Another terribly ugly racist incident in the St. Louis area. A white man at a Florissant, Missouri, White Castle was upset with two women who'd gotten to the drive-thru window before him, so he began
peppering them with nasty slurs:
Stewart says the driver, who appeared intoxicated, was angry because the black driver got to the drive-through line before he did. He first yelled at her, "Why don't you watch where the fuck you're going next time?"
Stewart couldn't hear how the woman responded, but she heard him call her the N-word and scream, "That's all you people know to fucking do is yell and fight. You want some of this?"
Mariah Stewart, a Huffington Post blogger, happened to be in the restaurant with her 6-year-old daughter and heard the entire exchange, including the man's response when the women said they were calling the police:
"I'm white. Call them twice, bitch," the driver shouted at the black woman and teenager from his white truck.
Stewart says she and her daughter were in shock:
"[My daughter] didn't want to look back because she was scared," Stewart says. "She started crying. She was worried about the women in the car. It took a toll on her."
White Castle vice president Jamie Richardson says he's reviewing security-tape footage to identify the driver.
Ultimately the women did not call police and there is no police investigation. Just another day in post-racial America.