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It Came From Planet Aylia says: "My husband's mad Auntie Joan accused the man seven doors down of stealing her milk as he was the first black neighbour she had. She doesn't even get her milk delivered." Tell us about casual racism from oldies.

Thanks to Brayn Dedd who suggested this too

(, Thu 27 Oct 2011, 11:54)
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I work in an Aged Care Facility (old funglies home for the uninitiated) that specialises in dementia.
We have a respite room that is regularly filled.
A few months ago we had an elderly lady stay whom I shall call F-ee (as that wasn't her name) who had lived in India for the 1st 3rd of her life.
She loudly told anyone in hearing range how she was part of the Upper Caste, had servants of her own during her young married life & only eventually had to move to Australia so her kids could have a good education & a safe up-bringing!!!
I grew up on a farm in Africa living with a Sikh family. The only servant I ever had was Mrs. Palmer and her 5 daughters (that wasn't really till much later tho but she still lends a hand every now and then).
F-ee treated all of the staff as her personal servants. Including a young girl from Somalia doing her work-experience having completed a Cert. III in Aged Care - I'll call her F-d (as that wasn't her real name either). Now F-ee treated the very dark-skinned F-d as tho she wasn't worthy of scraping the dog-shit off her shoes after going for a shamble thru the local doggy exercise area. None of us liked very much the way F-ee treated us but a lot of us were particularly incensed at the way she treated F-d as we all tended to have fairly thick skins (being Irish, Burmese, African, Scots, English and Australian) and F-d was just young & impressionable. So being good workmates we hatched a plan.
F-ee tended to be most belligerent during the day. So we got F-d to deal with her most of the day. I went in to run interference, changing some tap washers, mounting a tv on her wall & fixing her door. All of the other staff made sure they were in the room or nearby whenever F-d was in the room with F-ee. & then we got her on the second-last day of her stay. F-ee was frustrated with how F-d was making her bed and she loudly proclaimed that F-d was "a useless black bitch".
We had her.
It was reported to the manager (officially).
No more F-ee for respite and certainly not as a permanent resident according to the Equal Rights setup of our workplace & F-d got vindicated by earning a position of employment within our organisation later down the track. Which she very much deserved.
God F-ee was a horrible, old brown bitch.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 9:32, 10 replies)
that just got
totally bogged down after about the 3rd line. Had to stop reading.

Can you summarise?
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 9:37, closed)
Try now.
& no.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 9:38, closed)

Old Indian woman in care home is racist to Somalian worker. They are moved around so they don't have to interact anymore.
OP finishes story with a racial slur against the Indian woman.

QOTW gold.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 9:55, closed)
Thank you.
But mis-read - we forced them to interact just so's we could catch F-ee out.
Also - the Raj sucked. But the rest - you're spot on.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 10:04, closed)
Small minded and vindictive
You trap an old lady by forcing her into the most uncomfortable position you can manufacture and then you take delight in having her kicked out of a place where she can get some solace.
Nice.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 17:32, closed)
No, I didn't say she got kicked out.
Just never invited back again.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 21:10, closed)
An old lady with dementia, who quite possibly didn't know what she was saying?
Classy.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 21:49, closed)
cba arguing with you AB
Low care facility, she was in for respite (as in she lives at home). She knew full well what was going on we were just nothing more (or less) than lower caste servants to her & of course as far as her attitude was - the darker the colour the lower the caste.
(, Fri 28 Oct 2011, 22:07, closed)
I woulda chucked her in a kerosene bathtub
like the good old days in Australian aged Care.

- "spare the petrochemicals and spoil the geriatrics", I always say!
(, Sat 29 Oct 2011, 4:37, closed)
You are Bronwyn Bishop circa 2000 something
a1cmf$p
(, Sat 29 Oct 2011, 10:19, closed)
Well done on not bothering arguing here.

(, Sun 30 Oct 2011, 22:57, closed)

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