Everyone's a little bit racist...

[33girl]

First off, LMAO at #1 because many moons ago, my mom and I were watching the tonight show and Johnny Gill (I think, if not him someone New Jack Swing-y) and apropos of nothing she says "don't black men look good in purple!" So apparently there is a precedent. Yes, that is potentially racist, but also just plain stupid as not all people of a certain race are the same shade and/or have the same undertones.

#2, if two cashiers are conversing with each other when they're supposed to be waiting on me and haven't addressed me directly, I wouldn't say thank you or gracias. I'd say very sarcastically "sorry to interrupt your social hour."

[amIblue?]

Isn't the clothing color and skin color more of an undertone of skin kind of thing, as in cool coloring vs. warm coloring. I've known fair people with blue undertones in their skin and people who are as equally fair but with yellow undertones to their skin. (My best friend and I come to mind. Both pale as the dead, but I'm cool and she's warm. We do not look good in the same colors.) I think the cool/warm thing goes tracks along skin colors from fair to dark. While I don't think there's anything wrong with someone asserting that a color isn't good for an individual, people who claim that only people of a certain race can carry off X color are just dumb asses.