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Relevant: im white.
I was just starting to wait tables, and had a table of black men. I had been watching a lot of the show Trailer Park Boys. If you’ve never sen the show, they call the others in their group “boys” all the time. “How we doing boys”, “good to see you boys”, “boys, we gotta do this” etc. I was such a fan I started saying some of the things they say because I thought it was funny.
Enter table of black men. I go to them, and without really looking or thinking, I say “what can I get you to drink, boys?” I look up and see who’s there and say, “ah fuck, I didn’t mean it like that!”
Thankfully after some deer in the headlights staring from me they started laughing, I apologized for any misunderstanding and from then on the experience was great for them, and I made some new regular customers. Not a crazy story, but I was very close to being branded a racist
TL:DR called a group of black men “boys”, but thankfully they knew I didn’t mean it like that
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