ANTHROPOLOGIE DOESN'T CARE ABOUT BLACK PEOPLE

Everyone knows working retail sucks (besides the discount that allows us to waste our paychecks on the company, kind of a recycling scheme).
There is an interesting article I came across on Jezebel, about whimsical retail chain for the ladies, Anthropologie.
Behind their beautifully overpriced dresses, baubles, and adorable home decor, there's an apparent anti-minority perspective that's similar to sister company Urban Outfitters and mega-macho-hunk-loving Abercrombie & Fitch.
This article reveals a former employee's experience with the company, and what the company defines as really shady people.
Check out an excerpt from the article, or click the link above to get the full effect.

But really, for anyone who's glanced at a few of Anthropologie's catalogs it is obvious what the company is trying to shoot for: almost-middle-aged white women whose escapist fantasizing might be interrupted by the sight of a token Asian or black model gracing the pages, but never converted to full-fledged liberal guilt over the idiocy of it all. When I was there, anyone of color who shopped at Anthro was seen as a suspected shoplifter and "shadowed" by a tiny blonde associate who would take everything they picked up to "hold behind the register" (which as any good retail slave knows, is code for "I think you are a shoplifter"). [This happened to me! At the Rockefeller Center store! Ugh. -Ed.] Anyway, the big lesson is that corporations like Anthropologie don't want to trust minorities who shop from them or work for them, or really, anyone who steps out of the lifestyle mold that they have fabricated.

Some of us can indeed refute the fact that there is an anti-minority problem with the company, but some things just are apparent, and even when we know that they don't fully accept non-white people, we still go there to shop anyway.
So what can we do? To shop or not shop, that is the question.