Is OTHER wrong in the post ? POST : I cannot tell you how many times people have called me black growing up. At first I never said anything, but as I got older I started correcting them. Overall, people just went with it, but I could tell it irritated some people.

Recently, a friend of a friend was talking to me over the phone (getting to know the roommate of his friend). We got along great. When I met him a week later he said "Wow. I thought you were white when we talked over the phone. I didn't realize you were black." I told him that I wasn't black and that I was brown, but it should not matter either way.

Thoughts?