"When a salesman at a popular beauty establishment commented that my name sounded “tribal” or a clerk at a Fifth Avenue establishment informed me upon entry that they don’t carry anything “someone like me would be interested in,” I asked to speak to the manager"
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Janelle Okwodu in Shopping While Black: Why I’m No Longer Afraid to Call Time on Racial Profiling (August 29, 2018)
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