This doesn't help when making a casual joke to a woman trying to live her life as the constitution allows under the first amendment, and how outsiders would hear of it and still see racial prejudice still evident in this country.Wal-Mart apologizes to Muslim woman
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080220/ap_on_re_us/wal_mart_apology;_ylt=Aoqt7ykUXLJZOGENDi_97IJH2ocA
Tue Feb 19, 11:46 PM ET
RIVERDALE, Utah - Wal-Mart Stores Inc. apologized to a Muslim woman who said she was mocked because of her face veil.
"Please don't stick me up," a cashier told the shopper on Feb. 2, according to The Council on American-Islamic Relations.
Wal-Mart apologized Monday in a letter signed by Rolando Rodriquez, a vice president and regional general manager. It was released Tuesday by the council's Nevada chapter.
I'm sure the employee wasn't thinking (obviously) and was trying to make light of what might've been a rough/bad day for them. Still the choice of words based on appearances/mode of dress was a bad one.
How is it that we are going to teach our youths the difference between good and bad muslims if this is going on?