when you are a person of an "aggrieved" group and consider yourself separate and apart, a convenient and easy and heroic and almost beleivable position is the predisposition of attributing any slight or happenstance or uncomfortableness or fantasy developed in your own mind to the membership you hold in some greivance group. it is a cover also for your own misbehavior.
in oprah's case, i think she innately wishes to wear her greivance in nunanced and subtle but, to her, important ways; to be able to relive her anger at the larger community for not feeling a true part of us by telling little stories that yes, even to me, racism happens for it is pervasive in the larger community.
so she develops small stories of untruth, told with an off the cuff manner, indicating that yes even i am a victim, but no matter, i treat it as a trifle, i am heroic, and now, since i have established solidarity with my group and have shown that i have risen above, lets move along.
but the store clerk is fighting back...and oprah, never dreaming the squall she created would get this far, for her story was only meant to position herself as heroic and not to actually confront any real person she demeaned with her charge of racism, for there was really no racism, just the expensive purse made a convenient foil for a story, wants to move along.
Originally Posted by nevergaveitathought
Deep thoughts. By the way; i before e, except after c.