Mine aren't pink they're navy blue.....

Stop! Needn't this get pushed to Forks and Dorks...

Ahahahhhaaa, fine enough talk of bits.......

At any rate, at least you had an entertaining evening. When I worked retail people usually whined about their children or something equally boring, so at least you got a "we are the world" education.

Sounds like she was acting crazy to distract you from someone else shoplifting. Or maybe she thought you would say something stupid so she could use it to threaten a law suit. People have 999.999 reasons to be stupid. Heck it might be some made up scenario for a college sociology class. I had a dumb Professor that tried to assign something like that. Finally someone reported him and they fired him.

What a weird thing to assign....

I'm a 21 year old white man living in suburbia.
My step-father, whom has been my step-father for over a decade is black man from Texas.

Race is an issue.
Sadly, it is. Something that we deal with.

I love him. Consider him a father as I do my biological father whom I was extremely close to.

But we're not blind. We do see. And we distinguish.

It's kinda shitty... sorry to be semi-vulgar...

It would be sweet if it became a non-issue.

But as was explained to me by my father, I will never know the pain of being called a nigger. It has to be sickening... but I will never know. Ugh... maybe I went off topic.

The ****ing race thing has always pissed me off... getting into fights because someone is insulting my father's race... so weird. Pointless. I think it's just another exercise we maintain so we don't have to focus on things that are more important or more pertinent in our lives.

She was stupid to make it an issue before it became one. If someone had insulted them I could see her being defensive, but to my knowledge no one did, so she was just being a paranoid b!tch for no reason.

so i was in line, and this woman wanted to cut in font of me...so i said" madam, the line ends behind me'

she looked at me like i killed her father, mumbled something rude...so i said "dont talk to me like that' she said make me' i said, ok, lets go out side and will be yours ***" she proceeded to tell her daughter that i'm talking to her like that cause she is black, and as a black person blah blah blah....i told her to shut her face or i'm gonna beat whatever white is leftover in her.

mmmmm,,,,ok

People like that have too much time on their hands and not enough problems to occupy them.

it's true...why make it a racial thing...i just wanted her to move back....i was suuuuuuper nice.....she made a "black" issue....wtf?

I know the feeling. I have a multicultrual/race family and I feel like I have to call out racism when I know I see it if I am going to be a good Grandma. I just always try to be absolutely sure it is in fact someone being a bigot. Being hyper sensitive and blameing people for something they are not doing is being a reverse bigot to me. And just as harmful.

She assumed that YOU cared because most of the world does..from the government to state officials to just regular old joe blow..It is not right and its just plain old stupid for people to be concerned with what goes on in a total strangers bedroom but they are..that's why interracial marriages needed to be legalized and thats why homosexual marriages still haven't been legalized in most places because people DO care what happens behind the four walls of a supposed FREE citizens home.

Interracial marriages are legalized, they're not always approved of, but they are legal....

Sex lives are private,, marriage (as an institution) is very legal and public issue.

I know they are legalized NOW..Thats why I said they NEEDED to be(had to be legalized I guess should have said)..They weren't always legal.

If you really wanta throw people for a trip that always havta say look at that white dude or that black chick, you know those that paraphrase everyone upon the color of their skin... be like, "oh yeah, you mean that 1/4 German 1/2 Irish, and 1/8 Pilgrim over there" or "you mean that 1/4 Phillipino, 1/4 Hondurian, and 2/3 Blackonese chick over there standing next to the Albino midget"... they'll totally forget what they are talking about because they are so confused with the mathematical arithmatic going on in their head as they are actually looking to see who you are talking about. Or just be like me and say, "WTF are you talking about whitey; Snowwhite called and said she wants her pale @ss back!"

Oh yeah, I misunderstood. Definitely.

What bothers me is that the woman acted as if someone was persecuting her before it even happened. I assume people have stared at her and her white bf's in the past so she was anticipating a reaction, and thinking an "offense is the best defense" so to speak. But in my opinion that's stupid; you can't go around just assuming people will be against you, for whatever reason. Reacting to an imagined threat is not only paranoid, it's ignorant, and it makes her into the prejudiced person, not the other way around- she had no idea about the OP's beliefs on race, she made an assumption.

For one thing, interracial relationships have become more prevalent and more socially acceptable in many parts of the world, so pretty soon she won't even have that to base her paranoia on. If you see a black child on tv, it's usually a "mixed" child, and the same goes for black actresses, if you read their bios, most of them aren't "just" black they're made up of other ethnicities, as well. If you watch television and movies, they're making efforts to cast interracial couples, usually without mentioning their differences at all. So some opinions are changing, albeit slowly...

I'm prone to agree with what others have said, for explanations of why she acted paranoid- maybe she was high, or drunk, or providing a diversion while someone else tried to shoplift. Or maybe she's just an idiot who wanted attention. Either way, I still say it looks ignorant to start a fight over a perceived notion, that kind of thing just keeps stereotypes and racism going with no intelligent end in sight.

Yeah, that's what I said, most people now aren't entirely one or the other anymore, so it's rather hard to tell who to discriminate against sometimes.