→ Standing While Brown: A White Lady Tried To Get Me To Valet Her Car

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ladyatheist:

Representing Pocho.com, I was a panelist along with a table full of young, savvy Latino digital media types as part of last week’s Digital LA Latino Content event.

Afterwards, I finished up networking and headed outside to leave. As I waited to get my car in front of the host restaurant in Beverly Hills, you’ll never guess what happened: A white lady tried to give me her car valet ticket. Twice.

You’ve heard this story a thousand times before; it’s a Latino cliché. Or is it a tradition?

Anglo person assumes brown person is a worker, there to serve them.

An old Chicano chestnut goes something like this:

I’m a Mexican-American, am married to a white woman, and I was mowing our lawn in front of our nice, big home. A white lady pulled up in a car and asked, “How much do you charge to mow a lawn?” My answer: Nothing. The lady of the house lets me sleep with her.

One of my own family members, a brown-skinned attorney, was approached demandingly by a white office worker in their high-rise parking garage. “Where’s my car? Where’s my car!?” she shouted at him. He answered, “Hey lady, I’m an attorney!” I guess she took that as a legal threat, because she ran off in fear.

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This story does not surprise me at all. I honestly believe if you’re a PoC, this has happened to you at least once in your life. Before I had my son, I could not walk into a store without someone assuming I worked there. While it doesn’t seem like a “big deal” to some, it is infuriating when it happens on a daily basis.

I’ve had this happen so often it’s not even cute.

I was 9 months pregnant, grocery shopping while wearing a Punisher t-shirt & sweats when some guy tried to report me to a manager in Walmart for my poor customer service skills. The look on the manager’s face was classic. I’m not sure some white people realize that POC have lives beyond the stereotypes they like so much.

I live in the suburbs of a multicultural cultural city so I have never been in a situation like this before. I can imagine that when I look for work in Los Angeles or venture out even farther from the safety of familiarity that I could possibly run into a situation like this. The most racist remarks I’ve received have been surprised confessions from students when they find out how involved I am in the English department of my community college and they’ll tell me how smart I am for a Mexican. That pissed me off. 

(via ceasesilence)

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   Had this happen to me while standing in line to order food. The guy’s like “oh are you my caddy (driver)”? One, his...

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    This happened to me most recently about a week ago, in my local Target. I was shopping for necessities (read: coffee),...

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    I live in the suburbs of a multicultural cultural city so I have never been in a situation like this before. I can...

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    ^^^ missing the point. completely.

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    People assume I work at places all the time too, I don’t see the big deal. People are just stupid.

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    On my first job as network admin, i once got a probably well meant but disgustingly selfrighteous and rasist sermon from...

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    >The lady of the house lets me sleep with her FUCKING DYING. Also, wow, what a pile of bullshit. I don’t even understand...

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    I once got mistaken for the nanny of my own child. (She’s mixed-race, and was pale as a baby, and was born with blue...

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    Meanwhile, I, Whitey McWhitesalot, work...be wearing my work clothes, wearing my name tag,...

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    But they never do it to my white friends, though…And like I said, they never do it to fiance either (who is also a...

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