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    Here's Why Four Republican Interns Were Kicked Out of a D.C. Uber.....

    See Why This GOP Intern's Tweet About Uber Has Gone Viral.....


    Four Congressional interns, who were selected as part of GOP Rep. Ken Buck's (CO-4) Diversity Internship Program which seeks to place African-American interns in Republican offices around Capitol Hill, were kicked out of an Uber ride Tuesday night because half of their party was carrying "Make America Great Again" hats.


    Matthew Handy (a 20-year-old intern for Rep. Michael Bost [IL-12]), Elijah Allison (an intern for Rep. Ken Buck), Adria Barrington (a 33-year-old intern for Rep. David Schweikert [AZ-6]) and one other, entered an Uber hoping for a quick ride to a monthly MAGA meet-up at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. However, the driver immediately noticed Matthew's and Elijah's red hats--and he didn't take too kindly to them.


    According to a recount of the story from the passengers, the driver looked in his rearview mirror and asked the young men, "Is that a Make America Great Again Hat?"


    But what the driver said next shocked the group. "Well, I can’t take the ride," he stated.



    But the driver wasn't fooling around.


    "He looks at us, he’s like, 'No, I'm so serious...I can't take the ride,'" Matthew recounted. "And we’re like, oh, he’s serious.”


    As the group got out, one of the interns turned to ask the driver if he was planning to cancel their ride. With no regard for her question, he rolled up the window and drove off.



    “Even though I didn’t get charged, it was the fact that you can discriminate against us for political belief," he stated.


    In a tweet that has now gone viral, Matthew asked Uber to take action......snip~



    https://townhall.com/notebook/notebo...p-hot-n2500114



    Such is the way of leftists.....they believe they can discriminate against those on the Right. Yet will cry out in victimhood when it is done to them. It is up those on the Right to teach the leftness. They get what they give. Its a lesson the leftness will have to take and learn. It just needs to be applied to get that point across to them. What say ye?
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    Just to be clear, they were not discriminated against because of their color but because of their political beliefs.

    So if you are not a liberal Uber does not want your business. Well if that's how they feel perhaps conservatives should stop using the service.
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    I'd say boycott Uber. It's the only way to ever get them to change their ways.
    God Bless America, God Bless our Military and God Bless the Police who defended the country against the insurgents on January 6, 2021

    Think 3rd party for 2024 folks. Clean up America.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MMC View Post
    See Why This GOP Intern's Tweet About Uber Has Gone Viral.....


    Four Congressional interns, who were selected as part of GOP Rep. Ken Buck's (CO-4) Diversity Internship Program which seeks to place African-American interns in Republican offices around Capitol Hill, were kicked out of an Uber ride Tuesday night because half of their party was carrying "Make America Great Again" hats.


    Matthew Handy (a 20-year-old intern for Rep. Michael Bost [IL-12]), Elijah Allison (an intern for Rep. Ken Buck), Adria Barrington (a 33-year-old intern for Rep. David Schweikert [AZ-6]) and one other, entered an Uber hoping for a quick ride to a monthly MAGA meet-up at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. However, the driver immediately noticed Matthew's and Elijah's red hats--and he didn't take too kindly to them.


    According to a recount of the story from the passengers, the driver looked in his rearview mirror and asked the young men, "Is that a Make America Great Again Hat?"


    But what the driver said next shocked the group. "Well, I can’t take the ride," he stated.



    But the driver wasn't fooling around.


    "He looks at us, he’s like, 'No, I'm so serious...I can't take the ride,'" Matthew recounted. "And we’re like, oh, he’s serious.”


    As the group got out, one of the interns turned to ask the driver if he was planning to cancel their ride. With no regard for her question, he rolled up the window and drove off.



    “Even though I didn’t get charged, it was the fact that you can discriminate against us for political belief," he stated.


    In a tweet that has now gone viral, Matthew asked Uber to take action......snip~



    https://townhall.com/notebook/notebo...p-hot-n2500114



    Such is the way of leftists.....they believe they can discriminate against those on the Right. Yet will cry out in victimhood when it is done to them. It is up those on the Right to teach the leftness. They get what they give. Its a lesson the leftness will have to take and learn. It just needs to be applied to get that point across to them. What say ye?

    Well no more Uber for that driver. But the whole program sounds a little..... racist

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    This had nothing to do with race.

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    Quote Originally Posted by barb012 View Post
    This had nothing to do with race.
    Correct it was discrimination based on political beliefs. Well unless the driver was white then it may have also been about race.
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    Perhaps he was offended by the obvious contradiction.

    Obama, after all, was just dead wrong in his feel-good chant that "America's strength is its diversity." They have nothing to do with each other, though the latter benefits bigly from the former. On the contrary, Obama was usurping the former to give all credit for it to the later.

    And blacks invented peanut butter.

    OP is exemplary of strength in diversity. No?

    Okay, Rep Buck is unConstitutionally discriminating against non-blacks. Yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donttread View Post
    Well no more Uber for that driver. But the whole program sounds a little..... racist
    Its discrimination based on political belief.
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