Social activist Avi Yilau, an Ethiopian Jew, caused a stir when he published an incident he experienced when he came to drink coffee at the Aroma branch, when – because of the color of his skin – one of the customers approached him and asked him to clean the table. Yellow: “I just try to tell people that we sometimes act out of stereotypes. When I come to court, I was never suspected of being the judge.”
Social activist Avi Yailou, an Ethiopian immigrant Jew, caused a public outcry when he posted on his Twitter account a case he experienced when he came to drink coffee at the Aroma branch, when – because of his skin color – one of the customers approached him and asked him to clean the table.
Yilau tweeted: “Aroma coffee. How would you react if someone, while you were waiting for your order, came up to you and asked you to clear the table for him?”.
“I swear I should not have uttered a single word. Only my gaze, which scanned him with eyes blazing fire and contempt, caused him to change colors and stutter ‘Sorry, sorry, sorry…’, he shared.
Many of the respondents accused him of hypersensitivity and sacrifice, Vilau, who was one of the leaders of the protest of the Ethiopian community, with dozens of television appearances during the protest, and also to form a party in Israel – explained what he meant in the post.
“Could it have just been a mistake?”, He was asked in an interview with Vint. Yalau replied: “I do not for a moment suspect him of doing it on purpose or to hurt. It should also be said that there is no problem in being an aroma cleaner. But I was not dressed as a local worker. It is not that I had written on the shirt ‘Aroma’. But he is simple He told me to clear the table. “
He said, “People did not understand this. A lot of people wrote to me ‘this is just whining’ and ‘you’re just exaggerating’. I’m just trying to tell people that sometimes we act out of stereotypes, out of some perceptions and assumptions. I was never suspected of being the judge. “
“I did not do it to make any noise, but I tried to share something and a lot of people took it to other places completely and got confused. White people were quick to try to explain to me that they too experienced it. I tried to tell them ‘Listen friends, there are things you in your daily experience do not. Can understand ‘”.
“Once you say or bring up something like that, people take it personally, so they defend themselves, and that was not the goal. But to tell them to keep their eyes open,” Yellow said.