I Went To Buy An Expensive Phone, And Still There Was Racism

And why I didn’t make a big deal about it

Photo by Arthur Edelmans on Unsplash

I was waiting in line at the Swisscom store in Geneva to get a new mobile phone. I hesitated about going into that branch in particular because I didn’t know what I was going to find, or more I didn’t know if I would face racism.

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Rebecca Stevens A.

I write about racism, but there are so many other things I would like to write about instead. Help me dismantle racism so that I can get to that.