It was 2:30 pm on a Tuesday in early August, and I was sitting in the far-right seat of an Edinburgh visa facilitation center, waiting to submit my Schengen visa documents to a Lithuanian embassy representative. I had been waiting for nearly two hours. Around me were many “people of color,” as we are often called, those not classified as “white” or, as it used to be openly said , “the superior race.” Over time, such linguistic directness became subtler . They return forcefully in places like