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[Cedric]

Thanks. I know it shouldn't hurt my feelings when it happens (every time), and I know that it's "expected" I guess...but it's like I look at my watch and it's 2013 and I'm like, man, really?

Hahaha I feel you, when I used to take the bus in the morning during rush hours back at my old place I was always the last guy to have someone sit next to me.

 

[casmith07]

Hahaha I feel you, when I used to take the bus in the morning during rush hours back at my old place I was always the last guy to have someone sit next to me.

Yeah, I mean on one hand it's cool. If they wanna stand from Franconia-Springfield all the way to McPherson Square for 45 minutes thats on them. Especially when they get like sardine cans in there.

When I'm in my military uniform, though, people will jump up and give me their seat, thank me for my service, or sit next to me and strike up a conversation. It's ridiculous. When I'm not dressed for duty it's not like I'm wearing 5XL tees and Coogi pants.

 

[Featheredkitten]

I've grown more and more cynical as I've gotten older. My family was a military family so every school I went to and every neighborhood I lived in was filled with kids and families from every ethnic background imaginable. I've always cared for people first, regardless of what they look like (minus the knife-wielding stuff like you said...Creeper McCreeperson is no friend of mine).

I was sitting at a table for lunch at college and back when that Grutter v. Bollinger case was going on, the upperclassmen were talking about it. When someone asked this one guy about it, he said "of course [our college] uses affirmative action, how do you think Smith got in?"

If I wasn't a freshman I would've punched him. Instead, I slipped a copy of my high school transcript under his door a few days later. I graduated with a 3.9.

That really sucks that you and the other people in this thread have to deal with this shitty behavior. Being a short white woman I've never had to deal with racism (minus the people who think it's okay to start spouting racist bullshit around/to me) nor have I had to deal with people seeing me as threatening just from the way I look (their mistake, heh).
I really hate that people can't just judge others on their actions and how they treat those around them. That's how I treat people, you're my buddy, or at least non threatening until your actions say differently.

I imagine it must be insanely difficult to maintain a world view like mine if you're often exposed to the worst other people can say/do just because you look different than them.


Also: you beat my high school GPA by .15

 

[casmith07]

That really sucks that you and the other people in this thread have to deal with this shitty behavior. Being a short white woman I've never had to deal with racism (minus the people who think it's okay to start spouting racist bullshit around/to me) nor have I had to deal with people seeing me as threatening just from the way I look (their mistake, heh).
I really hate that people can't just judge others on their actions and how they treat those around them. That's how I treat people, you're my buddy, or at least non threatening until your actions say differently.

I imagine it must be insanely difficult to maintain a world view like mine if you're often exposed to the worst other people can say/do just because you look different than them.


Also: you beat my high school GPA by .15

Yeah, haha, sucks is a nice way to put it

Hopefully you tell those same people they're wrong when they're running their mouths. As long as you speak out when people think they can say what they want, you're already doing us a solid from a distance.

The part that's the worst is the willful ignorance to these harsh realities or "plausible deniability." People who choose to look the other way or think "yeah right, it's not that bad" instead of calling it out when they see it.

Then again, depending on where you live, it could be cultural suicide to go against the status quo. Humanity kind of sucks when you really think about it. I maintain, and will do so until my dying breath, that racism and stuff will never go away until alien lifeforms show up here for real and start to wreck our shit Independence Day style, or War of the Worlds style. Then everyone will realize "oh shit, our bullshit is trivial."

At least, I hope that's how it would happen.

 

[charsace]

The best feels is when you apply for a job, talk to them on the phone and they like, then you meet in person and the interviewer sees that you're black. I should find a way to bring in a camera to film the reactions and put up a youtube channel.

 

[Acrylic7]

Xbox live was the pinnacle of racism when Gears dropped. Fuck that was annoying. Most were being rude just because they were brats but every once in a while you would get a real racist.

I have seen many racists and fucked up racist situations, but Ive never really experienced them. Probably because of my height and build. I always walk around with a serious look on my face even though I'm not trying.

This isn't really racism, but more of a stereotype. After every transaction at Gamestop the clerk always asks me "Would you like to preorder Madden or Live"? Like clockwork, no matter what Gamestop I'm in.

 

[Featheredkitten]

Yeah, haha, sucks is a nice way to put it

Hopefully you tell those same people they're wrong when they're running their mouths. As long as you speak out when people think they can say what they want, you're already doing us a solid from a distance.

