White Fragility Digest #8: 21 May 2018

[MrScorpio]

3. Stories about racist incidents involving African Americans...

Stories about racist incidents involving African Americans in retail stores and restaurants are on the rise.

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The number of African Americans reporting racial profiling incidents is on the rise since two Black men were arrested last month at a Philadelphia Starbucks for Sitting While Black.

RELATED: Calls For Starbucks Boycott After The Company’s Weak Apology For A Racist Arrest

Recently, a nationally known motivational speaker called out a manager at a Sambuca 360 restaurant in Plano, Texas for threatening to call the cops on him and his wife out after they sat down to enjoy a meal. Johnny Wimbrey was asked to move to another table to make room for a regular customer who was White. When he questioned the move, he was called a trespasser.

In the retail clothing industry, two African-American girls were asked to leave a Fuego store in Tacoma, Washington earlier this week after they questioned why a manager was talking about theft procedures outside of the dressing rooms. Simone Intrepid Gamble, one of the girls, posted an incident video early Tuesday (May 8) morning.

Three young Black men were also falsely accused of stealing at Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood, Missouri. Employees profiled Mekhi Lee, 19, and high school students Eric Rogers and Dirone Taylor as they shopped for prom clothes on Thursday. The police were told that the Black men were shoplifting, but they took nothing.

https://newsone.com/3797834/black-people-racist-retail-restaurant-incidents-rise/