Well, that's my point. There's no end of numbskull leftists who would say that you're just racist, but reality is more complex than the racial utopia liberals imagine we can all live in.
Yes, it never seems to bother kiddo, he shrugs it off and usually laughs about it. When he had started college a few kids said they had thought he was a skinhead when they first saw him, not all of them black, either.
For me, I suppose I am just a mom and a worry-wart. I fret about my Boxers, too—worried some might think them a Pitt Bull. But not all Pitt Bulls are rotten, either.
Not all are racist or Pitt Bullist (haha) and generally move on from a first impression or whatever after becoming more familiar. It is only those who are determined to have only one opinion because of a pre-concieved notion of the crayola wrapper.
So you’re right, it much more complex. It is more about the individual than it is groups of this and that.