Black Teen Suing Barneys For Racism Because This Is Racism
I’m not shopping there again,” he said. ”It’s cruel. It’s racist.”
Christian is suing the NYPD and Barneys for unspecified damages.
And due to a question from twitter, I am adding this quote from the same article:
”They said my card wasn’t real, it was fake. They said someone at Barneys called to report it,” said Christian.
I’ve got the happy ending all sorted out in my head about this because I have been sitting here and contemplating how this story could be resolved and I have figured it out:
The Ferragamo company hears about this story and offers a public apology to Trayon, distancing themselves from Barneys and makes him their fall 2013 cover model as a way to make up for how shitty Trayon was treated, and also because he works while he is in college and everyone knows how hard that is on a kid. It would be great PR for them, and it would also give Trayon all of the high end belts he wants so he doesn’t have to subject himself to this racist nonsense again.
This is just such an ugly story and I feel so bad for this kid. I can remember being a teenager and wanting something so bad and working hard for it until I could afford it, but I was never subjected to the sort of profiling this kid was. He was young, black, and buying an expensive item, so the cops detained him. How can we expect our kids to grow up and be good kids when this is how they are treated when they behave in a perfectly normal fashion?
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