Lol I don't think this is a black person thing, I think it's a pettyness thing
The blacks in this article just associate it with their melaninischisms because they do everything, everything is a race issue in their head
But this isn't a race issue, it's just a problem for people who are sensitive, overemotional and have victim complexes, as the article states- they consider it a passive aggressive jab, it's 'saying' something and these oversocialized crybabies NEED to figure out what, and how it's an attack against them, they just know it is
I never use the stick, myself, and tend to shop in, lets just say "paler" places, nowadays. But I have observed that the grocery divider is the source of strong emotions in many different groups. To the blacks, its evil segregation. But to a liberal middle aged white woman (for brevity, hereafter referred to as LWMAWW), that stick is ironically a Trump Border Wall that
must be built, so good segregation. The dichotomy fascinates and amuses me.
You can be the only other person in line with a LWMAWW, and you each have 5 small items, and you leave 3 feet of space between your items and the LWMAWW's items on the belt. The LWMAWW is still compelled to build that wall and make walmart pay for it. And if the lane doesn't have a divider, she will huff and bitch at the staff, or simply steal one from another lane, usually while still being a huffy bitch.
NIMBYism at the grocery store.
Normal white guys almost never seem to bother with it (unless in line with a huffy LWMAWW, then its sometimes a preemptive reflex, also fascinating). Reddit-phenotype white guys seem to be 50/50, but I haven't done enough observation to have a solid estimate.
The darkies tend to roll their eyes and do a bit of a lipsmack, at minimum. But, since I shop in white areas, the few I do see don't really make any ruckus, because they hate shopping with their fellow darkies, too. Indians (seeing more and more of them, lately) seem to like the stick, too. The Apostolic Christian White Women (yeah, lotta those bitches around here, a couple different denominations) love the divider even more than the LWMAWWs seem to. I never see their men in the store. Just 3-5 long denim dresses and a gaggle of kids. And a
lways in a minivan convoy. They are dangerous to park near, too. They can't drive for shit, almost universally.
Someone less lazy and cynical than myself should do a study.