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Going to school in the Black Hills of South Dakota I was really surprised as to how much casual racism is thrown in the way of the Native American community, who make up a very sizable portion of the city's demographics (like 12%), without so much as a second thought.
 
Working at a sale in a clothing store on the tills. Have older, seemingly very nice lady working beside me, helping me wrap clothes and items etc.

Chatty to most customers, enquiring about their day etc. Every Asian customer that comes to the till... she's very short with them, and at times quite rude. Then, when they're barely out of ear short she mutters things like "Can't understand what the fuck she was saying".

It was quite astounding really.
 
Got made fun of alot when I went to Wealthy 95% white school
Kinda made me feel bad about being Hispanic tbh
 
Kimawolf said:
He then says "Well we got a call of some suspicious activity in this area." and he's lookin dead at me. I say "oh, really? Anything I should be concerned about officer?" he then proceeds to ask me for my ID. NOW in another world I would be all hell no, screw you etc, but this is reality, and I don't want to get shot or thrown in jail in Kansas so I give it to him, he then tells me he will handcuff me just for both our safey. And he does. he runs it and then comes out his car 15 minutes later and uncuffs me "sorry for the inconvience but we just want everyone safe."
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What the fuck? This whole story is awful, I'm so sorry. You guys all the stories in this thread make me feel awful. The worst that happens to me is people (where I currently live) seems to think they can use all the slurs in the world about other people (I assume it's because I'm white). Which in a way is an okay thing, because then I know who to avoid and look at with scorn.

I've never felt uncomfortable by anyone else's presence just because of their looks, it must suck so much to be profiled like that. I'm sorry.

Commander Jameson said:
I think the most interesting one is when I managed to get on the old 360 version of "1 vs 100" as a contestant. I did OK, but ended the game and had about 100 messages on there, of which 90% were "Nigger" and "Paki" and other colourful variations of such expressions.
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What the hell is wrong with people??? Ugh, makes me sick. :/

Also: I totally miss 1vs100.
 
The only real story i have was when i borrowed my friends bike (he's spanish btw ) when i was a teen.The bike got stolen from me by a bunch of kids.So naturally i told him what happened,and said i'll pay him back for the bike which i did. My friend comes to me a few weeks later and tells me his step dad who's also spanish thought i took the bike and sold it.
 
I was at a store inside Pacific Mall in Toronto (it's an Asian mall), and while inside that store, I overheard a conversation between an employee and another person in English (they were Chinese). They were discussing a recent shooting at another mall. The employee had no idea of what happened.

The employee blurted out, "So, did they catch the black guy?"

She paused, looked around, then laughed.

I'm not black, but that was pretty insulting.

The most racist thing I've dealt with was this drunk guy telling me, "Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese...I don't give a fuck. You all look the same."
 
i can't think of any good stories right now... just the typical same old shit where when you're followed around in grocery stores but in big box stores employees just walk by to help the customers they think are actually buying something even though i'm there specifically to buy something.

<3 online shopping



Striker_ said:
I find it funny how everyone tells me "I'm not black" because I hate fried chicken, watermelon, and Kool Aid.
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you hate fried chicken? you're not HUMAN!
 
Steelrain said:
Yeah i remember this when I was in High School in Georgia. I would get the "You're not really black" thing from both black people and non-black people. I moved to Florida in my junior year and never got any comments like that so since then I have viewed GA as a pretty backwards place. Other than that, I grew up on military bases mainly and everyone was chilled with everyone.
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Always pisses me off when I hear that shit. I'm Hispanic and can't speak Spanish so I get shit for being the "whitest Hispanic people know". This comes from people that are in most respects pretty progressive which is even more frustrating haha.
 
Quick said:
The most racist thing I've dealt with was this drunk guy telling me, "Chinese, Japanese, Vietnamese...I don't give a fuck. You all look the same."
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Man that is tame compared to what my wife gets. I think it's because she's a woman though, and gets the more sexual side of things thrown at her.
 
Twenty7KVN said:
The only real story i have was when i borrowed my friends bike (he's spanish btw ) when i was a teen.The bike got stolen from me by a bunch of kids.So naturally i told him what happened,and said i'll pay him back for the bike which i did. My friend comes to me a few weeks later and tells me his step dad who's also spanish thought i took the bike and sold it.
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That's not racist really
I would question that incident with anyone of any race
 
Had a white dude running an ice cream shop near the UW lock the door on us (a bunch of Asian kids) as we stood outside trying to decide whether to go in or go get something else. Broad daylight and not even near closing time. Maybe not so coincidentally, it's not in business anymore.
 
Damn I am white and the only time I felt uncomfortable is when I thought I was being singled out because I was white.

If I was with a black friend and they bothered us just because he/she was black I would be giving them a lot of shit and recording it to put it on the internet and embarass them for being racist.

You best believe if someone made a racist joke or targeted my boyfriend because he was hispanic, there would be hell to pay. I love him deeply and if anyone messes with him because of his race I would beat the hell out of them.
 
WinoMcCougarstein said:
Really?
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Yes, really.
He said Racism, not Prejudice.

Anyways let's take count of my stories.

Age 12

Brother and I went to the store to buy me new school clothes. He had just got a new job so it was a big deal for us at the time.

We go into the store and try on some things, he sees how it looks on me and so does the owner, who is casting shade non-stop since we came in. We came in but didn't really like anything, so we put it back and proceed to head out of the store.

The store owner locks the door, accuses us of hiding clothes under our shirts. I was kind of scared shitless, we were locked in a store with a strange adult who had God knows what behind the counter. My brother gets mad and says "We don't have anything and if you don't let us out I will call the cops." Luckily they let us go, thank God for early cellphones.

Age 11

I was going outside of school, it was time to rush because coach class was over and my dad was outside and he usually rushes me. As I go out I hear "Claire" shit talking me saying "hypernima is such a dumb monkey." I caught her right in the act of her shit talk and she notices and tries to apologize. I didn't even know what to say to her, so I continued on.

Age 11-13

Going to a predominantly white school, thousands of black jokes, and insecurities about the possibilities of a black boy outbeating you academically made known to your face.

There's tons more but I'm not going to write a life story.
 
I'm fortunate enough to be a model minority. The only brush with "racism" that truly bothered me was when I was a kid on a school trip to Black Creek Pioneer Village, a heritage museum depicting life in 1800s Toronto. The lady was handing out pieces of maple fudge to us, and when she got to me one of my white classmates says "YOU ALREADY GOT ONE", to which I obviously protested - I had patiently waited 'til she got to me and I wanted my candy, dammit - but she took his word for it and took away the tray.

Calling it racism is a stretch, but I remember that shit clearly and part of me must still want what's mine, because I'm a little bothered right now! Being called "chink" or "ching-chong" is nothing compared to withholding that delicious maple fudge.
 
I'm a British mutt.. Full on English on one side and Scottish on the other. Live in the US. Not many stories of racism other than being called crackers by some black people a couple times. Though when I was selling insurance in Cincinnati in the inner city I'd get quite a few looks daring me to get out of my car. Made an appointment with a middle aged black man one day and I show up to his apartment and he comes to the door, sees me and tells me that I'm not coming in his house and that I need to go back to the suburbs and sell to people of my own kind. That was probably the worst experience I had with that, though I did have some other crazy stories that weren't racist, just strange. That one hurt though.

I get bad looks from people of all races because I have some tattoos on my arms.

Some crazy stories in here, and I know mine was tame but I thought I'd share my limited experience with it.
 
