He never said you did call him a racist. He was just expecting it, because it seems that anything deemed disrespectful towards a black person means that the person who made the comment is a "racist" in today's society--just like somebody who doesn't agree with homosexuality is called "homophobic", somebody who doesn't like their wife working would be "chauvanistic", etc. And he made a preemptive rebuttle to the comment that you quite possibly would have made. I'm sure he didn't mean any offense by it.

The better part of the post was focused on your comment of being the "black fellow". This happens. In my graduating class, there were only two black people, and if somebody didn't know their name, they would be referred to as "the black guy" or "that black girl"...well, the girl was often called many different things, but most people liked the guy. Also, we had less than 60 in our graduating class, so it was odd for people to not know names, but I came into the class as a Junior so I didn't know anybody...and that's how those two particular people were described to me. "H.L. is the black guy", and "(whatever the hell her name was) is the black girl". In fact, now that I think about it, I don't remember any other black people in high school when I was a senior, save those two and one more that came into our class but didn't graduate. Anyway. The point is, when you're the only one of a specific group, you are labeled--and that's not necessarily a bad thing. I moved up here (Wisconsin) from Georgia, and immediately people either knew me as "the new guy" or "the Georgian", seeing as I was not only the only new guy that year, but the only guy that was from Georgia.

Hmmm. ShunNakamura, I always thought you were a lady. Sorry 'bout that.