Man who challenged black family's use of pool loses job

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press


Jonathan Drew, Associated Press
Updated 5:07 pm CDT, Friday, July 6, 2018

RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A white man who challenged a black family's use of a gated pool in a North Carolina neighborhood has not only resigned from the homeowner's association board — he's also lost his job.

Sonoco announced Friday that Adam Bloom is no longer employed by the packaging and industrial products company, saying it doesn't condone discrimination of any kind, even if it happens outside its workplace.

A video posted by Jasmine Abhulimen on Facebook on July 4, seen more than 4 million times, shows what happened after Bloom questioned whether she was allowed to bring her son to the pool in the Winston-Salem neighborhood.

Bloom also called the police. In a police recording released Friday, Bloom is heard calmly telling a dispatcher he's dealing with a "nonresident that's at the pool who refuses to leave. ... We're just asking for a form of identification."

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/White-man-quits-after-calling-police-on-black-13053711.php

[samnsara]

1. a great example of We The People draining the swamp

[elleng]

2. This is the way it should be done, learn that We the People do NOT tolerate racist games EVER

and anywhere. Get the word OUT, return us to our rational selves.

GOOD that it came from Sonoco.

[dalton99a]

3. If you don't want to be known as a racist, don't act like a racist asshole in public.

[Gothmog]

14. Bye bye

Link to tweet

[Hortensis]

25. Yup. Technology is bringing back something

a bit more reminiscent of the accountability people had in village societies. Far less safe anonymity in a metropolis of millions when everyone carries a camera and HR departments, colleges, licensing agencies, HOAs and social clubs, even neighbors, do searches on names. For better and worse.

[madaboutharry]

4. Last week there was a post about a woman in Atlanta

who had someone blocking the gate into the neighborhood with his car. She was a doctor who owned a home there for the past 8 years. Pathetic white people who are so shocked to discover that black people live in their neighborhood.

[Judi Lynn]

7. That was ugly. Here's the article:

White man blocks Atlanta doctor from entering her own home
By Jay Scott Smith - June 24, 2018

It’s happening again. This time, a Black doctor in Atlanta is upset at a white man who blocked her entrance to the gated community in which she lives because he felt she “didn’t belong there.

Dr. Nnenna Agoucha told WXIA that on June 18 the man racially profiled her when he blocked her from entering the Buckhead community where she has lived for nearly eight years.

A part of the nearly 30-minute exchange was captured on camera.

“He is saying that I need to prove to him that I live here before he lets me into my own community,” a frustrated Aguocha says in the video. “He got out of the car and threatened to call the police on me because I was ‘trespassing.’

More:
https://thegrio.com/2018/06/24/white-man-blocks-atlanta-doctor-from-entering-her-own-home/

As DU'er heddafoil pointed out, the a-hole didn't even live there:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016209238

Whole lot of racist nastiness.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

30. Holy crap - that woman would have every right to call the cops on HIM - harrassment like that is

against the law. Wonder what the response would have been.....

[BumRushDaShow]

5. Also from the OP article

In the video, Bloom, Abhulimen and the responding officers all speak in measured tones. She accuses him of singling out her and her young son as African-Americans by asking to see her ID. Bloom, who served as chairman of the Glenridge community's private pool, responds that he asks pool users to see their identification "a couple times" each week.

Officers then determined that Abhulimen did in fact have keycard access to the gated pool. An officer apologized to her. When Abhulimen asked Bloom for an apology, he walked away.

On Facebook, Abhulimen accused Bloom of racial profiling: "This is a classic case of racial profiling in my half a million $$ neighborhood pool. This happened to me and my baby today. What a shame!!" A police news release noted that the postings were on the page of Jasmine Edwards, which is Abhulimen's Facebook screen name.

