Colorado heating and cooling company refuses service to ‘colored people’ in ‘Mount Ghetto’

[KamaAina]

http://kdvr.com/2015/04/29/watch-colorado-heating-and-cooling-company-refuses-to-service-colored-people-in-mountghetto/

A FOX31 Denver hidden camera investigation captured a local business woman refusing to do business in a Denver neighborhood because she says the residents are “colored people” and “they don’t pay their bills.”

The Problem Solvers’ Investigation started with a complaint from an employee at Mile High Heating and Cooling in Westminster who said the company did not service Montbello. The worker said, “They call it Mount Ghetto” and they don’t do business there. Our hidden camera investigation found the worker’s allegations to be true and that the company’s policy about not serving what was once a prominently black neighborhood is talked about openly in their Westminster office.

The company’s website claims to serve the entire metro area, but our investigation found Mile High Heating and Cooling does not serve one of Denver’s largest neighborhoods. The heating and cooling company advertised job openings for appointment setters so The FOX31 Problem Solvers sent a producer with hidden cameras in for the job....

Then she started teaching our producer how to make cold calls. She said, “Here’s your Tuesday calls.” Under the word Tuesday, the paper said, “Montbello 80239 ‘never call’ which prompted our producer to ask why? Andrea replied, “Do you know anything about Montbello? …You don’t live there do you? …We call it Mount Ghetto … um colored neighborhood.” Andrea went on to explain Mile High Heating and Cooling never cold calls Montbello because she claims the residents don’t pay their bills.

Gosh, I love post-racial 'Merka!

[nichomachus]

1. Aw, she screwed up

She should have said "religious beliefs" and she would have been home free.

[okaawhatever]

2. +100 nt

[giftedgirl77]

3. Doesn't surprise me, I used to live in Montbello

back in the early 90s before moving to Miami. It's where I learned it's safer to run from the police than to take the chance of being stopped by them. Not to mention any group of kids over the number of 3 was automatically considered a gang & would be profiled accordingly.

[dixiegrrrrl]

4. rec.....

I knew that racism had become more covert since the 70's, but did not realize how widespread it still is until Obama's election apparently loosened any veneer of restraint in people.

[Vinca]

5. Lets hope her nonracist customers go elsewhere and run her out of business.

[dembotoz]

6. devils advocate limited service delivery areas are not new

go order a pizza delivery in the bad parts of a major city.

I used to sell advertising. shopper and envelope direct mail

as an area would become poorer(also defined as black) advertising in the publications targeted to those areas would dry up.

Eventually the publication would stop as the cost exceeded the revenue.

the Merchants would vote with their feet.

was always amazed because business density in these areas was much less than in more prosperous areas....MUCH LESS...
and in theory these folks had to shop and buy good from somewhere.

One a side note--when ever some bozo yammers about youth unemployment in central cities talk about business density. Kids can not get jobs from businesses that do not exist....