He Is A Different Color, Huh?

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Today, my children and I went to town to pay my phone bill at the local grocery store. When I was paying the bill, my 8 year old daughter wanted to walk over to the quarter machines, you know the one's with the little toys, rings, necklaces, etc. I told her that she could and she walked over there with my 2 year old son. Now if you don't already know, my daughter is Caucasian and my son is biracial (African American and Caucasian). They were both just standing there looking at all the stuff in the machines. I was standing a few feet away watching them and waiting for the lady to give my my receipt. While I was standing there watching them an elderly man walked up to then and just looked at them. I kept watching because I wasn't sure if his intentions were good or bad. He said something to my daughter and she just said, "Yes". He said something else to her and I could tell that it made her uncomfortable and she came walking back over to me. The man walked away. I asked her what the man said to her and she said that he asked if that was her little brother and she said she told him yes. I said, "Oh, and what did he say after that?". She said that he said, "He is a different color, huh?" I tell myself to ignore ignorance because there is so much of it in the world today. I realize this was an old man but he should have more respect. He had no right to even be talking to my daughter at all and then to imply that she doesn't know the color of her brother's skin, come on old man! When my daughter told me that he said, "He is a different color, huh?" The exact phrase I would have loved to say back to him would have been, "Gee, we never noticed that before! Here's your sign". I'm sure you know about Bill Engvall's "Here's Your Sign" Comedy. It is so true that people say the stupidest things sometimes. Some people really just don't think before they open their mouths, do they? Have you ever had someone say something like that to you and you wanted to just say, "Well, duh!"?