Silke Jasso
A customer at a Dallas-area Walmart decided his recent trip there was a fine time to give an employee a lesson on immigration. The white man told the employee he wanted a white person to assist him before going on a bigoted rant against people of color.
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The employee told the Dallas Morning News that she became a U.S. citizen 20 years ago after emigrating from El Salvador. When the man said he wanted a white employee to help him, she began to record him.
The man came to the optical center because he said he couldn’t see well out of the glasses he was picking up. After the employee, who the newspaper refers to only as Adela, referred him to a doctor to check his prescription, the man demanded to be helped by a white employee.
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“You’re being racist,” Adela told the man, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Adela sought out her supervisor, who is white, but she was busy on a conference call.
The man then pointed out a black woman in a wheelchair who is not seen on the video. He says, “Look at that, who do you think pays her hospital bills?”
Adela responded, “I don’t know, you can ask her.”
The white man said: “I do,” as he pointed to himself. “I pay her hospital bills. She’s a foreigner. She came over here. She got sick and fat and obese, and she can’t do anything. She can’t work. But I have to pay her bills. See what I mean? Am I fat and obese? I go to work every day. I pay taxes.”
Adela responded, “OK, me too. I pay my own taxes, too.”
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But the silver-haired customer wasn’t quite done complaining: “All of these foreigners are living off of us good working white people. Yes, I’m just telling you the truth. It’s all right. I know you ain’t leaving. I know you’re here to stay. Y’all should go to your own countries and fix up your own countries.”
Adela tells the man, “OK, sir, I don’t want to hear that anymore. That’s it.”
A supervisor came over to assist the ranting customer. Adela, who told the newspaper she was a permanent resident before becoming a citizen, said she had never experienced such outward discrimination before. She showed the video to her supervisor, and later the video was sent to the Dallas Morning News by a friend.
“It has hurt me a lot because we are working people,” Adela said. “We pay our taxes. We have children who study in college.”
Unsurprisingly, Adela said the man later called to cancel a follow-up appointment.