The social media backlash was fierce, and soon targeted Bloom's employer. In a Twitter post , South Carolina-based Sonoco apologized to Abhulimen and said the situation doesn't reflect company values.

https://www.chron.com/news/us/article/White-man-quits-after-calling-police-on-black-13053711.php

There is too much Clint Eastwood Hollywood-style "make my day" macho bullshit going on. Classic authoritarian.

[DURHAM D]

6. That association needs to be sued. nt

[StTimofEdenRoc]

9. If your not getting uppity with your HOA, your missing out on a lot of fun.

[yardwork]

20. That's probably why he resigned from the board the same day.

[christx30]

8. When you see someone that might not belong in your

community pool, there's only 2 things you should do. Wave and say "Welcome", and complain about the heat. Anything else, you need to mind your own business and try to enjoy the day.

[GulfCoast66]

10. The dump fuckers.

They seem to think that their dreaded ‘PC’ is enforced by government.

Someday they may learn that PC means anti racist, misogynistic etc. imagine their shock when their actions still have consequences.

[Golden Raisin]

11. And we now live in an epoch where

almost everyone has a video camera in their pocket, can visually and aurally document the racism and hatred and have it online to millions of viewers in a matter of minutes. And these assholes STILL don't stop and think before displaying their racist selves in public and shooting off their goddamn, "entitled" mouths.

[onecent]

12. WELL maybe people should look directily with the people, and

the UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY ARE SEEING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Gothmog]

13. From my twitter feed

Link to tweet

[Judi Lynn]

15. Thanks for your post. n/t

[crim son]

16. His refusal to apologize

was just appalling. Any doubt I might have had that his actions were racially motivated - and that wasn't much - evaporated when he ignored her request for an apology.

[treestar]

17. I don't see the usefulness of this

He can get another job somewhere. Or do we want him to end up on the dole?

[ProfessorGAC]

19. My Concern

This tool will blame black people for his firing.
Might make him even worse.
But, the company does have a right to terminate at will for bad behavior. And clearly acted badly!

[treestar]

22. I fear you are correct

These Deplorables always blame others for their situation. He probably has guns. Ergo it just seems dangerous. Shame him sure, and try to make him better. But casting him out of society only gives him a motive to lash out at it. I believe this about felons too. If you are going to let them out of jail, making it impossible for them to get a job due to their record is just dumb and a recipe for re-offending.

[yardwork]

21. Companies can't afford the bad publicity. Capitalism requires zero tolerance.

In today's world, one must stay squeaky clean to avoid being weeded out. It's harsh, but frankly, shame is the only way to stop these entitled racists.

I have no sympathy for him. He called the police on his neighbor. His behavior was repugnant.

[treestar]

26. I have a bit of a change of mind on this

I happened to be reading the ADL site and saw an opinion from a very deplorable person:

https://www.adl.org/news/article/andrew-anglin-five-things-to-know

In March 2018, Anglin said his new goal was to continue “to normalize our ideas, to get to the point where you can say these things that we believe in the open, publicly, without being physically attacked, without losing your job, without getting kicked off of the internet. And that is not far out of our reach. All we have to do is hit a critical mass point where so many people agree with us that the tide turns in our favor, and someone, somewhere says “I’m not going to fire this guy for that.”

Exactly what Orange Stalin is giving them, some chance at "normalization."

[LanternWaste]

23. Usefulness to whom? nt

[treestar]

24. Society in general

[Orsino]

27. He might.

His next employer will have had a chance to see how he reacts to novel situations involving strangers of different ethnicities.

[treestar]

29. I wonder too if he can just get another job

because not every employer will pay attention to the internet and might not know why he lost the last one.

If it makes him less of a racist, at least out loud, then it would perhaps do some good.

Then there are those who might hire him because he is a racist - the opposite happened where that lady gave the Orange Dumpster the finger and lost her job due to that - people were figuring there were plenty who would want to hire her.

[QC]

18. womp womp

[nonviolence9]

28. May Trump also now lose his job for his racism

may Trump also now lose his job for his 50 years of racism