You need Id to buy spray? What kind of stupid shit is that? How would they know it was you even if they have your id? It seems like they’d just go after all the black people who bought spray when something gets vandalized.
What a stupid country you live in, I can’t imagine getting carded for buying art supplies. If you’re worried it’s gonna be used for crime, don’t sell it.
You bring up a valid point that I never thought about.
I always needed ID to buy spray paint - I’m also brown. I was into graffiti (not the tagging but the social rights kind) and my after school program taught it.
Makes me wonder if all this time, it was discrimination.
FWIW, I’m about as white as they come, and I’ve probably been carded more in my lifetime to buy spray paint than I have for alcohol.
It’s pretty standard practice in my area. Maybe it’s different in other places, or from one store to another, but most places around me seem to err on the side of carding everyone.
Yeah! Why do you need ID to buy a canister of pressurized flammable gas that can also get you high?
When I worked retail, we were required to ID for gas dusters as well. We also had people come in and request that we put members of their family on a “No sell” list for gas dusters too. That was always sad.
You’re just adding to my point. These rules are only there for “lower class” people. I live in an affluent area and you can get that shit at the dollar store around here, nobody ids you.
That shit is easy to get anywhere, and if you’re so worried, don’t sell it.
As a person of color who grew up in an affluent white area, I also grew up very aware of how I was looked at and treated in contrast to my peers, I got used to certain looks and questions when entering a store.
Now that I’m an adult I don’t deal with that shit. I bought like 10 cans of spray paint last week for work, and if anyone had asked me for Id or asked what I needed it for I would have told them it was none of their damn business
Its different in different states in terms of how much accountability the clerk has. In most places they can say the customer appears to be over 21, sometimes they have to say over 40.
In ohio, minimum wage clerks can and do get prosecuted when they accidentally sell alcohol (and I assume spray paint) to a minor.
It’s definitely one of the lamer stories about racial profiling, assuming that’s even what happened here. And when they say the white grandfather didn’t get carded… How often do grandfathers get carded?
What’s the point in burying the fact that he didn’t have ID. You could argue they carded you because you were black but not refused service.
You need Id to buy spray? What kind of stupid shit is that? How would they know it was you even if they have your id? It seems like they’d just go after all the black people who bought spray when something gets vandalized.
What a stupid country you live in, I can’t imagine getting carded for buying art supplies. If you’re worried it’s gonna be used for crime, don’t sell it.
You bring up a valid point that I never thought about.
I always needed ID to buy spray paint - I’m also brown. I was into graffiti (not the tagging but the social rights kind) and my after school program taught it.
Makes me wonder if all this time, it was discrimination.
What you said for me seems to be discrimination.
I just assumed the card everyone.
FWIW, I’m about as white as they come, and I’ve probably been carded more in my lifetime to buy spray paint than I have for alcohol.
It’s pretty standard practice in my area. Maybe it’s different in other places, or from one store to another, but most places around me seem to err on the side of carding everyone.
Yeah! Why do you need ID to buy a canister of pressurized flammable gas that can also get you high?
When I worked retail, we were required to ID for gas dusters as well. We also had people come in and request that we put members of their family on a “No sell” list for gas dusters too. That was always sad.
You’re just adding to my point. These rules are only there for “lower class” people. I live in an affluent area and you can get that shit at the dollar store around here, nobody ids you. That shit is easy to get anywhere, and if you’re so worried, don’t sell it.
As a person of color who grew up in an affluent white area, I also grew up very aware of how I was looked at and treated in contrast to my peers, I got used to certain looks and questions when entering a store.
Now that I’m an adult I don’t deal with that shit. I bought like 10 cans of spray paint last week for work, and if anyone had asked me for Id or asked what I needed it for I would have told them it was none of their damn business
Its been like that for a while. Anything that you can huff basically.
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Its different in different states in terms of how much accountability the clerk has. In most places they can say the customer appears to be over 21, sometimes they have to say over 40.
In ohio, minimum wage clerks can and do get prosecuted when they accidentally sell alcohol (and I assume spray paint) to a minor.
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It’s definitely one of the lamer stories about racial profiling, assuming that’s even what happened here. And when they say the white grandfather didn’t get carded… How often do grandfathers get carded?