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      <![CDATA[hugs!
        
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      <![CDATA[aw look at everyone getting all upset and shedding white tears because they missed the damn point.
        
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      <![CDATA[The premise of this article is incomprehensible. So wearing red at Target somehow exposes this thick underlying racism?
        
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      <![CDATA[It sounds like you don't like yourself or your teaching job. Maybe you should apply to Target; I heard it's not a bad place to work.
        
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      <![CDATA[Let's make everything a racial issue shall we? I'm white, but every time I go into a Best buy or a target with a Polo shirt on people think I work there.
        
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      <![CDATA[Hi Erica. Welcome to Creative Loafing.
        
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      <![CDATA[*Sigh* I was extremely leery of reading this new column due to Mr. Warner's introduction of Ms. Dawson that was drenched in exoticism. He repeatedly describes her as the  "tallest," "blackest" human in Tampa who is going to give us the reader a bird's eye view of sex and race.
        
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      <![CDATA[Take this for what it is worth: I get asked where things are at every store I shop in. Has to do with looking competent and nothing else.
        
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      <![CDATA[Off subject - I am from Baltimore and have 2 Shih Tzus
        
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      <![CDATA[just say, "i am sorry, but i don't work here.", simmer a few seconds and move on. i can't understand how you feel, but i do know it is usually better to just forget about someone elses stupidity or momentary lapse of thoughtfulness.
        
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      <![CDATA[I never thought "can't see the forest for the trees" was a useful saying until I read these comments.<br>
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If one had read past the headline and first line, he or she would have read "When you’re black, lots of people want you to be at work, no matter where you are," and "This is what I call everyday racism."<br>
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Maybe we can try to make empathy a little easier. Maybe we could just be less of a douchebag to one another.
        
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      <![CDATA[I've been asked if I was undercover security by fellow customers on more than one occasion. No sir or ma'am, I am just stiff awkward and white.
        
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      <![CDATA[i was asked directions once...why did they pick me?  i haven't been able to look at my gps ever since....
        
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      <![CDATA[Yeah I pretty much target anyone wearing red at target. I've been embarrassed more than once by doing this.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[Wm North]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Get a Life, it's not your color it's the shirt.
        
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      <![CDATA[As someone who has made the mistake of wearing a red shirt to Target, I'm pretty sure the prejudice applies to your shirt, not your skin color.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
A white guy who also wore a blue shirt and khaki pants to Best Buy one time.
        
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      <![CDATA["Stuff White People Like, but Stuff Black People Should Say." Love it.
        
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