Racial Discrimination
Recently, a friend and I walked into this high-profile designer perfume shop inside a mall in London to check out some fragrances. As soon as we entered and greeted the Asian sales lady, she left the till where she initially was, and came out onto the shop floor, literally standing behind us and monitoring us. Although my friend and I are Black, my friend, male, is ‘generously-melanined’ this means that he is very dark-skinned, and he is over 6ft tall as well. This sales-lady kept lurking around us, but I didn’t realise this until later. In no time, an Asian guy–a supposed customer–also walked into the shop, and was checking out the perfumes, meanwhile the sales lady’s eyes were locked on my friend and me. Before we could realise what was happening, we saw the sales-lady rush out of the shop, as if to chase someone–it was the Asian guy who had just entered the shop. He had stolen an expensive perfume and ran away, and the lady unfortunately didn't notice this because her eyes wer...