Actually seems like Atillah's on to something.

-- BUT --

Quotes like this from the article give me pause:

>"So many times, these people will talk about blacks or Africans, and
>they'll say, ‘Oh, not you, Anthony. You’re American," he says.

>Speaking up so others can hear his American accent has either spared
>him from poor treatment or granted him access.

>"I was eating lunch, and there were some white people who needed
>help," he recalls. "I was on the phone talking. They walked past a
>table of Eastern Europeans, other white people, to get to me!"