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NEW: Two black men say they were kicked out of Walmart for wearing protective masks. Others worry it will happen to them.
Wellesley professor @M_P_Jeffries: “Black folks can’t even wear hooded sweatshirts without being accused of being criminals.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/09/masks-racial-profiling-walmart-coronavirus/
Wellesley professor @M_P_Jeffries: “Black folks can’t even wear hooded sweatshirts without being accused of being criminals.” https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/04/09/masks-racial-profiling-walmart-coronavirus/
Kip Diggs, a Nashville entrepreneur: “As an African American man, I have to be cognizant of the things I do and where I go, so appearances matter. I have pink, lime green, Carolina blue so I don’t look menacing. I want to take a lot of that stigma and risk out as best I can.”
Rev. Cory Anderson in Little Rock:
“At one point I looked in my car mirror and I had the mask on, which was black, and a hoodie on, which was black, and I thought, ‘Okay, this is not necessarily a good look.’” He removed his hood “because it felt like it was too much.”
“At one point I looked in my car mirror and I had the mask on, which was black, and a hoodie on, which was black, and I thought, ‘Okay, this is not necessarily a good look.’” He removed his hood “because it felt like it was too much.”
Art Fennell in Atlanta: “Then it hit me that this is clearly a different day and time that we are in. Here I am, a black man in a bank, wearing a mask and sunglasses and a hat and gloves, and the teller said, ‘Welcome to Wells Fargo. Please come in.’”
