Last night Roxane Gay, professor of English at Purdue University and an acclaimed author, claimed she was hassled by a racist Best Buy employee. In her own words:
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495337162364420097
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495337230995841024
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495337619140919296
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495338512292773889
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495338692765298688
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495338840845193216
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495338951415455745
Brendan at Best Buy tried his best to sort things out:
@rgay I don't understand- are you making a return? Do you have a receipt? ^Brendan
— Best Buy Support (@BestBuySupport) August 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495339103731609600
@rgay I see. Did he ask to see your receipt? Our front end associates often ask to see them on the way out. ^Brendan
— Best Buy Support (@BestBuySupport) August 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/SakuraChica/status/495340600003395584
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495340794510057472
@rgay Oh my, that is rather poor service to put it lightly. I am sorry about this. Did you ask to speak to a manager? ^Brendan
— Best Buy Support (@BestBuySupport) August 1, 2014
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495341362561433601
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495341668045185025
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@rgay Please send an email with the details to [email protected], we do not accept that kind of service in our stores. ^Brendan
— Best Buy Support (@BestBuySupport) August 1, 2014
This is a relevant detail that we don’t really understand:
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495342032366620673
What did she need opened? We wish she had said more about this, but apparently she is done discussing the matter:
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495342266803027969
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495365658029617153
Update:
Gay continued to tweet about the incident today:
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495557728585396224
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495557970303152128
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495572102926589952
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495575524287475714
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495576948249489408
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495628367174303744
https://twitter.com/rgay/status/495628467279790080