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3. Okay, clearly the owner is not a racist or he wouldn't hire the man or recommend him, and
it is well known by now that most of the teapartiers are elderly and white and racist, and bravo to the owner for being well informed about that because it indicates he is in touch with left-of-center information and facts. I think you were just profiled in a way. He is looking at you, seeing a potential teabagger, and trying to protect himself and his employee from problems, should you happen to have been one of those.
I'm wondering what state you live in? I know around here, one of the top three reddest states, I could easily see a left-of-center owner doing exactly that. Perhaps ungraceful, but easier to deal with that, than to have "her", if she/you were in fact a hard RWinger, insult his employee upon seeing that he was black/darker.
Okay, leaving aside for a minute that the only wax & wash places I know of I just pull up and have it done, never in my life had to make an appointment because they're "first come, first served", let's break this puppy down.
This business owner, for reasons we don't know, but we're pretty sure it involves racism because 1) these always, but always happen to DUmmies almost exclusively and 2) while I'm sure it's just coincidence these kind of things seem to happen in droves when it's the topic du jour in the media...thinks FIRST to ask if she'd mind a black man washing her car. As this is NOT normal for any business except maybe the KKKar Wash & Donut shop (think Robert Byrd was the manager here when he was young) or the Skinhead Roadkill Bar & Grill, we can only assume the owner must be hypersensitive when it comes to race. Because other than DUmmies and the above mentioned groups, it would never occur to most people to even think, "Gee, I only want lily white boys polishing my knob (on my Cadillac, I mean)."
(As an aside, wouldn't a real racist be okay with a black man washing his car since, had this been the early 19th century said dark skinned fellow would probably be picking Cadillac's cotton and this is about as close as servitude as we can get in the 21st century?)
So back to our polishing...we're still waiting for the cop to jump out of the bushes, but he's probably in the donut shop buying powdered donuts (cuz they're white, duh) so we'll have to deal with this on our own. Because it's SO important we all want desperately to believe these kinds of things happen as often as they're reported because to think otherwise would shatter our simple black & white world view, we've got to find a way to twist ourselves in more ways than a pretzel on crack to make this work. Okay, let me think...nuance, nuance, nuance...ah, car wash man MUST be a progressive who is just trying to be "kind" to his racist cracker customers and a whole damn tribe of 'em had come through that morning requesting Billy Bob and not Bubba wash and polish their car.
Car wash man sees ELDERLY, WHITE person and of course, being a progressive he certainly doesn't buy into stereotypes like "this person is a racist because..." but those old people probably have ancestors who were slave owners and racial prejudice is one of the few things that actually DOES trickle down. And there was that one rally up north there where those racist teabaggers were spitting on those black congressman and calling him the "n" word. Just because there were tons of video phones filming the event, even one guy walking with the congressmen who had 2 in his hand, there's absolutely no proof and some rightwing nutjob offered $100,000 for proof doesn't mean it didn't happen. It HAD to happen because our president is a black man. So car wash dude decided to profile you according to age and race, it's okay to do this as long as it's a white person he's looking at. So he puts on his hat of tolerance, channels Malcolm X, reaches through the dark side of the force where those racist teabaggers go when they aren't carrying those racist signs protesting our president and tries to feel whether you're a racist. As we all know, the dark side clouds everything so it's really best to assume white people of a certain age think they get cooties when a black man touches their car. Best to be safe as he doesn't want to get sued for assaulting someone's tender sensibilities.
Finally, after having to twist ourselves three ways from Sunday does the cop come out of the donut shop, wiping white powder off his dark blue uniform. At least he's eating a chocolate frosted one this time. Still, there's never a cop around when you need one to jump out of the bushes.
Cindie
