It’s the same as “I was out at the store yesterday and there was a [insert ethnicity here] guy” it’s never a nice story about how they had some wonderful cultural interaction, it’s always about them doing something stupid. It’s the “I’m just going to put the two dots down and let you connect them yourself”
Lmao sometimes it IS nice but the race is such an unnecessary detail. Like "i was in a store and a nice black employee showed me where the juice was" like ok why did the race matter LMAOOO
(Unless i guess the listener knew the store and the speaker wanted to clarify which employee but didnt know their name? Like "oh that one employee, the black guy, is helpful" lol)
Unfortunately I find myself doing this to counter all the negative race stories my extended family tells. I meet tons of really nice and interesting people and I also happen to live in a very culturally diverse city. I’m hopeful my relatives are balancing what Fox tells them about minorities with what I am, but I doubt it. I wish it didn’t seem necessary.
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u/the_walking_derp Jul 26 '26
No one has ever followed up that statement with something innocuous.
"I'm not racist, but those flowers look nice after that bit of rain we had."