Featheredkitten said:
What the fuck? This whole story is awful, I'm so sorry. You guys all the stories in this thread make me feel awful. The worst that happens to me is people (where I currently live) seems to think they can use all the slurs in the world about other people (I assume it's because I'm white). Which in a way is an okay thing, because then I know who to avoid and look at with scorn.
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Yeah as a white guy it is annoying when some people assume I'm cool with racial insults, slurs, or whatever, simply because I am white. I've cut out people in my life because of it and will continue to do so. However, I realize this is small potatoes compared to some of the stories here. Really sorry to hear about some of this stuff, especially the ops post. Getting cuffed for jogging? Damn.
 
Striker_ said:
I find it funny how everyone tells me "I'm not black" because I hate fried chicken, watermelon, and Kool Aid.
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My own family says I'm not black :/

And I can understans the hatred of watermelon, as it's a shitty fruit, and Kool Aid, as I haven't had it in a while, but fried chicken? That transcends race and I can't understand that one.
 
Stuff like people asking me why I wasn't a gangster. Or why I didn't like rap music or [insert stereotypical acitivty here].

Being told that I'm the "whitest black kid I've ever met".

I'm lucky to be mixed I guess, and it pains me that I can't just fix everyone's problems.
 
Silas Lang said:
Yeah as a white guy it is annoying when some people assume I'm cool with racial insults, slurs, or whatever, simply because I am white. I've cut out people in my life because of it and will continue to do so. However, I realize this is small potatoes compared to some of the stories here. Really sorry to hear about some of this stuff, especially the ops post. Getting cuffed for jogging? Damn.
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Same here, I don't want to listen to their stupid racist shit. The worst is when you become friends with someone and suddenly they start saying all this racist stuff. It's like, "Who are you? How did you hide this for so long?"
 
Featheredkitten said:
Same here, I don't want to listen to their stupid racist shit. The worst is when you become friends with someone and suddenly they start saying all this racist stuff. It's like, "Who are you? How did you hide this for so long?"
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Imagine when that shit is coming from your own family members. I wonder how I am even related to half them. Half of them are racist against the Japanese side of the family. And forget it if you are white.
 
Growing up the most I've seen it in one place was playing hockey. Growing up it was the sport I most gravitated to, and played pretty continuously until about 16. Always in the leagues I played in or people who asked I'd get " Hockey, why don't you play basketball or football?" Or from parents at games, "I thought basketball season was still going." This was in North California and Virginia, mostly by the adults and a few times from the kids. I always brushed it off but looking back that shit infuriates me.
 
Aristion said:
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Nothing too serious, I was with my cousin's husband (white). The whole time I was in there the owner was mean mugging me. I go up to check out and he says he doesn't serve my kind. His son hears it, freaks out, pulls him aside, and argues with him. Eventually his son checks us out and apologizes profusely for it. It angered my cousin's husband more than me. Sometimes you roll into places expecting that type of behavior even if it is unlikely.
 
All the racist stuff I've dealt with are simply just from my wife and I being a couple. Audible comments from white and black people when out in public. Suspicious looks falling short of questioning my wife when in a store with our kids and same for me if I'm with my nephews. The rest is just the everybody hates Chris teacher style racism which my wife and I can laugh about later on, but all the other shit kind of sucks. We just put blinders on at this point. We're not sure on what we plan on telling our kids about dealing with police yet.
 
In 7th grade I got pushed down and kicked by a couple of kids while they asked me if I had a bomb in my lunchbox and other typical slurs directed at Arabs. I went to the principal's office to tell him what happened, the next day I see those kids again and they brag about how they didn't get any sort of punishment. The next time I talked to the principal, he told me that their explanation was that they were bullying everyone that day, like that made it ok.

It was mind blowing.
 
I've got a bunch, but this one was pretty funny/bizarre.

