I once wiped soot from my heavily padded winter coat muttering “it’s black!” only to see one black colleague jump up in indignation. A black prospective employee in the same company was upset when a secretary led her into the boss’s office. She felt the secretary should walk next to her rather than in front. A sign of racism.
I heard a snippet quote of a person at the TV station who said of the murderer: “he was a professional victim.”