-It's a tired joke.
-Any delicious food prepared in the kitchen will not be shared with people who make tired jokes. Just try me. I'll roll you out of the kitchen covered in molasses and flour with a meat theromometer sticking out of your eye.

I'm a minority in every sense of the word: a Hispanic female. Most of the time I don't feel discriminated against, and this has never affected my work or schooling in an adverse way. However, there's still the nagging voice in the back of my head when someone I meet or someone I know reacts to me negatively. If I've earned it, the voice goes away. If it's unwarranted then I start wondering...do they dislike me because I'm Hispanic, female, young, chubby, because I have acne, because I wear glasses, etc. People will always find a reason to dislike you or treat you badly and I don't think that's exclusive to race or gender. Someone will always assume something about you based on your race or gender, even intelligent, enlightened people. One of the most common ones I get is the assumption that I speak Spanish. Because my last name is Hispanic. And then when I politely say that no, I don't speak Spanish but I speak French and Japanese and will be learning Korean in university later on, the reaction is "meh." Oh, I'm sorry, I wasn't aware my kickass language skills were diminished because I can't order a ding dang burrito in Jalisco.

I don't think of myself as a minority. I guess it's because I haven't felt real discrimination--yet of course. I'm bracing myself for that once I start working in sports journalism for real. But I can understand the feeling of having an invisible bullseye on your back from time spent deflecting jerkoff people and their narrowminded shit. Some people take it too far, for sure. But unfortunately, discrimination is still a problem. As long as it is, we'll have that question of "Is Person X being discriminated against because of race/gender/religion/whatever?"