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Here's what I find funny. She claims the high road by just leaving and says "I could have had the big blow-up thing and thrown down the black card and all that stuff."
But then she goes and does an interview calling them racist.
Now I do not argue that what happened wasn't an example of racism. It sounds like it probably was. But to take a superior attitude about not throwing down the black card with one clerk in a store, while you're doing a televised interview in which you're throwing down the black card is pretty absurd.
I think when things that shock you happen, the first response is to be stunned, and to walk away from the situation, because you can't quite believe what just happened. You get mad after the fact.
Not necessarily. Good salespeople also advise, especially in more expensive shops. It is not Walmart where you throw a 10-pack of socks for 20 bucks onto the belt
Last time I checked a sales clerk in a boutique is NOT a financial advisor or a business manager. And Oprah became a BILLIONAIRE without the financial advice of a low wage earning shop clerk.
WELL THERE YOU GO. And that's why this upset her, because it's a racist stereotype.
No, it is not. It is fact, whether you like it or not. I am not saying that I am happy black people are not nearly as wealthy as white people, it is not my fault. But I can't deny it, either.
I did however read that some saleperson either didnt speak the lingo
surely though in a shop as expensive as this one must be, the training given to sales people would be top notch.....
If you reread what you wrote, you would realize that you just contradicted yourself.
You said that there was a possibility that the salesperson didn't speak the lingo....and then you implied that 'its unlikely since the shop would have top notch training'. If the training was really top notch then there would be clear communication channels.
The bottom line is that it is a sales clerk's JOB to wait on customers and not to attempt to guess a person's net worth. That sales clerk was simply a low wage earner on a pointless power trip. I'm sure that the sales clerk would have gladly grabbed that $38k bag for the white mistress of the leader of some random banana republic.
In very high end shops sales staff can make a significant commission.
Racism? Not sure. (High-end) luxury store clerks are often snobby and arrogant. I was treated badly at a Gant Store (hardly luxurious) here in Oslo, Norway and I am an ethnic Norwegian and I even wore a Gant cardigan
No, it is not. It is fact, whether you like it or not. I am not saying that I am happy black people are not nearly as wealthy as white people, it is not my fault. But I can't deny it, either.
Stereotyping based on race is called racism. What is it that you don't understand about that concept?
No, style I would say. Oprah looks much older than Beyonce, more like one of those desperate housewives, or their aunt
so because she's older she looks poor?
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And that's why this upset her, because it's a racist stereotype.
Is Oprah on one of those shows? Did she produce one of those shows? No.
