BY CHRIS SOMMERFELDT
11/12/2016
A white postal worker in Massachusetts spewed racist insults at a Hispanic man on Thursday before declaring, "This is Trump land."
Yarden Katz, a biology fellow at the Harvard Medical School, was at a Shell gas station in Cambridge when he witnessed the unidentified U.S. Postal Service worker engage in a heated argument with a Hispanic man around 1 p.m.
"Go back to you country," Katz said he heard the postal worker hurl. "This is Trump land. You ain't getting your check no more."
Katz scribbled down the serial number on the postal worker's van, and then filed a report with the U.S. Postal Service.
"This is repulsive, racist behavior and I hope that it will be followed up on seriously," Katz said in the report.
The U.S. Postal Service made good on Katz' request, launching an investigation into the racist incident Friday morning.
"The actions described are unacceptable employee behavior," the Postal Service said in a statement to the Daily News. "We specifically prohibit discrimination and harassment in any form based on religion, race, creed, color, or national origin."
The statement also commended Katz on reporting the incident and pledged to take "appropriate corrective action" against the employee.
USPS spokesman Steve Doherty told The News Friday evening the postal worker had not yet been identified, but noted that a customer service manager for the Cambridge Post Office would pick up the investigation first thing Monday.
The gas station incident comes as Americans across the country have reported an uptick in Donald Trump-inspired acts of discrimination and racism since the President-elect beat Hillary Clinton in the general election on Tuesday.
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We will offer advice to the postal worker defense that Trump has said ‘There may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience. So if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of them, would you? Seriously. Okay? Just knock the hell — I promise you, I will pay for the legal fees. I promise, I promise. It won’t be so much ’cause the courts agree with us too.’
I observed this Hispanic man stare down at Trump poster - and I heed to Trump edict - I am a proud member of ‘Basket of Deplorables’.
There is no question the (basket of deplorables) who desired change for whatever reasons that motivated them - in this election - saw Donald Trump as their savior.
Now that Trump has heard them speak, it’s his turn to live up to the campaign promises and “make America great again.”
With a GOP Congress, that should be possible.
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