Black family racially profiled while visiting Nike store in Santa Monica

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  1. HockeyDad

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    One of the best indicators that you have jumped the shark....when you start portraying billionaires as victims.
     
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    Every Sunday I grocery shop at the local Walmart. Every Sunday I buy a case of water and put it on the bottom rack of the cart. 95% of the time I get stopped at the door and asked for my receipt by the same black woman.

    So are you telling me now that she is being racist for asking for a receipt?

    Why did this family allow this to escalate so far, just show the manager the receipt? Had she done that it would have been over immediately. What is the manager supposed to think when someone is being belligerent like that?
     
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    Matt84

    I think it is time someone posts the "signature" from your forum information:

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    "I haven't fully decided which candidate I will vote for. In the past, I have always voted the Democratic ticket."- Martin Luther King, Jr., 1956

    Steve was confronted on another thread dealing with Republican racism. I thought he was just being sarcastic/ intoxicated/ self-absorbed.
     
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    Dude, you've done everything you can to avoid describing what the black profile is even though YOU brought it up in post #1. You then go on to call myself and others racist even though YOU said racism is described as inferior or superior but fail to show where anyone made such a suggestion other than what you yourself imply. You seem to have just a single cause on this board and that is to paint all blacks as victims of whites and you don't even see how such thoughts are racially insensitive to blacks who don't want to be considered to be under the feet of white people.

    Give it up, we can all see what you're doing. By refusing to describe what you're accusing someone of, profiling, all you're doing it admitting you screwed up when you let your view of blacks slip out. Instead of manning up, you've danced, deflected, accused others of what you probably are and it's all right here for the world to see. Now eat your peas and admit to what you are.
     
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    A couple questions

    What led the family to think it was based on racism? Was it something said or did they just assume?
    Why not just show a receipt and be done with it?
    Why was the manager fired before any investigation?

    Btw after having worked at a Nike store i can tell you they have security tags on all their shoes and higher cost apparel for a reason. High theft ( and no do not imply any racial aspect to the rate of theft so piss off if you are going to try to smear me on that)

    I'm curious how a "racist" person managed to make it to manager of a Nike store considering the customer base and why this "racist" all of a sudden decided to unleash the inner "racist" for no reason.

    Btw there is not a inch of retail space in those stores that is not on camera.

    Nevermind one aspect of this story.....

    If you read it they were profiled and confronted by a racist manager, had police called which scared them because they were afraid of being shot for being black( its in the article) but after all this returned to the same store for a refund for $12?
     
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    I believe I once asked you to name a person, animal or object that wasn't considered racist by the left. No one got back to me. I guess such a person, animal and object doesn't exist in the world of the left.
     
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    What about it.. They said there were followed in the store at closing time.. OMG the horror? Are you telling me you have never been in a store that was closing and had people *hint* that it was time to go? What world do you live in?

    What did the manager say after "because we did not?" its not easy to hear.. Why put background music and have a kid doing selfies in this video?
     
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    Why didn't the guy just show the receipt from the getgo instead of walking away for blocks?
     
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    Carlos, you seem to share the same thoughts as Matt, so perhaps you'd like to describe for us the profile of black people. Even though you and others will cry PROFILING when it suits you, you'll never tell us what that profile is. Why? Forget it, we all know why.
     
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    Have you read the context? I was responding to someone who said that a black person who dressed like a lawyer wouldn't be profiled. My point is that education level and affluence don't completely prevent profiling, especially when dealing with racists.

     
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    Wasnt that "handbag" around 40k? How many people can afford that? Why assume it was due to race?
     
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    The past two weeks, I've had to frequent Wal-Mart, Lowe's, Home Depot, Hobby Lobby, Michael's, Harbor Freight, and Fed-Ex on an almost daily basis doing work based on both home improvement and my personal free-lance business. I've spent a LOT of money and that involved a lot of receipts. Amazingly, I've been stopped at every one of the doors of every one of those businesses and when I did, I presented my receipts without complaint. Wal-Mart also asked to double-check a random item in my cart, and Lowe's did too. I simply assumed these businesses have an issue with shoplifting and didn't complain. The only business where I didn't present a receipt was the Fed-Ex and that only because the doors are practically right next to the register.

    Oh, I'm not white and I didn't waaaaah wacism. @Matt84, take note. We can't have nice things because there's lots of shoplifters out there. Deal with it.

    Chris Rock should make a sequel to his "How not to get your ass kicked by the police" video. Maybe call it "How not to see everything in the ****ing world as waycism and start creaming to the heavens as a result."
     
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    Honestly, I'd like to discuss "profile" with you so long as you don't go into one of these Republican tangential distractions.

    The Nike employee used incredibly bad judgment over a basketball for $12. She may very have well followed Anglos for 2 blocks but I don't think that is what Nike wants their employees to do :laughing:
     
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    Why are you asking me that question.
    You need to speak with the store.
    Many stores ask all people for receipts upon leaving.
    And we also are not aware of any suspicious behavior.

    The point is you made your conclusion without all the facts.
    How racist of you.


    We had a large store being sued because all the black hair products were locked up when the white ones were not..
    Well, the black ones were stolen all day long.
    Probably by white people..huh.

    Actually theft can be racial.
     
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    I'm not calling that store clerk racist. She seems like a nice enough person, who jumped to incorrect conclusions based on her false impressions. I am saying that a racist doesn't care how affluent you are if they hate you because of skin color and that some people are influenced by racial stereotypes. Therefore, affluence doesn't shield from racial discrimination and profiling. The store clerk shouldn't just look at someone and assume that they can't afford the purchase. Of course, people will wonder what about Oprah's appearance made the clerk think that she couldn't afford the bag. She wasn't poorly dressed. So, you tell me why she was profiled.

     
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    You have no evidence of this in any case.

    Why was she "profiled" as not being able to afford a 40k bag are you serious?
     
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    White people have to show receipts all the time, I cant' count the times I was asked.
    Of course they generally just show them, and get on with their lives.
     
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    Well, of course. If a customer asks to see a bag and the clerk refuses to show you three times because she believes that you can't afford it, you are being profiled.

     
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    Right and race has nothing to do with it.
     
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    Profiling is not illegal, and is used in almost every police, security situation.
    racial profiling is illegal, and played to the hilt by the racists who want to blame something it is not.
     
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    The "profiling" by a store clerk thinking someone does not have enough money is not necessarily a "race" thing. It is a snobbery thing:



    While this is just a scene from a movie, it is also realistic.
     
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    If I am security, watching from above, and I see a gang of 4 white kids enter the store, I am going to watch them.
    Just like if I see 4 black kids.
    However the white kids cannot scream racism.
     
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    I was a hippie in California in the early 70's, and remember going on Rodeo and being watched,, even not let in certain stores.
     
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    You ain't like any California hippie that I can ever recall.
     
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    LOLOL
    I lived in Santa Monica and hung out on Venice boardwalk.
    Bonified hippie, Long hair, tie dyes, veggie.
    Smoked a lot of pot.
     

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