Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : The starts at lunch. Earlier that day, all of our teachers made us watch a video that discussed the problems of living below the poverty line. It mentioned welfare checks. 

During lunch, my friend brings it up. I say how I think welfare is good, but some people use it to purchase expensive clothing. My friend (who is very conservative) says “I think that’s a problem because black people spend their welfare on nice shoes.”

I call him out immediately saying how incredibly racist that is. He defends himself by saying “well it is true that a lot of black people like nice shoes”

I reply by saying other people also like nice shoes. I said that he could have said that certain people who receive welfare spend it on nice shoes, but he opened it up to only black people and assumed that all black people who receive welfare spend it on shoes. 

During this discussion, the table next to us (which is all black people and one white guy) starts yelling at him for being incredibly racist. The next day, he doesn’t go into school. I get called down into the office to explain what happened, so I did. They said that I did nothing wrong at all. This kid, let’s call him Gym, calls me asking why I always challenge his political views. I tell him because if I were to say something very liberal (which I am), would he not argue it? 

He always gets mad at me when I talk to him about politics, even when he starts the discussion, because I always win because I look up numerous articles. This is not the first time he said something racist around the table as well. AITA for calling him out?

TLDR; I called a friend out for being racist, and the table next to us got mad. He didn’t go to school the next day.