'This so-called post-racialism is a figment of our imagination.'

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17. elevators and grocery stores

seem to bring out the worst in people. i have been accosted in elevators my entire adult life. i worked at a company for several years, when some random person asked me why i was on the premises...he happened to be a white man. while in the elevator, he asked me why i was in the building, and asked if he could help me. i told him this: unless you can do my job, you cannot help me. in the grocery store, older white people will never concede to you. old habits die hard...or not at all, until people die.