Posted on 08/18/2020 4:40:57 AM PDT by gattaca
A clothing store in downtown Savannah, Georgia, raised some eyebrows recently when it waived a $20 appointment fee for black customers and other people of color while keeping the fee intact for white customers, WJCL-TV reported.
Civvies on Broughton adopted the appointment system after reopening since the COVID-19 shutdown, the station said, adding that it then waived the fee for everyone but white customers in order to try to help disenfranchised communities.
"This promotional waiver serves the substantial business purpose of centering and prioritizing people who might not be able to access vintage clothing," store manager Raine Blunk told WJCL.
"Most of the feedback has been that our decision to waive this refundable deposit is racist because it favors people of color, black people, and indigenous people," Blunk added the station.
However, the store said that white customers who don't have $20 for an appointment can select the "don't agree" on the booking form so the booking manager can reach out and come up with other options, WTOC-TV reported.
But Civvies did say it wouldn't accept appointments with white customers who simply refuse to pay because of the policy, WTOC added.
Reaction Once the news was posted on the store's social media sites, backlash against the move was fierce. WJCL said some of the comments threatened lawsuits and boycotts against the 15-year-old business — but Blunk told the station that the fee waiver doesn't discriminate against anyone.
"Obviously it is unfortunate to have thousands of people commenting and messaging us saying that they are going to sue us and have contacted the Department of Labor because this is a violation of their rights," Blunk noted to WJCL, adding that "we believe that what we are doing is within the confines of the law."
Blunk also told the station that non-whites "are at this time the most likely to be affected by the poverty line, so this is not based on a racial favoritism toward black people, people of color, and indigenous people. It is simply a fact that that group of people are the most likely to be affected by a loss of historical equity, and we are taking a small step to restore that as a business to choose to wave this fee temporarily."
Anything else? Amid the backlash last week, a statement from the store's owners read, "It was not our intention to act in any way that might be perceived as discriminatory and for that we apologize."
In addition, the store manager added a lengthy apology post on Facebook acknowledging that the policy as written was "insulting to some black people, people of color and indigenous people" because it "felt like white saviorism."
The manager also said the policy was "alienating and overly aggressive to some white people, especially those who responded very negatively, for whom a different conversation or platform about racial inequities could have been more educational or informative."
Hope they go out of business.
So this is where the left wants to go? Okay gotcha.
This is a big part of the problem. They're either willfully ignorant or just outright liars, because this entire situation is the dictionary definition of racism.
Consider, however, that blacks are 13% of the total population in this country. Whites refusing to shop would likely bankrupt this business in a short time.
White women should loot the store, then burn it to the ground.
The goal isn’t equality. The goal is superiority.
The pendulum swings, and its rarely critically damped (i.e., returning gently to the middle). It always overshoots.
So did they change the policy?
That is the problem with small biz going woke — it ticks off too much of your customer base. I read a lengthy article a few months back about a Yoga franchise in CO going broke after its diversity hires turned on it like a pack of wolves.
And if I am white but identify as black then it only costs me $10?
Hmmm. I’ll charge a $100 table fee for all people to sit at my lunch counter. But I will waive the fee for white persons.
I am starting to hate them, nice job lefties
Let me guess: affluent liberal White women are the owners.
The store is in Savannah, Georgia, which is majority black.
The white minority is being discriminated against, as happens when blacks gain power.
You don’t raise eyebrows. You close the store down and arrest the owner.
A “vintage” clothing store? So..like...styles from the 60’s? How many blacks are clamoring to go back to the 60’s? Stupid stupid stupid. Also racist.
Now that is deep-rooted racism.
So if white people can’t pay the $20 what are the other “options”? Maybe shining black people’s shoes like that idiot CEO of Chik fil A.
“This promotional waiver serves the substantial business purpose of centering and prioritizing people who might not be able to access vintage clothing,” store manager Raine Blunk told WJCL.
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Centering and prioritizing people? You’re selling used clothing. Dismount from your high horse.
” “It was not our intention to act in any way that might be perceived as discriminatory and for that we apologize - but whitey still has to pay up. “
And it was not my intention that 6 generations or so ago, some people who were the same color as me (not my ancestors, who were abolitionists and fought against slavery), owned black slaves, but...I’m going to be told to pay reparations for that, too. So, if there’s paying involved, it’s going to be done by white people. Because they’re white.
But they’re not racists. No. Even though they’re white, too.
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