I felt sorry that he cared more about someone thinking he’s racist as opposed to correcting the behavior that would lead someone to feel that way. I felt sorry that after asking two black people to explain why what he did was wrong, he learned nothing from either of us. And most of all, I felt sorry because he was so self-absorbed, he will, most likely, do something like this to someone else—and that person might not be able to handle it as well as I did. And when I couldn’t feel sorry anymore, I just wanted to laugh because this bizarre rite of passage of being called “uppity” wasn’t even
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