Long story short: waitress at crappy Atlanta Mexican restaurant addresses concerns over the presence of a noose hanging in the kitchen, ultimately gets fired for complaining.
I love the choice of words used in the CBS article
what appears to be a noose
Uh, make no mistake, that’s a noose, no matter what angle, direction or way you look at it. I don’t think it can be mistaken for a pulley or a windsor knot or some sort of special rope tying method used to unearth a tree stump or something. It’s a noose, specifically used to hang people – to death. Snap their neck, asphyxiation, doesn’t matter.
“We pride ourselves on our diversity,” said No Mas! owner Steve MacNeil
He stressed what’s depicted is being taken out of context.
Out of context? A noose? What the fuck else context can a noose actually have aside from hanging people?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m laughing in the entirety of the time it’s taking me to write all this, because it’s really that absurd that I can do nothing but find it hilarious. It’s totally wrong, abhorring, and completely inappropriate that a black woman would have to see such symbolism in her own place of employment; in 20-fucking-15 (at the time), and that there are people so dumb to one, think there would be no repercussions, and two, the fact that they actually get away with it, because the complainer is the one who got fired and not them.
It’s hard to imagine what’s more amazing about this whole tragic story, the fact that the restaurant itself has gotten away with all of this for this long, or the fact that the fired woman hasn’t gone Tyler Perry-mad black woman-batshit crazy with bringing in more racial ammunition to the field here. I mean ultimately, kudos to the fired woman for basically having done everything by the book, despite being victimized so horrifically, and taking the high road in not being such a stereotype in the midst of this fallout.
Frankly, I wonder how long it’s going to be before this place is burned down in the night; it’s very much in the middle of a very predominantly black neighborhood, and there’s no guarantee that everyone else is going to be as civil and willing to turn the other cheek as the fired waitress was, when they find out that this is a place where nooses are hung in the kitchen.
I don’t even know how to tie a noose. It’s really unnerving to think that there are people in this city who actually think a proper form of retribution is to whip out some rope, tie it into a death tool, hang it from a prevalent place in the work place, just to send a message.
That’ll learn those color’d folks to stop complaining about legitimate health code violations.
