‘Religious Freedom!’ Cries Crazy Texas Bigot What Don’t Want No ‘Negroidal Person’ Bagging His Vittles

Hey, crazy Texas bigots! Got any freedom of religion lawsuits you'd like to file today? Oh, it's against your religion to have a black man bag your groceries? Sure, that will do!

Little Green Footballs brings us the heartwarming  News Journal tale of this Texas man a-whoopin' and a-hollerin' about how he don't want no "negroidal person" touching his food, while bagging it at the grocery store. The store owner -- who has just earned himself an Opposite Day Chick-fil-A love-in -- told the crazy bigot he couldn't shop at that grocer's no more. And now the crazy bigot has filed suit, because they oppressed his religious freedom to not have black people bag his food.

Brothers and sisters, let us now have some block quote.

A Hawkins man is claiming his civil rights and religious freedom were violated earlier this year when a black man sacked his groceries and a Big Sandy grocery store owner banned the customer from the business.

DeWitt R. Thomas filed a federal lawsuit in July against Keith Langston, owner of Two Rivers Grocery & Market.

According to the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Tyler, Thomas entered the market on March 5 to buy food.

He stated in a nine-page, hand-written lawsuit that he told the grocery sacker, a black man, “Wait a minute, don’t touch my groceries. I can’t have someone negroidal touch my food. It’s against my creed.”

Thomas claimed the cashier was “perplexed” by his request and yelled at him to take his items and leave.

In a telephone interview Wednesday, Thomas said, “It’s pretty simple. They treated me really bad because I told them it was against my creed.”

According to the lawsuit, Thomas went on to explain he meant a black person when he used the term “negroidal.”

The sacker, Aaron Menefee, said he thought Thomas was just kidding around.

“The first time he said it, I thought he was joking,” Menefee said. “Then he just kept repeating it.”

Menefee said once he realized Thomas was serious, he called for someone else to sack the groceries, at which time Menefee went to another part of the store.

“I didn’t feel physically threatened,” Menefee said. “I just felt verbally assaulted.”

Langston wasn’t in the store at the time, but his employees told him about the incident.

“I decided when I heard about what happened that I was going to file a criminal trespass against him,” Langston said. “I just had to wait for him to be present so he could sign it.”

There's ever so much more at the link, but is this reminding anyone else of Kathryn-Jean Lopez's jihad against the Obama administration's mandate that health insurance come complete with women's preventative care (including slut pills)? Like, you can't just say something is against your religion and then force everyone else to go along? No? Just us? Never mind.

[ NewsJournal , via LGF ]