What a horrible experience. I’m sorry you were put in that position. I feel instead that there is a black privilege of lower behavioral expectations. I say that with love to all my black friends and FReepers. A white couple could not get away with that kind of public anger, shaming, and outrage against a black man who mistakenly got in line in front of the white chick who was faced away from the line on her phone. CAN YOU EVEN IMAGINE.
I was in the ER one night with a sick kid, waiting with the hordes. The security guard came through the waiting room and told a woman she couldn’t use an outlet on the desk to charge her cell phone. Rather than saying “I’m sorry, Officer,” and removing her charger like we white people have to do, she was able to publicly scream at him using swear words and shaming him with her personal story and such. While she did still have to remove her charger, he just left her alone and no one said anything, just sat silently, while afterward she regaled her companion, in front of all these sick and injured people, in full colorful language, about how she was wronged. White people do not have the privilege of doing that in public.
Thanks for your comments and story. These people at Whole Foods ruined my evening. I’m going to do a workout now and forget about it.
Sure they do.
They just don't have any interest in doing that in public.
Most white people I know have a few things that apparently does show up in the genetic code of these mutants: standards of decency and a sense of shame.