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2016 Postmortem

arely staircase

(12,482 posts) Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:51 PM Jul 2016

White Elevators.

What are they saying was the reason for them.?

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White Elevators. (Original Post) arely staircase Jul 2016 OP

I have a feeling that different elevator banks are color coded annavictorious Jul 2016 #1

Right. That is what I figured. nt arely staircase Jul 2016 #2

yep - sometimes an elvevator color is... well you know...nt jonno99 Jul 2016 #3

They didn't think through their color coding scheme. MADem Jul 2016 #4

annavictorious

(934 posts)

1. I have a feeling that different elevator banks are color coded

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:55 PM

Jul 2016

to get you to particular parts of the venue. I don't think that sign had anything to do with race.

arely staircase

(12,482 posts)

2. Right. That is what I figured. nt

Reply to annavictorious (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:56 PM

Jul 2016

jonno99

(2,620 posts)

3. yep - sometimes an elvevator color is... well you know...nt

Reply to annavictorious (Reply #1)

Sun Jul 17, 2016, 02:57 PM

Jul 2016

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. They didn't think through their color coding scheme.

Reply to arely staircase (Original post)

Sun Jul 17, 2016, 04:37 PM

Jul 2016

With all the colors of the rainbow available to them, they had to go for white? I suppose they thought too many colors would make them look "gay" or something--can't have the seating chart look like the Pride flag now, could they?

Unless we find a sign that says "BLACK ELEVATORS"-- pointing to a stairway, of course, because that's how racists roll -- we'll be best off assuming that annotating a section, and not discriminating against people of color, was the goal.

The real story is how they didn't SEE it ahead of time. Clueless, clueless people.

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