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Sprint CEO 'disgusted' by woman's racist rant in store
Viral video captures woman using a racial slur against a Latino customer in a Virginia Sprint store.
by Steven Musil May 23, 2017 4:51 PM PDT
Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure is condemning the behavior of a female customer caught on video using a racial slur against another customer in a Sprint store in Virginia.
The video captures an unidentified woman referring to a Latino man as a "spic," a racial slur used against Hispanics and Latinos, and threatening to physically assault him. The video has gone viral, attracting nearly 50,000 retweets since being posted on Twitter by civil rights activist Shaun King, also a reporter for the New York Daily News.
"It's happened again," King wrote. "White woman calls polite Latino man a spic, threatens him, says she's offended to hear him speak Spanish. America. 2017."
https://www.cnet.com/news/sprint-ceo-disgusted-by-womans-racist-rant-in-store/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)burnbaby
(685 posts)just horrible, no reason for it at all
niyad
(113,612 posts)feel listening to languages that are not theirs.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)I love it (not really) when these ignorant descendants of illegal immigrants say This is America! Speak American!
I think which American language are we talking about here?
Crow? Cherokee? Sauk? Potawatomi? Dakota Sioux? Navajo? Mohawk? Lakota Sioux? Apache? And many others.
But they always mean the bastardized King's English from the invaders homeland that passes for American language.
Ironic, ain't it?
niyad
(113,612 posts)Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)"Honey, shut up! They're usually good at boxing and he's huge."
Also, was she talking in front of her kids? Or, was she talking like that in front of someone else's children? Either way, reeeeaaalll classy, yo.
Cha
(297,799 posts)country, too.. and I say he can speak any langauge he wants to, Idiot.
Wow.. you think she knew she was being filmed and recorded in all her stupid moronic state?
VOX
(22,976 posts)She's like some form of walking cancer; it got her soul first, and the body will have to follow later. Shouldn't take too long with all the self-inflicted stress hormones she's secreting 24/7.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Why subject your normal customers to hateful filth like that?
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)for the Internet
phylny
(8,390 posts)You know, people are so freaking ignorant. I speak Spanish - enough to get by. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being fluent, I'm maybe a 5 or 6. I *wish* I were fluent.
When I encounter this crap, which I do rarely, I generally inform the ignorant that our founding fathers spoke more than one language if they were at all educated. It is, in fact, a sign of great education to speak another language. When I work with my Spanish-speaking clients, I always praise how wonderful it is that their children are bilingual. The kids generally beam when I say this within earshot of them.
Skittles
(153,220 posts)I heard a couple of gals in the post office line talking and finally I just had to interrupt and say, please, could you tell me what language you're speaking? It's so cool! (it was Swahili)......awesome
spooky3
(34,496 posts)Employees from discrimination and a hostile environment based on race, ethnicity, gender, etc.
dembotoz
(16,864 posts)i would think you would want to get the asshole served and out the door.
then i would smother the victim with apologies and any free discounts know to man.
too many folks packing heat these days
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Racist republicans did it with a big helping hand from the MSM.
MAGA baby!
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Their hatred of the "others" will be stronger than their need for self preservation and they will continue to vote republican till the day they die.
Fuck them all!
luvMIdog
(2,533 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Hate is a horrible powerful force.
Hitler and the nazi party knew this well and used it to gain power.
Trump and the republican party know it well too......
lunasun
(21,646 posts)brush
(53,924 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)There is no compromise with hateful bigots. None.
We need to reach out to the many millions who never vote. Fuck the racist deplorables.
Crowman2009
(2,499 posts)Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)75% of the potential voters didn't vote for Trump. There was 50% who didn't vote at all, so maybe aim for that block of people instead of the alt-right, who were once called Ron Paul Libertarians, who were once called McCain-Palinesque Renegeades, and so forth.
brush
(53,924 posts)we'd have to take as a party to make these people comfortable.
And think how uncomfortable those new stances would make people in our base, people who soon not be in our base once we start catering to deplorables.
