So I Experienced Racism Last Night at A Store Inside The Jamaica Bus Terminal.....

[CASHAPP]

Those of you who are familiar with the bus terminal may not what I am talking about....

Trying to find the best picture I could but bear with me...

As you can see from behind the bus those are some stores behind that you come through to go to the bus stop...there are 2 walkways and when you go through each you have multiple stores from a Golden Krust on the end of one...to a hair salon....to a donut/pastry shop which is one of the most popular shops there...

there are 2 regular "corner stores" which remember i am just saying that because its obviously not the regular type of corner store because its less room because of everyone having their own store in one small area

So on Saturday night around 6, I enter into one of the mini "corner store" and in the pathway there is this guy in a wheelchair blocking the way and another guy behind him...i just say excuse me to the guy behind the guy in the wheelchair and go behind him...

I had been in the store months ago but did not remember the price of certain things....so i was moving around looking for something to get....meanwhile the guy in the wheelchair finished his transaction and the guy behind him left also(this was less than 30 seconds together)...

The guy who was at the front at the register was this Short Indian guy....and what looked like a pale White lady standing next to him who I would not be surprised if she were a Latin American native
I have a $5 bill in my hand....and walk back to the potato chips and I notice this lady walk from the register in front and walk up to 2 feet in front of me...with the rack of chips partially blocking us....the little midget Indian guy says something to the effect of "Is there anything i can help you with sir" while the lady comes closer....I say without barely looking to her "Miss can you stop following me please"...while telling the guy sarcastically "Yeah I'm looking for something to buy"...

I walk up to the register with the pack of chips and asks how much it is and he tells me and I give him the $5 bill and he tells me "no i can't do that" when I ask him if he could give me back $2 in change for the bus ....so fine...i recall earlier that he gave the guy in the wheelchair change with no problem...

I put the chips back down and walk back out the store but for those who are familiar with this area....know the store(like some others) has no doors in it for opening or closing....

So picture me in front...I am no longer technically IN the store....but by the walkway...but not actually stopping people from entering in....I still notice this woman still there with her arms folded and this paranoid ass Indian guy still staring for absolutely no reason...

I look to my right and I see these 2 taller guys twice my height but I know who are probably younger than me....

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[69 others]

honestly breh, where you going with this story

 

[CASHAPP]

I hear one of them say to the other one "why they keep staring at me " for to the other guy.....I see them about to walk by me and i say to them "they doing it to you too"? "yeah they been staring at me the whole time for no reason" ...

The one guy(the other one didn't say anything) started joking about how "that white bytch must want some dikk or something" ....and I turn around and laugh....the guy says "you have a good night" and i say u too....they are in front and at this point at this point the Indian guy from behind the register tries to say something about how "can i help you guys"(he really is a paranoid little fukk) and the white woman who looks like she is about to open her mouth and say something...the tall guy who was talking goes up to the door and says real loud and slow "miss im not a robber...im not gonna rob you" ....

We start talking about how fukked up they are that they just stereotype not only by age but also by color....and how we know if a guy in a suit walked in they would go 5 minutes without following him...

I said how she is a fukking stalker...broad turned around and said "Stupid...Yeah you stupid" in a bad accent and i didn't even know if she misheard me or heard me right and just wanted to call me stupid ...

the other tall guy was getting real pissed and started going real hard and i don't remember the words he said but all of a sudden he spit on the floor right by her and cursed her out and the Indian guy picked up some phone and started talking and the two guys went on about how "Oh shyt they calling the cops" and ran out...

now me...i was still pissed off about everything and even more annoyed that older Black folks who see what was going on...still walked in the store and bought items

Even though i know the racist ass police in that area would never understand discrimination....minutes later nothing had happened so i knew they did not call the cops(anyone in the area knows that the 103 precinct is a 3 minute walk away) so obviously the guy knew he was in the wrong but too ashamed to admit it....minutes later though i saw an Asian security guard young like me come in the store and for a couple minutes he was just talking to them....and glanced at me more than once but never stepped to me....

so i knew from then that he was not really considering me a "threat" because he was feet away from me...

