I don't look Native to most people, and I officially identify as "White," on official ethnic surveys. But, I remember walking to Dale's Market in Pacoima, CA with my Brother Jim, when three adult men confronted him for being a "Beaner," (an ethnic slur for a Mexican-American) in the "White side of town." I was six, Jim was twelve. The three of them beat the snot out of him, knocking me down when I tried to help him. A woman came out of her house and said she had called the police or they might have killed him. Years later, when he was in the Air Force, traveling from classes at Yale to San Antonio by car, he was denied a room in a motel in Texas for the color of his skin. It is for the "Jims," of the world that I take offense to your racist "joke."