I went to a party on campus at UC Santa Cruz, and it was one of the most bizarrely racist experiences of the life. I went with my housemates and a Palestenian friend who brought along 4 of her Palestenian friends (this is important). Anyways, we arrive there and I head over to the kitchen to get a drink with a friend of mine. As I'm making a drink, some random white dude walks over to us and starts chatting. He tells us he's a stand up comedian, and then asks us if we like Racial jokes. I'm interested in where this is going, so I went along with it. Anyways, he asks me what my racial background is, and I'm like "Black, Spanish, Sicilian Irish and Japanese," and he said "Oh you're black? I love a good Nigger joke!" Keep in mind that I've known this guy for all of 5 minutes at this point. Anyways, he throws out his joke "What did the black man get on his SAT test?" Me and my friends were stumped. Then he said "BBQ sauce." He then turns to my friend and says "I don't even have to ask what you are with that Jew fro and nose of yours," and then transitions into his joke. Dude went hard on the Jews. "Why are Jewish people good at Math? Because they've got numbers on their arms." ; "Why did the Jew cross the road? To steal the land." "How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagon? Two in the front, two in the back and as couple more in the ash tray." What. the. fuck. We're completely taken aback so we basically just walk away, I wasn't drunk enough for that crap.

Anyways, maybe 15-20 minutes later, I'm talking to some people when all of a sudden I thought I heard someone scream "NIGGGGGGER!" I turned around, and nobody looked phase, so I think to myself that I'm just hearing stuff. What I didn't know (my friend told me later) is that some short white girl drunk off her shit ran into the room, threw her hands in the air and screamed "NIGGGGGER!" at the top of her lungs like it was going out of style. My friend overheard her and approached her, and asked her what the was with that. And she's like "Oh don't worry, there's no black people here." And he's like uh, yeah there is and points to me. And he instigates the subject "That dude's militant black. He doesn't play that shit. I've seen him clock a girl before for some similar shit," all while looking and pointing at me. I look over and see him talking to some girl and pointing at me, so I head on over. Right when I walk up, the girl turns to me like she's seen a ghost and yells "I'm sorry, I thought you were Mexican!" and then runs out the room. I was like WTF? since I didn't know any of the leadup.

Same party, and I'm talking to my Palestenian friend and her friends, all of which are Palestenian. Some white dude who had been smoking the entire time and was baked, walks over and is like "Hey, Ya'll Latinas?" in the most bro accent you've ever heard. I just start laughing. They're like "No, we're Palestian." and he's like "Oh. Well I'm not really into white girls anymore and I'm looking for something a little bit more exotic, and Arabs would be a nice stepping stone." They just brush it off, all the while I'm cracking up. He asks "What's your names?" They tell him and he said "I'm not going to remember them, so how about I just call all of you the Mujahidin?" At this point, one of her friends throws her drink at him. He sits there a moment, and then says "I know you're Muslim and all, but there's no need to blow up on me like that." We leave pretty soon after... That entire party was trippy.
 
Featheredkitten said:
Same here, I don't want to listen to their stupid racist shit. The worst is when you become friends with someone and suddenly they start saying all this racist stuff. It's like, "Who are you? How did you hide this for so long?"
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Yeah, some people can put on a good face for the public but once you get to know them you see the ugly truth. It disappoints me how people can be seemingly so nice and have so much unfounded hatred in them.
 
One time in middle school, I was going to see Constantine with two friends at the theater.It's an R rated movie, so my friend's mom was going to see it with us. I arrived to the theater last, but when I went to buy a ticket with my friend's mom, the ticket lady refused because she concluded that I was not with my parent.

This is in spite of her having just sold a ticket to my white friend whose parents were not their either. I even called my dad and tried to speak with the ticket lady, but she refused to allow me to enter, even when I pointed out that my white friend's mom was not there either.

I ended up going home, while my friends got to see the movie.
 
harSon said:
I've got a bunch, but this one was pretty funny/bizarre.

