Shell racists with its pumps?

StageLeft

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I only caught the tail end of this story - anybody have links? Apparently some shell stations don't work for Blacks - ie, the pump doesn't work, but then when a white person comes along it pumps fine. I guess some of the employees are being morons? Anyone have any more info on this...?
 

poop

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Well, the employee has to turn on the pump in order for it to work. So they could be saying "Pump's broken" if you are not white.

I doubt it is shell. It is probably isolated incidences. It seems unlikely the company has anything to do with it.
 

StageLeft

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No, the news story mentioned something about a lawsuit against all the SHells. Dunno how much water it holds of course....and yes the pump isn't broken clearly, its the damn employees!
 

Emulex

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are you sure its white folks running the pumps? Around here there are no white folks running the pumps, mostly indian. I could name at least 3 or 4 races that are more predjucial to blacks than white folks.

 

Shmorq

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This kind of stuff always goes on. This one just happened to get on the news.