So what? I used to go shopping after work wearing the suit and tie that I wear to work. I was often mistaken for a store clerk.
As for Obama, now if he said he had been mistaken for a transvestite hooker, I would believe him.
I imagine that every morning (afternoon?) when this clown’s eyes open, the first thing he thinks is “I’m black.” He seriously need psychiatric help. Seriously.
I once made the mistake of wearing khakis and a red polo while shopping at Target.
I think I was an Assistant Manager by the time I left.
Wear half way decent clothes in a store and there’s a good chance someone will walk up and ask “Do you work here?”. It has nothing to do with race. He should have gone whole hog and lied that white men used to walk up to him and ask for a shoe shine followed by the phrase “Make it snappy, Boy”. The scattered remnant of people who still haven’t seen through him and are melanin obsessed would probably believe it. The rest of us would have a good laugh. No way I’d let that a$$hat touch my shoes (or hand him the keys to my car).
That’s nothing!
I am constantly being mistaken for white, Christian male who provides tax-money for the malcontent-class.
Oh....wait. What?
Hah ! Me too !!
And you know what, I helped them and never told them I didn't work there :)
“So what? I used to go shopping after work wearing the suit and tie that I wear to work. I was often mistaken for a store clerk.”
I am a director at a chemical company. Our every-day wear is khakis and a collared shirt, usually a logo shirt of our company as we get them frequently. I don’t know how many times someone in a store has asked me about pricing or availability. I’m a middle-aged white guy (gasp, can I say that??), they don’t ask me because of what I am, they just see khakis and a logo shirt, that’s all...
When I first got out of school, I worked at a specialty chemical company in a not very nice area of Baltimore. I was frequently targeted for verbal racial attacks as I was white as I drove to and from work - I’ve been called honky, cracker, usually followed with other suggestions of removing myself from the area, fornicating with myself, as well as suggestions that I was a white mother fornicator...that was my daily live for 10 years...and yet, no one ever mentions that racism is colorblind...
I have had the same experience; wearing clothes from work makes me being mistaken for a store clerk, asking me where the changing rooms are at and to ring things up.
I agree, happened to me too! But because I’m not holding the racial grievance card I just chalked it up to an honest mistake.
Some years ago I was in a sporting goods store, and I needed some help. I saw a well-dressed man swinging a golf club and went over to ask him a question. The guy responded "I don't work here" with a little anger in his voice. That wasn't you was it? If so, sorry.