It's hard to keep track of what's racist. I normally get along OK with my next door neighbor even though she and I are 180 degrees apart politically - we just avoid politics. But one day we were chatting and she remarked that in her opinion the most handsome man in Hollywood today was Idris Elba - and she said she'd bet I didn't know who he was. I told her she was wrong - so she asked me who I thought he was. So I started, "Well, he's the black guy who played the gunslinger in The Dark Tower, and . . ."
Her face contorted in utter rage, she shouted "HE'S NOT SOME BLACK GUY YOU F****** RACIST!"
Huh?
She repeated herself, and called me a racist (that's F****** RACIST) again.
I told her I don't take that BS from anyone least of all her, and walked away. We haven't spoken for over 3 weeks now. I suspect she forgot she gave me a key to her house just in case of some emergency when she was away. I did a little research with other friends and on line, and it seems that in normal context, "black guy" isn't racist anywhere but in her warped little brain. But who knows, the way things are going, it might be the next "N-Word." (Oops, forgot that N-Word is itself an N-Word. Sorry.)
