[Another day in America] John Henson racially profiled at jewelry store

I'm inferring here that blacks were quoted equivalent, or lower rents than whites, 60% of the time; and that Hispanics were quoted identical or cheaper rents than whites 66.7% of the time. Furthermore, if there's a general tendency for leasing agents to quote rents that are all over the place for all applicants, rather than at a set one for whites, then there are bigger issues at play. Apartment complex administrators and human resource clerks are the largest concentration of dumb, desk-bound women on the planet; you have to figure that more heavily into their autistic selection processes than some dog-eared copy of the Turner Diaries or a Prussian Blue playlist.

 

Yeah..the employee thought that an nba player would snatch the Rolex and run.. That area whitefish bay is quite racist it seems.

With all the twisting and spinning of the story the store owner is trying to make, it still doesn't make sense. He has to publicly apologise at the least.

I would be more on guard of two shady white males than two african american females walking towards me. Answers your question.

 

he's a young elite shotblocker good rim protector off the bench with a left hook and comically huge arms.
Just got his extension and wanted to buy his first Rolex to celebrate and this happens.

 

No one should be on guard against anyone doing the exact same thing they are. I think most street-crossing analogies are overblown self-deprecation, nobody's walking a sine curve to the bodega in broad daylight.

 

Bigots gonna bigot... it's pretty sad reading some of the comments here, felt like I was in the comment section of Yahoo news. I like the how one troll tries to shame the entire African American community like they are responsible for the actions of every black person. Unless he had on a ski mask and was toting a weapon there's no reason to defend the actions of the store owner/employees. Maybe it's because I'm fairly young (22) and grew up with friends of various races/ethnicity but I have absolutely no respect for bigots that feel everyone should conform to their views of how a person should look like. My friend's dad was severely beaten almost to death by 3 white guys simply because he was a Muslim working at a gas-station. Maybe look in the mirror and see how you can be a better person before you spew self-righteous vitriol directed towards some-one else.

 

depends on the shadiness part not on their skin colour. You shouldn't be on guard in an ideal world. But in the real world you may get mugged. Unless in the place you live in there is no crime?

 

Lol, literally locking the door and running to the back of a store when a young black man walks up. Terrible.

To be honest a lot of their fear also probably came from him being damn near 7 feet tall, mixed with him being young, black, and he probably wasn't wearing anything formal.


If a 60 year old 5'10 black man wearing a suit walked in I doubt it would be the same reaction. Either way, it's a shame and shouldn't have happened.

 

Kanye West's fashion line may be scary, but I wouldn't characterize it as hood wear.


Really, in a broader sense, bigoted views are rarely based in a wealth of experience but rather an irrational ignorance of a particular group. The classic "would you rather" racial profiling questions seems more and more silly to the people who've spent significant time with a variety of people from different ethnic backgrounds.

 

Pretty ****ed up, this **** happens all the time where I'm at, maybe they thought he was Larry sanders dew

 

Is he wearing shoulder pads?

 

But the devil...

is in the details.

Johny boy pulled up in the same colored Yukon that was part of an attempted robbery on the store in the last year. The employees did their job and the cops ran his plates. Nobody was arrested.

This thread would be 2 posts long if you ladies could wipe away the tears and read the story. Of course, that part of the story is much easier to ignore because the faux outrage crew hasn't had enough fuel to throw on their fire the past few months.

A runway collection has no relevance whatsoever to what's actually sold in stores or online. Posting that image would be like stating the globetrotters and NBA playoffs are the same thing.

 

Have you red store's public announcement? Literally what I said: there's always two sides to the story. There is literally nothing wrong with what the store did and calling them or me racist is hypocritical. Have you seen how NBA players dress? It's totally ok to call their style gangsta. Unless you think of gangsta as 1990 gangsta.
Also homeless looking people don't get accepted in various establishments because of the way they look, ugly people don't get jobs because they look ugly, but no one gives a **** about that. Being poor and ugly is just like being caucasian or asian - something you are born with and can't change. Making one problem bigger than the other is hypocrisy. Henson in a millionaire who went to college, his parents and sister went to college, didn't grew up in a rough neighborhood, he grew up in Texas, then moved to Florida; the shop workers likely are bigger victims than he pretends to be. Oh, they hurt my feelings, feel sorry for me, don't feel sorry for people who have legit fear for their lives. Again, if you find this disgusting (what I say), you probably didn't read store's announcement, why they did what they did. Hypocrites gonna hypocrite.
Real nice of Henson to throw store under the bus right away and advertise people to never shop there.

