Agree with 2:08; this young lady is guilty of nothing more than a bit of naivete and breathlessness, and her candor, intentional or not, is actually refreshing. We all live in a continual low-current stream of racial consciousness in this town, never more so than in areas in demographic flux; we're just all too cool to admit it, and after awhile we simply accomodate it inside our heads like signal noise. Nicole seems to be making a touchingly earnest effort to look past the filter of stereotypes that we all, black and white, have dropped before our eyes, and I think it's pretty shabby to tear someone to ribbons for innocuous things like shopping at Ikea or having wine and sushi (especially when she was at pains to be ironic about her wine and sushi consumption). Give the kid a break.
Agree with 2:08; this young lady is guilty of nothing more than a bit of naivete and breathlessness, and her candor, intentional or not, is actually refreshing. We all live in a continual low-current stream of racial consciousness in this town, never more so than in areas in demographic flux; we're just all too cool to admit it, and after awhile we simply accomodate it inside our heads like signal noise. Nicole seems to be making a touchingly earnest effort to look past the filter of stereotypes that we all, black and white, have dropped before our eyes, and I think it's pretty shabby to tear someone to ribbons for innocuous things like shopping at Ikea or having wine and sushi (especially when she was at pains to be ironic about her wine and sushi consumption). Give the kid a break.