The part that's the worst is the willful ignorance to these harsh realities or "plausible deniability." People who choose to look the other way or think "yeah right, it's not that bad" instead of calling it out when they see it.

Usually a withering disgusted look is all it takes, with a slight lip curl of contempt. But if someone has to audacity not to look down and mutter ashamedly, they do hear it from me.

 

[Alyssa Hu$tle]

I'm an Australian white woman who moved to the USA 4 years ago to marry my black husband. Before moving here I first visited on a tourist visa so I could meet his family who live in Atlanta, Georgia.

Mixed couples are a non-issue in Australia, and I had no idea about the racial complexities that still exist in the South. I was not at all prepared for the experience.

My husband's family were awesome, no issues there. It was strangers on the streets that shocked me. My husband and I continually got horrible, dirty looks, sneers, stares... mainly from black people (particularly from black women). It made me really uncomfortable and I didn't understand why people were reacting to us that way. My father-in-law had to sit me down and educate me on race in the South... I had no clue.

During my visit my mother-in-law took me to a local mall to look at wedding dresses. The owner of one wedding boutique was an older black women. She scowled at us as my mother-in-law and I looked at the dresses while we talked about the up-coming marriage between me and her son. There was one dress I liked so I asked if I could try it on, and the lady flatly refused. She told me I could only try on dresses if I had an appointment... fair enough, but there were no other customers in the store at the time!!! It was before noon, so I asked her what time she was open until? 9pm. I then asked if I could make an appointment for later in the day... The lady rudely told me she was fully booked and was not taking any more appointments. I wanted to push the issue but my mother-in-law was infuriated and embarrassed, took my hand and led me back to the car apologizing for the lady's treatment towards me (she was really blunt and rude and her icy look was startling). I was shocked, couldn't believe all this was real.

Luckily my husband and I were only visiting; he no longer lived in Atlanta and resided in Arizona at the time, where we experienced none of this. Had he still lived there I would have called off the engagement and gone home. There is no way I would want to raise my (mixed) children in that kind of environment.

My husband 's teenage cousins (from South Carolina) asked me if we were going to raise our kids white or black? The question made no sense to me! How do you raise a kid white or black? They will look like whatever they look like and be the individual they are! They tried to explain but I couldn't grasp it (I get it now after having lived in the US for some time).

One of them also told me she had been telling her friends about me, and added 'but I told them you were cool because you're not really white, you're Australian." I was like ??? "But I AM white!" She told me "No, you're Australian, it's different, it's like how Africans aren't really black either". Again this made no sense to me at all!

 

[Secret Fawful]

Living in Missouri, I encounter a lot of racism. It's not directed toward me, because I'm white-ish, but I hear it a lot directed at others.

My town is small, and a farming town, but it's filled with farmers and old people and racist kids. There are minorities here, but I don't have a clue how they can stand to live in a place like this.

A friend of mine, who likes to claim he's from the South, is white and likes to try to act like his own personal view of what black people act like or whatever, and he loves tossing the N word around. If people get mad at him for it, he'll throw a huge fit about how he's from the South and he can use it if he wants and nobody can tell him what to do. I hate it, but if I say anything he'll flip his shit. He has a psychotic streak, and I'm a complete pussy, so I don't say anything. He swears he's not racist and that he had black friends in the South....yeah......whatever.

My Conservative family members will make veiled racist comments about Obama and how all blacks and minorities are Democrats, and I want to scream their head off and tell them to shut up because I'm tired of hearing it.

I just want to get away from this bullshit I have to hear every day. Fucking sick of my family. Fucking sick of this bullshit.

And I'm sad that I had to grow up in this backwards place, which instilled small racist fears in me too. I hate all of that, and want it as far away from me as possible. I grew up on a farm with my racist grandparents, and there were so many racially negative things thrown around, I grew up with an intrinsic fear of minorities. I feel like I have to walk on eggshells, because I'm terrified I'll do something or look or sound the wrong way and offend somebody, all because my grandparents went on and on and on about how all minorities go on Salem witch hunts for racists or whatever. I grew up with that fear, and it's bullshit, and I hate it. I wish I could start over, get a mind wipe, get hypnosis to get rid of that indoctrinated bullshit they put me through, and get away from racism forever. I hate it. I hate it so fucking much. I just want everyone to get along, and treat each other with kindness and respect. But everywhere I go, I have to be faced with prejudice and be reminded of the shit I was told growing up and ARGH! ARRRRRGH!! I can't even bring myself to go see my grandparents anymore because of who they are. I might not even go speak to them again before they die if I have my way.

