BBC Radio host Sam Mason was fired after she called a taxi company and requested a “non-Asian” driver to take her 14-year-old daughter to her grandparents’ home. Mason, a single mother, told the operator that “a guy with a turban on would freak her daughter out,” and insisted they send an English driver — preferably a female English driver — instead.
The operator refused to book a car and said: “We would class that as being racist. We can’t just penalize the Asian drivers and just send an English one.” Mason responded: “It’s not your 14-year-old girl, is it?” To which the operator answered: “Yes, but that’s racist to say you don’t want an Asian driver.”
