Lowe’s Driver: Company Kowtowed To Racist Customer
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Marcus Bradley (photo: NY Daily News)
Big parts of the nation have yet to enter the twentieth (let alone twenty-first) century. Danville, Virginia now emerges as one such place:
A delivery driver at a Danville, Va., Lowe’s Home Improvement was replaced with another driver when a customer said she didn’t want someone who is black, a local report said.
Longtime employee Marcus Bradley, who is black, took offense to his bosses obliging the woman’s racist request, he told WSET-TV.
A phone call from his workplace of 11 years brought Bradley back to Lowe’s, where he swapped place with a white delivery driver to finish the job.
An unidentified customer, pictured here, told a TV station she didn’t feel bad about requesting a white driver over a black driver from Lowe’s.An unidentified customer,… told a TV station she didn’t feel bad about requesting a white driver over a black driver from Lowe’s.
“I asked him why I couldn’t do it and he said ‘because you’re black and they don’t want you at the house,'” Bradley said of the Aug. 3 incident.
Bradley went back to work, but shared his grievances with the local TV station, whose reporter then confronted the customer on the front porch of her home.
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