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Security relentlessly follows black shopper around store (Canada)
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"I do know" is not "what I've been told by the internet". Might want to be more careful when painting an entire country as racist.
Mammoth Jones
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Not shocked. Good he recorded it. Best thing to do is go straight to the store manager. Full stop. No point in debating floor grunts. I'd just go and ask "Is this store policy to follow people around like that?"
You don't even care after a while. Two weeks ago I went into a hood ass 7-11 just to grab a damn red bull. Mofo mopping near the entrance. I go all the way in back grab my red bull, turn around he magically mopping right behind me staring me down.
I got a little salty cause dudes skin just as brown as mine but whatever. Paid for my shit and left.
You don't even care after a while. Two weeks ago I went into a hood ass 7-11 just to grab a damn red bull. Mofo mopping near the entrance. I go all the way in back grab my red bull, turn around he magically mopping right behind me staring me down.
I got a little salty cause dudes skin just as brown as mine but whatever. Paid for my shit and left.
Yup been there done that. Mostly when I was a teenager. I never stole anything and one time decided to have fun with the person following me. I turned into an aisle and when the person tried to go around the other side all slick I had pulled a fake and power walked two aisle down and stood at the edge. The sound of her panicked footsteps rushing around trying to find me was priceless. When she finally found me, I pretended to be looking a display, looked at her and smiled. She gave up after that, lol.
neurosyphilis
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Reading the YouTube comments, why do white people always try to deny or justify racism ? Lol.
"This isn't racism !" You're white, you don't know what the hell racism is becuase you never faced it. You're just being willfully ignorant.
"This isn't racism !" You're white, you don't know what the hell racism is becuase you never faced it. You're just being willfully ignorant.
sir_kevith
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When the cameraman turns back around and the woman is now holding her phone recording him! hahaha
I used to work at a Sears and security was just as bad about this. I remember sitting at my register and security would call me any time a black family came in and ask me to pay attention to them. I'm like uhh sure whatever. I was 16 and knew most the kids in the neighborhood from school lol.
What made things worse is security stole way more than everyone else. They had to fire the entire security team and even press charges on some of them when I was working there.
neurosyphilis
Definitely not an STD, as I'm a pure.
Not surprising as a lot of non-black POC try to look down own black people, and think they're above us. Especially those of Asian descent. That's why when you hear "POC solidarity", it's bullshit because non-black POC are just as racist towards blacks as whites are.
sooperkool
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I used to ask then to carry my bags when they followed me
This is infuriating. I've been to that exact store location many, many times, and also purchased items from the electronics section at the front counter. Being white, I've never been hassled like this at all. If I buy Blu-rays and they forget to demagnetize the anti-theft device, the staff acts surprised if I actually go back to the counter instead of just walking out while the security alarm goes off.
It isn't even like this specific store can claim that they're hyper-focused on security in general; this is clearly a massive double standard.
It isn't even like this specific store can claim that they're hyper-focused on security in general; this is clearly a massive double standard.
Manmademan
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Literally every black person who's gone shopping has run into this one.
shadowsdarknes
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LOL - this is good.
Stores also near universally do it to teenagers too. I remember being followed numerous times when I was younger despite never shopping all that much. It isn't right to do to teenagers and it certainly isn't right to do to minorities.
Ray Wonder
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I wonder how much time of hers he could've wasted by just walking around the store all day. Good on him recording this piece of shit. Hopefully she sees consequences from this.
Gotdatmoney
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This happens pretty much everywhere. No real reason to specify Alberta.
Professor Renegade
Banned
Everyone likes to believe the single story that Canada is everything that the US isn't, but the reality is that racism has never gone away up here.
Ray Wonder
Founder of the Wounded Tagless Children
Like 75% of the time I go to Walmart with one or more of my friends that are black, we get stopped on the way out asking for receipts. I've literally never been stopped without them.
Frankfurter
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What was she thinking? Did she just hope that he'd leave the store at some point? I love how she urges him to stop yelling haha, nice try.
Yo this lady is jokes...
Yeah. If they think you're gonna steal something, they tend to keep a distance. Albeit still very obvious in what's going on with regards to racial profiling, at least from what I've heard from friends with foreign backgrounds, but they're not in your face like this.
So yeah, she's straight up trying to make him leave.
I seriously can't tell if these are serious anymore.
Captin Quacker
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Just another Monday
I had one super fun experience when I was a teenager. I had actually already left this convenience store when the cashier stepped out of the store and started hollering about me being a thief and trying to pass a fake $10 bill. Turns out, dumbass had used a highlighter instead of the counterfeit detector pen. She didn't even apologize for it.
