Reply #42: Hi DeposetheBoyking and welcome!

[bliss_eternal]

:hi:

So happy that you've decided to join us!

I am very sorry to hear that your husband is sometimes treated differently by salespeople than you. I recall a report on television dealing with this issue to a degree.

I don't recall if it was Dateline or 20/20. Anyway, they conducted an experiment to see how much subjective racism still exists, particularly focusing on salespeople in retail environments.

They had a white man and a black man go into several stores to see how long it would take each to be greeted and assisted. With all but ONE store, everytime the white man was greeted immediately or w/in three minutes. The black man didn't fare nearly as well. Several stores never even spoke to the black man! It was insane!

When they took their findings back to the store managers or corporate reps, only ONE store was even interested in the information. The one store actually viewed the footage, and went about showing it to the store sales reps, apologized, and stated they would be following up with the staff, etc.

It's amazing to me how different some things still are in this country when you have brown skin.