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RainydayNE -> RE: Pity the fool (3/12/2009 9:14:58 PM)
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well i've worked for a retail store (a relatively big one)
worst job ever
but the people i worked with were more concerned with race than anything else
they didn't SAY it so much in plain english around me, for obvious reasons, but yeah =p they DO profile by race, they do every single day.
where i worked, young white kids stole tons of CDs and pokemon/yugi-oh cards while the associates were busy tailing black people. =p a group of white teenaged girls came in and swapped out their shoes =p i alerted a manager but nothing happened to them.
not to say that black people NEVER stole anything, just saying, pleeeeenty of theft went unnoticed because they were making assumptions about certain ethnicities of people that weren't always true.
policies may claim that certain age groups are more likely, managers may teach that, but people DO single you out based on race.
i'm coming out of a store here in town, right, with a whole bunch of other people. TONS of other people, who happen to be white. all i have is a bag with cotton balls. as i'm coming through the little alarms with aaaalll those other people, the alarm goes off, and who gets called back? me =p
nothing but clearly visible cotton balls =p
yeah, but they don't profile by race, right? okies :)
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