I have had the experience of being in stores, and people asked me if I worked there.
I’ve also had the experience of, mostly older short ladies, asking me to help get something off of a high shelf for them.
What exactly is political or racist or a problem with what allegedly happened to the Obamas????
“who has NOT been identified as the “Help” in department stores, airports, etc.?”
That is so true, and if his valet incident actually happened, and I doubt it, the fact that he has been elected to the highest office in the land, and still can’t get beyond his racial hang ups is utter stupidity beyond belief. This man truly is as mentally deranged as he sometimes looks.
There different dimensions to this. Stereotypes have their origin in facts.
One of our family’s inside jokes is that I always get asked for directions. My first day in a new US city; by Spanish speaking tourists in NYC; by Russians in Moscow. It goes on and on. I posit that I am a pasty white guy with better clothes than a street person, that no one sees as threatening, no matter their origin or culture. I can’t claim any personal virtue, since none of these folks know me.
In the span of my life, I have misidentified as an employee of a store while I am innocently shopping. I do NOT take it personally.
I have also misidentified a few people as employees when they were innocently stopping.
Why do black people take it personally?
Also, as a tall person, I have been asked by many people to take something off a shelf.