That’s the most important part: motivations don’t matter, impact matters. Whatever the motivations, one race is being treated differently than others. The data is in the video: hundreds of White-targeted products can be taken directly from the shelves, Black-targeted products require the customer to find an employee,…

I’ll gladly take the coffee, but I don’t understand what you’re getting at here. Of course the store knows *what* it has lost. My comment was the store is requiring a race of people to go through an inconvenience without knowing *who* is stealing the products, and thousands of other “common theft items” are not…

And now we’re back to you just not wanting to get it.

Logic Wow yourself, sir. It matters not who they think is stealing, they indeed have data on who is *purchasing* these products. They know who is purchasing the products and thusly that just this one demographic faces an extra step in purchasing their hair care products. That is the premise of the discriminatory…

Hahahaha. Pressing you to the point that you imagine that you are

Who’s man is this? What are we doing about the racists showing up on The Root?

I’m not saying if they can’t secure everything, there’s no point in securing anything. I’m saying the process to secure these specific items is done in a way that suggests the motivation is person-based, not solely in pursuit of loss prevention. You don’t want to get it. That’s fine. I’m a consumer of these products…

I guess reading comprehension isn’t your strong point. Your arguments make no sense. So little sense, that you don’t even realize you’re agreeing with me. The loss prevention data collection portion was used to describe the fact the stores have no real, convenient way to track who is stealing what. Thank you for…

Nope. That’s my response for glassing items in the name of PREVENTING theft. y’all crack me up putting the cart before the horse here. We have no data on anything being actually stolen. You’re just assuming (or taking the store’s word) that must be why these things are behind the glass as if it’s fact. It’s a farce.…

I have been to several Walmart’s in at least 6 different states- including “black neighborhoods” and that has never been my experience. Never. I invite anyone to post picks of a Walmart hair care aisle with the product mix you describe.

Maybe she’ll learn to love the xylophone part, at least :)

You’re a sheep looking for a cliff to fall off. If a new store opens up that NO ONE has stolen a thing from and there are products cased to prevent their theft, it is because the company has decided the inconvenience to the customer is less important than PREVENTING potential thefts. We have no proof of who has…

Gambino gave the best performance of the night, IMO. I still listen to his beautiful album but had no hope he’d win. 

Negritude? You’re doing too much in this comment. 

If they have special tags at all.

Please look up the most frequently shoplifted items and then let us know how ridiculous the statement, “anything that gets stolen a lot, is going to get locked up” sounds. Maybe as ridiculous as saying “it’s stereotyping, but . .” and feeling good about actually finishing that sentence.

Ok, cool. Then why isn’t meat, the most commonly shoplifted item, behind a locked case?

You’re just plain wrong. One doesn’t have to have access to the store’s inventory and accounting- a quick trip to the store or the video here itself reveals AISLES of White-centered products and a tiny selection of Black-targeted products. Their buying patterns are clear for the casual observer to confirm there are…

Nope, the premises are flawed. The issue isn’t that anything is behind a lock and buying it takes longer. The problem is that the products most purchased by Black people are behind locks and White-favored products are not.

My favorite part of this episode of Saltine Angst is Houston’s Very Own Mark Kelley getting thrown in just because. You’re a camera man. A camera man. You’re a White man that can be a man working a camera at other places which require a camera man. You work for NBC. And you somehow think your job and that of the…