 

[69 others]

ok now i see the continuation..... not defending them or saying they're not racist but over there is a high crime area and you coming in the place trying to buy a small item then walking out and standing there might of seemed like a jack move to them so maybe they were being a bit paranoid

 

[CASHAPP]

I walk back in the store but more people have come in and I am behind this one customer and I say "I wanted to ask you a question" and with the customer about to leave ...he says "ask me" and I asked him why did he give the guy in the wheelchair change but when i asked you did not give and how i had no phone on me and had to reach home? danced around the question and gave some nonsense explanation about me being in the store "for a while"(yeah...like 1 minute and 10 seconds ) ..

then spoke about how the two of them acted and pointed out the racist white lady on his right and how she acted that way....

pulled out my college ID and a copy of my paystub that i had gotten on friday night...dude looked at it on some "what's this"

with all of this going on the asian security guard was next to me and he just said "why don't we talk about this outside" without grabbing me or pushing me or anything....

was on the wall outside with him and started explaining to him what was going on and the guard just listened to me without interrupting and it was a civil conversation without him disrespecting me and telling me about how he knows it is not right how she did that and told me about how the week before some guy got mugged and how they sometimes act like that because its alot of high schoolers who come around here and take stuff

disagreeing with certain things he is saying but still good to see he is a rational person and seems to understand he knows its bullshyt...

i tell him i understand your supposed to "keep an eye on people" but some of these guys get it confused and dont' know the difference between disrespecting personal boundaries and "keeping an eye on people" ...

i bring up the "giving change" aspect and he tells me how the stores around here are stingy about giving out change and i tell him that was exactly what i told the Indian cashier when he tried to tell me to "try asking the other stores for change" ...

I hear the Indian guy in the middle of the conversation yell out to him from the back(coward) something about "what's going on" and the asian guy responds back as if he is agitated about "just a minute"...

we finish up as cool as we started and i shake his hand and he tells me about drying the chinese market around the corner or the 99 cent store for change which i eventually got....

the c00ns and detractors would say it doesn't matter because "you got what you wanted Black Reign" but just wanted to put people onto this if they are ever around that area and Shopping While Black

 

[CASHAPP]

ok now i see the continuation..... not defending them or saying they're not racist but over there is a high crime area and you coming in the place trying to buy a small item then walking out and standing there might of seemed like a jack move to them so maybe they were being a bit paranoid

This is the EXACT thing I just said in my last comment before i read your post(i swear to the invisible god in the sky)

as you see I said i know the captain save a cacs would justify nonsense like this by saying things like "oh its because you were standing there where they could see you after you left"/...

exactly....this is an Al Sharpton dream case.......they walked around and profiled me with me EVEN while having a $5 in my hand....SAW with their own eyes that i put back the item....walk OUTSIDE the store.... showed them my ID and my paystub with my earnings and job location on it....and ask the asian security guard more than once to show it to the lady because obviously she thinks im a robber and i have no job because she automatically assumes the worst of me...

and finally...they saw me go to the store diagonally to them with a dollar and purchased something without the cashier getting her head blown off or robbed

funny thing is i would guarantee any amount of money that i have a higher amount of education than her(so far)

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

Might as well write a screenplay on the events leading up to the incident since you have a problem cutting it short

 

[CASHAPP]

Might as well write a screenplay on the events leading up to the incident since you have a problem cutting it short

why do you guys ALWAYS have to act like this for? WHY???

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

why do you guys ALWAYS have to act like this for? WHY???

Breh, I'm not trying to make light of your situation, just saying write a screen play about it

 

[Super Ramon]

Breh I'm not reading all that shyt. Just summarize it

 

[69 others]

This is the EXACT thing I just said in my last comment before i read your post(i swear to the invisible god in the sky)

as you see I said i know the captain save a cacs would justify nonsense like this by saying things like "oh its because you were standing there where they could see you after you left"/...

exactly....this is an Al Sharpton dream case.......they walked around and profiled me with me EVEN while having a $5 in my hand....SAW with their own eyes that i put back the item....walk OUTSIDE the store.... showed them my ID and my paystub with my earnings and job location on it....and ask the asian security guard more than once to show it to the lady because obviously she thinks im a robber and i have no job because she automatically assumes the worst of me...

and finally...they saw me go to the store diagonally to them with a dollar and purchased something without the cashier getting her head blown off or robbed

funny thing is i would guarantee any amount of money that i have a higher amount of education than her(so far)

negro get your over sensitive ass the fukk outer here i responded while you were 1/4 way through this novel so i didn't see the rest and after seeing it it still doesn't add up to the racism your're trying to claim.

 

[CASHAPP]

I give up with the Coli

 

[LA Fisher]

I ain't reading none of that shyt

 

[69 others]

I give up with the Coli

homie you take yourself too seriously calm down. let me ask you a question was the guy in the wheel chair black?

 

[Remote]

I'm not familiar with that bus terminal, but I am familiar with Golden Krust. Those Jamaican beef patties


I dunno man. These bodegas are hit and miss.
Some places.... you go in there and you could be on a first name basis with papi.
Other places you get that ice grill from suspicious and racist people.

It sucks.

I think you lingered there a bit more than I would have. But I guess you were waiting for the bus.
I thought maybe you should have whipped out $100 bill and told that bytch-dude you don't have to steal his stale ass 50-cent bag of M&Ms.