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These 29 People Regret Accidental Racist Moments

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“Mom, why doesn’t she have any eyes?” I was 4, not Asian and living in Taiwan.

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I’m Indian, recently moved to the US, work in a rather diverse firm. I keep getting confused between my colleagues Mark and Mike. Also, there are five people named Mark or Mike in my team. When I got confused for the nth time that day, I said ‘Mark, Mike, all your white names sound the same to me.’ Today the new sys-admin (who is Polish) sent out an email. Seeing so many x’s and z’s and y’s together in the ‘from’ field, I thought it was spam. I feel terrible.

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I was fixing a computer for a young black woman, forgot her name, and accidentally called her Towanda. She gave me the hairiest of eyeballs and said, “My name is Heather.”

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I was sitting on the bleachers at my high school’s gym with 4 of my older brother black friends (I’m white). We wanted to get the janitors to move the automatic bleachers back so we could have more hoops to get more games going. I thought I yelled down to the janitor “Can you move the bleacher back please?” Turns out I yelled “Can you move the Blacks please!” Everyone stopped playing and stared at me.

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.