My take: At least twice a month I have to professional deal with a white male or female cursing me the hell out. I have multiple options but none include me verbally defending myself with threats or cursing them the hell back out. Get a manager and let them know a man is trespassing and threatening you. Have security escort him out or the police will. As a matter of fact, back in November of 2016, my 1st client after I finished training was a Trump supporter who needed my services but couldn't contain himself because Trump had won the election a few weeks prior. If I had said one thing to this good-ole-boy that could've possibly escalated the situation; that would have been my last day as an employee.

At first thought, I felt Home Depot could've given the 60 yr old a warning but he technically threatened a customer even though the customer absolutely needed his ass whipped. I'm almost positive this type of behavior is prohibited and the employee signed legally binding paperwork with HR to that effect when he was hired. Nonetheless I can't help but wonder if the employee was white, would Home Depot have fired him? So should folk boycott Home Depot? Imma get some Black folk together and we're gonna discuss it at Waffle House.

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A Home Depot in Albany allegedly fired a black man after a racist Trump supporter hurled abusive racial slurs at him.

The Times-Union reports that Maurice Rucker, 60-year-old black man, was let go from a job he’s held for 10 years—making $13 an hour—because he politely asked a customer to leash his dog in the store.

“I said to him, “Sir, when you have your dog in here we prefer that you keep it on a leash,'” according to the Times-Union.

He turned around and said, ‘F**k you. You’re an a*****e you’re a piece of s**t,'” Rucker said.

He says, ‘If Trump wasn’t president, you wouldn’t even have a job.’ He said, ‘You’re from the ghetto, what do you know?'”

“I’ve lived all over the country and I’ve had no one talk to me the way that this guy talked to me,” said Rucker.

After the relentless barrage of insults, Rucker shot back.

“‘You’re lucky I’m at work, because if I wasn’t, this wouldn’t be happening, or you wouldn’t be talking to me like this,'” Rucker told the Times Union.

Home Depot, which had not given Rucker a sizable raise during his decade of service, told the paper that they were sorry their employee was subject to racist abuse, but that he was nevertheless in the wrong.

“The problem here is that he had several opportunities to disengage and contact management to deal with the customer. We’re appalled by this customer’s behavior, but we also must require associates to follow proper protocol to defuse a situation for the sake of their safety and the safety of other associates and customers,” a spokesperson for Home Depot said.

Craig Menear, the current CEO of Home Depot, made $11,641,012 in 2017 according to SEC filings.

Home Depot fires 60-year-old black man after Trump supporter screams racist abuse at him