Subtle Racism is Everywhere, as I Learned Today
I got an example of that today. I took my car into the dealership for an oil change this morning. After dropping it off with the service manager, I went into the customer waiting room to pass the time until it was finished. I had my Kindle Fire, so I hooked up to the free wi-fi and logged back into DU, where I continued replying in one of my threads about the recent mass shooting in South Carolina.
As usual, people were seated in the waiting room in alternate seats, with everyone leaving one empty seat between them and the person next to them. We do that here in Minnesota, as in most of the country. As long as there's room, we avoid sitting shoulder to shoulder with others. It's an odd American thing, I guess. I had taken a seat at the end of one line of seats, with a space between me and the next person on one side. I don't want people to feel uncomfortable, either.
After I'd been there for about ten minutes, another customer came into the waiting room. This customer was a 30-something black man, the only non-Caucasian in the room. There were no more opportunities for empty seats between people. So, the new arrival took a seat between two other men in the room.
Each of those men immediately got up and moved to sit between other people in the waiting room. One of them sat in the seat next to mine. It's not a large waiting room. They moved to avoid sitting shoulder to shoulder with a black person, but sat down shoulder to shoulder with two others in the waiting room. Instead of having just one person sitting immediately next to them, they chose to have one on each side. The only person left in the room with an empty seat on both sides of himself was this lone black man.
Subtle racism, unless you are the black man who came into the waiting room. Very unsubtle racism from his point of view. Subtle ugliness is still ugly.
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Get up - and go sit next to him. 
come runnin'
He might be better off if you just stay the fuck away.
of good old american apple pie, white picket fence and racism that was not subtle at all. America has always squandered it's assets and this is an example on one effort to squander good will. I'm afraid, it is NEVER going to change. Too many minds and attitudes poisoned by the RW hate machine and media. A huge number of white people just can't accept black people and it got exponentially worse when a POC became our POTUS. No doubt. It's like the racist doubled down on their hate to make sure they let POC know, nothing has changed, "we still hate you and will murder you", "stay in your place and have no pride at Barack Obama's victory". Well they failed miserably in that last part. and they are just engendering more revulsion because of the first part, especially from a fight back veteran like myself.
No one called me n***** in Vietnam, to my face at least... 
An excerpt from your link:
I'll tell you another story from my community. I went to the local Walgreens to pick up some antacids, since this has all been very stressful and I needed them. I took them to the counter. The woman running the cash register was ranting on to another customer about the election and allowed as how the country was going to hell in a handbasket. The customer appeared to agree with her. He asked her what part of town she voted in.
"Oh, I didn't vote. I hate politicians."
She did not vote. The three black women who looked like caricatures voted. Thus, we have Obama as the next President.
in the south.
Amazing.
Even my great grandmother - born in 1904 gave that up in the 80's! She went from the c word to oriental to Asian in her 90 some odd years on this earth. She gave up colored in the 1950's.
He usually kicks his own threads. Maybe he's out observing subtlety.
That's odd.
