Why make an issue of little things? The color is not important. Your reaction to his request is, most importantly it is important to your boss. Wye had it right in his first post as did the two that followed him.
The right answer would have been "which one would you like green?" Followed by I will take care of it ASAP and make it a priority. Everything else is just adding drama where there is no need.

I now have the answer I was looking to find. Thank you, everyone, for getting the ball rolling.

For those that are interested, this is what I've come up with thus far:  The only jobs I tend to get are the ones no one else wants or those where the owner/manager is really hard to get along with so there is a high turnover rate. They need a warm body in that position and sooner rather than later. If they felt they had another choice, especially one that was remotely better on only 1 level, they'd hire someone else. Since they have "no choice", they hire me.

At 5'10", I'm taller than a lot of people (especially women). At 550 pounds, I'm wider than most. I'm fairly nimble, though, so I can move relatively quickly and I still have most of my mental faculties so I'm a quick thinker. This is physically intimidating to a lot of people. Add that my skin is usually darker than theirs and it's another element.  Add to that that I don't shave all that often (once a month, if that) and it makes it even worse.

So I take this job where they didn't want me from the beginning and they feel forced to hire me. They have this mistrust of people who don't look like them (and if I do look like them, they definitely don't trust me because everyone is out to get over on everyone else, especially if they have the same skin color ... this is a long and drawn out soapbox category so we won't elaborate or explore this on this website). This means they're going to have to ride my back to make sure this doesn't happen. 

As they ride my back more and more about more and more trivial things, the relationship deteriorates quickly because they just get ludicrous with the demands. It doesn't matter what I say or do because I'm physically intimidating, the "wrong" skin color, lazy, shiftless, controlling, power hungry, sarcastic, condescending, arrogant and/or stupid and they feel small, weak, inferior and/or power hungry so they have to "exert" their power over me.

When things go right, they take credit for them. When things go wrong, they blame me because I either didn't do exactly as they said or I did exactly as they said but didn't say anything about it going the wrong way ... or because I did say something about it going wrong (and they thus feel more inferior or condescended).

So ... they didn't trust me from the beginning. They have to find or invent some way to discredit me so they look for all the ways I could be stealing from them. They can't find any because I only take what belongs to me (my paycheck). They go through massive hysterics and gyrations to catch me but they can't because I don't take a thing and any mistakes I make are on the up and up. When that fails, then they turn to criticizing my work at every turn. As I said, if they say sweep the floor then I've selected the wrong broom and it took too long to do it.

If they tell me which broom to use, then it took too long, scratched the floor and I didn't say anything about it. If I do say something about it, I'm lazy and shiftless for trying to get out of sweeping the floor.  So ... it doesn't matter what, when or how I do. I'm on the outs starting with my size and they make things bigger from there.

When things deteriorate and I have to practice CMA (cover my @$$), I tend to walk on eggshells and do everything in such a way that there is a record of everything I did and why. My trust of them goes away because it looks like they are looking for a way to fire me and probably for something that wasn't my fault or beyond my control. As things continue to deteriorate, it gets more and more personal until I just can't deal anymore.

Rather than snap and do something I'd regret for the rest of my life, I just look them square in the eye and say "I quit" and I leave. Now we're both back to square one ... they're looking for a warm body and I'm looking for work to do.

The solution is simple: start my own business, grow it to the point where I can live off it and then I don't have to worry about their .... issues/idiosyncrasies. I don't know if photography will ever grow enough for me to make a living but it is something I enjoy and should make a few bucks for me here and there. I'm working on other things, too. Problem solved.

Thank you everyone.

Just let the micromanager do all the work or STF up!