Racism? In MY generation? More likely than you think.

“Have you ever had something happen that was so racist, that you didn’t even get mad? You was like, ‘God damn that was racist!’. I mean it was so blatant you was, ‘Wow’. Like it didn’t even happen to you it was like a fuckin’ movie. Like you was watching Mississippi Burning; ‘Wow’. - Dave Chappelle

I actually arranged such an occasion for some friends of mine once. They, all black, had come to my place of minimum wage culinary employment and were clearly rubbing the situation in my face. Seizing the opportunity, I declared "I'm sorry but we don't serve colored folk here" and waved to the white girl behind them to pass them and come to the register. After a moment of hesitation, she actually did skip them and to this day I wonder what she was thinking.

There's nothin' a white person could ever say to me that will ever catch me off-guard. Ever! I'm always lookin' for some racism! No matter where the fuck I'm at, I'm like "where the racism at? Where it at, where it at, where it at?" No matter where I'm at. I could be sittin' down with Regis Philbin, doin' an interview, talkin' about Madagascar 2, sayin' "yeah, Regis, Madagascar 2's real good, man. I play a zebra again! Oh, this motherfucker's great!" And right in the middle of the interview, Regis'll pull a pencil out of his pocket, stab me in the neck and say "take that, ya fuckin' nigger! Take that, ya dirty, greasy nigger! Take that, ya fuckin' nigger!" And I'd be like "I shoulda seen it comin'. I let Regis get too close." I'll be mad at me. I'll apologize--"hey, man, I left my neck all out, man. I'm sorry, man, " - Chris Rock

I don't want to dredge into this so I'll copy and paste this from a journal entry in 2004 during a more interesting time in my life:

So that I never forget. That job offer where they posted I accepted. They responded happily. Then communication ends and suddenly the job is reposted with the additional message of ‘white people only. I’m not racialist but the children’s parents insist'

Since that experience I kind of maintain that, until you've experienced that down home country racism where people are fucking with your money, you haven't really experienced the old racism.