Is it that these guys did`nt know who was in front of them or what? It`s public knowledge that Samuel Eto`s is worth over $100 million, 7th richest footballer in the world! You can do the math in CFA.
So Eto`o walked into this shop with his junior brother to buy a mere $10,000 watch but the behavior of the shop assistant was that of suspicion as she reluctantly let them view the watches. How he explained to CNN Sports in Spanish below.
“I went to go buy a watch at a jewellers, not too far from my house. The watch I wanted to see was expensive. I asked the saleswoman - who was also black - ‘Could you show me that watch please?’ First, I saw her turn to her co-workers like, ‘Uh, what should I do?’ Eventually, she let me see the watch. I looked at it and said, ‘OK, I’ll buy it.’ I took out my credit card and when she went to go run it through the machine, she came back and said it was declined.”
Then Eto`o asked:
“Was it declined or did you not want it to be accepted?”
“My brother asked, ‘What’s going on?’ And she said, ‘Nothing, nothing.’ But he said, ‘No, because when I came in, I saw how all of you were looking at us ... My brother can afford this and the way you’re treating him shows that you think just because he’s black, he can’t afford this watch.'
“The woman then slipped up and said, ‘No, it’s just that we had some Nigerians in the store the other day who came in with fake credit cards. I don’t know if you can imagine the weight of what she said. If one of my own makes a mistake, they judge us all. I don’t think she’s a racist person, but she stereotyped all black people as ‘those people’.”Nigerians wuna nodi rest????
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