Another teaching moment

Another teaching moment, originally uploaded by ujima.

In the supermarket doing my monthly shopping and ran into an
older (70s?) neighbor. We started talking sports and agreed
neither of us like Kobe (who's in town to play the Sixers). We
agreed he had purposly fouled that guy for which he was
suspended the other day.
The he said. "That's the kind of behavior you'd expect from a
guy brought up in the blackghetto." Red light! Without seeming
angry at his double ignorance, I told him Kobe's caucasian background:
father professional basketball player, raised in Italy, when in America
raised and educated in Lower Merion, a wealthy Philadelphia suburb.
He just said, "Oh. OK." and walked away before I could tell him
that Kobe was named for that expensive beef in Japan:)