{"id":23753,"date":"2013-08-12T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whisnews21.com\/?p=23753"},"modified":"2013-08-12T14:00:29","modified_gmt":"2013-08-12T19:00:29","slug":"a-real-south-african-story-skin-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/12\/a-real-south-african-story-skin-color\/","title":{"rendered":"A Real South African Skin Color Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23755\" alt=\"DSC_8775_large\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/dsc_8775_large.jpg\" width=\"650\" height=\"248\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dsc_8775_large.jpg 650w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/dsc_8775_large-300x114.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><br \/>\nWhen you stop and think about the South African labor laws and how 99% of the population is employed without any remorse, shame or fear of victimization by the color of their skin, and not by their abilities to do the job. Then it comes as no surprise that the following really happened to a customer who ordered a cake at the biggest South African supermarket in South Africa for a colleague who was leaving their law services for other employment:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Supermarket Employee:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;Hello &#8216;dis be Pick&amp;Pay, how can I help you?&#8217;<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b> <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"> Customer: &#8216; I would like to order a cake for a going away party this week.&#8217; <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b><span style=\"color:#ff0000;\">Supermarket\u00a0 Employee:\u00a0 &#8216;What you want on the cake?&#8217; <\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b> <span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"> Customer:\u00a0 &#8216;Best Wishes Suzanne&#8217; and underneath that &#8216;We will miss you&#8217;.<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><b><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-23754\" alt=\"cakes\" src=\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/cakes.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cakes.jpg 640w, https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cakes-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><br \/>\n<\/b><b><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#0000ff;\">STOP LAUGHING! There&#8217;s no cure!<\/span><\/b><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\">Article arrived by email<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you stop and think about the South African labor laws and how 99% of the population is employed without any remorse, shame or fear of victimization by the color of their skin, and not by their abilities to do the job. Then it comes as no surprise that the following really happened to a customer who ordered a cake at the biggest South African supermarket in South Africa for a colleague who was leaving their law services for other employment: Supermarket Employee:\u00a0\u00a0 &#8216;Hello &#8216;dis be Pick&amp;Pay, how can I<a href=\"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/2013\/08\/12\/a-real-south-african-story-skin-color\/\" class=\"read-more\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23755,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}