Racial Profiling is Alive and Well and Your Favorite Retail Chains Got the Memo.

Lately, there have been more and more stories about racial profiling in high end department stores like Barneys and Macys. You may have heard about the Trayvon Christian and Kayla Phillips' incidents while shopping in Barneys. But recently, even actor Rob Brown of the show Treme has shared his experience with racial profiling while shopping.

According to Brown, after buying a Movado watch in Macy's, he was handcuffed and officers insisted he was using a stolen credit card (with no actual proof or reason for suspicion, mind you.) Even after checking his wallet for various forms of ID, they insisted his ID "was false and that he could not afford to make such an expensive purchase." It appears that regardless of what some people would like to believe, racial profiling is still happening every day. Is it so hard to believe black people can earn and save money to buy luxury items? And should it be OK to get arrested for using your own money to buy something... just because you're black? I want to go out on a limb here and say "certainly fucking not." :)