 

[Popparoks]

I wouldn't have been mad if the world had really ended, especially after reading this thread.
at least i'm can say i'm not alone on these types of situations.

 

[CLEEK]

One of them also told me she had been telling her friends about me, and added 'but I told them you were cool because you're not really white, you're Australian." I was like ??? "But I AM white!" She told me "No, you're Australian, it's different, it's like how Africans aren't really black either". Again this made no sense to me at all!

I used to work with a Kenyan dude. Before he moved to the UK, he'd contracted for a bit in the US. He found race relations there mind boggling, and how having career aspirations and dressing in a suit and tie was seen by black Americans as acting white.

 

[unpopularblargh]

This story kind of has two parts:

My older brother and his brother in law came to visit me in Montreal after I moved from Toronto. The brother in law had just moved to Canada from Pakistan maybe a year before. While walking downtown we saw a group of black men just standing by their motor bikes near the path we were on. The brother in law started to freak and told us we should go across to the other side of the street because they might rob us. My brother told him to stop being so dumb and shut up. I just laughed and shook my head in disbelief.

The second part comes the following work day when I pass this anecdote along to a co-worker who replies with a straight face "I bet he's one of the ones who beats his wife too" since you know all Pakistanis are neanderthals who beat their wives. His response when I called him out and asked if he also thought of me that way was "You're different. You were born here". I was born in Pakistan.

 

[zoleristec]

This thread is sobering. I'm glad I'm a loner.

 

[AniHawk]

i grew up in a fairly hispanic-dominated part of socal. in high school i had a group of friends from different backgrounds, but the white guys in the group only got it bad. i had stuff stolen from my locker (some of it was returned after i filed a police report), was called names, and we were forced into the white and 'mexican' teams by the hispanic kids when we were playing soccer during p.e.

a couple of times a full soda bottle was at me/us. the first time, it went right by my head. the second time backfired on the person kicking it.

after school i would walk home with my friends, and we would chat for a while, but i would have to head back because my sister had an extra class. i would just chill at home for about 20 minutes, and then walk back to school to walk her home. one time a mostly-hispanic group of kids was taking up the sidewalk so i stepped off onto the street without saying a word. one of the guys said something to the effect of 'yeah bitch, you better not walk on the sidewalk. fucking cracker'.

the plot twist with that was one of the guys in the group was someone i took chemistry with. in class the next day, he asked me if i had been walking home the day before. i told him i had, and he just kinda nodded. after school, i came across the same group of kids. this time, the guy who'd made the remark and i just looked each other in the eyes. and when i saw the kid from my class, he gave me a small nod, and i nodded back.

fortunately, i never experienced this beyond high school- and i think it was done mostly because the scrawny kids are easy to pick on, and less because i was white. i don't even think cracker is that evil of a word, especially since my friends and i would joke about it. i just didn't like how the guy wanted to put me down even though i was being polite and nonconfrontational.

and i know i am fortunate to have not faced the sort of systematic and weird cultural racism that affects so many others. i can sorta understand ignorant and unpleasant individuals, but the widespread stuff is confounding. it's 2013.

 

[SystemBug]

I'm brown so you could possibly see where this is leading.

Me and my older bro came down to Orlando from up north (Canada) to visit some of our cousins during the summer. I was 16 and he was 18. It was a super fun time but the problem arose when we were coming back.

Basically, at baggage check, this white blond lady (she was kinda hot) insisted that I had "something" in my bag and made me run it through the xray machine a few times. She kept saying you have a suspicious item and stuff like that and wouldn't let me pass through. I told her I had nothing of the sort and she wouldn't budge until this Latino dude who was working with her gave me a look which pointed out "she's a moron" and told me to go.

As I was walking away. She said something along the lines of "what if he's carrying..."

Ironically my brother got through totally fine because he was in his "skater" phase.

All of that for a pack of gyros.

 

[Featheredkitten]

I used to work with a Kenyan dude. Before he moved to the UK, he'd contracted for a bit in the US. He found race relations there mind boggling, and how having career aspirations and dressing in a suit and tie was seen by black Americans as acting white.

