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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No way. I think people are more accepting of everyone now.  We've come a long way in 50 years. My grandparents ideas of race and gender are very different than my own. [/quote]

One time my grandfather, who was a retired NYC teacher-then-principal, took me out to lunch at a fast food place. WHen he went to pay, he distinctly dropped the money towards the black cashier's hands. Some of it missed, and he picked up the coins and again didn't let his fingers touch her hands. It was SO distinct. She was around my age, and both our jaws were on the floor. I whispered "I'm so sorry" and she kind of numbly nodded.

When I told my friend about it, she in turn told me about her NYC grandma and how after my friend introduced Grandma to her black boyfriend, she shook his hand hello and then wiped her hand on the side of her pants.

Both of us later confronted our grandparents about their behavior. Both said they hadn't realized they'd done it. We have come a long way, for sure. [/quote]

I wonder what would have happened if he/she touched him accidentally. [/quote]

If the black cashier had touched my grandpa? Nothing. He'd just have continued on. I remember calling my mom to talk about it, and us kind of giggling over the fact that he would be squicked out at the idea that black people prepped the food he ate. And then I said, "But this is really not funny," and she said "I know honey. Sometimes we laugh so we don't scream." [/quote]

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