If you have to ask "can I take a look at that bag" and it's a $38000 bag, then regardless of the color of your skin, it's telling the shopkeeper that you absolutely can't afford it. The fact that Oprah was ignorant of that fact may not be her fault but that doesn't make the shop keeper racist. Almost anyone who would buy a bag like that would know exactly what it was and would have planned out the purchase very carefully and would never say, "can I take a look at it" nonchalantly. If someone is spending that much on a bag do they really want one that was handled by a stream of people that just felt like touching it? No, it devalues the bag, just like how a high end shoe is almost worthless after a few hundred socialites have tried it on. Oprah is being ignorant, mean and petty about this and should apologize to the salesperson and the store for the bad press that they absolutely did not deserve. It had absolutely nothing to do with racism. It has everything to do with an elitist snob who thinks that everyone in the world has a right to go around handling $38000 handbags for fun or else the people selling them deserve worldwide condemnation.