Post by Tumbleweed on Aug 14, 2010 12:19:02 GMT -6
If you have seen the show you'll know the show is a test to see how many people will step up when they see injustice or wrong doings. They stage real life scenarios with actors depicting things that happen in real life. On this show they had some Spanish speaking actors play the part of (seemingly) migrant workers and patrons in a coffee shop. The server, an actor, refused to serve them because they didn't speak English. He did this loudly so the non-actor, real life patrons could hear. The test is to see how many people stand up for them.
It was sickening how some patrons chimed in and said, "Go back to your own country." A very small percentage actually spoke up and defended them and some said this was the last time they'd come to this coffee shop. I cheered! Others just totally ignored the situation. In one instance, a black man took the side of the the server and also chimed in that the migrant should go back where they came from. Later interviewed he ended up being pretty ashamed and his excuse was they were taking jobs that black people should have...or something like that.
I assume this kind of thing happens in real life and thank goodness I have never seen it with my own eyes.
I am all for taking control of our borders and I am all for deporting illegals but that is not up to regular citizens to decide who is here legally and who is not, who to serve and who not to serve. That is up those in charge. Every human being deserves respect and to be treated with respect, although I have to say, known & convicted murderers and child molesters don't fit in this bracket with me. But you get my point.
What would I do? I know for a fact I would have spoken up. I have been known to get myself in some sticky situations when I saw another human being being treated wrongly. There was the time I spoke up when a mother slapped her child hard in Walmart. There was a time a Father used horrible language toward his child calling her stupid and some other horrible names. I was furious! There was a time I spoke up when a woman was being loudly degraded by her husband in the grocery store. (I almost got hit by the man or at the very least he was going to get in my face, but thank goodness a wonderful angel of a man stepped between us.) So yes, I wouldn't have hesitated to call the server on this, had I seen something like this.
Throughout the whole show they had a real life migrant worker watch behind the scenes in the studio. He became very emotional, regardless of this being all staged and my heart broke for him.
It was sickening how some patrons chimed in and said, "Go back to your own country." A very small percentage actually spoke up and defended them and some said this was the last time they'd come to this coffee shop. I cheered! Others just totally ignored the situation. In one instance, a black man took the side of the the server and also chimed in that the migrant should go back where they came from. Later interviewed he ended up being pretty ashamed and his excuse was they were taking jobs that black people should have...or something like that.
I assume this kind of thing happens in real life and thank goodness I have never seen it with my own eyes.
I am all for taking control of our borders and I am all for deporting illegals but that is not up to regular citizens to decide who is here legally and who is not, who to serve and who not to serve. That is up those in charge. Every human being deserves respect and to be treated with respect, although I have to say, known & convicted murderers and child molesters don't fit in this bracket with me. But you get my point.
What would I do? I know for a fact I would have spoken up. I have been known to get myself in some sticky situations when I saw another human being being treated wrongly. There was the time I spoke up when a mother slapped her child hard in Walmart. There was a time a Father used horrible language toward his child calling her stupid and some other horrible names. I was furious! There was a time I spoke up when a woman was being loudly degraded by her husband in the grocery store. (I almost got hit by the man or at the very least he was going to get in my face, but thank goodness a wonderful angel of a man stepped between us.) So yes, I wouldn't have hesitated to call the server on this, had I seen something like this.
Throughout the whole show they had a real life migrant worker watch behind the scenes in the studio. He became very emotional, regardless of this being all staged and my heart broke for him.
I ask because I ran to our HyVee Drugstore (with mini grocery store in it) and I had things like cat food and cat litter in my cart. The cat litter I had in the under tray of the cart and a gal a few years younger than me asked if she could help me get the litter out from the bottom tray. I told her thanks, that I could get it and easily reached to get it. Once I was checked out she asked if I needed help out to the car with it. Now wait a minute here..... Do I look sick, like I'm going to drop dead any minute? Do I look that old that I need help with a couple boxes of kitty litter? 
