Not been hiding, I had company. Will try and remember all questions asked of me.
I maintain that in the under 40s I have not heard a recent racist comment. Perhaps that's luck, the fact I am known to be intolerant towards intolerance or the fact that I had an English BF of Caribbean descent, for five years. I'm not saying it doesn't exist, I am saying I haven't recently experienced it, which is different.
My OP was, that unless the sales assistant had openly made a comment inferring that Oprah's race was an issue in the handling of the bag, how can she be sure it was race related. It may well be but I would dearly love for everyone to be treated as equals, in my sad little Pollyanna, rose tinted spectacled world.
I did say I was happy to be told I was U, but not to be attacked verbally. I was in no way being inflammatory myself, I am genuinely interested in what people think.
MrsDeVere, yes it was English people that called me a sweaty sock. That in no way belittles the experiences of any horrific treatment of any other race group but does give me some insight of what it's like to be seem in a certain light because of my race. This doesn't blow what I said out of the water, like one poster said, you don't have to be Scottish/black/Asian/E. European to hear/see someone being slated because of where they are from, is all. All I meant was that if someone hasn't heard the phrase (and I'm very surprised you haven't) that it may be that you either aren't Scottish or have any Scottish friends or relatives. After a friendly chat with someone in a London pub who wanted to know my opinion on Scottish independence (against fwiw) and we had got into a convo about Scotland's USPs. I was told by a bystander that if Scotland is so great why don't you fuck off home, you sweaty, and stop stealing jobs down here that can go to the English. Charming man!!!
Why do I think Oprah wasn't shown the bag? It COULD have been racially motivated but it could be that the sales assistant was an idiot and a snob/ Oprah was acting in a nonchalant, just browsing manner/ the SA had never heard of Donna Karan, it was closing time and she wanted to go home/ on a crucial part of solving her level on Candy Crush. Who the fuck knows!! I didn't think the Richmond Hill snooty cow had dissed me because I was Scottish, but she did treat me like a piece of shit. It may be because I'm Scottish but I will never know, and despite being Scottish all my life, I'm not aware of the fact that people have misconceptions of me due to that fact unless they tell me so.