No, I didn't know, otherwise, I wouldn't have bothered with him. I wouldn't ever knowingly bother with a racist. And despite my ethnicity, one look at my pic makes it pretty clear that if all I wanted was assimilation, that wouldn't have been difficult to achieve. My mistake was in not recognizing jokes and foolishness for what they were, racism in disguise. You know the saying, there's a kernel of truth in every joke...THAT was my bad and yes I did lie down with a snake and get bit, but I bit back. :)