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ORIGINAL: DomYngBlk
Well addressing your last "imagine".......then do your fucking job. Your job as white bunny in disneyland is to keep the kids happy. Not doing it would be pretty stupid don't you think?

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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.

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Hell, I have seen Santa pissed on!

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ORIGINAL: Switcheroo1983

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/black-family-claims-disney-white-rabbit-character-refused-180034301--finance.html

Interesting. They declined the VIP passes, and $500 bucks. They don't appear (from the article, at least) to be suing for money, just principle.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Hell, I have seen Santa pissed on!

Your BDSM clubs out there sound like such fun!

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ORIGINAL: muhly22222
One other fact that wasn't immediately apparent (to me) from the story is whether the actor ever saw the children. I didn't watch the video (slow internet connection), but I do know that a number of mascot costumes (which would be similar to what the actor was wearing) are very difficult to see out of and only offer a limited range of vision. This isn't saying he wasn't being racist, just that it's a possibility. Also, the story didn't say who pushed the older child away. The people who handle these characters are often rather pushy, and if it was a handler who pushed the child away, it wasn't really the White Rabbit being racist.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Hell, I have seen Santa pissed on!

Your BDSM clubs out there sound like such fun!

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ORIGINAL: DiurnalVampire

Having been to Disney many times, there is something else that is possible that no one has mentioned. The characters have scheduled visit times, and then they are ushered away. Once their time is up, their handlers often have to turn away children who want to have photos and hugs and the like to keep things on schedule. Regardless of the children in question, Disney is a business and in that business they keep schedules. If this family were trying after that time that the character is recalled, then the White Rabbit would have gone back into character
(explaining the "impatient" behavior, the White Rabbit when not seeing people is late for a very important date and acts it.") and left to alow the handlers to meet the next character on their way out and essentially change shifts. The most important thing about being a disney character at a park is not to break character. The Villains, when not in a meet and greet, are not huggy and cute, they will growl at the kids or act haughty. The White Rabbit is in a hurry. I think this may be a very major misunderstanding of how things work at Disney from a family that jumped to a complaint of racism right off.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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Just checked the link. The aggrieved black family involved are Mr and Mrs Black and children. However, the spokeswoman from Disney isn't called Ms White, she's called Ms Brown.

Can't you Americans at least sort out a bit more symmetry with your social iniquities?

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
My best friends last name was White. We called her mom Mrs. White because that was her name, not because she also happened to be white.

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ORIGINAL: Switcheroo1983

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/black-family-claims-disney-white-rabbit-character-refused-180034301--finance.html

Interesting. They declined the VIP passes, and $500 bucks. They don't appear (from the article, at least) to be suing for money, just principle.

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ORIGINAL: midmichiganguy
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: LafayetteLady

Looks like the attorney is going for a class action:

Look towards the end of the article.

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ORIGINAL: PeonForHer

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ORIGINAL: thishereboi
My best friends last name was White. We called her mom Mrs. White because that was her name, not because she also happened to be white.

That sounds both appropriate and very sensible of you, THB.