Connie Rice has a checklist for a colour-blind America. She displays some hypersensitivity — why does it have to be a racial issue when someone compliments her for being articulate? — but I found her comments sobering for the most part.
It’s no better in Malaysia, of course. Scroll down this thread to see how one local blamed a bad shopping experience on the colour of the salesman’s skin. I’m not so much disheartened by the racist comments as the complete lack of admonishment from the other members of the forum.
