"No," she said, keeping her voice very deliberately calm. After the first few days Sunny would have torn him a new asshole, but he was too new. "There's nothing wrong with any of those things. There is however, a lot of ugly subtext in a white boy asking a black woman if she's a human. And further ugly subtext in asking an albino woman if she's a human since we're looked at as though we're not at least implicitly and sometimes still explicitly around the world."