'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
#1'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:34am
A black actor on the HBO drama series "Treme" said in a lawsuit on Friday that he was stopped because of his race while buying sunglasses at Macy's — the third discrimination allegation made this week by a black shopper against a department store.
Earlier this week, two Barneys New York customers came forward with similar stories. Trayon Christian and Kayla Phillips, who are black, said they were detained by police after making expensive purchases at the store.
Everyone knows people of color can't afford to shop at Macy's and Barney's. /sarcasm
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#2'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
Posted: 10/26/13 at 10:41am
and then Macy's had a fire.
(twilight zone music)
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#2'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
Posted: 10/26/13 at 11:34am
Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly said it's standard practice for retailers to call police after they believe crimes are committed in stores and the cases are under investigation.
So being a person of color and making an expensive purchase is an alleged crime now? This is such blatant racial profiling and stereotyping.
"You travel alone because other people are only there to remind you how much that hook hurts that we all bit down on. Wait for that one day we can bite free and get back out there in space where we belong, sail back over water, over skies, into space, the hook finally out of our mouths and we wander back out there in space spawning to other planets never to return hurrah to earth and we'll look back and can't even see these lives here anymore. Only the taste of blood to remind us we ever existed. The earth is small. We're gone. We're dead. We're safe."
-John Guare, Landscape of the Body
#3'Treme' actor: NYC Macy's stopped me because of race
Posted: 10/26/13 at 11:42amSad, but true - - - racism isn't going anywhere. That it's still an issue in this day and age is the proof.
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