Detroit Terminates Firefighter Who Brought Watermelon to Station

[michael777]

A firefighter in Detroit was let go because he brought a watermelon with a pink ribbon on it to his new firehouse as a welcome gift.
The gesture offended those at the firehouse, and Robert Pattison was fired last week. The incident involved Engine 55. According to a statement released by Fire Commissioner Eric Jones, Pattison “engaged in unsatisfactory work behavior which was deemed offensive and racially insensitive to members of the Detroit Fire Department.”

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[michael777]

hilarious!

 

[michael777]

What if a black cop brought in a bunch of crackers for snacks? What would happen?

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[Enfuego]

What is the reason for the termination? Did they say he brought it in for a black co-worker?

 

[Greenbacks]

 

[Greenbacks]

Fire Commissioner Eric Jones said in a statement that Pattison was officially discharged:

There is zero tolerance for discriminatory behavior inside the Detroit Fire Department. On Saturday, Sept. 30, 2017, at Engine 55, a trial firefighter (probationary employee) engaged in unsatisfactory work behavior which was deemed offensive and racially insensitive to members of the Detroit Fire Department. After a thorough investigation, it was determined that the best course of action was to terminate the employment of this probationary employee.

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[Mr_Mark]

note to self: you are only allowed to eat, touch, smell and talk about food from your own heritage.

 

[festeringZit]

note to self: you are only allowed to eat, touch, smell and talk about food from your own heritage.

Yeah, because if you mention that Chinese people use chopsticks, that's fucking racist.

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</header>[h=2]A museum dedicated to Dr. Seuss in Springfield, Massachusetts, said it would remove a mural depicting a Chinese character featured in one of his books after three authors claimed the image was a “jarring racial stereotype.”[/h]The three authors who claimed that the image reinforces racial stereotypes said they would boycott the museum’s first-ever Children’s Literature Festival, which was slated for October 14 before organizers canceled the event, Fox News reports.
The mural contains illustrations from Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street.
Authors Mike Curato, Mo Willems, and Lisa Yee signed a letter that said the illustrations portray “deeply hurtful” racial stereotypes about the Chinese. The complaint posted to Twitter reads:

We recently learned that a key component of this institution honoring Dr. Seuss features a mural depicting a scene from his first book, ‘And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street,’ and within the selected art is a jarring racial stereotype of a Chinese man, who is depicted with chopsticks, a pointed hat, and slanted slit eyes. We find this caricature of ‘the Chinaman’ deeply hurtful, and we have concerns about children’s exposure to it.
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When the museum offered to remove the mural, the authors said they would stop their boycott and attend the event.
Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno criticized the authors’ letter and slammed the museum’s decision to take down the mural.
“This is political correctness at its worst, and this is what is wrong with our country,” he said in a statement, according to WWLP. “We have extreme fringe groups on both the right and the left dictating an agenda to divide instead of working together towards the betterment of our country.”
The museum said in a statement Thursday that images from Dr. Seuss’s later works would replace the mural.
“This is what Dr. Seuss would have wanted us to do. His later books, like ‘The Sneetches’ and ‘Horton Hears a Who,’ showed a great respect for fairness and diversity,” the statement read, according to MassLive.
Others have also accused Dr. Seuss’s works as being racist. An elementary school teacher rejected a donation of Dr. Seuss books from first lady Melania Trump because she felt the books contained illustrations “steeped in racist propaganda.”

 

[exploited17]

I love how you get these stories in the news to let you know racism against blacks is everywhere.......all while avoiding the insane disproportionate violence on whites and asians from blacks. Too funny https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq08EcDegNQ&t=23s

 

[Betallsports]

I can tell you first hand that Firemen Eat a lot of Watermelon. and Not Black Firemen

about 2 dozen times I have seen a bunch of Firemen that shop in a near by Supermarket
it's usually during the Summer months and they park their Fire Truck just outside of the store and go food shopping.
Thought it was kind of weird that every time I saw them they always had watermelon in their carts.
2 years ago I said to one, BBQ ? guy say no. Why do you ask ? I figure since I saw a Watermelon you guys were having a BBQ

He said Every week they do a food shopping and they take turns cooking. The reason why the watermelon was it's very refreshing during a hot summer day
and because of the size, it goes a long way with a lot of guys.

So I call BS on this stupid story.
Just another way to get attention....

 

[JustinCruise]

learn to take a joke

 

[Bourn]

It's no secret black people like watermelon. I worked for a white dude not long ago who as a show of appreciation brought some watermelon to work to give out to his employees. It was some bullshit work in a warehouse taking down racks. It paid $16/he or something and was just for a week. I was the only white dude there. I needed some quick cash and so did the other people that showed up. (Other guys were black). Anyway, he brought the watermelon and everyone was happy. It was a hot day and we had been working In the warehouse that didn't have air. It was refreshing. When he had mentioned he was going to bring the watermelon I immediately thought, "oh shit!" there's gonna be some pissed off black dudes, but they weren't. They didn't see it as discriminatory which they shouldn't have because it's a well known fact black people like watermelon.

 

[Bourn]

Black people also like fried chicken and grape soda. Nothing wrong with that. It's what they like.

 

[metro]

Black people also like fried chicken and grape soda. Nothing wrong with that. It's what they like.

fuzzy ? ... fuzzy zeuller ? is that you?

 

[pathologist]

Pork skins and some Newports

 

[Mobdeeper7239]

"Not a joke." ????????????



Lol wow. How do you do that and say it isn't a joke? I found it funny. But if it wasn't done on purpose, this guy is a dumbass.

 

[Michelangelo]

Such an awful thing to do. Bringing a watermelon with a pink bow. Do you think that they saw the white hood and noose in his trunk when he took the watermelon out?

Are the gays going to protest the pink bow as some sort of dog whistle?

Guy gets fired for this?

I long for the world I used to live in before Barack Obama. And, yes, I put the blame for ALL THIS SHIT flying everywhere between races, and religions, and genders, squarely on him and his wife.

What a beautiful world black people are forcing us to live in.

 

[busterhyman]

makes me wonder - how much of it was left - at end of shift