When You’re “Black” Listed

This is back when I was a little kid. I was in line in a grocery store behind a loudmouthed customer.

Customer: “I don’t want that Black boy bagging my groceries.”

The manager (a family friend) got called over to see what the problem was.

Manager: “Okay, time for you to get out and not come back.”

Customer: “I just want someone else to bag my groceries.”

Manager: “And I just want your racist a** to leave.” 

The customer “humphed” and left without his groceries. The manager had someone follow him to his car and get the license plate, and then he called the only other grocery store in town and told his buddy, the manager there, what had happened. He was denied entry into the other store.

There wasn’t another decent-sized grocery store for more than fifty miles.

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