I don’t like reblogging entire posts by people, but this is just too perfect. It’s not always easy to illustrate to white people what it’s
like to live everyday with the awareness of your skin color, so read
some of these comments by white people facing a situation where they
unexpectedly become aware of their whiteness.
Hey kids, your favorite black barista here. So I am the only person of color employed at my specific shop (I live in suburbia and it’s a living hell), and today we had this as our trivia question (answer is B). I didn’t pick it, although almost every white person who came in assumed I did. I thought I’d share some of the gems I heard because of it:
