Wasn't sure if I was going to share my experience but I think it's important that I do. Last month (late March) I visited this old navy for a couple white t shirts or whatever. I was about halfway through my pregnancy and was looking for some looser fitting shirts for myself. Not even minutes of me walking into the store I noticed employees suddenly began stocking whatever area of the store I stepped foot in. Having been a black woman my whole life, being followed in stores is something that's easy for me to notice. It's not subtle. It's not new. What also disturbed me was that though I was followed, no one spoke up and asked me if I needed help finding anything. They just watched me shop. Just a black woman, newly 5 months pregnant wearing a snug t shirt and holding a tiny purse. I'm sharing this because it's 2021 now and racism is something that is still so prevalent in our world. This shouldn't be. I think the employees (who were all white) should undergo some sort of racial sensitivity training to make sure something like this doesn't happen again. I'm not shocked or surprised that this happened to me, because as I said, it's not my first day being black. But being followed in stores because employees assume all black people steal shouldn't be something I (or any other black person) has to get used to. It's not something I feel is fair that I'll have to teach my unborn child someday. Everyone else should check their racism, and stop making horrible inclinations about people they don't know. read more