Reply #10: My ex was Hispanic... [View All]

[VelmaD]

and a very dark-skinned Hispanic at that. I am not (I'm a typical American mutt.) We got lots of second looks from people and some outright hostitily. I had someone ask me one time if "the racial thing" didn't bother me ...my response "you mean he isn't human...how is it you can tell". They just kind of looked at me.

I also had to watch the mistrust people had of him. A little story - we went up to the museum and planetarium at the college we were going to. He was dressed nice - nice jeans and a collared shirt, tucked in even. Not only that - it was his university employee shirt. Anyway, I was looking at a notice on the wall about some coming exhibit and he wandered into the gift shop. The woman working in the gift shop was up front talking to the person at the front desk and when she saw him she practically RAN to the gift shop. He handled it better than I did. I was livid that she appeared to think he was gonna steal something just because he was Hispanic. He was "used to it". That was almost as sad to me as her behaviour was.