Van I got racially profiled at the post office. Messed up my day.
I went to buy a sheet or two of stamps. They had a very proud looking American Indian chief stamp i asked for two sheets.
Asian guy helping me. Or was he? He goes around to the other windows and gathers up two sheets of the stamp I want but he brings an additional sheet of a Black guy sitting in a chair. I think it was the author Ernest J. Gaines.
He says: " do you want the Black one too" <--- Set Up!!!
I say " No thank you just the two American Indian one's "
African American Gal at the next window not helping any customers just jawboning like crazy, she says loudly so the whole line can here..." Woa! is That the way it is... Alright, Alright... Black Is Beautiful Baby..."
Now this is me the most liberal thinking white dude you can find in these maters of race, the same guy that bought up the Toni Morison stamp; I bought the Harriet Tubman stamp; I bought the Edmonia Lewis who was Balck and American Indian; I bought a beautiful Sarah Vaughan forever stamp, I bought Malcolm X stamp and Dr King's//// what more do you want!!!
I have never bought an American Indian stamp I remember. I should of yelled all of that out right back at her. Instead I skulked away.
Not to mention the art direction which is killer on the Indian Chief //not so much on the Black author sitting in a chair...
I went to buy a sheet or two of stamps. They had a very proud looking American Indian chief stamp i asked for two sheets.
Asian guy helping me. Or was he? He goes around to the other windows and gathers up two sheets of the stamp I want but he brings an additional sheet of a Black guy sitting in a chair. I think it was the author Ernest J. Gaines.
He says: " do you want the Black one too" <--- Set Up!!!
I say " No thank you just the two American Indian one's "
African American Gal at the next window not helping any customers just jawboning like crazy, she says loudly so the whole line can here..." Woa! is That the way it is... Alright, Alright... Black Is Beautiful Baby..."
Now this is me the most liberal thinking white dude you can find in these maters of race, the same guy that bought up the Toni Morison stamp; I bought the Harriet Tubman stamp; I bought the Edmonia Lewis who was Balck and American Indian; I bought a beautiful Sarah Vaughan forever stamp, I bought Malcolm X stamp and Dr King's//// what more do you want!!!
I have never bought an American Indian stamp I remember. I should of yelled all of that out right back at her. Instead I skulked away.
Not to mention the art direction which is killer on the Indian Chief //not so much on the Black author sitting in a chair...
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