I've noticed that when I go to certain grocery stores with my wife (I'm black and she's hispanic), particularly stores that mostly either black people shop at, or hispanic people go to, we get nothing be weird stares like we did something wrong. Some times people look at use like we just robbed a bank. And it never fails that usually the only people who are friendly to us are light skinned black women.
When we buy our food at the register, most black girls won't even look me in the eye, and they treat my wife like she doesn't even exist. No, "how are you", or "have a nice day", nothing. Even if we're polite, we get no response most of the time. The same goes in stores that mostly hispanics work at and go to.
When it's a white grocery store, most people are kind, polite, and helpful. I get the feeling if I was married to a white girl, I'd probably get the cold shoulder at those stores instead.
Any one else go through discrimination at stores? And how do you deal with it?
2006-11-19
21:28:12
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