I went to a party on campus at UC Santa Cruz, and it was one of the most bizarrely racist experiences of the life. I went with my housemates and a Palestenian friend who brought along 4 of her Palestenian friends (this is important). Anyways, we arrive there and I head over to the kitchen to get a drink with a friend of mine. As I'm making a drink, some random white dude walks over to us and starts chatting. He tells us he's a stand up comedian, and then asks us if we like Racial jokes. I'm interested in where this is going, so I went along with it. Anyways, he asks me what my racial background is, and I'm like "Black, Spanish, Sicilian Irish and Japanese," and he said "Oh you're black? I love a good Nigger joke!" Keep in mind that I've known this guy for all of 5 minutes at this point. Anyways, he throws out his joke "What did the black man get on his SAT test?" Me and my friends were stumped. Then he said "BBQ sauce." He then turns to my friend and says "I don't even have to ask what you are with that Jew fro and nose of yours," and then transitions into his joke. Dude went hard on the Jews. "Why are Jewish people good at Math? Because they've got numbers on their arms." ; "Why did the Jew cross the road? To steal the land." "How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagon? Two in the front, two in the back and as couple more in the ash tray." What. the. fuck. We're completely taken aback so we basically just walk away, I wasn't drunk enough for that crap.

Anyways, maybe 15-20 minutes later, I'm talking to some people when all of a sudden I thought I heard someone scream "NIGGGGGGER!" I turned around, and nobody looked phase, so I think to myself that I'm just hearing stuff. What I didn't know (my friend told me later) is that some short white girl drunk off her shit ran into the room, threw her hands in the air and screamed "NIGGGGGER!" at the top of her lungs like it was going out of style. My friend overheard her and approached her, and asked her what the was with that. And she's like "Oh don't worry, there's no black people here." And he's like uh, yeah there is and points to me. And he instigates the subject "That dude's militant black. He doesn't play that shit. I've seen him clock a girl before for some similar shit," all while looking and pointing at me. I look over and see him talking to some girl and pointing at me, so I head on over. Right when I walk up, the girl turns to me like she's seen a ghost and yells "I'm sorry, I thought you were Mexican!" and then runs out the room. I was like WTF? since I didn't know any of the leadup.

Same party, and I'm talking to my Palestenian friend and her friends, all of which are Palestenian. Some white dude who had been smoking the entire time and was baked, walks over and is like "Hey, Ya'll Latinas?" in the most bro accent you've ever heard. I just start laughing. They're like "No, we're Palestian." and he's like "Oh. Well I'm not really into white girls anymore and I'm looking for something a little bit more exotic, and Arabs would be a nice stepping stone." They just brush it off, all the while I'm cracking up. He asks "What's your names?" They tell him and he said "I'm not going to remember them, so how about I just call all of you the Mujahidin?" At this point, one of her friends throws her drink at him. He sits there a moment, and then says "I know you're Muslim and all, but there's no need to blow up on me like that." We leave pretty soon after... That entire party was trippy.
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Did this happen before or after Drake blew up? :p
 
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What the hell? It boggles my mind that people think this is anyway shape or form acceptable. How do people live like that? Why can't we just judge people on how they treat us and others?
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Silas Lang said:
Yeah, some people can put on a good face for the public but once you get to know them you see the ugly truth. It disappoints me how people can be seemingly so nice and have so much unfounded hatred in them.
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I not so recently backed out of a friendship for this reason, we were pretty good friends and she never gave me any indication that she was horribly, horribly racist. She was even the emergency contact for my son at his school. Everything was kosher until her wedding/bachlorette party when her true colours came out. Quickly stopped contact with her. We were still facebook "friends" until the supreme court's DOMA decision came down, and she unfriended me. No loss there.
 
Xbox Live LOL
I'm a White guy from Montreal who learned English from watching Bugs Bunny cartoons and Sesame Street and adopted a Northeastern accent.

I am well aware that lots of Midwesterns prop on Xbox Live and don't take kindly to non-Midwest accents.

So we are playing and I get called a Jew, N*gger and comboed into Jew N*gger.

LOL, just because the sound of my freakin' voice is too North East for them LOL
 
.GqueB. said:
As a black man who grew up in Bedstuy, I have to say I've been one of the lucky ones. Of my knowledge, I've never been discriminated against or experienced any overt racism outside of Xboxlive. It really is quite odd. I read that Questlove post and then the replies by other black men who have had that same experience or experienced something similar themselves and I've found myself unable to relate. That's why I feel such a detachment from the Trayvon Martin case and look at it from a purely logical point of view devoid of any real emotion.

I've been pulled over by a cop twice but they were both extremely pleasant. Never been stopped in the street, questioned or anything. My only real run-in with cops were my fault. Twice I crossed between train cars and received tickets and there was another incident where my Australian friend came through the turnstile with me not realizing what she was doing. That's… kind of it. I haven't even had issues I've experienced through family members that were considered racially motivated. They fucked up, broke the law, and paid for it. Because I have such a detachment from all of this, I find my views on it very different than that of others. I've profiled my own race countless times because of how they appeared in the street. Growing up, I was robbed and almost slashed twice by the same fucker. Mom had a gun pulled on her in an elevator once and walked into the house terrified. I often look down on people in my neighborhood because of such things. It's something I simply can't help. My reaction to this case has been extremely eye-opening. Whenever someone brings it up I always change the subject because I know what they're expecting of me and I know I won't give it to them. They expect to relate to me and be angry WITH me on my behalf but I'm not angry at all.

I find it all very interesting.
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I agree with you. I feel the same way.
 
harSon said:
I've got a bunch, but this one was pretty funny/bizarre.

I went to a party on campus at UC Santa Cruz, and it was one of the most bizarrely racist experiences of the life. I went with my housemates and a Palestenian friend who brought along 4 of her Palestenian friends (this is important). Anyways, we arrive there and I head over to the kitchen to get a drink with a friend of mine. As I'm making a drink, some random white dude walks over to us and starts chatting. He tells us he's a stand up comedian, and then asks us if we like Racial jokes. I'm interested in where this is going, so I went along with it. Anyways, he asks me what my racial background is, and I'm like "Black, Spanish, Sicilian Irish and Japanese," and he said "Oh you're black? I love a good Nigger joke!" Keep in mind that I've known this guy for all of 5 minutes at this point. Anyways, he throws out his joke "What did the black man get on his SAT test?" Me and my friends were stumped. Then he said "BBQ sauce." He then turns to my friend and says "I don't even have to ask what you are with that Jew fro and nose of yours," and then transitions into his joke. Dude went hard on the Jews. "Why are Jewish people good at Math? Because they've got numbers on their arms." ; "Why did the Jew cross the road? To steal the land." "How many Jews can you fit in a Volkswagon? Two in the front, two in the back and as couple more in the ash tray." What. the. fuck. We're completely taken aback so we basically just walk away, I wasn't drunk enough for that crap.

Anyways, maybe 15-20 minutes later, I'm talking to some people when all of a sudden I thought I heard someone scream "NIGGGGGGER!" I turned around, and nobody looked phase, so I think to myself that I'm just hearing stuff. What I didn't know (my friend told me later) is that some short white girl drunk off her shit ran into the room, threw her hands in the air and screamed "NIGGGGGER!" at the top of her lungs like it was going out of style. My friend overheard her and approached her, and asked her what the was with that. And she's like "Oh don't worry, there's no black people here." And he's like uh, yeah there is and points to me. And he instigates the subject "That dude's militant black. He doesn't play that shit. I've seen him clock a girl before for some similar shit," all while looking and pointing at me. I look over and see him talking to some girl and pointing at me, so I head on over. Right when I walk up, the girl turns to me like she's seen a ghost and yells "I'm sorry, I thought you were Mexican!" and then runs out the room. I was like WTF? since I didn't know any of the leadup.

