A new office assistant was tasked with delivering mail to about 150 employees whom, of course, he didn't know yet. One day he delivered a box to a short, slender Korean woman with long black hair who wore glasses. An awkward interaction ensued, because it was the wrong person.
He should have delivered it to the right person, who also fit that description. A simple mistake by a new employee, right? Of course not, because the "mistake" was deeply racist. That's the default go-to interpretation of today's work place.
He knew what it meant in that environment, and he was ashamed. After apologizing, he shuffled away, face bright red - a very bad moment for him and everyone else because it openly identified him as one of the racially guilty.
An employee of a different minority race who observed it saw the event in a different light. He wrote this account of it and sent it to the organization known as FAIR, the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism.
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