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Originally Posted by costello
Context is everything.  I think some of these people are asking these questions before they even ask my son's name (as mentioned on one of the websites). One guy my son met at a get-together with friends. They met at an apartment, and my son was going to drive everyone to a different location. This guy tells my son that he won't get into his car and ride with him until he knows what his race is. He told him he looked like an Arab.
Yep. And the guy I was talking to was very, very proud of his country and ethnicity. He seemed to appreciate the interest. If he'd looked resentful, of course I wouldn't have pried. |
Wow that's pretty extreme...there really is no correct response to that other than feel free to drive yourself then. I wonder if this is regional. I've always lived in the Midwest and while the area I grew up in (Detroit metro) was pretty racially biased as well as segregated I've never heard of anything like that being said directly to a person. People say just awful things behind peoples back though of course those are the people who typically cease to be my friends unless I'm unfortunately related to them then they get corrected.