Same party, and I'm talking to my Palestenian friend and her friends, all of which are Palestenian. Some white dude who had been smoking the entire time and was baked, walks over and is like "Hey, Ya'll Latinas?" in the most bro accent you've ever heard. I just start laughing. They're like "No, we're Palestian." and he's like "Oh. Well I'm not really into white girls anymore and I'm looking for something a little bit more exotic, and Arabs would be a nice stepping stone." They just brush it off, all the while I'm cracking up. He asks "What's your names?" They tell him and he said "I'm not going to remember them, so how about I just call all of you the Mujahidin?" At this point, one of her friends throws her drink at him. He sits there a moment, and then says "I know you're Muslim and all, but there's no need to blow up on me like that." We leave pretty soon after... That entire party was trippy.
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I feel kinda bad for laughing at all of this. And I've heard lots of racial jokes being that no one in my HS cared too much. One black guy had a jewish best friend, and that was back and forth all the time...
 
Arab-American here.

My life changed for the worse after 9/11 happened. Living in Indiana at the time was rough. I mostly "just" got harassed at school. My brother's had the same problem. I could take it though. We all could. My sister, on the other hand, is fragile. She wore a scarf and she was constantly bullied.

In mid 2004, the FBI came to our house, looked around, and questioned us on our politics and our beliefs. We said as little as we could so they wouldn't try to pin any bullshit on us. Someone we knew was taken. He was released years later with no charges. My mother and daughter have been physically attacked before.

My brother faced police brutality on our own property. Slammed, face first, onto the driveway. I remember it was about 12:30 that night. I woke up because I saw the red and blue lights through the window, so I peaked outside. The police was there because he followed the car his friend was driving him home in. Had some "extra" lights on there that aren't allowed. They asked to see everyone's ID. Took it all down, let them go, and when my brother turned and started walking up the driveway, he grabbed from behind was slammed.

10 years later, my brother and mother took a greyhound up to Canada. They went to see relatives there. While they passed through New York, they were assaulted after several hours of being told to "go home" by other passengers.

A few years ago, my mom, sister and father went to Iraq. As they passed through TSA, the manager, or whatever you may call them, said "pull those two rag heads aside." Out loud. They frisked both of them, even after they went through the scanners, and they took my sister into a back room for interrogation. She was underage at the time. They had no legal consent of my parents. She came out crying and they let them on their way.

That's to the extent of the racism we got from "white" Americans.

There is a lot of inter-religious "racsim" as well. More of bigotry. I've had death threats because I'm a shia. 5 to be exact. Public death threats. I can't count how many I've gotten online saying that we should be subjected to genocide or saying that the years under Saddam were the best years in Iraq, because he was keen on killing every single one of us (several of my relatives, including my uncle were killed by the Saddam regime).

I don't understand the hate.

I just don't.

Kimawolf said:
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Huh... I never go running with my ID. If I were you, i'd be fucked.

Seriously though, that's fucked up. I'm sorry to hear that.
 
hypernima said:
Yea, no.
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hypernima said:
Yes, really.
He said Racism, not Prejudice.
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Google said:
Noun
1.The belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, esp. so as to distinguish it as...
2. Prejudice or discrimination directed against someone of a different race based on such a belief.
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You're saying it's not possible for any race to harbor racist thoughts about white people?
 
A lot of great and candid stories here.

Lol, black man at the apple store! Didn't know you type worked there... haha.

And sorry for that guy that got stomped out for being white.
 
I'm not black. I can't tell you how many times people I work with say the most racist things about blacks and Hispanics to me in casual conversations. Also how surprised they seem to get when I respond how it's wrong what they're saying. It's not even in a joking manner either. Sad world we live in. My dad is a bit of a racist, doesn't mean I have to be.

Shit gets kicked up a notch in election years. I make a point to avoid anyone who talks about politics. Brings out the worst in people.
 
johnny_park said:
Are you saying white people can't experience racism?
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Yes, but they can still be subjected to prejudice

Shadybiz said:
?

You're saying it's not possible for any race to harbor racist thoughts about white people?
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A common thing with people who are confused by what racism is to consult the dictionary definition of what the word means. If you want to speak more of it, feel free to PM me or start another thread.
 
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