"Why I hate Abercrombie and Fitch" Dwight McBride

I think that the author is trying to bring to light the discrimination of Abercrombie and Fitch to those who might not be aware of it. Personally I found it really hard to read this article because the whole time all he is doing is complaining and making the reader feel stupid by using a big word and than using the more common form of it in quotes. Basically the author gives a summary of the A&F history after he introduces us to the topic and how his hate all started. McBride was at a gay bar and saw almost all the men wearing A&F shirts and wondered what the big deal was with them. My solution dont go to the gay bar if you dont want to see those shirts then. Not that A&F isnt worn by many people straight, gay, men, women etc but he just seems to have a problem steming from that bar. So anyway, he goes on to talk about their hiring process, and how there is a standard image that the store wants to convey to the buyers making the store seem like a more enjoyable place to shop. Is this true? No, I dont care what the cashiers in the store look like, if I like the shirt I am going to get it. He then continues to talk about the African American status at the store and McBride considers it a racist establishment. Personally I am not racist, and yet I probably wouldnt want to get a job at RocaWear or a store where on the website it shows all African Americans. This article is so ironic to me because I know African Americans who wear A&F and have no problem with it or the idea. So I wonder when McBride talks about A&Fs look why he puts quotes around the words "American" and "classic"? So if you are African American you cannot be American? Except that you are. If you are born in America or even are an immigrant once you live here, you are American. And to say that American is only white is so frustrating to hear. How about we take everything that we come in contact with and see if we can turn it into a racial issue? Where "white" includes everyone and then everyone is racist. To me it is crap and is what made this article so hard to read. Should African Americans only be able to work in the stock room? Hell no. They should be able to work in the actual store also, but if an African American can get turned down at A&F and can walk across the mall to Banana Republic (in my opinion a better store anyway) and can get a job, better than what he would have ever gotten at A&F, isnt he better off? I understand that it is wrong to discriminate race and ethnicity for a job but there are so many more and better opprotunities in the world and if not getting hired at A&F ruins your life, that sucks. I worked at a Dairy Queen for a long time I still work there in fact when I go home for breaks and I am a manager and when someone brings in an application I am usually up front to get it. But there have been times where I have heard of employees throwing away applications for people whom they just didnt like. If I would have known that would I have pulled the application out of the trash? Yes but sometimes you just cant help what happens being one person responsible for 6 to 10. The only thing I agree with McBride on is that the discrimination is wrong. Otherwise I cant go and take up a lawsuit with Abercrombie and Fitch because their clothes are too expensive and I am a college student on a budget. Can I say that Abercrombie and Fitch are discriminating against me as a college student with little money to spend and because I want to wear their clothes I should be able to? I think that one thing that made this article so frustrating to read was when I felt like McBride was talking down to me, or any other reader. To me if he wants to make this article more powerful and more meaningful he should change some of his wording otherwise he can go and take his obviously bored self to McDonalds and write about how eating there makes people fat and thats not fair, lets sue McDonalds.