Black chick denied bling.........
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Sometimes they get reported on
Zimbabwe's "Blacks-Only" Stock Exchange
.. But then again, maybe it was billed in the news as denying service to Asians and Aboriginals
See now that is a grotesque waste of money from my point of view. Ostentatious, irrespective of how much of it a person has to spend.
She (the clerk) may very well have looked down upon her for the colour of her skin. Or it could be the way she was dressed, if she was dressed 'down' so to speak. Or it could simply be because the sales clerk is a freaking snob herself and is rude to everyone. Who the hell knows. But while I can certainly buy that it may have been due to racist tendencies on the part of the sales clerk, I just don't buy the whole 'victimization' or 'suffering' part of it.
No it doesn't, not really. And that's a crying shame to be honest. Because it's the everyday stuff that we should be getting worked up and enraged over.
Funny part is that your notion of reporting racial discrimination is limited to the rare cases whites get discriminated against.
It's OK, I understand what you're doing. You're implying that the few, minor cases of anti-white discrimination anywhere in the world are the same as the mountain of anti-non-white discrimination in North America, so there's no reason to disapprove of or fight discrimination.
It's called the "false equivalency."
Could it also be that since the clerk didn't "fawn" over her like she is used too in in the U S and other countries that she got a bit peeved, and blew things out of proportion?
Interesting... I always thought that denial of opportunity based solely on a racial trait was referred to as 'racial discrimination'.
That's a part of the discrimination thingy
You're right, that is the assumption. Of course, just because it's an assumption doesn't necessarily make it untrue either. But there are other plausible explanations, one of which could be what you mentioned.
I don't think so, but she did show prejudice. We do not know what that resulted from. Could have been Winfrey with no makeup on and being her normal loud obnoxious self.
Regardless she was not treated properly.
In those stores they should be all over you like white on rice.
The clerk erred. It well may have been skin colour, that is something that will never be known.
As a white person living in a predominantly white area I have not experienced a problem with service so have no idea what it would feel like or the triggers that would be initiated in an individual who came up as hard as Winfrey came up.
From the article:
"The star said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem."
"The star said she left the shop calmly without arguing, but that the experience was proof that racism continues to be a problem."
Does anyone notice things like B.E.T. "Black Entertainment TV". Slate magazine. Black only schools all over North America. Along with hundreds of obvious reverse (but oddly legal) racism situations. Ssshh! Quiet!
a lie. There are no blacks only schools in the United States. It's illegal.
Put it into perspective people with a billion dollars or more don't see a 35 thousand
dollar wallet or purse or both extravagant. After all enormous wealth is just money.
They earn it the spend it. In fact we all buy things that cost too much because we
like that item. Just watch Christmas Shoppers. Again they are nuts they are not
greedy selfish people they are a product of what they become and their wealth
enables them to buy what they want when they want. Can't wait for them to come
to the Okanagan I will sell them a 35 thousand dollar box of apples in a retro wooden
box.
This is hardly even a story as these people buy these things every day
dollar wallet or purse or both extravagant. After all enormous wealth is just money.
They earn it the spend it. In fact we all buy things that cost too much because we
like that item. Just watch Christmas Shoppers. Again they are nuts they are not
greedy selfish people they are a product of what they become and their wealth
enables them to buy what they want when they want. Can't wait for them to come
to the Okanagan I will sell them a 35 thousand dollar box of apples in a retro wooden
box.
This is hardly even a story as these people buy these things every day
Do you want BS law or the real world? Google or Bing are full of the real world.
Black-only school in Toronto? | The Frame Problem
Black school - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See also: Auto-segregation and White flight
According to the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, the desegregation of U.S. public schools peaked in 1988; since then, schools have become more segregated because of changes in demographic residential patterns with continuing growth in suburbs and new communities. Jonathan Kozol has found that as of 2005, the proportion of Black students at majority-white schools was at "a level lower than in any year since 1968."[7] Changing population patterns, with dramatically increased growth in the South and Southwest, decreases in old industrial cities, and much increased immigration of new ethnic groups, have altered school populations in many areas.
Black school districts continue to try various programs to improve student and school performance, including magnet schools and special programs related to the economic standing of families. Omaha proposed incorporating some suburban districts within city limits to enlarge its school-system catchment area. It wanted to create a "one tax, one school" system that would also allow it to create magnet programs to increase diversity in now predominately white schools. Ernest Chambers, a 34-year-serving African-American state senator from North Omaha, Nebraska, believed a different solution was needed. Some observers said that in practical terms, public schools in Omaha had been re-segregated since the end of busing in 1999.[8]
In 2006, Chambers offered an amendment to the Omaha school reform bill in the Nebraska State Legislature which would provide for creation of three school districts in Omaha according to current racial demographics: black, white and Hispanic, with local community control of each district. He believed this would give the African-American community the chance to control a district in which their children were the majority. Chambers’ amendment was controversial. Opponents to the measure described it as "state-sponsored segregation".[9]
The authors of a 2003 Harvard study on re-segregation believe current trends in the South of white teachers leaving predominately black schools is an inevitable result of federal court decisions limiting former methods of civil rights-era protections, such as busing and affirmative action in school admissions. Teachers and principals cite other issues, such as economic and cultural barriers in schools with high rates of poverty, as well as teachers' choices to work closer to home or in higher-performing schools. In some areas black teachers are also leaving the profession, resulting in teacher shortages.[10]