Stop making every question about race

White person: Where are you from?
POC: New York
White person: Yeah, but where are you from originally?
POC: New York
White person: But where are your parents from?
POC: Also New York
White Person: What about their parents?
POC: They came from *insert non-white majority country here*
White person: Ahah! *smug self-satisfied smile*

Every one of my non-white friends has had this conversation with someone countless times. I have never come across someone being unsatisfied with the initial answer to this question when it's posed to a white person.

Why do you need to know where someone is from? What's the relevance?
Are you unaware how frequently people that don't have white skin get quizzed about where they're from?

I think you'll find that the questions you ask people say far more about you than them.

"Where are you from?"

"Idaho"

"Oh. I..... ok."

"You're surprised?"

".... no, I just..."

"... just realized that it wasn't actually a simple question about my place of origin and never was?"

The stupid Government asks that question on every form you have ever filled out.

That's the same Government that has been telling us to be colorblind for the last 60 years.

So, I am glad to see that you acknowledge the fact that the US Government is racist.

I've never heard a form respond with a confused expression to my answers.

No, the Government doesn't ask that question on every form you have ever filled out. Stop being silly. They've never asked me where I'm "from". A couple of forms may have asked me where I was born, but that's about it.

Oh, stop it.
You and I and everyone else knows this is all about someone's race.
Don't be so obtuse.