Wonder if the ones advocating going after trump voters thought that far ahead that we'd lose voters probably more voters than we gain in trying to go after people who voted for trump.
I know I wouldn't stick around if our party suddenly lurched right to accommodate them.
Initech
(100,108 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)I searched google and could not find any? Why is that?
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)We all know Obama didn't run on a campaign based on racial hate like Trump did.
I still blame the MSM for normalizing his bigotry and misogyny. He never would have been elected without it.
And they are still doing it to this day,
mythology
(9,527 posts)Cut a backward B into her cheek. That has to count for something right?
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Wonder how her scar healed in jail?
oasis
(49,428 posts)Initech
(100,108 posts)And I was like "That doesn't sound like Heaven, that sounds more like Hell!".
Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)And she wants to talk about "ghetto"!
Iggo
(47,577 posts)Probably a little.
But it's fun.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Spanish Words Become Our Own
Adopted and Borrowed Words Enrich English
adios (from adiós)
adobe (originally Coptic tobe, "brick"
aficionado
albino
alcove (from Spanish alcoba, originally Arabic al-qubba)
alfalfa (originally Arabic al-fasfasah. Many other English words beginning with "al" were originally Arabic, and many may have had a Spanish-language connection in becoming English.)
alligator (from el lagarto, "the lizard"
alpaca (animal similar to a llama, from Aymara allpaca)
armada
armadillo (literally, "the little armed one"
arroyo (English regionalism for "stream"
avocado (originally a Nahuatl word, ahuacatl)
bajada (a geological term referring to a type of alluvial slope at the base of a mountain, from bajada, meaning "slope"
banana (word, originally of African origin, entered English via either Spanish or Portuguese)
bandoleer (type of belt, from bandolera)
barbecue (from barbacoa, a word of Caribbean origin)
barracuda
bizarre (some sources, not all, say this word came from the Spanish bizarro)
bonanza (although the Spanish bonanza can be used synonymously with the English cognate, it more often means "calm seas" or "fair weather"
booby (from bobo, meaning "silly" or "selfish"
bravo (from either Italian or Old Spanish)
bronco (means "wild" or "rough" in Spanish)
buckaroo (possibly from vaquero, "cowboy"
bunco (probably from banco, "bank"
burrito (literally "little donkey"
burro
cafeteria (from cafetería)
caldera (geological term)
canary (Old Spanish canario entered English by way of French canarie)
canasta (the Spanish word means "basket"
cannibal (originally of Caribbean origin)
canoe (the word was originally Caribbean)
canyon (from cañón)
cargo (from cargar, "to load"
castanet (from castañeta)
chaparral (from chaparro, an evergreen oak)
chaps (from Mexican Spanish chaparreras)
chihuahua (dog breed named after Mexican city and state)
chile relleno (Mexican food)
chili (from chile, derived from Nahuatl chilli)
chili con carne (con carne means "with meat"
chocolate (originally xocolatl, from Nahuatl, an indigenous Mexican language)
churro (Mexican food)
cigar, cigarette (from cigarro)
cilantro
cinch (from cincho, "belt"
cocaine (from coca, from Quechua kúka)
cockroach (Two English words, "cock" and "roach," were combined to form "cockroach." It is believed, but isn't certain, that the words were chosen because of their similarity to the Spanish cucaracha.)
