harrassing. And whether Cuomo's comments do amount to sexual harrassment.

Remember Biden in the 2008 campaign commenting that Obama was an "articulate and educated" Black man? Remember Virginia Governor Northam being almost unanimously asked to resign over appearing in a yearbook photo that depicted black face and KKK robes?

How persistant or continuous were Cuomo's comments directed specifically at those women? I have experienced sexual harrassment at work that was directed at me nonstop, with retaliation for complaining. I have also experienced men making thoughtless or offensive comments to me about women in general or me in particular that did not continue when they saw how I felt about it and without retaliation for me disapproving of it. They were being insensitive and thoughtless, but were not harrassing. There is a difference.

Cuomo has done a lot for women that I appreciate as a female NY resident. I am doubtful that his words amount to harrassment.

On racial harrassment, both of my father's parents were mixed, European and Native American. My paternal aunts and uncles had black hair, deep brown-black eyes, and brown skin that ranged from light to medium. My mother's parents were northern European immigrants, so my Native ancestry is not obvious to most people. You can't imagine the things I have heard people say to me about Native Americans when they think they are speaking one white person to another. Most of it I just chalk up to ignorance and enjoy embarrassing them with a correction of their "facts" and my ancestry.

But sometimes they know my ancestry and make stupid remarks that they think are funny. I let them know how I feel when I don't laugh, or when I raise an eyebrow, or when I say that they are being stupid or crude. If it does not continue, I do not call it harrassment, just bad taste. One time at work it did continue to a cruel, harrassing level. HR took care of it when I filed a formal complaint.