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Back in 2014, then-First Lady Michelle Obama sparked a debate about what it meant to be mistaken for a retail clerk after she suggested allegedly being mistaken for a Target employee during a 2011 visit to a Target location in Alexandria, Va. constituted racism.
She told People magazine during a December 2014 interview on how the Obamas dealt with their “own racist experiences” that “during that wonderfully publicized trip I took to Target, not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me in the store was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.”