Black Lowe's Delivery Driver Replaced With White Driver At Customer Request...
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/lowes-viriginia-black-delivery-driver
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WU4UUoMZc
A black delivery driver for a Lowe's home improvement store in Virginia said a white woman in late July refused to let him into her home with her delivery because he's black.
So, he said, his employer replaced him with a white driver.
"I got a phone call on the phone telling me to bring the delivery back. Saying that I couldn't do the delivery," Marcus Bradley told WSET on Wednesday. "I asked him why I couldn't do it and he said because you're black and they don't want you at the house."
Bradley has been a Lowe's employee in Danville, Va., for 11 years, according to WSET.
Alex Brooks, a Lowe's delivery person who was with Bradley at the time, told the television station that he didn't agree with the decision to change drivers.
"To me, it just ain't right for a business that we work at to go on with the woman's wishes," Brooks told the station.
WSET tracked down the woman from the delivery at her home. When the reporter asked her about the exchange, she said, "I got a right to have whatever I want and that's it."
A Lowe’s spokeswoman told The Washington Post on Monday that the manager in the incident was fired.
“We’ve reached out to the drivers and one of our senior executives went to the store to apologize to them in person,” spokeswoman Chris Ahearn told the Post. “We have zero tolerance for discrimination of any kind, and we should never have accepted the terms of the sale with the individuals who were delivered to.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5WU4UUoMZc
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? ass SHEDEVIL.... No Shame Even on camera; smh at her white privilege
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u guys make everything about race... if u stop talking about it the country wouldn't be so divided...
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Brother_Five wrote: »u guys make everything about race... if u stop talking about it the country wouldn't be so divided...
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Won't be long till some establishments refuse to serve ppl of certain colors.
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Lmao at his voice
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That's her ? choice but if i was lowes i would let that old ? come pick up her ?
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And dude was the whitest sounding black southerner around...
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HA! He replaced the driver and got his ass replaced!
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And dude was the whitest sounding black southerner around...
Clayton Bigsby? That's what I thought of. LOL!!
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"I thought that Lowe's would take up for me."
That ? don't know he's just a number in the system to them.
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HA! He replaced the driver and got his ass replaced!
lmao and I bet he hates black people now too if he ain't already
"? cost me my frickin job! thanks Obama!!!!!"
ahhh white people -
In my younger days thats the type of ? that would have me back at her crib at 3am throwing bricks through her windows...then she'd have a Reason to not want me at her house
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Hoe ? got his wake up call...
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UnknownUser wrote: »The manager probably just wanted to get the situation done, which is why he did the switch. He didn't have to tell the black driver the real reason why the return was done.
However, the manager should have called corporate to see how the situation should be handled, in order to cover his own ass. Corporate probably would have told the manager to refund the lady's money and tell her to shop somewhere else. I have relatives that work in authoritative positions at big box retailers and it is very political.
Nah there should be no need to call corporate for that. A simple "? do you want the delivery or not?" would have sufficed. -
Hoe ? got his wake up call...
That "hoe ? " knows what he's doing by going public.
He's not dumb......He's about to get paid handsomely via a lawsuit. -
It's ? up...but based on how he look in that YouTube thumbnail.. I might not have let that ? I to my house either
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That's her ? choice but if i was lowes i would let that old ? come pick up her ?
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Sounds like bubba on forest gump
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I would have left that ? right on the porch.No ? ,you have the right to pick that ? up yourself or go to a hardware store that only have white delivery men if your prune ass don't allow Negros in your dusty ass home
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I don't understand why people get upset in situations like this. It's like the dude wanted the privilege of serving that white hoe. He should have been happy he was replaced in this situation.
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She's old as ?
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The Lonious Monk wrote: »I don't understand why people get upset in situations like this. It's like the dude wanted the privilege of serving that white hoe. He should have been happy he was replaced in this situation.
Really not the point, nor was it his call