1st degree verbal assault and battery hate crime at Applebees
cali
calculus at softhome.net
Fri Jan 21 14:45:56 PST 2005
This is the wierdest spam I have ever seen, maybe it is to solicit responses
to harvest email addresses for a particular kind of targeted advertising. Or
maybe a ludicrous attempt at trolling.
cali
> Hello questions at freebsd.org,
>
> Happy New Year to you.
>
> Well, I ended 2004 by being called a "nigger" several times by a white
> terrorist in APPLEBEES on December 30. The reason I'm posting you is to
> seek your advice as to what rights I have in a violent verbal assault,
> and hate crime situation like this. What would you do if something this
> devilish had happened to you?
>
> This is the second time this has happened to me in the same Applebees. The
> first time was about five years ago when I overheard a professional person
> using the "N" word to a white woman friend of his as they sat across from
> me at the bar.
>
> She was telling him that she had found a new boyfriend and thought that
> things were going to work out well for her. The fellow looked at her and
> then said "I hope he's not a "nigger" I was astounded that he had said
> something so lowlife in a full club with about 20 people sitting at the
> bar and the rest of the tables nearby full as well.
>
> The bartender had been living with an African American male for over five
> years at the time. She looked astounded, and turned to me as if she
> couldn't believe her ears. I turned to the white people on each side of
> me, and asked them if they were going to say something to the person. They
> are always saying that they are not prejudiced. so this would have been
> the perfect time for some of them to back up their words with action.
>
> They did nothing! They just looked at each other in that silly "HUH Head"
> look that they utilize when they run into an idea that they had never
> considered before on the subject of race. The manager did come out and ask
> him to leave. He did so and to my knowledge he has never gone back. I have
> seen the fellow in other clubs where the clientele is more receptive to
> his modo di pensare. I did nothing official that time. This time I'm
> trying to determine what the best way to proceed would be. Here are most
> of the facts as to what occurred last Thursday, the 30th of December 2004.
>
> I went out to Applebees here in Cape Girardeau, Missouri around 2100. I
> sat on the north end of the bar next to several young white women. One of
> them was named "VanMater" from the Buick family here. I talked to them
> about various subjects for about 30 minutes and bought them some
> Frangelico. They had never tasted it so I thought I would let them sample
> something different since they were kind enough to talk to me a 58 year
> young African American. Most whites won't.
>
> Then they left and a friend of mine from Birmingham Alabama called me on
> his cell phone. We talked for about fifteen minutes about the state of the
> world and how savage, and inhumane so many Americans are in their thinking
> when it comes to how they view others around the world.
>
> Out of the corner of my right eye, I notice the young blond white woman to
> my right pushing a picture of a cute bi-racial child towards me. I picked
> it up and looked at it. Then I complimented the female on having a little
> girl that was so cute. After a few more minutes of talking to my friend, I
> hung up and started talking to the young blonde white woman, her female
> friend next to her, and her Canadian boyfriend to her right.
>
> The blonde's name was what it is. She said she was a hair stylist at a
> salon here. I was telling them about how my cousin owned the Harlem
> Globetrotter basketball team, and how there had been a couple of streets
> named after my mothers family around here. I was basically giving them a
> quick history on some black folks who were highly respected in this area.
>
> After about twenty minutes or so this 40ish white ball cap wearing, truck
> driver looking white fellow across the bar asked me when we had graduated
> from high school. I told him when I had graduated, and then N told him
> when she graduated. The white supremacist then said "One of you is right,
> and one of you is a fucking nigger"
>
> I picked up my cell phone and called the police as the Applebees manager
> was not on the scene. I had no idea what that piece of white trash would
> do next. After a few minutes Ed, the manager came over to the WS, and told
> him that he had to leave the club.
>
> The fellow got up and slowly walked toward the door selling wolf tickets
> all the way. The policeman arrived and he stood in the vestibule and
> talked to the manager of Applebees. He never came over and asked me
> anything; nor did he advise me of my rights in that situation.
>
> I'm one of the charter members of Applebees here. I have been going there
> since about six months after they opened in 1991, and I've never had a
> serious incident like this one
>
> So I went back to talking to the three people. Now of course we were
> talking about the white supremacist and his actions. One white 20ish
> female caught my eye, grinned and gave me the thumbs up sign. Apparently
> she was happy that he was gone.
>
> After about 20 minutes, another young white female stopped behind me and
> told me that the fellow was still in the parking lot in his truck. None of
> the other white men there, except for the canadian fella I was talking to
> had anything positive to say to me, and they said nothing to the WS who
> started the whole incident. Why am I not surprised?
>
> So I called the police department again. I relayed the information to the
> police and sat back once more. After a few minutes the officer arrived and
> for the second time, the Applebees manager met him in the vestibule, and
> they talked for a few minutes. Again, the policeman never came over to
> talk to me at all. Now I really felt something odd was going on because
> I'm the one doing the calling, but no one wants to talk to me. Is that
> normal police procedure now across the USA?
>
> Nicole was very quiet while the white guy was calling me a nigger. She got
> on her cell phone and called her biracial boyfriend and told him to come
> by. The other couple got
> Up and left after a half hour or so. Then this attractive light skinned
> black man about 25 came in and Nicole snuggled up in his arms as he sat
> down beside her.
>
> She told him what had happened and he began telling us what all behind he
> would have kicked had it been done to him. He told me he was a criminal
> and didn't play that sort of mess. The more we discussed it the more they
> seemed to try to blame me for everything. I asked Nicole why she had
> become such a chatterbox now that her black boyfriend had arrived. She
> laughed and said that she felt safe now. They continued spewing out all
> sort of nonsense about race that mentally confused Bi-racials, and
> uninformed Caucasians tend to do. So after fifteen minutes of listening to
> their ignorance, I told them I had to go. I wished them a happy New Year
> and walked outside to the parking lot.
>
> I saw the truck was still there. So when I left I drove around town in a
> random manner for about fifteen minutes to see if I was being followed.
> When I felt that I wasn't I headed on home and called it a night. I
> decided to stay home for New Years eve as I didn't want to run into any
> more of these beer drinking, ball cap wearing rabid, mad dog, psychotic
> folks like I had the night before. I didn't want to start the New Year
> being a victim, or being in jail for harming some piece of trash.
>
> I haven't heard anything at all from Applebees yet. I'm not surprised
> however. They didn't say or do anything when I called them about the first
> incident.
>
> So there you have it. What should I do in this situation? What are my
> rights? I've emailed Applebees twice, and spoke to them twice, but so far
> they have done nothing.
>
> I think an apology is owed and reparations should be given.
>
> I would really appreciate it if you would take a few minutes of your time
> to think about this and then email me back with your suggestions if you
> think there is a fair and just remedy for me here.
>
> Amicably Yours
>
>
> If you have a interest in being helpful to me then,
> email me at clb6969 at charterinternet.com
>
> So mote it be
>
>
>
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