 

Great post.

The first thing I said was this is a whiny entitled millenial social media thing - supported by the clowns who relate to that - not race. You can bet cold, hard, cash Harden wouldn't have run to social media to react this way as he actually overcome adversity growing up and wasn't an athletic, 7 foot millionaire.

As expected, Henson comes off as a loser once the facts come out. If he had any self respect he'd apologize to the store (police have corroborated their story) and let them go on conducting business.

If the rest of you had any self respect, you'd delete your cliche diatribes about this being related to race. But you don't - and that's why at the end of the day, you'll wake up in the same place you were yesterday.

Spoiler

Heh, Heh, Heh.

 

You fail at basic reading comprehension it seems.

Here is the synopsis for you in simple english:
Thursday Oct 15th: Person calls store between 2PM and 3PM and inquires about closing times. Closing time is 5.30PM
Friday Oct 16th: Person (not known if same person as day before) calls about closing times. Clerks decide to close at 5PM because of suspicious calls. Police camp outside from 3.57PM. At 4.58PM Henson + entourage of 3 arrive, store is closed, lights turned off, discussion with clerk (assuming something along the lines of "You said you were open til 5.30PM over the phone?"). Henson+3 drive off.
Friday Oct 16th: Officers check Henson's plates. Dealer plates. "Might be stolen, but not reported stolen." Tells this to store, lets them know to inform the police if car returns.
Sunday Oct 18th: Store owner tells police a jewelry store in Green Bay(which is ANOTHER CITY two hours away!) got robbed by hooded white man, gives surveillance footage. (Store owner's store was robbed once 2 years ago)
Monday Oct 19th: Police arrives at store at 1.20PM. Henson+1 are outside, and the store won't let them in. Locked. Police gets informed he's a Buck, and that Bucks get cars from dealership. Police calls store to get them to open up front. Store wants police to come out back. Police goes out back and informs store that person is a Milwaukee Buck. Store re-opens, but wants police to stand-by as Henson+1 shop. Police refuses and leave the store and area.


John Hensons car or any car similar to that description was NOT involved in any robbery. He had gone to the shop THREE days before himself to the store and everytime he went there the shop was "closed" for him.

Now let's hear your racistic spin/explanation on why the store wanted the policeman to stand by while Henson was checking the Rolex watches.

 

This whole post is a racistic drivel. I'm sorry for you. Too bad that you live in a country that finds it acceptable to refuse services to someone because of the color of their skin or their appearance.

Oh,and you know nothing about Henson and how he dresses and behaves.

 

I have seen some pretty bad posts in here creating unintentional comedy - but this one might outdo them all. It's always great when someone gets behind a keyboard and tries to go hard on something they're generally clueless about. Take a seat and give yourself a pat on the back Ally McBeal, you've earned it with some exemplary TV lawyer skills.

http://larrybrownsports.com/basketball/police-jewelry-store-john-henson/278676

Store was on high alert due to recent robberies , why should someone being a professional ball player change that?

See, Juwan Howard.

See, Rex Chapman.

There are racist incidents in the US, but this wasn't one of them. Ironically . . . that always turns out to be the case with anything social media jumps on.

 

I think ppl like you who deflect the issue are almost WORSE than the racist ppl who profiled this poor kid. People need to stop making excuses and call out racism when they see it

 

Interesting statistics

 

I was robbed at gun point to my head by 2 African American brothers at 5am going to work one morning. Ever since I haven't been the same. Maybe the store employees/owners have had a traumatic experience who knows?? Sucks for John Henson tho.

 

When I was young, my house was robbed by some Mexican Americans. What's your point?