Yet another racist anecdote

[Orrex]

A while back a coworker and I were returning to our building after lunch. We'd stopped at a retail store so that she could pick up a backet or a vase or something, and the line at the check-out was unusually slow. The cashier was quite dark-skinned and, I learned from speaking with her on another occasion, moved here from Pakistan three years ago.

After checking out, and on the way back to the office, my coworker--out of the blue--said "God, I hate Indians. Sometimes I think I hate them even more than blacks."

Good grief! What can you say to something like that? Especially when you're in the car at 50 mph, and the bigot is the one driving! And that's an exact quote; try as I might, I can't burn it from my brain.

I muttered something like "In college I had the benefit of more positive exposure to different cultures," but she wasn't impressed.

"They come over and take all the good jobs," she observed sagely.

No wonder the economy is in the shitter; with all the lousy Pakistani Indians taking those sweet cashier jobs, what's left for the real Americans?

:banghead: