OPINION:
An alleged racial profiling incident at a Los Angeles-area Home Depot has brought a $1 million lawsuit by actor Tyrese Gibson and two of his associates.
After learning that Mr. Gibson and his party had experienced “outrageous discriminatory mistreatment and consumer racial profiling first-hand,” according to the suit, I thought about my own Home Depot shopping experiences. These have involved prolonged checkouts due to apparent system glitches and a humiliating and demeaning lack of acknowledgment from cashiers.
Because I consider myself “diversified and blended,” it never once dawned on me that Home Depot’s actions could have been discriminatory. I only thought it boiled down to a lack of good customer service.
Is playing the race card here really necessary? Or is this merely a case of another privileged actor who didn’t receive the preferential treatment he thought he deserved?
RICK KNIGHT
Henrico, Virginia
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