Current Events > When was the first time you saw a black person?

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I was 24 years old. I was at Olive Garden (my favorite restaurant), when a man I now know as a black man approached me.

"Hi," he said. "My name is Mike. I'll be your server for this evening. Can I start you off with breadsticks?"

I looked at the man, confused. I saw clothes and glasses on a man, but for some reason he appeared dark. I figured it was just the lighting in the room, so I took out my phone and shined the flashlight on him. To my bewilderment, he stayed dark and did not get lighter.

I figured that the man just needed more light, and pulled out my second phone (reserved for calling my high school ex girlfriend to leave her seductive voicemails late in the night) to shine a second light. Nothing. Still dark.

"Excuse me, sir," the waiter replied. "Can you please stop shining these bright lights into my eyes? I am very sensitive to light and I just want to take your order."

I apologized. "I'm sorry, my friend," I said. "I have just never seen a dark, chocolate-y gentleman such as yourself, and I wanted to confirm that I was not just living in a world of darkness, and that it was your skin."

The waiter nodded, understanding. I told him to bring me breadsticks, on the double, and if I saw him stop at another table on his way to the kitchen, I was going to fucking lose it. As he went to fetch me my breadsticks, I reflected on what I had witnessed. "A black person! Wow, what a concept," I thought to myself.

The waiter arrived with the breadsticks. I dumped them into my trashbag and immediately asked for more, saying "yum yum in my tum tum, I just ate all those nummy breadsticks, load me up buddy." He brought back more, I loaded up my trash bag, and then I decided it was time to go.

I asked for the check. "All you've had is water and free breadsticks," the waiter said, confused and a little annoyed. "So I don't think you have anything to pay us."

"Thanks a lot," I added. "Looks like I don't owe anything, so I'll give you a 15% tip of $0, which is nothing. Sorry, Mike."

I grabbed my trashbag and got up to leave. Before I was out the door, I turned to the waiter.

"But it's not because you're black."
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Lol

I don't know. Before grammar school. Earliest memory is my aunts then boyfriend (now husband of probably close to 20 years). I was a small kid. We all went to the fair together. He won me a giant stuffed gorilla that my mom sold at a garage sale much to my dismay.

Edit: and I didn't read the original post. I'm now scared and confused.
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I remember looking in the mirror when I was five or three
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Conflict posted...

When I came out the womb

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Wth did I just read
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Adam_Smith posted...

"I have just never seen a dark, chocolate-y gentleman such as yourself, and I wanted to confirm that I was not just living in a world of darkness, and that it was your skin."

I'll admit this made me laugh

Conflict posted...

When I came out the womb

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When I saw the cover of Michael Jackson's Thriller.
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This is the most important part of erasing my white guilt - I will subtly take the trash bag of breadsticks outside (under the cover that I need to go smoke a cigarette - to build this illusion, I will tussle the hair of any kid waiting and go "don't start smokin', buddy. don't be like me") and empty the bag in the footwell of the passenger seat of my car. I will then return to the table and repeat this process about two or three times.
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High tier shitposting you got there
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AlabamaLove posted...

Conflict posted...

When I came out the womb

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TC, they don't get copypasta lol

XD @ Conflict not getting it twice in the same topic.
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Conflict posted...

When I came out the womb

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Conflict posted...

Not getting what? I made a response to the topic title without bothering to read any of the OP and I just decided to make a quick response to your dumb post. Given the topic title and your racist history it was pretty fitting

Staying uneducated at every turn still? Your mom would be proud.
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