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(PICTURED) Black Woman Accuses North Carolina Chick-Fil-A Employee Of Writing Racist Slur On Receipt

<p>A Black woman is accusing a North Carolina <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;dev&period;theshaderoom&period;com&sol;&quest;s&equals;chick-fil-a&amp&semi;post&lowbar;type&equals;post" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>Chick-Fil-A<&sol;strong><&sol;a> employee of writing a racist slur on her receipt&comma; and snapped a now-viral picture to prove it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><strong>Nyiashia Jackson<&sol;strong>&comma; 19&comma; entered the drive-thru in Charlotte last week&comma; where she says the incident occurred&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Black Chick-Fil-A Customer Receives Racist Slur On Her Receipt&comma; Photos Show<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>When Jackson received her order&comma; she found her name was replaced with a racial slur &&num;8211&semi; the N-word &&num;8211&semi; with the slur in question misspelled with only one G&comma; according to<strong> <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wccbcharlotte&period;com&sol;2023&sol;02&sol;20&sol;family-claims-chick-fil-a-employee-used-racist-slur-on-receipt&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener">WCCB Charlotte<&sol;a><&sol;strong>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was just in shock&period; I literally parked right there&comma; I couldn’t eat the food&comma;” Jackson told the news outlet&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>She said she gave the first worker her name before pulling up to the drive-thru window&comma; where another employee who handed her the order tipped her off to the racist slur&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;wsoctv&period;com&sol;news&sol;local&sol;mother-says-charlotte-chick-fil-a-worker-used-racial-slur-daughters-order&sol;EN344KOE3FBXNMIOB7DMMZRUFQ&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>WSOC<&sol;strong><&sol;a> reports&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1628910041226002437" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;He was like&comma; &OpenCurlyQuote;You might want to look what they put your name as&comma;’” Jackson told the outlet&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I was just in shock&period; I literally parked right there&period; I couldn’t eat the food&comma; I was just in shock&period;”<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Nyiashia Jackson&&num;8217&semi;s Mother Demands Employee Be Fired&comma; Chick-Fil-A Releases Statement<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>Jackson&&num;8217&semi;s mother&comma; April&comma; added &&num;8220&semi;a young lady who took her order asked her name&period; She told them her name was Nyiashia and she put on her ticket &lpar;N-word&rpar;&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She went on to say that she wants the employee in question to be fired&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Chick-Fil-A released a statement to WCCB stating the company’s &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;expectation that guests at all Chick-fil-A restaurants are treated with honor&comma; dignity&comma; and respect&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and that the location has tried to connect with Jackson to apologize directly&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The Operator&sol;Owner of Chick-fil-A Mountain Island has thoroughly investigated and tried to connect with the customer to better understand her experience and apologize for the situation&comma;” it said&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1628439649491320833" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Fast Food Chain Claims Location Has &&num;8220&semi;Started Additional Training To Make Sure This Doesn&&num;8217&semi;t Happen Again&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>The fast food chain&&num;8217&semi;s statement attempted to explain away the slur&comma; stating &&num;8220&semi;we understand this to be a misspelling of the customer&&num;8217&semi;s name&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and that &&num;8220&semi;the operator has started additional training&&num;8230&semi; to ensure this doesn&&num;8217&semi;t happen again&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Though we understand this to be a misspelling of the customer’s name&comma; that does not negate the impact or experience had by our guests&period; The Operator has started additional training at his restaurant to ensure this doesn’t happen again&period; We sincerely apologize for the harm caused by this incident&comma;” the company added&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p>Jackson&&num;8217&semi;s infuriated mother derided the thought of training&comma; and that she wants the employee fired&comma; not trained &&num;8220&semi;to not call someone a n&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&ast;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You shouldn’t have to be trained to not call someone a n—&period; I’m just being as honest as I can be&comma; I want the employee fired&comma;” she told WSOC&period;<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><amp-twitter data-tweetid&equals;"1628175898095632384" layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"480"><&sol;amp-twitter><&sol;p>&NewLine;<h3 style&equals;"text-align&colon; center&semi;">Family Currently In The Process Of Suing Chick-Fil-A&comma; A Company With A History Of Such Issues<&sol;h3>&NewLine;<p>April Jackson did confirm that Chick-Fil-A has reached out to the family&comma; but added she couldn&&num;8217&semi;t speak on the matter as they are currently in the process of filing a lawsuit against the fast food company&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This is hardly the first time Chick-Fil-A has been accused of racism or other discriminatory incidents&period; In September&comma; a tone-deaf tweet about serving the Black community caught the attention of social media&comma; who excoriated the company&comma; according to <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;nbcnews&period;com&sol;news&sol;us-news&sol;chick-fil-says-tweet-seemingly-referencing-black-community-was-poor-ch-rcna47215" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>NBC News<&sol;strong><&sol;a>&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And in 2019&comma; CEO Dan Cathy&&num;8217&semi;s public comments opposing gay marriage led to widespread backlash&comma; protests and boycotts of the brand&comma; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;cnbc&period;com&sol;2019&sol;11&sol;18&sol;chick-fil-a-drops-donations-to-christian-charities-after-lgbt-protests&period;html" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank" rel&equals;"noopener"><strong>CNBC<&sol;strong><&sol;a> reported at the time&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine; <div class&equals;"wpra-reactions-wrap wpra-plugin-container" style&equals;"justify-content&colon; 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