In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure how to respond to a confrontation with another shopper at a store.
In today's Asking Eric column, R. Eric Thomas responds to someone who isn't sure how to respond to a confrontation with another shopper at a store.
As I walked away, she confronted me, saying she would have offered to help if the roles were reversed. This made me feel guilty, so I offered to assist her, but she declined and walked away upset. Other things are less clear. We’ll never know if your race was a motivator for her, consciously or unconsciously. But, as a person of color, being yelled at in public like that possibly brought up hard emotions for you from other experiences that were more overtly racialized. It’s healthy to process that.
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