Is that really, really true? I don't want it to be, because, well...that's so... mind boggling.

 

[Coconut]

This thread is sobering. I'm glad I'm a loner.

I think you mean recluse.

 

[kaioshade]

Is that really, really true? I don't want it to be, because, well...that's so... mind boggling.

Hell yes. As soon as you dont have your pants down at your knees, speak "properly" without slang, and generally show an IQ above a garden snail, you are "acting white"

Which completely boggles my mind, considering these things are said by black people more than white people. By saying that it is like people LIKE reveling in portraying themselves as dangerous, uneducated, thugs. It is completely sad.

 

[poppabk]

I'm brown so you could possibly see where this is leading.

Me and my older bro came down to Orlando from up north (Canada) to visit some of our cousins during the summer. I was 16 and he was 18. It was a super fun time but the problem arose when we were coming back.

Basically, at baggage check, this white blond lady (she was kinda hot) insisted that I had "something" in my bag and made me run it through the xray machine a few times. She kept saying you have a suspicious item and stuff like that and wouldn't let me pass through. I told her I had nothing of the sort and she wouldn't budge until this Latino dude who was working with her gave me a look which pointed out "she's a moron" and told me to go.

As I was walking away. She said something along the lines of "what if he's carrying..."

Ironically my brother got through totally fine because he was in his "skater" phase.

All of that for a pack of gyros.

Which person do you think was racially profiling you?

 

[kirblar]

My wife was driving around listening to rap yesterday, and a guy pulled up to her and screamed n-- lover. If I were there, I don't know what I would have done. I was so angry. I still am.

My wife and I are white, but my brother is black, and my 13 year old niece is coming to visit us next week. It wrecks me when I think about the things she's seen and experienced and will experience. I would do anything for that girl, and yet I know I can't protect her. I can't keep her safe. It tares me up.

There's a local station here that has the tagline "The newest music....without the Rap!" and it makes me cringe every time, as I'm not sure if the undertones there are just "we're appealing to old people", "we're appealing to racists!" or "we really don't realize how that makes us look."

Is that really, really true? I don't want it to be, because, well...that's so... mind boggling.

It is, unfortunately.

 

[SniperHunter]

I was 13 when I moved to Canada from India. I had much whiter skin compared to the average Indians. I absolutely hated the poor dark skinned people there, everyone treated them badly (they didn't attend our schools, the kids in the school had the same skin color as mine and the darker folks all did shitty jobs like house cleaning and all), so I basically learned from them.

Coming to Canada was eye opening though, the guy who oriented me to the grade 8 class was black and he was so nice to me. It was strange to see educated, english speaking and clean black people from Africa. I was still kinda racist though, got into a couple of fights for talking shit and eventually learned a lesson after losing a fight. It was strange to see people from all over the world living in one city...

we moved to a white town of orillia a year after, people there was extremely friendly, but I faced some racism during the second year (I was one of two minority kids in that school). Got called a n****r while walking to class and that hurt, but karma is a bitch.

anyway in Canada, I have faced like 5 instances of racism...but I am old now and I don't give a fuck. racism sucks though, now I love everyone, I stopped hating and generalizing long time ago.

 

[chronos4590]

I've posted this story on Gaf before. Was really my parents experience but has to do with me a few year back anyhow.
Used to be in a marching band and did tons of competitions and we had to go to Upstate NY to go to the Finals. I was already in the school and my parents where online to see us perform ans sit in the school. Of course these types of events are helped out By Local PTA parents.

So my parents ( mothers light skinned from the bronx NY, Dads dark skinned) the go up to the person taking tickets and the woman who's white who has her young daughter( Lets say her name is Mary) there and tells her about my parents, right in front of them of course " Now Look Mary, you see these 2? These are Niggers, they're not gonna hurt you ok, but these are niggers".

I gotta say i'm surprised but somewhat applaud my mother who usually doesn't take any shit from anyone since where she grew up. She told me she wanted beat the hell out of the woman but she knew with all of those people there as well for the sake of my school and causing no trouble, she didn't do anything about it which it sucks but for the setting, i suppose was for the best. but i know if she ever saw that woman again she'd beat her ass Lol.

