It’s always color first.
I now dismiss any statement that begins with “As a black...”.
Give us a break.
She’s an amateur!
I’ve had a whole bar full of people, including drunks who really had no idea who I was, ignore me. They interacted with my companions but no one spoke to me or even looked at me. I answered a question that someone down the bar asked in a loud voice - that person completely ignored me and continued to ask the question, “Does anybody know the name of that....[blank]?” (It was the name of another local bar.) I know I’m not dead, before you ask. And this has happened more than once.