Shopping While Black. African Americans Continue To Face Retail Racism.
If you’re black, you just shake your head thinking this can’t be 2018. And it can’t be the 21st century because there’s yet another story about a black person being discriminated against for doing what so many others take for granted. A black student at Yale was questioned by police after falling asleep in her dorm lounge while studying. Here are the details of that story: A black Yale student fell asleep in her dorm’s common room. A white student called police. Two black males at Starbuck for a business meeting were arrested. Their crime? Waiting while black. The outcome: Two black men arrested at Starbucks settle with Philadelphia for $1 each The police are called on two men who were trying to work out at a gym. Read more: LA Fitness employees called 911 on two black men they said didn’t pay. They had. Then last week there was this: Nordstrom Rack apologizes after calling the police on three black teens who were shopping for prom “Three black teens shopping for prom at a Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Mo., near St. Louis, faced the police after store employees suspected they were shoplifting, calling further attention to incidents of racial profiling in commercial spaces over the past month,” reported The Washington Post’s Rachel Siegel. Read more at The Washington Post.