coco (type of tree, from icaco, originally Arawak ikaku from the Caribbean)
comrade (from camarada, "roommate"
condor (originally from Quechua, an indigenous South American language)
conquistador
corral
coyote (from the Nahuatl coyotl)
creole (from criollo)
criollo (English term refers to someone indigenous to South America; Spanish term originally referred to anyone from a particular locality)
dago (offensive ethnic term comes from Diego)
dengue (Spanish imported the word from Swahili)
(a type of windstorm that can be found in the U.S. Midwest)
desperado
dorado (type of fish)
El Niño (weather pattern, means "The Child" due to its appearance around Christmas)
embargo (from embargar, to bar)
enchilada (participle of enchilar, "to season with chili"
fajita (diminutive of faja, a belt or sash, probably so named due to strips of meat)
fiesta (in Spanish, it can mean a party, a celebration, a feast or a fiesta)
filibuster (from filibustero, derived from Dutch vrijbuiter, "pirate"
flan (a type of custard)
flauta (a fried, rolled tortilla)
flotilla
frijol (English regionalism for a bean)
galleon (from Spanish galeón)
garbanzo (type of bean)
guacamole (originally from Nahuatl ahuacam, "avocado," and molli, "sauce"
guerrilla (In Spanish, the word refers to a small fighting force. A guerrilla fighter is a guerrillero.)
habanero (a type of pepper; in Spanish, the word refers to something from Havana)
hacienda (in Spanish, the initial h is silent)
hammock (from jamaca, a Caribbean Spanish word)
hoosegow (slang term for a jail comes from Spanish juzgado, participle of juzgar, "to judge"
huarache (type of sandal)
hurricane (from huracán, originally an indigenous Caribbean word)
iguana (originally from Arawak and Carib iwana)
incomunicado
jaguar (from Spanish and Portuguese, originally from Guarani yaguar)
jalapeño
jerky (the word for dried meat comes from charqui, which in turn came from the Quechua ch'arki)
jicama (originally from Nahuatl)
key (the word for a small island comes from the Spanish cayo, possibly of Caribbean origin)
lariat (from la reata, "the lasso"
lasso (from lazo)
llama (originally from Quechua)
machete
machismo
macho (macho usually means simply "male" in Spanish)
maize (from maíz, originally from Arawak mahíz)
manatee (from manatí, originally from Carib)
mano a mano (literally, "hand to hand"
margarita (a woman's name meaning "daisy"
mariachi (a type of traditional Mexican music, or a musician)
marijuana (usually mariguana or marihuana in Spanish)
matador (literally, "killer"
menudo (Mexican food)
mesa (In Spanish it means "table," but it also can mean "tableland," the English meaning.)
mesquite (tree name originally from Nahuatl mizquitl)
mestizo (a type of mixed ancestry)
mole (The name for this delightful chocolate-chili dish is sometimes misspelled as "molé" in English in an attempt to prevent mispronunciation.)
mosquito
mulatto (from mulato)
mustang (from mestengo, "stray"
nacho
nada (nothing)
negro (comes from either the Spanish or Portuguese word for the color black)
nopal (type of cactus, from Nahuatl nohpalli)
ocelot (originally Nahuatl oceletl; the word was adopted into Spanish and then French before becoming an English word)
olé (in Spanish, the exclamation can be used in places other than bullfights)
oregano (from orégano)
paella (a savory Spanish rice dish)
palomino (originally meant a white dove in Spanish)
papaya (originally Arawak)
patio (In Spanish, the word most often refers to a courtyard.)
peccadillo (from pecadillo, diminutive of pecado, "sin"
peso (Although in Spanish a peso is also a monetary unit, it more generally means a weight.)
peyote (originally Nahuatl peyotl)
picaresque (from picaresco)
pickaninny (offensive term, from pequeño, "small"
pimento (Spanish pimiento)
pinole (a meal made of grain and beans; originally Nahuatl pinolli)
pinta (tropical skin disease)
pinto (Spanish for "spotted" or "painted"
piñata
piña colada (literally meaning "strained pineapple"
piñon (type of pine tree, sometimes spelled "pinyon"
plantain (from plátano or plántano)
plaza
poncho (Spanish adopted the word from Araucanian, an indigenous South American language)
potato (from batata, a word of Caribbean origin)
pronto (from an adjective or adverb meaning "quick" or "quickly"
pueblo (in Spanish, the word can mean simply "people"
puma (originally from Quechua)
punctilio (from puntillo, "little point," or possibly from Italian puntiglio)
quadroon (from cuaterón)
quesadilla
quirt (type of riding whip, comes from Spanish cuarta)
ranch (Rancho often means "ranch" in Mexican Spanish, but it can also mean a settlement, camp or meal rations.)
