Obviously, anything to do with luxury fashion is already dramatically removed from reality, but this is hard to believe. A Versace outlet store in Pleasanton, California uses a code for any time "a black person entered the store". Clearly, racism is dead.
Think about that for a minute. If you're a white person, how would you feel if you walked into a store and heard somebody use a code that you knew meant "a white person is here"? How would it make you feel just to know that it happens at all? Think about the added emotional burden that all non-white, non-straight, non-males in this country have to deal with every day of their lives. If that happened to me, it would be a real struggle for me to stop myself from going over a counter after somebody. And to know that if I did that, I'd be labeled a thug? And to know that the next day, when I went to the gas station or the grocery store, it would be the same thing? It's a burden that's too much to even think about. And it's a burden that will last until bigotry is stamped out. As a straight, white, male I consider it my responsibility to do as much stamping as I can.
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