well, there's always arriving on time
Dr. Sheron C. Patterson, senior pastor of Highland Hills United Methodist Church, wrote a lengthy op-ed piece in Saturday's Dallas Morning News pointing up the behavior of Hermes, a posh boutique chain for the all-too-wealthy, when they refused service to Oprah Winfrey. But it's unclear if she was making more of a statement about black people being treated badly or about Oprah being treated badly. These are two very, very different issues.
Hermes apparently turned Oprah away when she arrived after closing time, wanting to purchase a gift for a friend. Our story really should stop right there. Whether Hermes is wrong for one thing or another is kind of moot when you focus on the real problem: Oprah Winfrey needs a new watch. Better yet: some new sensibilities.
Hermes closes at 6:30 p.m. Oprah arrived at 6:45. It's reported that people were still in the store shopping, but who here in the real world hasn't been in a store when they closed, allowing you to finish shopping while not allowing more customers in? Fact is, Oprah Winfrey thought she could use her celebrity and popularity to go somewhere that no one else could, do something that isn't allowed for anyone else, and to be treated specially, which is apparently what happens when you make billions of dollars and get your head fiilled with fan adoration. That swelling of the pocketbook and the head makes you think you're better than the rest of us. Well, sorry, sweetie, but Hermes must not play along with that game.
Now, Hermes can be held responsible for some bad calls as far as the initial reports that they had turned her away because she was black, and the store had been having trouble with "North Africans". Let's assume the worst, that Hermes is a racially-biased organization and poor judges of character and is employed by mean, spiteful, nasty people, overall. Even if that were true, it doesn't change the fact that Oprah Winfrey can't tell time.
Really, let's not make this something it isn't. Racist people and organizations exist, and when we learn they exist we can shun them, we can ignore them, and we can rescind our orders for purses that cost as much as a year's rent for some folks.
But what we must not do, what we must endeavor to always remember, is that everyone has to play by the rules. And if you smile on TV and make a million dollars for every tooth in your head, or if you proclaim your love for a woman you met two months earlier who just happens to have a blockbuster movie coming out a week before your own blockbuster movie, and if you have the last name of a hotel chain and like to act stupid and get things for free even when you could buy them a thousand times over, you have to understand: you are not special. You are merely recognizable.
You still have arrive on time.
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Hermes apparently turned Oprah away when she arrived after closing time, wanting to purchase a gift for a friend. Our story really should stop right there. Whether Hermes is wrong for one thing or another is kind of moot when you focus on the real problem: Oprah Winfrey needs a new watch. Better yet: some new sensibilities.
Hermes closes at 6:30 p.m. Oprah arrived at 6:45. It's reported that people were still in the store shopping, but who here in the real world hasn't been in a store when they closed, allowing you to finish shopping while not allowing more customers in? Fact is, Oprah Winfrey thought she could use her celebrity and popularity to go somewhere that no one else could, do something that isn't allowed for anyone else, and to be treated specially, which is apparently what happens when you make billions of dollars and get your head fiilled with fan adoration. That swelling of the pocketbook and the head makes you think you're better than the rest of us. Well, sorry, sweetie, but Hermes must not play along with that game.
Now, Hermes can be held responsible for some bad calls as far as the initial reports that they had turned her away because she was black, and the store had been having trouble with "North Africans". Let's assume the worst, that Hermes is a racially-biased organization and poor judges of character and is employed by mean, spiteful, nasty people, overall. Even if that were true, it doesn't change the fact that Oprah Winfrey can't tell time.
Really, let's not make this something it isn't. Racist people and organizations exist, and when we learn they exist we can shun them, we can ignore them, and we can rescind our orders for purses that cost as much as a year's rent for some folks.
But what we must not do, what we must endeavor to always remember, is that everyone has to play by the rules. And if you smile on TV and make a million dollars for every tooth in your head, or if you proclaim your love for a woman you met two months earlier who just happens to have a blockbuster movie coming out a week before your own blockbuster movie, and if you have the last name of a hotel chain and like to act stupid and get things for free even when you could buy them a thousand times over, you have to understand: you are not special. You are merely recognizable.
You still have arrive on time.
a doowron production
posted by scn at 10:06 AM
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