Cameroonian football star and 7th world's richest footballer ,Samuel Eto'o Fils narrated his bitter
experience
after he got turned down from buying a £10,000 at a UK jewellry store
..Reason? Some Nigerians had earlier come in there with fake credit
cards..He told CNN
“I went to go buy a watch at a jewellers, not too far from my house. The
watch I wanted to see was expensive. I asked the saleswoman - who was
also black - ‘Could you show me that watch please?’ First, I saw her
turn to her co-workers like, ‘Uh, what should I do?’ Eventually, she let
me see the watch. I looked at it and said, ‘OK, I’ll buy it.’ I took out my credit card and when she went to go run it through the machine, she came back and said it was declined.”
He then asked her....
“Was it declined or did you not want it to be accepted?”
“My brother asked, ‘What’s going on?’ And she said, ‘Nothing, nothing.’
But he said, ‘No, because when I came in, I saw how all of you were
looking at us ... My brother can afford this and the way you’re treating
him shows that you think just because he’s black, he can’t afford this
watch.'
“The woman then slipped up and said, ‘No, it’s just that we had some
Nigerians in the store the other day who came in with fake credit cards.
I don’t know if you can imagine the weight of what she said. If one of
my own makes a mistake, they judge us all. I don’t think she’s a racist
person, but she stereotyped all black people as ‘those people’.”
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