reefer (drug slang, possibly from Mexican Spanish grifa, "marijuana"
remuda (regionalism for a relay of horses)
renegade (from renegado)
rodeo
rumba (from rumbo, originally referring to the course of a ship and, by extension, the revelry aboard)
salsa (In Spanish, almost any kind of a sauce or gravy can be referred to as salsa.)
sarsaparilla (from zarza, "bramble," and parrilla, "small vine"
sassafras (from sasafrás)
savanna (from obsolete Spanish çavana, originally Taino zabana, "grassland"
savvy (from sabe, a form of the verb saber, "to know"
serape (Mexican blanket)
serrano (type of pepper)
shack (possibly from Mexican Spanish jacal, from the Nahuatl xcalli, "adobe hut"
siesta
silo
sombrero (In Spanish, the word, which is derived from sombra, "shade," can mean almost any kind of hat, not just the traditional broad-rimmed Mexican hat.)
spaniel (ultimately from hispania, the same root that gave us the words "Spain" and español)
stampede (from estampida)
stevedore (from estibador, one who stows or packs things)
stockade (from a French derivation of the Spanish estacada, "fence" or "stockade"
taco (In Spanish, a taco can refer to a stopper, plug or wad. In other words, a taco originally meant a wad of food. Indeed, in Mexico, the variety of tacos is almost endless, far more varied than the beef, lettuce and cheese combination of U.S.-style fast food.)
tamale (The Spanish singular for this Mexican dish is tamal. The English comes from an erroneous backformation of the Spanish plural, tamales.)
tamarillo (type of tree, derived from tomatillo, a small tomato)
tango
tejano (type of music)
tequila (named after a Mexican town of the same name)
tobacco (from tabaco, a word possibly of Caribbean origin)
tomatillo
tomato (from tomate, derived from Nahuatl tomatl)
toreador
tornado (from tronada, thunderstorm)
tortilla (in Spanish, an omelet often is a tortilla)
tuna (from atún)
vamoose (from vamos, a form of "to go"
vanilla (from vainilla)
vaquero (English regionalism for a cowboy)
vicuña (animal similar to a llama, from Quechua wikuña)
vigilante (from adjective for "vigilant"
vinegarroon (from vinagrón)
wrangler (some sources say word is derived from Mexican Spanish caballerango, one who grooms horses, while other sources say the word comes from German)
yucca (from yuca, originally a Caribbean word)
zapateado (a type of dance emphasizing movement of the heels)
https://www.thoughtco.com/spanish-words-become-our-own-3078182
Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)Blaukraut
(5,695 posts)niyad
(113,612 posts)and my nails are longer than hers, and my purse is wayyyyyy bigger.
yardwork
(61,715 posts)It's possible that nobody else heard the woman.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)Updated Tuesday, May 23, 2017, 12 p.m. EDT: The woman who went on a racist rant in a Manassas, Va., Sprint store has been identified as Tiffany Cormier, The Root has confirmed from a source reached through Fusion. Cormier is married to a Latino man and works for American Airlines in its payroll department and has reportedly since been laid off, according to the source.
When The Root contacted American to verify Cormiers employment status, the airline stated that it does not confirm the employment of its employees but added, We dont tolerate discrimination at American Airlines, and we are looking into these allegations.
Also see
https://www.everipedia.com/tiffany-cormier/
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)And uses racist slurs against her own husbands race???
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Hate is blind and ignorant obviously. SMH
yardwork
(61,715 posts)I hope DSS looks into this family. Maybe it was all a big joke, and maybe not. She encourages her little kids to "get blood" by fighting the employee.
IronLionZion
(45,563 posts)and I've been in a long term relationship with a woman who still refuses to accept that I'm American too.
There are all types of people in this world.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)How can they be so foolish as to support a con man hater like Trump?
Ligyron
(7,639 posts)Their deplorable behavior gets them fired almost every time once they're identified.
