In a world where everything is racist, obviously making an astute observation is going to be treated as racism. An emergency responder in Missouri has been suspended because he complained about seeing a lot of healthy black people parking in handicap spaces. I guess maybe the thing that is racist here is being offended by black people doing illegal anti-social things, but since everything is racist that distinction probably doesn’t matter.
Peter Graff is a volunteer (yes, volunteer) EMS responder in Boone County, MO. Recently he made a Facebook post about something he found to be disturbing.
“One of my family members has a permanent disability. I really love it when I see healthy young blacks park in handicap spots. I’ve not seen any other ethnic group do that. I suppose it is hard to walk with your pants around your knees,” wrote Graff.
You see, Graff’s wife is genuinely disabled and he was genuinely upset that he saw so many healthy black people illegally parking in handicap spaces. This shouldn’t be an outrage except against the black people abusing the system, but it is.
KOMU reports that The Boone County Fire Protection District has suspended Graff over this post “ pending an internal personnel investigation.” Yeah, they suspended a guy who selflessly volunteers his time to help people because he saw something f*cked up and commented on it.
Graf told the news that what he wrote was an”ill-advised post made out of frustration.”
When reached by phone Wednesday afternoon, Peter Graff said he did not mean to be “malicious.” He said he made the post out of frustration because his wife has a disability.
Graff said if he had to do it over again, he would not have made the comment. He said he did not mean to offend anyone. His comments have been blown out of proportion, he said.
The news also talked to some hysterical black activist because…why not? Traci Wilson-Kleekamp, the president of Race Matters, Friends (whatever that is) was personally offended because everyone with a hyphenated last name is full of shit.
“I don’t care if you you’re a volunteer, if you’re a worker. Racism is not a needed tool to be a public servant, actually. I think that people who cannot treat other people like their brother and sister and speak of them in that way as public servants should not be in those positions,” said Wilson-Kleekamp.
Wilson-Kleekamp added it is a “personal decision to decide to disentangle oneself from this kind of ideology.”
And then this thing got really weird. Wilson-Kleekamp is clearly upset by the “racism” of Graff’s post but she also had an “ableism” gripe:
“Usually, people say, ‘well, I didn’t mean it.’ There’s too much in this like using the word handicap, which we don’t use when talking about people with disabilities,” said Wilson-Kleekamp.
“Handicap” is a slur now? They do call those parking spots “handicapped spaces” so there’s that. I can’t say that I’ve ever heard of these spots being referred to as “disabled spaces” but whatever.
The moral of this story is, if you see black people doing something f*cked up, keep it to yourself or otherwise you will be racist and lose your job. When liberals say that everything is racist, they are damn serious about that.
