Do you really SEE? I was in superstore the yesterday standing in the “10 items or less line”. There was a very European woman (my own stereotypical judgment) probably 55-65 yrs old. Behind her was a man in his 30’s form an African background although he was wearing an oversized baseball/toque color striped cap. I was standing behind him. The woman placed her items on the counter but did not remove her basket from the shelf. The man then asked her to move the basket so that he had somewhere to place his while he unloaded. She first ignored him, and then looked him up and down giving him a disgusted look of despise. I watched the whole thing- and then wondered how many looks a day he gets? I moved the basket, watched the European woman leave and saw this young man’s daughter of 10 years old come bouncing over. Does she experience the same as her father? What makes us so ignorant and make these judgments? Is it our right to judge one another? How do we change it?
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