Daily Kos – by Walter Einenkel
“I need somebody to come through here please, ASAP. Now. There’s about eight people in a van, and they’ve been in the store for about an hour. They keep going back and forth to the bathrooms by my back door.” That’s the 911 call—obtained by WSB-TV Channel 2 Action News—from a Subway employee on a family of 6, Felicia and Othniel Dobson and their four children, ages 8, 12, 13, and 19. The family had stopped at the Subway in Coweta County, Georgia, on their trip back from South Georgia to their home state of North Carolina. They had been attending a grandparent’s birthday party for the weekend.
The employee freaked out because this isn’t some Cleaver family reunion! These people have high levels of melanin in their skin!!!!
A Newnan police officer showed up. The Dobsons said the officer apologized and told them the employee had said she was suspicious of the family and that she has been robbed before and thought they would rob her.
The Dobson family told the Channel 2 Action news that their 19-year-old is going to college this year, the kids are upstanding young folk, and there had been nothing to indicate there was an issue. Subway headquarters says they are “investigating,” and the owner of this particular franchise called the family to apologize and say the woman had been put on “administrative leave.”
I reached out to Felicia Dobson and she sent this statement from the family.
It can be dangerous to make a call to law enforcement with blatantly false information for people of color. The employee’s voice was quivering as she described my family as non-customers, more women than men, and hanging around a back door eventually describing us as being suspicious and possibly going to rob her to an officer. This call came after we purchased several footlong subs and one addition while she took a smoke break outside of the store. We have no words for her action. Our kids were stunned to see their parents speaking with an officer following what they thought was a normal dinner followed by using a single stall bathroom one at a time. Our hope is that this one day stops happening to people in this country. Discrimination is never ok. We pray that love will prevail.
Interesting, I looked up the person who wrote the article, Walter Einenkel. He writes articles calling white people racist, White Supremacist, WASP etc. and has no reason doing so. He’s such a nice Jewish boy.
A stoker of division, invented by zionist devils.
silence, qoy
That was really a smooth move, checking on the author. I’m going to start doing that too, especially when something looks a little skewed.
adam bloom is the “racist white guy” who is the pool police guy that id’d the black family, as well…
[ADD]
At Subway.
We only serve the finest ingredients.
Fresh and made to order.
The wholesome quality that you deserve.
We give a new meaning to fast delicious food served to order at your convenience.
Subway…
Think fresh. And fk the 5 dollar foot long.
That sht went out to pay Jared’s legal fees.
Now you niggars are paying almost ten dollas for a mothetfkn sub
Subway…
Because we won’t cum in your sub.
Cause you can watch us making your sandwich.
Umlike those other bitches hiding behind a grill.
Subway…
Think fresh.
article aside, the truth is that the rampant crime that comes with living in populated areas is not something to take lightly. if the woman at the subway was scared, my guess is she had a reason to be so. if her reason is not backed up by personal experience, well, she might harbor some PREDJUDICE. meaning that she pre-judged the family. but in the world we live in, the statistics show that being fearful of african americans is not always racist but in fact justified. if she didn’t have the common sense to tell a normal family from a bunch of criminals, well, i would say she isn’t racist.
just stupid.