Casual racism in USA

[Mirandawrongs]

Not long returned from a trip to NY, SF and LV.
I'm still quite surprised by how racist it is.
Introducing somebody by their ethnicity, pointing out how different skin colours are (loudly!)
It’s like London in the 70s!

I’m the wrong demographic to be offended but I was!
when you say “could you just say Tony and June instead of pointing out how different their skin colours are?” You are looked at like you are being really unreasonable.

is it just that USA are stuck in the 70s and I’m being ridiculous??

I never experienced this. I can't quite imagine what that would look like. Is this about friends? Describing strangers?

coach drivers suggesting when we stop in a tiny town that we grab a sandwich from the store that is owned by Brian and his nationality wife.

at a sports game, when a woman from the crowd was given a T-shirt, man next to me said “look how pleased that skin tone girl is

your server for today will be Arielle, our tall skin tone server

You are NOT at all being ridiculous. I'm an American of mixed race (Black father, White mother) -grew up in a really WASPy area of New England [Boston: the Mississippi of the North] and these days the racism here is not so “casual,” I’m afraid. I liken the U.S. brand of racism to herpes: it never really goes away but can lie dormant for a period time and then have angry, ugly “flare ups". But it’s always there under the surface.

That does sound weird. And obviously racist.

It was just so odd to me!

I’m a white, middle aged British woman from Greater London.

I found myself doing a sharp intake of breath a lot whenever I heard something.
Yet, I’d be the unreasonable one who objected.