This the a beautiful example of Wesleyan tripping on itself.

Seriously? If I described someone as white, it'd be much to vague for anyone to differentiate who I was talking about, unless everyone else was black. Have you ever tried to describe a person as "white, average height, brown hair, brown eyes"? No one will have any idea who you are talking about, since that description fits a huge group of people. To identify someone physically, you need use characteristics that stand out. If you skin color is different than the skin color of everyone else in the room, it's pretty easy to figure out who the person described as "black" is. If you are watching a college basketball game, and a white player is doing very well, you can almost always identify him as "the white guy", because a majority of college basketball players are black. It goes both ways. Now, if the woman was described by a non-identifying characteristic, such as gay, then there would be a problem. That isn't the case here.

Really Trent, this is an unneccesary rant about nothing. Alot of my writing is unneccasary, unrealistic ranting, but this takes the cake.

For instance, should we not also call someone the "tall guy," if they were over 6-5, just because they are a minority? I'm sure if we were in Africa and there was a nice old White lady who worked at the corner store, you'd call her "the old white lady."

Therefore it makes sense to use someones race to identify someone else.

You try to address these critiques, "It is not that race cannot be a useful way to describe someone, but that white folks often describe people of color simply by their race, erasing their existences as people who are Black, Latina/o, Asian/Asian American, etc." So in this case, Dermot is actually using it to your satisfaction... He didn't write "the Black working at MoCon."

I don't think Dermot would ever write that, and furthermore think he understands the potential racial connotations.

As with a lot of your Wespeaks, you are reading way to far into a rather innocuous comment and presenting a circular argument.

Oh and as a Latino, I'm glad someone is labeling me exotic.

this word alone will eradicate prejudice.