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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Good for them.

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy

So exercise free choice and get fired. I don't believe we know all sides of this story here. What if the kid was a sloppy mess from having food spilled over him? If you were in a white bunny outfit would you want to get that on you? Or what about if the kid was hacking and coughing and very sick? Maybe the person in the bunny outfit did not want to go home and lose work time because of fear of illness? Or maybe there is some element of truth to the racist allegations? Who completely knows? My point though is that there are an endless number of reasons why someone would choose not to hug someone else and not all of them have to do with race. Now imagine what would be said if the person in the bunny outfit was the same race as the person who did not get the hug and felt slighted by it. What then?

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy

So exercise free choice and get fired. I don't believe we know all sides of this story here. What if the kid was a sloppy mess from having food spilled over him? If you were in a white bunny outfit would you want to get that on you? Or what about if the kid was hacking and coughing and very sick? Maybe the person in the bunny outfit did not want to go home and lose work time because of fear of illness? Or maybe there is some element of truth to the racist allegations? Who completely knows? My point though is that there are an endless number of reasons why someone would choose not to hug someone else and not all of them have to do with race. Now imagine what would be said if the person in the bunny outfit was the same race as the person who did not get the hug and felt slighted by it. What then?

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy

Has anyone here ever worked in the public around low income or homeless families? I have had children running around with yesterdays food on them and I have seen families who were hacking and coughing like they had the plague do so without regard to those they come in contact with. Not because they were being malicious or anything but simply because they did not know any better or they had no choice. Ask any bus driver for public schools about being sick. Ask any teacher who deals with children how often they get sick. So unless someone here has had similiar experiences as public sector workers dealing with low income, at-risk, and homeless populations then I suggest perhaps you should open your mind up a bit more and look at reality and realize that not everything is absolutely black and white.

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy

What part of: "I actually believe this was a racially motivated incident and I am all for prosecution of the person for it. My main point though was that none of us was present and none of us know 100 percent the circumstances around it. So for people to stand up and be righteously defensive about a situation that no one here was absolutely present for is quite hypocritical don't you think?" don't you get?

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So unless someone here has had similiar experiences as public sector workers dealing with low income, at-risk, and homeless populations then I suggest perhaps you should open your mind up a bit more and look at reality and realize that not everything is absolutely black and white.

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy
My main point though was that none of us was present and none of us know 100 percent the circumstances around it. So for people to stand up and be righteously defensive about a situation that no one here was absolutely present for is quite hypocritical don't you think?

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I work around kids all day long in my profession. You would be surprised how often parents take their sick kids out and about into the public or send them to school. If I see a kid hacking and coughing and they comes running up to me for a hug am I then a racist because I don't want to hug him back and risk infection? Sure I might hug the kid and turn my head and not breath in but does that make me racist because I am hesitant to do so?

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Has anyone here ever worked in the public around low income or homeless families?

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So unless someone here has had similiar experiences as public sector workers dealing with low income, at-risk, and homeless populations then I suggest perhaps you should open your mind up a bit more and look at reality and realize that not everything is absolutely black and white.

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ORIGINAL: LafayetteLady

Here's the thing with the "not asking for money" angle. This would be a civil suit for personal injury of sorts. Lawyers take those on contingency, meaning they get a portion of the award. No attorney is going to take a case for an apology with no monetary award, unless the family is paying out of pocket. Few people have the funds for a lawsuit that gets them nothing but an apology, but saying that is all you want makes great headlines.

I'm not going to say the cast member in the rabbit suit was racist or not, and neither should anyone else. On this site, most of the people here are quick to tell OPs' in other sections that we don't know both sides of the story, why should here be any different?

Yes, racism exists, but every time a black person comes on the news saying they were the victim of racism, everyone tends to automatically agree without hearing both sides, and the fact is that it isn't always an act of racism.


ETA: The whole "hush" money thing is indicative of you not understanding how these companies work. Anything that happens, they try to do something to make the customer, or visitor in this case, happy. This comes in the form of free tickets or monetary compensation. I have had things happen to me at an amusement park due to my disability and was offered free tickets. I'm sure if I pushed the situation, a monetary compensation would have been offered. I took the tickets.