Lewisville Whataburger

URL:http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2015/09/16/lewisville-whataburger-dont-serve-police/

This past Tuesday night two local police officers from Lewisville, Texas walked into a "Whataburger" to grab something to eat. Expecting to get served, they were rudely turned down by one of the male workers stating, "We don't serve police". The two police officers left the fast food restaurant. The next day one of the police officers that witnessed the situation went onto a radio talk show and reported what had happened the previous day. The company "Whataburger” quickly caught word of the whole incident from news reports. Quickly, the fast food restaurant fired the employee that did not serve the police.

In my opinion this event is an example of a product of recent rising racial tensions between white law enforcement officers and African Americans in general. Such tensions were the source of unrest typified in recent large-scale riots in Ferguson MO and Baltimore MD. 

This event is relevant to our study of government and politics because it represents a negative side of the state of race relations in our country. In the US, some people may have the idea that we have now grown out of racism and the modern times, where the world is made smaller by technology and progress is more peaceful between race groups. Clearly, there still are tensions among races and cultures, and this is important to understand as part of both government and policy-making. Some people may believe that America has been successful at integrating cultures. Events such as those in Lewisville show that we still have a long way to go.