Christopher Bridges

‘Would the police have been called on me so quickly if I had fair skin?’

For an African-American student in Brattleboro, a trip to the grocery store turns into a humiliating journey of accusation of shoplifting

Shopping at Hannaford is something that every SIT Graduate Institute student can claim to have done, but I don't think every SIT student can claim to have the same experience that I had.

Imagine six people in the college's shuttle being driven to the supermarket to get some food and drinks for the night's festivities. All of us pay for our respective items, and we leave.

While waiting in the shuttle for one of the slower members of our group to finish another purchase, we notice that several Hannaford employees are hovering around our car. They appear to be writing something down.

Now, this isn't normal behavior; when someone from our group approaches the employees, we all expect we'll get some answers as to why they are taking down our information.

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