“Apparently, he's even been asked to fetch coffee at a black-tie dinner, and mistaken for a valet — something the president insisted doesn't make him unique in the least. "There's no black male my age, who's a professional, who hasn't come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn't hand them their car keys," he said.
Michelle recalled that even when she visited a Target store as the first lady, a shopper seemed to assume she was an employee, asking her to reach an item on shelf. Her response: "This isn't anything new.””
Accurate though. And it’s the worst because even when the person realizes a half second too late that they made the wrong assumption, they are then super weird about trying to pretend for themselves that nothing happened and that there isn’t racism and that makes the whole interchange even more exhausting
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