A response to Patty about discrimination she faced from a Ronald McDonald House representative. The speaker says while people can hold prejudiced views privately, representatives of charities can't, and the organization's leadership needs to know what happened.
So, Patty, I just saw your video and this is take 2 of my response. Take 1, I had to stop and start again. So what people do as individuals is pretty much up to them, you know. If somebody wants to hate somebody and if somebody is deeply prejudiced against people who live different kinds of lives than they do, that's their right, you know. That's what we guarantee in our Constitution and in our country. You know, as long as you don't infringe on somebody else's rights, you know, you're allowed to do whatever you want to do. But when you represent an organization, then it's something different. And it seems to me that this person who, if she behaved in the way you describe in your video, has no business representing a charitable organization like the Ronald McDonald House. And I think the people who are in positions of leadership at the Ronald McDonald charity need to know the kind of behavior that people are exhibiting in their name as representatives of their charity. Now, I have a feeling that if people who are in positions of leadership in that organization knew that the good work that you did in raising money to bring some toys to the kids that they serve, if that charity had been rejected in the way that you described this woman rejecting it, They would want to know that. I would want to know that if I was a leader of a charity like the Ronald McDonald Foundation. And I think they need to know it. So I suggest that, you know, I know the pain is, of course, intense and, you know, the kind of wound that you have to be able to get through on your own. But the, the fact that this person, um, behaved in this way in a position of authority within that location for that charity, I don't think is okay. And let's see if the Ronald McDonald House people think it's okay. So, uh, So that's what I have to say. And, you know, I don't know you. I just know you from your videos. You strike me as the kind of person who can take an experience like this for what it is, an awful misguided moment on one person's part and go on doing the things that you believe are right. So, um, thanks, stay strong, bye.
