Keep quiet

I go to Walmart on a regular basis, say three times per week and I sometimes visit with the employees. In talking with the Greeters and those who oversee the individual check out areas, I find that they discriminate when looking for people who might steal. They for example say that when two or three teenage girls or individual teenage boys come in they are watched more closely. Most major retain stores use profiling. For example. A customer wearing oversized clothing or carrying oversized bags, or customers that loiter in certain areas or a wearing winter clothing on warm days. This is different than profiling based on race but that changes over time. If statistics show that Blacks commit a disproportionate number of crimes a person might pay more attention to a Black shopper. If you have worked their a long time and your experience has shown that Blacks are more likely to shoplift then you will begin to use race without realizing you are breaking the law. If asked about this you are likely to deny it and perhaps you don't know you are discriminating based on race. Even if you knew you were using race to profile you would not admit it for fear of losing your job or being shamed by your fellow workers. This fear of being shamed carries over into many aspect of life and thus people just don't say what they are thinking. There are many examples of people calling into radio talk shows and thanking the host for saying the things they were thinking but afraid to say them. Many people are uncomfortable with this but others think it just fine.