On a recent episode of CBCs Marketplace, I watched a racism activist counsel highschool students on how to confront racism when they saw it. One of the students spoke up and described an incident of "racism" he encountered where he perceived a simple look from a woman- a white woman of course- to be a blatant act of racism.  The advice he was given for being so sensitive as to perceive a single, simple look from a stranger in a grocery store as blatant racism? Go and confront the woman. Ask her what her problem is they told this guy. The kids are getting plenty of advice but does anyone have an idea what we should be telling our elderly Mothers to do when confronted by hyper sensitive young men who are being told to construe any perceived slight as an act of racism and given licence by educators to act out on it?