When talking about a situation from your life is it racist to point out people's races or ethnicities when talking about that situation?

[Anonymous]

I've personally always done this and it has nothing to do with discrimination or anything like that. I just like to paint an accurate picture of the situation.

So let's say for example I have this coworker. He's Asian and has black hair and black eyes. He always talks about how abusive his girlfriend is yet is reluctant to break up with her.

I do it for White people too though.

I have this neighbor. He's White and blonde with blue eyes. He always plays music super loud and is really annoying.

I do this because for example if the story I'm describing involves a Black friend I don't want people to assume it's a White friend which they might assume if I didn't point out he's Black. That'd be an inaccurate imagination of the story because I don't want people to imagine him as White, he's Black and I want people to picture him as that.

Some people have called me racist or whatever for this but I don't personally see how just simply mentioning someone's race, ethnicity, or nationality could be offensive as long as you're not using it to put down a group of people.

Me pointing out my girlfriend is Mexican though is not that. I don't want people to picture her as White because she's not White.

[MrChinaski]

Lots of people pepper their stories with irrelevant information.

[shish_kebab]

I drove across the state for a work thing and our driver was black. He stopped twice for fried chicken in 6 hours. I felt that was pretty relevant.

[Mariogirl09]

Omg I do this too😂😂

[Asker]

Glad I'm not alone at least 😂

[Agape93]

No, if its relevant then its relevant.

[Asker]

Good. I like to paint a vivid picture of all the people in the situation. If the guy is Black then I want to make it clear he's Black. If another guy is blonde with blue eyes I also wanna make that clear. And so on and so forth.