcycles!
    actually, I do!
    And I'm friends with a lot of 'good' people that own them, and even a few of the outlaw brand...was just relating a story, and ONE of my experiences with the outlaw crowd.

    the mid-life-crisis crack was a joke...but you know it's true ;) hell, if I could afford it I'd buy one...and I'm not that far from mid-life, so I'd probably be lumped in with that crowd.
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Drowned Out wrote:
    actually, I do!
    And I'm friends with a lot of 'good' people that own them, and even a few of the outlaw brand...was just relating a story, and ONE of my experiences with the outlaw crowd.

    well....my dad hurt his knee on a motorcycle (fell on gravel) so I think they are dangerous. then my ex boyfriend's best friend was hit at an intersection when he was about 30 and became paralyzed.

    I hope your friends stay safe :)
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    iluvcats wrote:
    I can tell you something more disgusting that what happened to you at the store.

    I get newsletters from an animal shelter on the west coast. The latest horror story is written in the first person by a 3 month old cocker spaniel who was thrown away. A nice person found him filthy, half dead and injured in a dumpster and took him to the shelter.

    I realize that there are far worse things than department store racism, and your story certainly is one of them. I was more disgusted with myself for not saying someting, regardless of personal safety, than I was with their ignorance.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    iluvcats wrote:
    not all "bikers" are racists.

    I know professional people at work with Harleys. They would never make racial remarks. Someone with a harley told me that alot of nice ppl now own motorcyles are no longer like they were in that charlie sheen movie Beyond the Law.

    These guys were Hells Angels, and the owner of this store is well known for his ties to the Angels, so not a good scene...
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Nothingman54Nothingman54 Posts: 2,251
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    So I was in Canadian Tire this morning buying a new furnace filter. As I was walking down an aisle, there were these two huge biker guys looking at this toy that was two stuffed monkeys that sang that Day-O song by Harry Belafonte. So one of the guys turned it on and when it started he laughed and said to the other guy "Wonder what all them n*****'s think of a monkey singing this."

    Then they both started laughing like crazy.

    I wanted to say something but they already scowled at me because my bag touched one of their bike helmets or something when I walked by...and they were huge. I am not.
    Now I feel like a big asshole for not saying anything. Sometimes that's just as bad as agreeing with them.
    Ugh...I can't stand people.

    Jesus! We hear blacks say shit about whites all day long and nobody says a fucking thing about it but when a whites says something about a black, fuckin hell, everybody has something to say about it. Fuck that!!! Stop actting like a n$ggers and they wont get treated like one. This shit must be equal. To end racism it must come from everybody not just whites.
    I'll be back
  • stickboystickboy Posts: 2,981
    Drowned Out wrote:
    racism seems pretty rampant in outlaw biker circles.
    I was watching a boxing match between a white guy and a black guy with a at a bar one night...I saw a guy I knew that was sitting with a large group of bikers, and sat down to say hi...someone shouted 'kill that n---"... in a crowded bar....as I turned to say something, they all errupted in laughter...and I realized it might not be in my best interest to speak up, surrounded by them...no one else in the bar did either. I didn't stay long after that.
    I don't blame you for not saying anything. It's self-preservation, not acceptance.
    damn bro, be careful!

    racism is starting to become rampant everywhere. I'm sure I dont have to get into what me and many others have overheard black racists say about white people or hispanic or whatever, esp places like in NY where I been subjected to that kind of thing since I was a kid. Its become socially acceptable cause of shows like Chappelle and Mencia just to name a few.


    btw-cocaine nosejob-The Mallrats Affleck quote is the shit ;)
    Aah, fuck it, I’m just gonna go home, turn on the fuckin’ TV...
    Watch the nightly news and drink a beer...
    Like I could even change the world, yeah right...
    ************************************
  • stickboystickboy Posts: 2,981
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    Jesus! We hear blacks say shit about whites all day long and nobody says a fucking thing about it but when a whites says something about a black, fuckin hell, everybody has something to say about it. Fuck that!!! Stop actting like a n$ggers and they wont get treated like one. This shit must be equal.
    well you beat me to it,...thats what I was trying to get at and try to be nice about it. Oh well, lol :D


    and just like I been saying since way back... watch when Obama becomes president how much race is gonna be a factor in every show, every skit, every media article, how the blacks are gonna react and treat it and its only been a few days and sure enough its already happening. I was watching Chocolate News with David Alan Grier on Comedy Central and COlbert and all this other stuff and all they kept talking about was black president this, black president that.
    Aah, fuck it, I’m just gonna go home, turn on the fuckin’ TV...
    Watch the nightly news and drink a beer...
    Like I could even change the world, yeah right...
    ************************************
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    In Southern Maryland there's a biker bar which has been there for years called

    APE HANGERS. It's to wonder if there's a larger effect of Obama a black occupying the White House the next 4 years. Maybe racism can be dwealt with once and for all.

