Louis Gray says he was racially profiled after trying to buy spray paint to make over his son’s bicycle helmet

  • Bytemeister@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Yeah! Why do you need ID to buy a canister of pressurized flammable gas that can also get you high?

    When I worked retail, we were required to ID for gas dusters as well. We also had people come in and request that we put members of their family on a “No sell” list for gas dusters too. That was always sad.

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      3 months ago

      You’re just adding to my point. These rules are only there for “lower class” people. I live in an affluent area and you can get that shit at the dollar store around here, nobody ids you. That shit is easy to get anywhere, and if you’re so worried, don’t sell it.

      As a person of color who grew up in an affluent white area, I also grew up very aware of how I was looked at and treated in contrast to my peers, I got used to certain looks and questions when entering a store.

      Now that I’m an adult I don’t deal with that shit. I bought like 10 cans of spray paint last week for work, and if anyone had asked me for Id or asked what I needed it for I would have told them it was none of their damn business