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Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
Chili’s Apologizes For Taking Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker says a manager took his food after a customer wearing a Trump shirt questioned his service.
Rebecca Shapiro
Senior Editor, The Huffington Post
U.S. Army veteran Ernest Walker started recording video when a manager at a Chili’s restaurant in Cedar Hill, Texas, questioned his military service and took away his food.
Like some other establishments around the country, Chili’s offered free meals to veterans and active military service members on Veterans Day. Walker wrote on his Facebook page that he was eating at Chili’s with his service dog, Barack, when an elderly customer wearing a Trump shirt came up to him. “He said he was in Germany, and that they did not let Blacks serve over there,” Walker wrote.
Soon after, Walker said the restaurant’s manager approached him and said that a fellow customer said Walker was “not a real soldier because [he] had [his] hat on indoors.” He asked to see identification, and continued to question Walker. Eventually, he took his food away, even though Walker showed him his military ID and discharge paperwork.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
They need to do more than apologize.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
Agreed.
The manager dismissed this mans military ID and accepted the word of some old guy who told a ridiculous tale about blacks not serving in Germany?
That stinks to high heaven.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
Yeah, Chili's should give the guy free meals for life.
Although many would consider that as punishment.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
How terrible. The manager should be fired. I never go into Chili's but I'll bet there will be males wearing hats if I did.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
Rongone wrote:
Yeah, Chili's should give the guy free meals for life.....
...paid by deduction from the manager's pay stub.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
So, a random asshole decides to be abusive and the manager sides with him?
I'm curious, would he have snatched the meal of a white veteran?
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
Hey, the manager was in a bind.
Military IDs can be forged.
I'm Hearing that billionaire George Soros is funding a band of Forgers who are allowing the blacks to defraud Chilis out of a free meal every November 11 with counterfeit ID.
The only way to know for certain is to consult with some elderly Trump supporter who demonstrates an inability to mind his own business, as well as complete ignorance of the makeup of our armed forces.
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Re: Chili’s Takes Meal From Black Veteran On Veterans Day
You know, I rarely go out no Veteran's Day. Not for any particular reason, it's just that I'm off work and like to sleep in.
This year was the first time I'd taken advantage of some of the offers out there.
It made me feel good, and worthwhile, like I'd done something to be proud of for the people who were making the offer.
Having things like this happen shades my experience in an unflattering light.
Is a soldier, sailor, airman, or marine less of a person because of the way they look?
Is their sacrifice a lesser thing?
Is the man who complained less American because the man who risked his life for him isn't the appropriate shade?
How sad.
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