Earlier on Facebook, the lawyer had written some other harsh words:
I’d happily do the jail time if I could get just one solid punch in to the face of the son of a bitch who paid for his meal at the luncheonette where my granddaughter works and left the receipt for her with a note saying, “Sorry, we only tip citizens.”
Elledge, who is white, told The Washington Post he’s particularly sensitive to slights directed at his multicultural family.
After “flunking out of college,” Elledge spent most of the 1980s in Honduras, working for the Episcopal church. He taught English to children in a bilingual school, started a youth program and met Iris, the Honduran woman who would become his wife.
She already had two children, so he adopted them and they returned to the United States. The family settled in Harrisonburg, a Virginia city ringed by three universities. The universities provide a lot of cultural diversity; so does a refugee resettlement office based in Harrisonburg.
[She thought her server was ‘really sweet.’ Then she saw her racist Snapchat post.]
It’s a good place to raise a blended, multicultural family, Elledge said.
“I’ve gotten six wonderful grandkids,” Elledge told The Washington Post. “Sadie’s the third oldest. Her dad’s Honduran — my son — and her mother is Mexican. We’re a totally bicultural family. A pretty typical bicultural family.”
In three decades in a Southern city, they’ve had few discrimination problems, Elledge said. Once, in school, a kid told Sadie to “make me a burrito,” but it didn’t phase her.
