You go girl!

The disoriented author notes that racism is in the news once more. I am not talking about Edgar Ray Killen getting the 60 years he deserves in the Mississippi Burning case. I am talking a serious injustce.

The incident I read about shows just how little the world has changed. How no matter what one achieves in life, color matters. My white readers cannot understand this it is something we people of color have to bear on our own.

I am talking about the blatant racism shown to Oprah Winfrey by the staff at Hermès Paris.

According to CNN, last week while in Paris, Oprah was planning on going to dinner with Tina Turner. On the way she decided to stop by Hermès and by a watch as a gift for Turner.

When Oprah got to the store it was 6:45pm and the store had been closed for 15 minutes. The store was setting up for a private PR event. Oprah talked to a clerk and then a manager but they would not let her in.

An Oprah spokesperson said that Oprah:

will discuss her 'crash moment' when her show returns from hiatus in September

[For the un-enlightened, Crash is a movie and a crash moment is when one feels discriminated against because of their skin color.]

Reports differ on the details. Some say that the store was having trouble with North Africans and that is why Oprah was not admitted. Regardless, Hermès has apologized and invited Oprah back to shop with them.

So now Oprah is a victim of racism. Well sister, (the dis-oriented author is part black so it's OK for me to say that) I have been a victim too. I remember a time when I drove up to a McDonald's drive-thru window right before closing at 10:59pm. I was the third car in line. As I was pulling up to order at 11:00pm they turned off the lights and shut down.

Racist pigs! Just because I am a dis-Oriental they refused to serve me! How dare they!

So Oprah, the disoriented author joins you in solidarity. The next time I am in Paris on the Faubourg St Honore I will not walk into Hermès and buy that $400 scarf for my wife.

I agree that since we are minorities everyone should give us special privileges like letting us shop after hours. You are the modern day Rosa Parks!

You go girl!