Monday, March 18, 2024

Cheddar’s Customer Didn’t Mean to Get Waitress Fired for Racist Snapchat

Chelsea Mayes
Chelsea Mayes

*The African-American woman who posted a message of love toward the Cheddar’s waitress who called her the N-word on Snapchat said it wasn’t her intention to get the woman fired.

“I would never want to cause a hardship on anyone else, but at the same time there needs to be a repercussion for her action,” Chelsea Mayes told CNNMoney.

Mayes said she was later contacted via Snapchat by someone who claimed to be the waitress’ mother.

She said the mother wrote, “People are being shot by attack rifles and stabbings all over the world and you are this concerned over one comment that was made by a sweet cute little blonde?”

“My response to her was that last year there were nine people shot down in South Carolina by a sweet little cute blonde,” said Mayes, referring to Dylann Roof, who is charged with murdering nine black parishioners. “Does that make it OK?”

As previously reported, Mayes went to the restaurant in Murfreesboro, Tennessee with four African-American friends after church on Sunday. She said her waitress was very friendly and they left her a 25% tip.

But later that day, her friend recognized the waitress on Snapchat, with a photo of her scrunched-up face and the caption: “I’m so hungover and I have a section full of n—–s right now.”

The following day, she put a screen grab of the waitress’ Facebook post on Snapchat along with a lengthy statement about the entire incident, saying in part, “This “ni***r’ is pretty nice. This ‘ni***r’ actually enjoyed your company. This ‘ni***r’ is praying for you. This ‘ni***r’ loves you, and there’s nothing you can do about it,” she concluded her post.

Mayes, a 21-year-old cosmetologist and day care worker who is attending business school, told CNNMoney that she hasn’t always been so positive in the face of disrespect, but the death of her 4-month-old son last year from a respiratory illness put things in perspective.

“You learn from something like that,” she said, adding that “life is too short” to let herself be consumed by anger.

On Monday night, after she posted her statement, Mayes said she took comfort from Michelle Obama’s speech at the Democratic National Convention, where she said, “When they go low, we go high.”

 

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