Oprah Winfrey 'was victim of racism' in Switzerland

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139. I agree, if Oprah is treated this way in this store by this salesperson

it's pretty likely every other black person is treated the same in that store (and given that there's no sample of a white American billionaire tourist being treated differently, it's possible that the sales person is equally snotty to women, or tourists, or Americans, not JUST black people). This is normally the sort of thing that one would dismiss as "first world problems" though.

The REAL difference between this and the racism many experience day to day, and the reason I think this may garner less understanding from those who experience racism on a daily basis, is recourse. As bad as racism is, what makes it even worse is the lack of recourse most victims have. Get stopped and frisked for being black? What power does one person or even small group of people have to do anything to prevent this from happening to others in the future? Oprah has at her fingertips the sort of recourse people would like to have when experiencing such problems.