I get approached all the time in stores, and my wife and I laugh about it.
It is because I wear a shirt and tie to work, and I am white.
Posted on 12/12/2014 9:16:04 AM PST by Second Amendment First
Bugger off, Stacey.
My late father was one of nine children born to cotton farmers in Georgia during the 1930s. My grandparents didn’t have slaves nor hired help. My father and his brothers and sisters were the ones who worked the farm alongside their parents. Needless to say, as each child turned 15 years of age, they one by one hightailed it out of Georgia to make a living unrelated to cotton. To this day, I don’t recall any of them having an aversion to cotton as clothing or decoration.
A step up from the t-shirts and baggy shorts they wear in da hood.
Not much. Her real lack of style has nothing to do with the high fashion outfits she has in her closet.
“My ancestors in Virginia had to pick that (cotton),” I said wearily.
Cotton was a product of the deep South, not VA. Tobacco was the staple in VA. She should be protesting the sight of cigars and cigarettes in gas stations.
What a sweet, non-threatening reply. Can't imagine why that would be a problem with store personnel.
I hope this lady never comes by our farm. At least half of it would be seen as a micro-agression to her.
She shot me a look as if I had slapped her in the face...
Because you basically DID, you snotty b****.
I’m a fat ,white OLD man. Most of the time I wear shirts or vests that have NRA, Browning, Ruger or S&W logos on them.
I do not get bothered by anyone and store ‘Assistants” are most cordial
“How typical is this young woman of Black America?”
Except for being more upscale I think she is pretty typical.
Maybe the ‘authoress’ would rather other people call the manager and ask what she is doing in the store.
I used to make package pickups at the Airport and NEVER got mistaken for a passenger because I didn’t wear flip flops, shorts or needed a shave or haircut.
The employees would mostly be dressed in a uniform or have ID around their neck...We were basically of the Airlines inasmuch as I was contracted by them to do pick ups. My ‘dress’ was shoes, slacks, collared shirt tucked in if I was wearing jacket or out if not, haircut & shave. I ‘refused’ to wear a ‘Company shirt’ because I was a Contractor...
I think now you need beaucoup ID just to park under the terminal or ‘in the back’ and have some kind of Company shirt or uniform.
That’s funny, over my Lifetime I’ve had many people ask me if I worked in the Store where I was shopping.
I never thought to it was offensive. Then again, I’m not part of the Perpetually Offended Class.
Wife’s grandfather grew up under very similar circumstances in Arkansas...
Without going into unproductive comparison of various holocausts and genocides, cotton is the icon that reminds us why our ancestors were snatched from their homeland, carted across the planet and subjected to centuries of nonstop horrors to build the infrastructure and wealth of this nation.
Hey, lady, it happens to WHITE PEOPLE JUST AS WELL..............
On the day that the Staten Island grand jury announced that there’d be no indictment in the controversial police choking death of Eric Garner, my spirit was weighed down with sadness. I was still grieving the loss of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown and the non-indictments in the Ezell Ford case and others.
Racist b!+ch.
Once wearing my brand new (Brooks Bros) 2d Lt USAF uniform, I was stopped on the street by a large African-American? Black? Negress? Woman of Color? who was irate about the poor bus service!
That was MACROaggression and unveiled hostility, but nowhere as bad as the frequent questions I was forced to endure about postal deliveries.
Is there not a federal program that can help me overcome these early traumatic events suffered in the service of our nation?
“microaggressions, Bugger off, Stacey.”
If she flips out at the sight of a cotton plant then the sight of white skin (like that of her oppressors) must really be offensive. Someone should remind Miss Boo-zee that she has benefited greatly from the slavery her ancestors endured since without it she would be in Africa, dirt poor, hungry and with a bone in her nose instead of shopping at Sach’s.
This person thinks these things never happen to other people, the world revolves around her.
hey girl....... you write for Salon.
That automatically relegates you to the human trash bin
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