Racism Today
Apr. 6th, 2006 01:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
superbadgirlAs part of the package when switching P&C/Liability insurance, the new carrier will re-appraise all the properties. Quite an undertaking for an organization like this, as you can imagine, what with churches being scattered across western Washington.
The insurance company, lacking the manpower for such a task, has contracted with a third party. As expected, phone calls started coming in to verify that this was all on the up-and-up. We'll just forget that all congregations received a head's up from myself and from the insurance company that this would be happening.
So where's the racism in this story? There are separate appraisers for separate regions. The appraiser in Seattle proper and its suburbs is named Mr. Shultz and he's got no accent. The appraiser for the southern regions is named Mr. Tran and he's got a mild accent. Not one single person has called to make sure this wasn't hinky when Mr. Shultz was the assigned appraiser. EVERY single congregation called when it was Mr. Tran. It wouldn't have bothered me if it were just one congregation verifying Mr. Tran's right to appraise their property, but EVERY one?
What is it about Mr. Tran that makes people question him? Or, rather, what is it about people that make them question him?
The insurance company, lacking the manpower for such a task, has contracted with a third party. As expected, phone calls started coming in to verify that this was all on the up-and-up. We'll just forget that all congregations received a head's up from myself and from the insurance company that this would be happening.
So where's the racism in this story? There are separate appraisers for separate regions. The appraiser in Seattle proper and its suburbs is named Mr. Shultz and he's got no accent. The appraiser for the southern regions is named Mr. Tran and he's got a mild accent. Not one single person has called to make sure this wasn't hinky when Mr. Shultz was the assigned appraiser. EVERY single congregation called when it was Mr. Tran. It wouldn't have bothered me if it were just one congregation verifying Mr. Tran's right to appraise their property, but EVERY one?
What is it about Mr. Tran that makes people question him? Or, rather, what is it about people that make them question him?
