(08-26-2016 12:29 PM)bridgeforthduke Wrote: Wait a second, why trust random blog guy? And why are we assuming that they know her? The waitress herself said she doesn't know them.
There was some discussion earlier about the people that allegedly wrote the note not being Caucasian. From reading about this, the Ada person that signed the receipt is Puerto Rican. The waitress is of Honduran and Mexican descent. Puerto Ricans and Mexicans often are not big fans of each other so it's not a stretch to see this happening.
Why trust him? Well, I don't trust him, necessarily. But he's a veteran and syndicated radio host, and has a reputation to uphold. If he's got a personal agenda past debunking, he does a pretty decent job of hiding it in the posts I linked to. If he came up with this out of thin air and got the two people from Jess's Lunch to sign up to it, that would be something.
Here's what is never said, by me or him: that the waitress knew these people. Her mother apparently had known them for years. Whether the timeline fits for them being aware that she worked there, who knows. But the fact that they knew her mother seems to me to make it less likely this was random hateful racists.
As for Puerto Ricans and Mexicans not liking each other...well, how does the customer know she's Honduran/Mexican? I know we like to think as Americans that we can tell regional accents apart...can Spanish-speakers do the same, based on limited interactions from ordering food? Enough to spark a bias such that a nasty comment like this would be left? And if they knew her enough know her background, then it goes against the narrative that this is a random hate encounter.
I read this radio guy as not convinced that these two jerks strode into Jess's one random day, got waited on a by a waitress of Hispanic descent, and left a random hate note. I thought it was likely that wasn't exactly what happened when I heard it, and now I think it's very likely something else occurred.