This is how we ALL have to react.

[kpete]

People in an Albuquerque grocery store have the right response to hate.

It was an unpleasant experience for Smith’s shoppers in Albuquerque Wednesday morning, particularly for a woman wearing a hijab, when another customer accosted her.

Barney Lopez was in the store at Coal and Yale when it happened around 9:30 a.m. He remembers walking in and passing the woman with the head scarf as she was checking out.

“I went down the aisle to go get sodas and then all of a sudden I hear somebody starting to yell at her,” he recalls, “And they’re saying things like ‘Get out of our country, you don’t belong here, you’re a terrorist!’”

At that point, Lopez says, practically everyone in the store stopped what they were doing and ran to the defense of the woman in hijab.

Lopez snapped a picture, albeit a bit shaky, of the person screaming at the woman in the hijab. The lady is wearing a hat and sunglasses. A Smith’s employee appears to stand in the way to keep her back.

“There was even another woman that like went over to the woman in the hijab and put her arm around her and gave her hug and held her while the Smith’s employees came,” he says.

Employees shuffled the shouting lady out of the store, but Lopez says the screaming woman waited in the parking lot for the woman in the hijab to come out.

“So all the Smith’s employees gathered around this woman and escorted her to her car and helped her load her groceries,” he recalled

http://krqe.com/2016/11/24/picture-captures-person-accosting-woman-wearing-hijab-at-smiths/?cid=facebook_KRQE_News_13

[Satch59]

1. That's beautiful...

Awful that this is what Trump has caused but this is what we need to do...

Love trumps hate and we pay it forward in all we do...

[Zambero]

2. Who was the real terrorist in this episode?

And who were the real patriots? It's a very sad reminder on how many feel about the "other" in this country, but also heartening that so many cared enough to come to the defense of the woman being attacked.

[volstork]

5. Exactly.

The majority of us in the US are "others," no matter how long our families have been here.

Theses assholes would benefit from considering what it would feel like if the shoe were on the other foot. I wonder how long that woman in the cap would last in a country where SHE would be targeted as "other."

[MineralMan]

3. Yes. This is what we all must do when such things happen.

If we do not, we are complicit in the bigotry. Speak up! Protect others! Do not be silent.

[narnian60]

4. 100

[treestar]

6. That's good

I saw something too on how you need to go and talk to the victim rather than take on the attacker.

[2naSalit]

7. I am out in public

a lot, especially when I work (public outreach, etc.) and make a point of smiling whenever I make eye contact with people who seem a little or a lot different to try and help them feel welcome. I'm not very social but I remember all the horrid things that were said and done to me because of my appearance by people who knew nothing about me, and some who did.

I am glad to see that there are so many, though not enough, take a stand to thwart the hatred in action.

[awoke_in_2003]

13. A simple smile

can brighten a person's day.

[Angry Dragon]

8. good

[sagetea]

9. Last summer

While in N. Dakota, I took some friends (Full blooded Natives) into bismarck to purchase supplies, While I was getting batteries, my friends were being yelled at, people screamed at them, calling them "dirty f-ckin indians" They were laughing at them..The gentleman was an Elder, people, two actually, sneering, telling him "only good injun is a dead injun" it was horrible!!!! I stood with my mouth open in shock, I couldn't move, just frozen. I have never experienced anything like that EVER!!!

After I thawed out, I threw my stuff on the floor and went to them, I stood with my back to my friends and faced those two ugly humans...it was hard, I wanted to punch them in the face!!!

Now, that same store (Target) in Bismarck, put out that they reserve the right to stop anyone who they think is supporting #NoDAPL from entering.

This is NOT right...

Much love to the employees of Smith's, thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

Ho'
sage

[Schema Thing]

10. And Smiths needs to ban the screaming woman.

[spanone]

11. more proof that the trumpets are the outliers....america is better than them

[barbtries]

12. it's weird isn't it.

they "won" but they still keep getting crazier.

[Hekate]

14. KnR

[Coolest Ranger]

15. As a minority

this is one of the things that I worry about day in and day out but as long as I see people do this it gives me a little bit of hope

[TNNurse]

16. I hope that I would react as these people did.

In my grocery store I usually use self-checkout and there is an employee available. Earlier this week I watched an Hispanic mother and two children checking out...the kids were pretty big and were helping her and spoke a combo of English and Spanish. The employee (who I have some other issues with and do not really like) hovered pretty close watching them. I deliberately slowed so I could observe her (the employee). The family left without incident but there were 7 other customers checking out and she only paid attention to the one. I suspected she was suspicious of them from observing her over the years. I hope that if it became necessary, I would intervene. I hope most people would.

[certainot]

17. maybe the asshole heard this on tues morning

this was a local limbaugh station blowhard tues morning about 9:40 am on the loudest radio station in NM, in abq. this is the same station that broadcasts UNM lobos games. he was attacking the sanctuary city concept, reaching tens of thousands that morning, endorsed by UNM.

the "Purge" movies have a killer vigilante theme

“have you ever seen the purge movies or whatever they are?

if you’ve never seen these movies, you want to look at something very very bizarre, but some people may say hey maybe that’s not a bad idea.

you watch one of those movies, okay?

for like 12 hrs you’re allowed to kill whoever you want.....

commit whatever crime

it is an interesting movie to watch to say the least.”