I Experienced Racism
[b][i][c=#BF0080]Originally posted on EP.[/c][/i][/b]
[c=#BF0080]Or Prejudice? I'm not sure which one fits this scenario best. Anyways, it was back in high school when i was in 11th grade. I'm black and this was the time that my fashion sense started to peak, i got more into cosmetics, using them, buying them, and teaching others how to do their nails and stuff because i got interested in nail art around this time to. There was and still is an independently owned beauty supply store at my home shopping center. I used to go there very frequently after school, and buy nail polish to add to my now heaping nail polish collection i have on my wall. The store owner who happened to be a white man seemed alright. He used to joke with me and say "Manicure time again i see?!! ;)" And i would laugh and joke along with him. Despite his kindness i noticed that he always payed EXTRA close attention to me whenever i came in there. I figured i was thinking to deep into it though because i am prone to some super paranoia and i figured store owners keep an eye on the customers anyways. Well one day i went in there to buy some nail polish again. I went over to the isle and reached into my bag to put my phone away after a call. I'm telling you he went straight up INSANE! He ran over to me and screamed startling me and said "NAH UH, NAH UH! TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR BAG!" Now i was 16 here you guys.... If this was me NOW I would have cussed this mofo's ass out! I stood up for myself and told him that i only put something of mine in my bag, and he apologized. I still bought what i wanted but again, if this were NOW. I would have stormed out and never have bought a thing from there again. I took a 2 month hiatus from shopping there to kind of release some tension and then i went back again. Boy was i wrong in ever going back. When i did i went to the nail polish isle as usual and the white man who was the manager stopped me and said "Hey i think you're stealing from my store!" Then he called some black woman who was in the back handling supplies over to identify if it were me and she nodded her head yes. Infuriated because clearly these ignorant fools had no idea what they were talking about i left immediately! I came back with my mom the same day and she cussed them out, and the manager said it had nothing to do with RACE even though we never even said to him that we thought he was racist, so clearly he was! He said they just had a problem with kids from the high school stealing a lot. Yea right. RACIST FOOL! -.- I never went back there again![/c]
[c=#BF0080]Or Prejudice? I'm not sure which one fits this scenario best. Anyways, it was back in high school when i was in 11th grade. I'm black and this was the time that my fashion sense started to peak, i got more into cosmetics, using them, buying them, and teaching others how to do their nails and stuff because i got interested in nail art around this time to. There was and still is an independently owned beauty supply store at my home shopping center. I used to go there very frequently after school, and buy nail polish to add to my now heaping nail polish collection i have on my wall. The store owner who happened to be a white man seemed alright. He used to joke with me and say "Manicure time again i see?!! ;)" And i would laugh and joke along with him. Despite his kindness i noticed that he always payed EXTRA close attention to me whenever i came in there. I figured i was thinking to deep into it though because i am prone to some super paranoia and i figured store owners keep an eye on the customers anyways. Well one day i went in there to buy some nail polish again. I went over to the isle and reached into my bag to put my phone away after a call. I'm telling you he went straight up INSANE! He ran over to me and screamed startling me and said "NAH UH, NAH UH! TAKE IT OUT OF YOUR BAG!" Now i was 16 here you guys.... If this was me NOW I would have cussed this mofo's ass out! I stood up for myself and told him that i only put something of mine in my bag, and he apologized. I still bought what i wanted but again, if this were NOW. I would have stormed out and never have bought a thing from there again. I took a 2 month hiatus from shopping there to kind of release some tension and then i went back again. Boy was i wrong in ever going back. When i did i went to the nail polish isle as usual and the white man who was the manager stopped me and said "Hey i think you're stealing from my store!" Then he called some black woman who was in the back handling supplies over to identify if it were me and she nodded her head yes. Infuriated because clearly these ignorant fools had no idea what they were talking about i left immediately! I came back with my mom the same day and she cussed them out, and the manager said it had nothing to do with RACE even though we never even said to him that we thought he was racist, so clearly he was! He said they just had a problem with kids from the high school stealing a lot. Yea right. RACIST FOOL! -.- I never went back there again![/c]
26-30, F
