woman loses Her job for asking for a White cab driver

This woman lost her job because she wanted her 14 yr old daughter collected from school by a White Male /Female taxi driver .Is the world gone so mad that she acctuly loses her job.


A BBC radio presenter was fired after making "completely unacceptable" comments about Asian taxi drivers, the broadcaster said today.

Sam Mason, 40, asked a Bristol cab firm not to send an Asian driver to pick up her daughter because "a guy with a turban on is going to freak her out."

The phone operator recorded the conversation and passed a copy of it to The Sun.


Mother-of-one Mason, an ex-TV glamour girl, called the cab firm off-air as she played a song on her BBC Radio Bristol afternoon show, the paper claimed.

Here is a transcript of the conversation, which can be listened to on The Sun website:

Mason: "I know this sounds really racist, but I'm not being - please, don't send anyone like, you know what I mean. An English person would be great, a female would be better."

Operator: "We would class that as being racist. We can't penalise the Asian drivers and just send an English one."

Mason: "You've managed it before."

Operator: "Right, OK. I don't agree with it personally."

Mason: "It's not your 14-year-old girl who's, you know, is it?" Operator: "Yes, but that's racist to say you don't want an Asian driver."

Mason: "If it were me I wouldn't care if it had two heads, but it's my little girl we are talking about."

After asking the woman on the phone to pass the call on to a supervisor, she finally adds: "I work at the BBC. I'm far from racist and that uneducated woman has no right to call me one.

"I don't want her to turn up with a guy with a turban on, it's going to freak her out. She's not used to Asians.

"She's not racist - her godparents are black."

Today, the BBC confirmed it had fired Mason, but would not say which taxi firm made the complaint.

A spokesman said: "Although Sam Mason's remarks were not made on-air, her comments were completely unacceptable and, for that reason, she has been informed that she will no longer be working for the BBC with immediate effect."

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is this racist, or just a mother looking out for her daughter?

I'd say that was unacceptable.

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by hovis

is this racist, or just a mother looking out for her daughter?

doesn't sound like racism on the scale you see from neo-nazis and the like, but more like someone who lacks two brain cells to rub together - someone with a modicum of intelligence would have explained to their 14 year old daughter long ago that sikhs wear turbans to identify themselves as sikhs if it "freaked her out"

I do not think she should have lost her job, I think she should wake up to the world and realise just because one foreign national may be a suicide bomber or whatever doesn't make every other one.

I don't have a problem with it.

Asian women always ask for non-white taxi drivers, so why the hell can't a white woman ask for a white driver or a female to drive her daughter around?

Just goes to prove what a 5hit country this is becoming where we are told what we can and cannot have a view/opinion on.

she should not have lost her job, whatever your thoughts on the racial issue, she was ILLEGALLY recorded by th taxi company, and then said taxi company went to the sun newspaper, will the taxi company be prosecuted??? hmmm me thinks not.

she also said a female would be preferable, but noone seems to have made a big deal out of that

why can't she get a friend to pick her daughter up, or do it herself or get her daughter to get the school bus. I'm sorry but a taxi driver can be dodgy regardless of race, if her child is not familiar with Asians at 14 then she's had a very sheltered life.

Losing her job was a bit extreme though, she was only looking out for her child after all. I think the BBC are just uptight at the minute, they need to chillax

I think the woman should be able to ask for any driver she wants ... she is paying for the/a service ...

Like if she was paying for a male escort, she can specify who she wants (or who she doesn't want). So why not a cab driver?

Why are we taking away peoples freedom of choice and always playing the race card???

At the end of the day this is a story in the Sun ... therefore it must be 100% true/accurate!!

[the_lone_wolf]

Originally Posted by Blue_SV650S

I think the woman should be able to ask for any driver she wants ... she is paying for the/a service ...

Like if she was paying for a male escort, she can specify who she wants. So why not a cab driver?

Taxi - You're paying for someone to drive you from A to B, their race, sex, religious view doesn't factor into the service they offer

Escort - You're paying for someone to pretend you're having a relationship with them, their looks are part of what you're paying for, and if you weren't able to choose which sex they were it could make for an awkward night out