What exactly made this bloke racist?
You did not explain what was racist about him: merely described him as such before he even approached Dave in the pub.

With regards to getting angry about the wind-up: maybe he was silly to fall for it, but let's suppose the wind-up was the truth. Then an angry reaction would not be "racism" (i.e treating a person worse than you otherwise would because of the colour of their skin or ethnic background) - but merely legitimate anger about any person (of whatever background) getting given freebies that the rest of us have to pay for.
(EuroSong I love horse meat: best of all the animals, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 10:00, 1 reply)

I'd say that asking
"What are you doing in a small town in East Yorkshire?", asssuming they didn't know each other, would require the bloke to have judged Dave, based on the colour of his skin, to not be local.

IE, racism.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 11:12, closed)

I'd say that asking
"What are you doing in a small town in East Yorkshire?", asssuming they didn't know each other, would require the bloke to have judged Dave, based on the colour of his skin, to not be local.

IE, racism.

Yeah, that.

What with Dave having paid tax and National Insurance in the UK for the previous 30 years.
(Bob the Builder killed Captain Alex, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 21:31, closed)

P.S.
Dave told me he got beaten up by the locals when he was at Sailor School (or whatever it was) for being the only Iraqi in Great Yarmouth.
(Bob the Builder killed Captain Alex, Mon 25 Feb 2013, 21:39, closed)