Anthony...it's a sad truth that you may be singled out because of your race. (That and the fact that scum read good people very well: you were very unlikely to start anything in front of your family.) I do imagine that the very second you stand up, however, the scum finds a reason to ease on down the road and find someone of a smaller ethnicity to harrass. You also give off that "I'll eat your liver with fava beans and a light Chianti" vibe that I love so much.
I've had the opportunity to play "white, middle-class, not-so-much-as-a-traffic-ticket" witness in the grocery store: I've just gone and stood behind the nice little Hispanic woman, tilting my head with a smile, causing racist wannabes to look elsewhere for their fun. I never had to say a word. Just the "c'mon, who do you think the Sheriff is going to believe?" facial expression was enough. That game is dangerous to play, though. It gives every male Hispanic in the area *two* females to defend, and with their social programming, that can get ugly. Very, very ugly. But, once again, the Sheriff is going to believe me, whatever story comes out of my mouth.
Several people have ended up dead here by asking others simply to turn their music down on the beach. They've insitituted "no drinking laws" to try and curb that, under the perhaps misguided thought that sober people don't commit murder over cd volume.