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The Best Buy Clip..... the worker just asked if u need help? Black man says I’m offended because I felt profiled .... so does this mean we can’t give customer service without offending someone... it’s a thin line and overly sensitive. I do believe discrimination and racism still exist but very little compared to history.

So... if we aren't asked if we need help finding something at Best Buy.... it is because we are white... and if we do it is because we are being profiled? So I'm profiled every time I go to Best Buy because every clerk I ever pass asks me if I need a hand finding something ....

They are given 50,000 and I'm given nothing to start up my family while being born here and being raised in a poor family! Also those crossing the border Illgeally should be treated like criminals! Can I go to your country illegally? So why with mine??? More people made rent higher, lower wages from competition and traffic is crazy now! Immigration has helped anyone but the immigrant and made my life harder.. all for being nice. Being nice doenst have any benefits except for being Walked on. Trudeau is just trying to buy votes

I'm not buying any of these lies nobody is out to get you nobody's out to do anything to you stop lying

Sorry. . BUT I don’t feel sorry at all for them. I’m Mexican. And the fact that they had all this money and I’m guessing the wife has free time to self care and watch the kids she could’ve atleast learned to speak English. They don’t seem to be in desperate need!! These are the typical CENTRAL AMERICAN. They seek asylum but yet have money to wear and buy things ‘poor people’ can’t afford. The lady is plumped with her dyed and make up done while the kids are fashionable and look at the car. It’s not new but that vehicle kills gas like crazy. So no!!! I don’t feel bad!

The Best Buy situation doesn't fly with me, they are like sharks and just keep asking you if you need help or whatever... they want to sell you something. I think they are on commission.... so they are pushy. I'm a white guy and they watch me to see if I am going to buy something LOL

I m living in uk for 10yrs now but i misss India very badly every single day of my life. I love my country and proud Indian. You always have feeling of 2nd class citizens in abroad caz u r. Their culture, food, tradition, belief, child upbringing, husband wife bonding, relatives, friend buying meals, respect etc all very very different than us. And thats wht I love in India n not selfish attitude lonely western life.

The Best Buy one is b*******, I'm as white as can be and they do the same thing to me. It's their job, they're trying to sell you s***.

15 years in the United States and still can't speak English? Vice just lost all credibility with me. I'm not buying this bs story.

I could be wrong but best buy probably has alot of shoplifters that visit,so if someone hangs around too long........ I m a white woman born in Canada,no predominant religious sign, I ve recieved a lot of vicious words by different people.ignorance is pretty international. And women also can be blamed of this ignorance.

I'm buying a gun, I don't trust that you aren't a terrorist!

I'm white and have been followed in stores. Still am on occassion. I also had the cops called on me by manager in McDonald's. I was using the WiFi. Manager told cop I didn't buy anything. I showed cop the food & receipt. They didnt want anyone loitering in parking lot.

I’m always scared to get accused of shoplifting, not because I’m black but just because I take ages to look at 1 article. I can stay more then 1 hour in the store. I usually do every aisle even the ones that don’t concern me like the baby section. I just like to see what is new, what is available. \nI live in a country where shoplifting is not really an issue, so I’m used to doing what I want in the shops. I went on holiday in the US and completely forgot that I was not home. I went to target and didn’t take a basket as I was suppose to only buy 1 thing. When I picked up more then 5 articles I put a few in my pocket. It’s only when I got to the cashier that I was like “ I’m crazy this is not my country “. Good thing nothing happened. \nAlso I’m a day dreamer so I always look suspicious in shops.

I get that all the time at Best Buy and I'm white. I think its just a line their management pushes on them to ask. And yes its annoying for everyone.

8:40 that is ridiculous they asked you to help yes I am white and I do get asked that often Best Buy and other retailers I’m sure it is employee training. Racial profiling... ridiculous

when I was 17 I was followed by a store detective. As I was leaving the store, in a very loud voice she accused me of stealing an item. Many people heard, and she had me go in the back storage area, demanding to look through my purse. I refused and told her the item in question I had placed on the shelf, as I did not have enough money to buy it. She told the stock boys not to let me leave and went to check the shelf after I refused to let her search my purse. She came back with the item and told me I could leave. I said I wasn`t going until she apologized to me. She said, ``I`m not going to apologize to you.` She sneered. The detective was black. I am white. I was the victim of racial profiling. This happened in a Shoppers. I wish I had known I was entitled to $8,000.00 like the lady in this film. I am sick of shows like these that racially target whites. To be fair, send a white person in a black neighbourhood store, and see what happens.

Best buy does that for everyone! This is crap! They do the same at Best Buy for me also ... and I'm white!

So either when I go to Best Buy they are either trying to be way too helpful, or they just follow me cause I’m Chinese

I have to say I'm not quite convinced by the Best Buy part, I've had a couple times that I've gone in to browse and been asked as much as 5 or 6 times within under half an hour if I needed help finding anything. And with absolute certainty I can't be assumed to be anything other than Caucasian.

Best Buy is horrible when you go, and i'm white. I get overwhelmed with Best Buy and am constantly being asked if I need help. The rest are just people in a hurry. You won't always be told they have this or that because they are not reading a script.

I'm a white guy every time I am in a Best buy they seem to be trying to provide a service all best buys are different

I'm white woman I go to Best Buy all the time and people at Best Buy ask me can I help you so many times.

it's not the religion.... it's the mac's convenience and the corner stores selling tropicana juice for 6 bucks a liter. It's the family oriented hiring policies and the rural area stores being bought and not offering fishing bait, ice or firewood but instead offering dollar store fishing lures for 20 bucks. it's the electronic stores that sell tape decks and old CD players. The stuff that really makes a bad impression is when a muslim family buys a Pizza Pizza or a subway and then changes the restaurant so that there is no where to be seated and the food is processed by someone who won't look me in the eye once and speaks a language that I can't understand to an employer about my sandwich and i will never know what the problem was. I feel like my spanish and native friends treat me the same as them. I feel like the scottish guy who hates me for not waking up at 5 in the morning is only mad because i'm not working as hard as him. I'm saying that maybe a lot of muslims don't want to be our friends and maybe some do... but it seems like they don't want to be my friend but will message a pretty white girl on every single facebook post with paragraphs of physical praise. i probably get a lot of facts wrong... but that world may be too far away for us to acclimate into each others societies. I'd like it though if we could all live in such a manner where we could feel like we aren't all gunning for a chunk of the world.