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So, I'm a teenage girl who's of Asian descent. And I was genuinely wondering if black people could be racist? There's this girl in my grade who's of African descent and is extremely rude/racist towards my other Asian friend and me. She's completely nice and kind to my white friends, but when it comes to me and my friend, she makes sly comments. My friend and I have asked her to stop multiple times, but she doesn't listen. She makes fun of our skin tone, our eyes, our food, etc. She even told my friend that she needs to go back to her own country, which is ironic as she isn't even an American citizen, while my friend is. She discredits any achievements (academically) that me and my friend acheive and says that it's "in our genes". She makes comments about my friend and me looking identical and being able to speak "our" languages to each other. My friend is Chinese; I'm Korean. We don't speak the same language. I do not speak Korean, but my friend speaks Mandarin with her family. But if she hears my friend speaking Mandarin, she just starts to speak gibberish and says that it's the same. As I said before, we have told her multiple times we're uncomfortable with the comments, that we really don't like the comments, and that we want her to stop. She hasn't, so we went to our school counselor. She basically told us to stop making stuff up, that black people are incapable of being racists, and that we were being unnecessarily rude and making stuff up. She told us that if we talked about this again, we'd be facing disciplinary action. So, I'm confused: am I being too insensitive, and is it impossible for black people to be racist?

I'm sorry if this comes off as insensitive; I'm just genuinely curious.

Hi, so I have my first training soon for my first-ever job, which is low and behold, Starbucks. The only problem is that the manager(AKA the ONLY person I know) won't be there for my whole entire first week. So yay for me! She said that I should contact her if anything goes awry, but I literally have no way of contacting her, so instead I'm at the merciful will of the Starbucks barista Reddit. So, first things first, my training is at 6 am. What time do you think I should arrive, and what should I wear? Am I supposed to wear the dress code uniform, or is it fine if I haven't? For reference, I've already gone into the store once since being hired, and when Iw as there, I looked over the dress code, got my goody bag that literally only had an apron in it, looked at a bunch of videos, and signed a bunch of stuff. So should I show up to training in uniform or nah? Follow-up question: should I also show up with an apron, and if so, I'd just put it on in the back, right? I don't have to walk in with it on, correct? And when I do walk in, should I go to the register and be like, "Hi, it's my first day of training"?

So sorry for this really long rant; I'm just extremely nervous, as I don't even know whose training me and/or who's gonna be there working.

If I do have to come in uniform, I do have things I could wear; however, I wanted to branch out to different jean colors, as the only jeans I have that I can wear for the job are pure black. I linked some photos of jeans I've been looking at, so if you could look at those and give me feedback, that'd be very much appreciated

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this, and hopefully thank you for helping me!

Genuine Question

please HELP - a terrified new barista