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I don't think so, Beyonce looks glamorous, one can see she is someone special, with Oprah one doesn't get that impression at all. Maybe 20 years ago, I don't know what she looked like back then. Today she looks like any woman her age.
What is your point, darling? Being pretty does not mean that one can afford to buy something. The sales clerk's job is to sell merchandise not to judge a beauty contest.
I think it is funny that there are so many in here trying to give the clerk the benefit of the doubt or trying to explain why she chose to discriminate. And at the same time dissing Oprah, calling her crass or unable to dress properly knowing that she's filthy rich, classy, and well verse in the matters of the elite and classy. Yet, she was getting compared to Snoop Dogg.
The liberal 1% certainly does not want to be mistaken for one of the lowly lowly hideous middle class types.
Never mind that 99% of people cannot possibly afford a $38,000 purse, poor pitiful Oprah is going to make it a race issue. What race issue? She can afford a ridiculously expensive purse when millions of people in the world are going hungry.
She who made her billions exploiting emotionally ill people, encouraging them to air their most horrendous secrets on her show so she could get extremely rich and never batted an eye over suicides that followed.
Obviously I have, because I've never, in my life, heard a sales person say "NEXT" in one to a customer. As I said, that's something you'd hear in a DELI vs. an exclusive shop. Good grief!
If you had actually bothered to read my post, you would've seen that I mentioned that she would have a short temper with customers who weren't intending to buy anything, hence the "Next!". That was her way of saying to the person "I'm not gonna waste my time with you". If the person's not there to buy anything anyway, what difference does it really make? Those stores are there to sell, not to let tire-kickers just hang out. As the person I replied to stated, in a high-end store you're going to end up filtering customers.
It's also an American arrogance --- do these celebrities really think that just because they made it big in the USA, that the entire world must bow to their celebrity? How many nations actually aired her talk show where pathetic people were coaxed into spilling out their hearts for the entertainment of her audience?
No one thinks that most white Americans can afford $38,000 trinkets. No one can be that stupid -- this is about one of the 1% being furious for not being recognized as such.
I don't think so, Beyonce looks glamorous, one can see she is someone special, with Oprah one doesn't get that impression at all. Maybe 20 years ago, I don't know what she looked like back then. Today she looks like any woman her age.
I doubt that Beyonce looks any more glamorous than any other beautiful, well dressed young woman when she's out on the streets shopping. Beautiful young women usually don't equal the wealth to buy a $37K handbag, no matter how well they're dressed. Now you're being even sillier than before.
Being rich in the US and in Europe is different. In many European countries one does not display wealth by buying expensive stuff etc.
And I am happy I don't have much to do with wealthy people, they are bad company.
Interesting take; so the store wasn't really expecting to sell their more expensive items because their customers wouldn't buy them in the first place.
Why wouldn't we believe it? Every single thing you've said here leads one to believe that the sales girl most likely did assume that Oprah couldn't afford the bag because she's black. You've admitted that over and over.
You'd have to see what a sales clerk thinks of the Honey-Boo-Boo family if they didn't know them to really know if race has a thing to do with it, or more importantly if the sales clerk really believes most whites can afford extremely extravagent prices. I seriously doubt that the clerk thinks all whites can afford those prices.
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