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Georgia Store SLAMMED For Trying to Charge Only White Customers


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White Americans take note!

If you shop at a place called Civvies on Broughton Street in Savannah, Georgia, you will be discriminated against.

The clothing store has taken immense heat for charging white customers a $20 deposit to shop, but waiving the fee for “persons of color.”

There’s a word for a policy like this, isn’t there?

Oh yeah, racism!

Fox News has the full details on the store’s racist policy:

A clothing store in Georgia has been accused of being “racist” after it shared a new policy on its Facebook page that waived a fee for non-White customers.

Civvies on Broughton Street in Savannah posted that it would require a refundable $20 deposit when booking an appointment to visit the boutique. However, the since-deleted post also wrote that people of color would be exempt from the fee, the New York Post reported.

“As a mostly White staff with White ownership, we do not feel comfortable upholding a digital and financial barrier which could prevent BIPOC from shopping at our store at this time on top of the limitations already made by online booking,” the store announced last week, the Post shared.

The “new and recycled clothing” store wrote that patrons who “are White and refuse to put down a deposit because you believe our policy is unethical” would not be allowed to make an appointment.

Since putting up the policy, the store received negative reactions and threats of legal action.

“Most of the feedback about our decision to waive this refundable deposit is racist because it favors Black people, Indigenous people and people of color,” store manager Raine Blunk told local outlet WJGL.

After the widespread backlash, the business put up an apology and removed all mention of the previous policy for its social media.

Here’s the store’s alleged apology, which really doesn’t seem like much of an apology, on Facebook

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