DUers of Color: Tell Your Story

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22. An interesting story but how is it indicative of race?

Have had nearly identical thing happen to me some folks are just busy body assholes.

Racism certainly exists especially when you are looking for it.

But not every time someone pushes you is it all about race. This guy clearly did not know who you were and assumed that you did not belong there since he did not recognize you. Instead of saying actually this is my space you were flippant and dismissive and offended.

Then you made it a race thing when you have no idea if it was race at all.

Obviously there are countless examples where it is race but there is no way to know from what you related if this is. You played as big a role in that as the the man did by dismissing his concern and not clarifying who you were. It is restricted parking he is an employee that did not recognize you. Pretty much an asshole thing to do to be sure but some folks are by the book no excuse people and stuff like that bothers them.

But your first instinct is to blame it on race. Racism is a problem to be sure but blaming every time something doesn't go your way on race is a problem as well.