Then again, they were stupid enough to vote for Dump, so ...
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)Therefore her husband is not a "spic"
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)In the second link's
Hilarious. I'd hate to go to that family get together.
Rhett Cohen
(32 posts)DK504
(3,847 posts)whether helpful or politely asking them to lower their voice. Her husband was with her and she couldn't talk to him?
And it's funny that Juan sounds very Americans, no detection of an accent and yet the idiot thinks he's illegal. I do hope she gets called out for such deplorable behavior.
Rabrrrrrr
(58,354 posts)is what she is.
Stupid stupid stupid, and quite the hypocrite - apparently loves the Hispanic men for the sex stuff, but not for anything else.
FailureToCommunicate
(14,026 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)He and the MSM gave these hateful people a voice.
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)but it is not polite or appropriate to eavesdrop on a stranger's phone conversation and offer her information without being asked for it. that is stalkish behavior.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)Everyone in the store could hear her without making an effort. If you watch the video posted above, her volume is MUCH higher than the man who was just trying to give her some help.
If you don't want to be overheard while talking on a cell phone, lower your volume and go to a more private area - NOT in a restroom, please. (Having been in restrooms and being forced to listen to other people's cell phone comversations.)
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)and she was in a phone store.
maybe it was loud in the store, maybe the person she was talking to was in a loud place, driving or just hard of hearing.
mythology
(9,527 posts)gyroscope
(1,443 posts)it doesn't give random strangers the right to insert themselves into your private phone conversation. that's rather creepy, especially when the stranger is a man and you are a young woman.
still the woman completely overreacted.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)You have no expectation of privacy in a public place.
And nice sexism to boot.
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)you have the right to annoy random strangers in public.
just don't be shocked when they cuss you out or worse.
Fantastic Anarchist
(7,309 posts)I know how to take care of myself.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)That is the way it works for taking photos, same for cell phone conversations when they are so loud the people around can not help but hear.
If she had been talking that loudly to her husband who apparently was with her she would not have an expectation that the people around her could not hear her. Just because she is on a cell phone, that does not magically isolate her from everyone else in hearing distance.
The man who tried to help her talked much more quietly and she could hear him just fine so it does not seem to me that the sound level in the store was loud. If the person on the other end of the call can't hear her, she should suggest that she call back from a more private place.
I have absolutely no sympathy for loud cell phone users. When they go on to use racial slurs to someone who was just trying to help her and then tries to encourage her companion to fight him, I hope she gets all the crap the internet can throw at her.
gyroscope
(1,443 posts)you have the right to annoy random strangers in public.
just don't be shocked when they cuss you out or worse.
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)They love to look like they're important holding a CEO conference call meeting in their mind in front of everyone.
csziggy
(34,139 posts)I found several articles about how to troll annoying cell phone users. One of my favorites was to sit or stand next to them and have a pretend "mirrored" cell phone conversations where your comments are responses to what they say. The guy calls it cell phone crashing:
tonedevil
(3,022 posts)in this situation if you stretch the definition of eavsdrop to mean being forced to listen to a one sidded phone conversation in a very public place. If you don't want strangers weighing in on your phone conversation then don't put your phone conversation in their faces. In order to have your privacy protected you need to act privately.
yardwork
(61,715 posts)It sounds like she was complaining to Sprint that the store didn't have something she wanted. I think she had been discussing this with the Sprint employee in the store before she called customer service. The phone call sounds like an extension of a discussion she and the employee had been having.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)out of her mouth.
Dirty, dirty person. If you want to slobber on yourself do it at home.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I think her neighbors, friends and employer need to shame her.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)How do they stay with her?????
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)She is racist against her own kids!!!
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)I've seen the same mentality with whites who dated blacks also.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)but people like this need a hypothetical slap in the face, meaning more people need to stand up and let them know their racist behavior will absolutely not be tolerated in a civil society. This behavior needs serious pushback. Hard.
Cha
(297,799 posts)Airlines.. that might make an impression.