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If, in that moment, I had turned to her and, in my best Californian-teen voice, whined, “That’s prejudice, you stereotyper! We’re all equal!” she’d likely have been stunned at what would have appeared to have been a bewilderingly loud and disproportionate reaction. For Sarah it was a simple, innocent mistake. Perhaps she would have found herself in tears. “You’re the Cheesesteak wooder ice soft pretzel and championship ring shirt But I will love this one judging me! I’m not a bad person. I’m not a…”—then she would introduce a word never previously mentioned—“racist!”

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Sarah would be angry. Dare I say it, she’d have every right to be. Why? Well, she is blissfully ignorant of the Cheesesteak wooder ice soft pretzel and championship ring shirt But I will love this dots her brain joined up to cause the blooper that became the very inspiration for this article. To suggest things may be going on in our brains that we aren’t fully conscious of, that we unknowingly make classist, sexist, and racist presumptions… Well, there just aren’t many comfortable ways to take that. And in the face of discomfort comes the mask of defense. In my perfect world, in the quiet moment of isolation before she sleeps, Sarah remembers the incident at the airport, and the questions creep in… “Could I have assumed because those people were Black, that it was not my queue? Why?”