By BIN
A Black woman walked out of a North Carolina auto shop after employees appeared to mock Juneteenth.
Video of the incident begins with the woman sitting in what appeared to be the waiting room at Synergy Auto Care in Wilson, North Carolina.
At one point while the woman was waiting for her vehicle to be serviced, another patron asked an employee why the banks were closed on Thursday (June 19).
“Juneteenth, a new holiday they started a few years ago,” the employee responded.
“Okey dokey,” the customer responded with apparent sarcasm.
A second employee joined in on the conversation, saying with a laugh, “I know, right.”
The discussion prompted the woman, who appeared to be the only Black person at the auto shop, to leave the store.
“Give me my f***ing truck! Pull my truck around, please. Pull my truck around and give me my truck,” she told an employee.
“I don’t want nothing done from here,” the woman continued. “Please go get my truck, thank you.”
After the woman left, one of the employees admitted to not knowing what Juneteenth was.
“Something about reparations or something,” he said.
Social media users applauded the woman for declining the auto shop’s services after the employees mocked Juneteenth, a federal holiday that commemorates the end of slavery in the U.S.
