I love handbags

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102. Here's what I believe...

I believe that I don't know exactly why she was treated however she was treated because:

1. I wasn't there

2. I don't have some secret pipeline into that shop clerk's mind.

It's just as possible that Oprah was dressed rather casually, causing the shop clerk to judge her buying power based on her clothing.

It's also just as possible that there may have been some slight communication problem between Oprah and the Italian clerk.

I was thinking earlier of how different this whole thing could be based on different sets of information.

The story could have said, "Buyer denied merchandise purchase in Swiss shop". People would have wondered, WTF??? Classism, maybe?

The story could have said, "Famous woman denied purchase of costly purse in Swiss shop" and people would have been jumping up and down yelling "SEXISM!!!"

But the story is that a black woman was denied access to an expensive purse and now everyone is absolutely positive it was "RACISM!!!111"

Because, yeah...every single unfortunate thing involving a white and non-white person must always be about "racism". How boring life would life be if people couldn't accuse others besides themselves of being racists?



Like I said...I wasn't there. I guess everybody who's convinced they know exactly what happened and why, WAS there. In a little shop in Switzerland.

right.