A humorous comparison
By now everyone’s heard of Oprah Winfrey’s outrage over a
“racist” Swiss store clerk, who, not recognizing her, refused to show her a $38,000
handbag, exclaiming “No
expensive, it’s too expensive!”
According to Ms Winfrey, she asked a clerk to see a $38,000 Tom
Ford bag behind a glass case, but “she says, ‘No, it’s too expensive.’
“She said, ‘No, no, no you want to see this one because that one
will cost too much,” Winfrey
recalled, with the clerk adding, “You
won’t be able to afford that one.’
.
“She refused to get it…said Winfrey, then added ‘I don’t want to hurt your feelings,’ and I said,‘Okay, thank you so much, you’re probably right I can’t afford it.’ Now why does she do that?”
“She refused to get it…said Winfrey, then added ‘I don’t want to hurt your feelings,’ and I said,‘Okay, thank you so much, you’re probably right I can’t afford it.’ Now why does she do that?”
Indeed WHY would anyone not be willing to rake in a sale on a
$38,000 handbag?! The store owner has claimed it came down to confusion over
the clerk’s incomplete command of English. The clerk has said she only meant to
offer her other choices of similar bags that cost less…something she claims to
do for everyone.
.
Store owner Trudie Goetz publicly defended her employee, telling Reuters, “This is an absolute classic misunderstanding” possibly caused by the clerk’s imperfect command of English.”
Store owner Trudie Goetz publicly defended her employee, telling Reuters, “This is an absolute classic misunderstanding” possibly caused by the clerk’s imperfect command of English.”
When asked by the Swiss newspaper what should would say to
Winfrey if she had the chance to talk to her again, the clerk responded: “I would apologize and say it
was all a misunderstanding.” (http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/gossip/oprah-account-racism-switzerland-true-shop-clerk-article-1.1424327).
That perceived slight is, to Oprah Winfrey, a sure-fired bit of
“racism,” after all, according to her own account “What else could it be?”
Funny story, a very similar thing happened to another big media
star, albeit with a very different result.
A New York City hotel kicked out one of the stars of “Duck
Dynasty” after an employee mistook him for a homeless man.
Appearing along with his family on “Live with Kelly and Michael” Wednesday morning, Jase Robertson
described the incident.
“The first thing that happened to me at the hotel was I got
escorted out,” Robertson
said, joking that it was a “facial-profiling
deal.” Robertson said that the hotel employee simply didn’t know
who he was.
“I asked where the bathroom was and he said, ‘Right this way,
sir.’ He was very nice,”Robertson explained. “He walked me outside, pointed
down the road and said, ‘Good luck.’”
Robertson continued, “So
I circled back around and my wife said, ‘What happened?’ and I just said I just
got kicked out.”
Robertson took it in stride and didn’t blame the employee for
the incident. Robertson continued to stay at the hotel despite the incident.
This would be funny if it weren’t so tragic. America has built
up a massive grievance industry that actively encourages blacks and some others
to blame everything bad in their lives on “racism.”
A person who believe they’re “poor because of racism,” proves
that it’s behaviors, like the lack of skills, especially a lack of cognitive
skills (a/k/a “stupidity”) that causes poverty, not misfortune.
Ironically enough that attitude itself (looking outward to blame
others for our problems) amounts to a huge disadvantage to those who embrace
it.
The ONLY way to change your circumstances is to improve yourself
and if you blame your misfortunes on others and outside forces, you’ll never
look inward to improve.
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