My experiences with microaggression mostly come from ignorant people, who have made remarks about my skin color. I experienced microaggression when I was working in a daycare and I noticed a father looking at the tattoo on my leg, finally I gave him a long stare basically saying “what are you looking at buddy?”, he looked up at me and said “You have pretty dark skin, and that tattoo, is different, are you from Egypt or something?”. I was little taken back by this, the tattoo on my leg was of my Zodiac sign, Capricorn. I was kind of offended not because he thought I was Egyptian but because of the way he went about asking me. He was very straight forward, but not in a good way. I thought it was rude and it made me upset. From that point on I did not want to be around him, I felt like he was ignorant and thought he was better than me.
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