New apps manufacture it easier than ever for stores to target and share information about often-harmless African American shoppers,even as genuine thieves get awayTargeting people of color as potential thieves is as old as American commerce itself. You can even probably rattle off the names of major retailers accused of profiling from convenience stores to tall end fashion shops: CVS, Macy’s, and Zara,Barney’s. They’ll take our money, but treat us like an animals while they carry out it.
But when I read the Washington Post headline “The secret surveillance of ‘suspicious’ blacks in one of the nation’s poshest neighborhoods”, and I was surprised. In what nation was the secret surveillance of anyone,never intellect black people trying to shop, a secret? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com