 

[Phoenix]

Recent story in Hilton Head. I was at one of the resorts with the kids at Hilton Head and out of the blue and while sitting within a crowd of other guests one of the security guys walks up to me and asks if I was a guest of the hotel and what room I was staying in. Now I'm sitting there in a lounge chair with a Georgia Tech shirt on reading a book on an iPad meanwhile the folks next to me are eating food that they snuck into the pool area and another set had friends that they "snuck" onto the pool area that are sitting around drinking alcohol that isn't supposed to be in the pool area.

Didn't ask anyone else anything.

 

[Phoenix]

I'm a black man living in the DC area. I'm clean cut, professional, and I think I generally look pleasant most of the time.

Every time I've ridden the Metro during rush hour, I end up sitting alone. Why? Because nobody wants to sit next to the black man. It's subtle, but it cuts every time.

While I won't try to judge all of Japan (because I love that country), if you're a black man on the train there - you can part the crowd like the Red Sea. Its crazy that many Japanese people are xenophobic to begin with (especially outside the big cities), but its even crazier the way they are with black people.

 

[Carcetti]

There's a local station here that has the tagline "The newest music....without the Rap!" and it makes me cringe every time, as I'm not sure if the undertones there are just "we're appealing to old people", "we're appealing to racists!" or "we really don't realize how that makes us look."

Or people who hate rap.

I'd take a station that plays everything but rap, ska and country.

 

[BHZ Mayor]

Is that really, really true? I don't want it to be, because, well...that's so... mind boggling.

Unfortunately it is. Some people in the black community have the thought that any desire for success or comfortable living that isn't achieved by selling dope, rapping, or sports (but only certain ones) is "acting white."

Got a comfortable office job? Acting white.

Moved out of the hood or into a more upscale area? Acting white.

Speak using proper English? Acting white.

Dress a certain way? Acting white.

I've personally even run into people that think having a job period is "acting white" or "doing what the white man wants." It's really sad and the main factor of the "crabs in a bucket" mentality. And let's not even get started on the light/dark skin division.

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There's a local station here that has the tagline "The newest music....without the Rap!" and it makes me cringe every time, as I'm not sure if the undertones there are just "we're appealing to old people", "we're appealing to racists!" or "we really don't realize how that makes us look."


It is, unfortunately.

This is off topic, but there's a station here that adamantly refuses to play any rap, even featured verses in otherwise non-rap songs (it's not a racial thing, just an ancient holdover from the "that hippity hop stuff isn't real music like [insert R&B/soul singers your parents grew up with]" days). So whenever they play Outkast's "I Like the Way You Move," which is a rap song, they just play Sleepy Brown, the featured singer's verse twice and the hook, which just happens to be sung by him, to fill up the song time.

 

[Gustav]

As a polish guy growing up in Germany, I was constantly mocked for my heritage, called a "Polackensau" or similar and been the butt of many jokes. Besides that, I had three specific moments were I had to deal with racism:

1. I was invited to a friends birthday in when I was 7 or 8. Once the mother found out my last name ended on "ski" she made it clear to me that I was not longer invited and shouldn't come over to the house anymore.

2. Taking a German test in second grade, I was the only student who turned in a flawless paper. I was given the second best grade, with the teacher telling me that a foreigner shouldn't get the best grades in German class.

3. When I went to renew my ID card 7-8 years ago, I was told that my old ID card and birth certificate wouldn't suffice to make a new one, because I'm tagged as 'polish' in their system and thus need an official record from the place I got my original ID from, to confirm I am in fact German. They even went as far as implying that my current ID and birth certificate might be counterfeits.

 

[KoreanBarbecue]

Me: Asian-American. Born in Seoul, but have lived all over the world (Germany, US, etc).

Went to college in Minnesota, which isn't exactly known for its racial diversity. Got a girlfriend. Her parents hated me because I was Asian. Saw an email from her dad to her, where he tries to talk her out of dating me. "I know what those kind of people are like. I've been to Asia. They're like animals."

Fun stuff.

 

[Featheredkitten]

Hell yes. As soon as you dont have your pants down at your knees, speak "properly" without slang, and generally show an IQ above a garden snail, you are "acting white"
Which completely boggles my mind, considering these things are said by black people more than white people. By saying that it is like people LIKE reveling in portraying themselves as dangerous, uneducated, thugs. It is completely sad.

It is, unfortunately.

Unfortunately it is. Some people in the black community have the thought that any desire for success or comfortable living that isn't achieved by selling dope, rapping, or sports (but only certain ones) is "acting white."

