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Another Sad day in the land of the U.S.A
Another big company practices the most discriminatory practice that was thought to be long had gone and forbidden from being practiced and society have evolved and forgotten the knowhow of practicing such discrimination and racism. APMEX deems to bring and resurrect racism and discrimination against you if your name sounds Mediterranean or Islamic or anything out of the normal and acceptable names such as Michael, Steve, John or Sam, e.t.c.
If your name remotely resembles a Mediterranean name or God forbid a Muslim name, prepare yourself to be scrutinized and discriminated against by APMEX. Just like when African Americans used to be discriminated against in the past (and still in the present) because of the color of their skin! Today you better run to the court house and change your name if your name happened to be Raheem or Abdullah and definitely if your name is Mohammed. If you don’t, then you should expect denial of credit, employment, school admission and a phone call from every security Dept of any company you made a purchase from over the internet.
This is how bad the situation for people who lives in the U.S with such names and hale from Mediterranean or Muslim backgrounds. The discrimination against this group of minority in our society has become more and more aggressive and apparent in all aspects of our society with no shame of practicing this type of discriminations and racism! APMEX is a company that openly practices this kind of racism and discrimination.
My latest encounter with such discrimination came from a transaction I have made with a company by the name of APMEX. Supposedly this is a big and reputable company in the retail business of precious metal, but not big enough to elevate them self from the demeaning practice of discrimination. Upon placing an order with this company I received an email for APMEX stating that there is a small problem with my order needed to be solved by contacting them to solve this small problem. Sure no problem I picked up the phone and dialed the provided 800 number to be greeted by whom? By their security department!! “How can I help you” I asked Michelle the lady that was according to her from APMEX security Dept.? Michelle responded with the most shocking and the most poorly thought off of a question, where are you located Mr. Elwan? “Here in New York” I responded,” why” I asked? We’ll Mr. Elwan your IP address showing that you have placed your order from the Netherlands are you in the Netherland Mr. Elwan? No I responded I am here in New York and I placed the order from my home here in NY, what do you mean my IP address is coming from the Netherland? I continued by saying “what kind of BS you are trying to pull here guys? “ In an apparent change of tactics Michelle asked me if I could provide her with my credit card information to verify my address with my bank. At this point I felt that I am being a victim of an obvious and classic case of discrimination, first of all, I told Michelle, your sales department should have been with me on the phone to initiate the phone call with my bank since they should have all the necessary information to provide my bank while I am with them on the phone, and not some security department that is asking me for my credit card information one more time, second of all APMEX have already got an authorization from my bank and the amount has been deducted from my available funds and if they have any security issues as they claim then they should of contacted me the day the order was placed and not two days after, what kind of a security department that delay such important issue? That is if there is such an important issue as they claim and not just practicing some kind of discrimination and racist act that is violating every civil law on the federal lave and the state level of every state in the U.S.A.
Michelle could not find in her pretext scenarios a respond to my objection to APMEX customers humiliating practices and the only thing she can offer is to cancel the order, not to process and expedite the order and apologize for their obvious attempt to practice the lowest level of racism and discrimination, no cancel the order and prove to me and to all Americans out there that APMEX is a company that practice openly racism and discrimination.

F Elwan
Law Student at the New York University School of Law.