A Big Sandy, Texas man has filed a federal lawsuit claiming his civil rights and “religious freedom” were violated when a “negroidal” bag packer attempted to bag his groceries. He reportedly was “perplexed” when it happened a second time a few days later, expecting his first complaint to have been honored by the private Texas grocery store owner.
“Wait a minute, don’t touch my groceries. I can’t have someone negroidal touch my food. It’s against my creed,” DeWitt R. Thomas claims he told the grocery store employees, according to his nine-page handwritten lawsuit, filed in federal court.
(Apparently, Thomas uses the word “negroidal” to mean African-American or Black.)
“My question is, why after I told them how I felt and that it was against my creed did this negroid try to impress himself upon me and try to handle my groceries again.” Thomas said, according to a report in the News-Journal:
Thomas said his religious beliefs are based on Vedism, which he said encompasses Hinduism.
“Vedism translates into knowledge. I am not this way because I am ignorant. Ignorance is the enemy,” he said.
Thomas said he has not broken any laws and was exercising his religious freedom and the rights he has been given.
“White people are to be protected under the civil rights law just as anyone else,” Thomas said. “It would be the same as if you asked that a congoid (a person from west/central Africa) not touch your food.”
The store owner, Keith Langston, of Two Rivers Grocery & Market, has banned Thomas from his store, and Thomas is also suing him for that — and is claiming Langston violated his civil rights when he was locked in the store. Langston says Thomas was not locked but was shopping as the store was closing for the evening.
While waiting for the police, an employee locked the doors, and the lawsuit claims Thomas was “unlawfully restrained.”
Thomas said Langston broke the law the night he locked him in the store.
“We were closing, and I don’t know of a business that doesn’t lock their doors when they close. It keeps more people from coming in,” Langston said.
Thomas said he doesn’t understand why he had to deal with the same situation twice.
“My question is, why after I told them how I felt and that it was against my creed did this negroid try to impress himself upon me and try to handle my groceries again.” Thomas said.
Thomas said his religious beliefs are based on Vedism, which he said encompasses Hinduism.
“Vedism translates into knowledge. I am not this way because I am ignorant. Ignorance is the enemy,” he said.
Thomas said he has not broken any laws and was exercising his religious freedom and the rights he has been given.
“White people are to be protected under the civil rights law just as anyone else,” Thomas said. “It would be the same as if you asked that a congoid (a person from west/central Africa) not touch your food.”
Thomas’ based his claim that his civil rights were violated on that criminal trespass order. He also said Langston is wrong for trying to tell him who can touch his groceries and refusing to serve him.
“When I go through (a store) and buy groceries, those groceries become my property,” Thomas said.
Langston said he is not trying to tell Thomas what to believe or how to live, but his store is a privately owned business.
“He was banned because he was using racial slurs, but he has turned it into a religious thing,” Langston said.
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What a load of bull pucky. Well….you know it had to happen sooner or later.
Well, at least it will be on him to prove himself. He probably doesn't even know what Vedism is, or where it originates from other than he heard of it somewhere before. Hope there weren't any steaks in his grocery cart. It would prove him a liar in an instant.
I thought you were posting an article from 1950. I can't believe this type of thing is happening today. Clearly this guy is a KKK member, but is making up some stupid cover story about Vedism. Here's a hint for the racist: If you don't want to deal with the black grocery bagger, shop somewhere else. Better yet, just grow all your food on your property, so the rest of society doesn't have to deal with the likes of you.
“When I go through (a store) and buy groceries, those groceries become my property,”
No it's not. It's only your property once the transaction of money for goods is done (i.e. once you've paid for it). By the time the bagger has finished packing the food away is roughly around the same time you've managed to pay for your "property", Also, if this is his religious belief, why did he return to the same store, fully knowing it was against his religious belief. If he wants to believe in this nonsense, let him, but if he doesn't even practice it, then that just shows the level of respect that needs to be given to his claims; very little.
I've got news for him. "His" food has been touched and handled by "negroidals" and people of lots of other races long before it ever reaches the supermarket.
When he goes to a restaurant, does he specifically ask for a white waiter, and demand that his food only be prepared by white cooks?
The Religious Right has opened up a huge can of worms with its religious freedom arguments.
He may not be ignorant but he is an idiot, and a bigot, and his actions are nothing more than stupidity! Realistically if he didn't like the people that work at that store he had the RIGHT to go somewhere else, rather than harass the owner of the store or his employees…usually it is at the owners discretion whether to serve someone or to refuse that service! Frivolous at best, his lawsuit will end up in the trash, just like his backwards way of thinking!
He should just bag his own groceries..the lazy cracker. I had to laugh..
That poor ignorant man, calling fellow human beings "negroidal" when we all know it's "negroiditudinal."
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