Black Couple Shocked When Contractor Shows Up For Work With Confederate Flag
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Video captured on the Browns’ Ring app showed the contractor who showed up at their house flying a Confederate flag.
A black couple’s encounter with a white man they hired to fix their golf cart is going viral for the polite way they handled an awkward situation.
On Saturday, Atlanta couple Allison and Zeke Brown hired a contractor, identified as “Michael,” to fix the brakes of their golf cart. Things quickly became awkward when he showed up with a Confederate flag flying from his SUV.
“Hi, you know what, I do apologize, I know you’ve come from a very long way, but we’re going to use someone else,” Allison, a 40-year-old radiation therapist, told the contractor in a video captured on her Ring app. Her husband then chimed in to explain that the flag was the issue.
“The flag was absurd — I had to walk back into the house to calm myself down,” he said.
Allison said she was angry, but felt she had to do whatever it took to avoid escalating things.
“I didn’t want to be the ‘angry black woman’ but I wanted him to learn and feel that bottom-line loss,” she told Yahoo. “You don’t go to Germany and wave the Nazi flag. It’s the same thing.”
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