    Peace
    *We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti

    *MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
    .....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti

    *The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)


  • _Crazy_Mary__Crazy_Mary_ Posts: 1,299
    I get native american and pocahontas comments all the time and does it bother me? No.
    I really screwed that up. I really Schruted it.
  • iluvcatsiluvcats Posts: 5,153
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    I realize that there are far worse things than department store racism, and your story certainly is one of them. I was more disgusted with myself for not saying someting, regardless of personal safety, than I was with their ignorance.

    I'm glad you did not say anything to them. I'd like to see you around here, still able to type, uninjured...
    9/98, 9/00 - DC, 4/03 - Pitt., 7/03 - Bristow, 10/04 - Reading, 10/05 - Philly, 5/06 - DC, 6/06 - Pitt., 6/08 - Va Beach, 6/08 - DC, 5/10 - Bristow, 10/13 B'more
    8/08 - Ed solo in DC, 6/09 Ed in B'more,
    10/10 - Brad in B'more
  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    Jesus! We hear blacks say shit about whites all day long and nobody says a fucking thing about it but when a whites says something about a black, fuckin hell, everybody has something to say about it.quote]

    For the record, I would say something about that too.
    And no, I'm not some uber PC nutjob, I'm just very intolerant of intolerance :)
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    stickboy wrote:
    btw-cocaine nosejob-The Mallrats Affleck quote is the shit ;)

    Haha...thanks.
    After years of working in customer service, that quote really holds meaning for me lol :D
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • spongersponger Posts: 3,159
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Sometimes that's just as bad as agreeing with them.

    It seems that you have learned nothing from the holocaust.

    J/K.

    It's not like they were mercilessly beating a black person and stringing him up. They were making a reallly retarded joke amongst themselves.

    It's not worth getting into a fight over it. If you had, you wouldn't have changed anything anyway.
    reigning champion

    http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=272825
  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    sponger wrote:
    It seems that you have learned nothing from the holocaust.

    J/K.

    It's not like they were mercilessly beating a black person and stringing him up. They were making a reallly retarded joke amongst themselves.

    It's not worth getting into a fight over it. If you had, you wouldn't have changed anything anyway.

    It wouldn't have changed anything, but I would have felt better.
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • Cocaine_NosejobCocaine_Nosejob Posts: 1,744
    Nothingman54 wrote:
    Jesus! We hear blacks say shit about whites all day long and nobody says a fucking thing about it but when a whites says something about a black, fuckin hell, everybody has something to say about it. Fuck that!!! Stop actting like a n$ggers and they wont get treated like one. This shit must be equal. To end racism it must come from everybody not just whites.

    This reminds me of something that happened with a girl I once worked with.

    Apparently she was in a grocery store in Ohio and as she was shopping there was 2 black women with 3 or 4 kids in the same aisle as her.
    One of the kids came up to the girl and was just staring at her, so the girl asked her if there was something she needed, but the kid just kept staring.
    Then all of a sudden the mother of the kid comes up, grabs the kid by the arm and said "What you looking at that white bitch for?" Then the mother and the friend laughed hysterically.
    After telling me this story, the girl I worked with said "I've never had anything like that happen to me before. I'm never going to America again. Stupid fucking N******'s think they're better than me."
    I couldn't believe it. How can she say that and not realize the irony?
    This girl was really, REALLY stupid though. I couldn't really have expected anything better from her.
    :rolleyes:
    "The customer...is always...an ASSHOLE"

    "The world fascinates me."

    "Doesn't mean that much to me, to mean that much to you"

  • iamicaiamica Chicago Posts: 2,628
    Racism, no matter who's spouting it, is disgusting, and you had every right to be offended by it.
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  • stickboystickboy Posts: 2,981
    Cocaine_Nosejob wrote:
    Haha...thanks.
    After years of working in customer service, that quote really holds meaning for me lol :D
    hhahaaha I hear that. Same here ;)
    Aah, fuck it, I’m just gonna go home, turn on the fuckin’ TV...
    Watch the nightly news and drink a beer...
    Like I could even change the world, yeah right...
    ************************************
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