In one of Claudia Rankine's most prominent part of Citizen, she includes the script for the Stop-and-Frisk portion of the Situation video, describes a situation where racial profiling led to the arrest of an innocent African-American man, simply browsing a shop.
"And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description."
After doing some browsing on youtube, I discovered a video that gave meaning to this statement. The video is a compilation of young Black men around my age, filming themselves as they are shopping in grocery stores, convenience stores, Walmart etc. However, in each video, they are being followed by a store clerk. The clerk is following them, because they are the "one guy who is always the guy fitting the description."
The video title dubs this phenomenon "Shopping While Black". The video gives true insight to those who have do not fit the description, to the experiences of those who do.
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