She used a counterfeit detector pen on a TENNER??? I've only ever seen it used on 50's and hundos, with the occasional 20 thrown in.
AppleBlade
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I've had this happen to me a few times before. The most blatant was when I was a teenager and it was a hobby/toy store in the area. The owner/manager was very obviously following me around the store. It was a big store and every time I'd go to a new aisle he would go as well and was watching me without even pretending to be working.
It used to happen to me all the time at this local newstand/magazine shop. That place had one of those corner glass things that allow you to look around the corner. He would just be grilling me in that mirror.
The sad thing is that I was a good customer of both stores and I am basically the opposite of a thief.
I'm so crazy about doing things by the books that when my mom was going to watch my kids while I worked I was adamant about setting up the proper payroll paperwork with the IRS so that I could pay the necessary payroll taxes and pay into her social security and medicare. (I know that sound crazy but technically, you're supposed to almost no one does). I ended up just using a regular daycare.
It used to happen to me all the time at this local newstand/magazine shop. That place had one of those corner glass things that allow you to look around the corner. He would just be grilling me in that mirror.
The sad thing is that I was a good customer of both stores and I am basically the opposite of a thief.
I'm so crazy about doing things by the books that when my mom was going to watch my kids while I worked I was adamant about setting up the proper payroll paperwork with the IRS so that I could pay the necessary payroll taxes and pay into her social security and medicare. (I know that sound crazy but technically, you're supposed to almost no one does). I ended up just using a regular daycare.
Shopping while black is a trip.
Hypemaster
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Same shit, different day/country.
sooperkool
Member
What did you just call me!?!?
This happened to me a few days ago. I got followed around the walmart pharmacy at a town in Quebec. I'm usually oblivious so she had to be pretty obvious for me to have noticed.
I just bought my shit and left. I was in the province for work and with a few other co-workers (shuttle run).
To balance out a shitty story, me and a few co-workers went out when we first got in and the lady that owned the establishment gave us a ride back home. She was awesome.
I just bought my shit and left. I was in the province for work and with a few other co-workers (shuttle run).
To balance out a shitty story, me and a few co-workers went out when we first got in and the lady that owned the establishment gave us a ride back home. She was awesome.
bobbychalkers
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This hasn't hasn't happened to me in the right store yet but I'd definitely hit the underwear section, hold some up to myself and ask for suggestions. I'd want them to feel super uncomfortable.
CrispyBoar
Banned
Good luck with that.
Yep. I'm white and this happened to me a few weeks ago. I needed to buy some packaging stuff for eBay and decided to look at the tech section for a portable charger whilst I was at it. Barely anyone was there but then the security guy just came out of nowhere having obviously been watching me. I find going out normally to be difficult as fuck, profiling cunts like that only make things worse. I haven't been to the place since and I don't think I want to go ever again.
Platinumstorm
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I'm white, but at the local JC Penny growing up [the only place in town to shop for clothes that wasn't Walmart] they would do this all the time, and it was infuriating. It makes you feel unwanted and uncomfortable. A worker just happens to come right next to you and starts to play with clothing that is already perfectly in order, and then follows you wherever you go in the store.
That's how you lose customers.
That's how you lose customers.
elrechazado
Banned
Maybe it's corporate research people following that young hip demographic to find out what products are cool....
Naw probably not.
Naw probably not.
fluffydelusions
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Walmart security cracks me up. It's ALWAYS an older lady. Like cmon if something were to go down apart from calling the cops what's she gonna do.
To quote Slayven
"Been there, done that"
It's not so bad when you're older, but it really fucking sucks when it happens to you when you're in middle school.
Actually there is a reason, considering Alberta is Canada's most racist province. And it's not even rough for just minorities, Alberta is the worst province for women as well.
"Been there, done that"
It's not so bad when you're older, but it really fucking sucks when it happens to you when you're in middle school.
Actually there is a reason, considering Alberta is Canada's most racist province. And it's not even rough for just minorities, Alberta is the worst province for women as well.
Milksheikhs
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Not to sound like an asshole, but how is it profiling? Like what were they profiling you based on?
Gotdatmoney
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Oh okay, I didn't realize all those times I was followed in Ontario I was actually in Alberta.
I recognize it is the most racist province but this is a common occurence for black folk all around Canada. Going "oh just Alberta", makes it seem like its an isolated incident. It really shouldn't be surprising regardless of the location.
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