Got a comfortable office job? Acting white.

Moved out of the hood or into a more upscale area? Acting white.

Speak using proper English? Acting white.

Dress a certain way? Acting white.

I've personally even run into people that think having a job period is "acting white" or "doing what the white man wants." It's really sad and the main factor of the "crabs in a bucket" mentality. And let's not even get started on the light/dark skin division.

Wow, I had no idea, I feel so sheltered.
See, I grew up in New Mexico, and no one I knew ever treated black or hispanic people any different... I guess (as said earlier in this thread) lack of exposure makes it easy to think behaviors like this aren't a problem anymore.

As a polish guy growing up in Germany, I was constantly mocked for my heritage, called a "Polackensau" or similar and been the butt of many jokes. Besides that, I had three specific moments were I had to deal with racism:

1. I was invited to a friends birthday in when I was 7 or 8. Once the mother found out my last name ended on "ski" she made it clear to me that I was not longer invited and shouldn't come over to the house anymore.

2. Taking a German test in second grade, I was the only student who turned in a flawless paper. I was given the second best grade, with the teacher telling me that a foreigner shouldn't get the best grades in German class.

3. When I went to renew my ID card 7-8 years ago, I was told that my old ID card and birth certificate wouldn't suffice to make a new one, because I'm tagged as 'polish' in their system and thus need an official record from the place I got my original ID from, to confirm I am in fact German. They even went as far as implying that my current ID and birth certificate might be counterfeits.

That is some messed up stuff, right there.

 

[CLEEK]

I'm a black man living in the DC area. I'm clean cut, professional, and I think I generally look pleasant most of the time.

Every time I've ridden the Metro during rush hour, I end up sitting alone. Why? Because nobody wants to sit next to the black man. It's subtle, but it cuts every time.

You need to check your black privilege! That sounds awesome.

 

[thetrin]

I'm Indian. Last year, before I moved back to Japan, I was living in Colorado, and I was helping a woman get some large furniture into her car. She asked me some question regarding her trunk's square footage, and then stopped and said "Oh, but considering who you are, you're probably great with numbers."

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

Also, I spent a lot of my time in private high school being bullied by one particular person because I was brown. He used to really dig into me with the racial shit. Unfortunately for him, I played on the football team in my high school. After they found out that he'd been tormenting me, two of the seniors on the team dragged him out of his dorm room in the middle of the night and beat him with hockey sticks. He was later expelled, and the two seniors were suspended for 3 days.

Today, I only have the tolerance for my friends being racially hilarious, because it's all in good fun, and I give just as much as I take. When I was younger, I used to get a lot of shit.

I do remember when I was 4 years old, living in Hong Kong, I saw some kids I'd never seen before (british expats), doing something fun. I went over and asked if I could join in. They said "We don't play with sand niggers." I cried so hard and ran home. My mom happened to be paying the bills in the dining room when she saw me crying. She asked me what happened. When I told her, she got so angry that she walked all the way out to the schoolyard where they had said that and shouted at all of them. "It shouldn't matter if someone is grey, or blue, or brown or polka dot. You treat them with respect, and you treat them well. You get me?"

Those kids were horrified, but they got the message. They let me play with them after that.

 

[Vermillion]

I'm Indian. Last year, before I moved back to Japan, I was living in Colorado, and I was helping a woman get some large furniture into her car. She asked me some question regarding her trunk's square footage, and then stopped and said "Oh, but considering who you are, you're probably great with numbers."

What the fuck is that supposed to mean?

Also, I spent a lot of my time in private high school being bullied by one particular person because I was brown. He used to really dig into me with the racial shit. Unfortunately for him, I played on the football team in my high school. After they found out that he'd been tormenting me, two of the seniors on the team dragged him out of his dorm room in the middle of the night and beat him with hockey sticks. He was later expelled, and the two seniors were suspended for 3 days.

Damn. Must have been a bit nice, having others stand up for you like that. Even though they could have done without the excessive violence.

 

[thetrin]

Damn. Must have been a bit nice, having others stand up for you like that. Even though they could have done without the excessive violence.

Yeah, I could have done without them beating the shit out of him, but playing football for that school was like being in a gang. You fuck with one player, you fuck with the whole team. Considering it was a really affluent school with a lot of rich kids, I was a pretty easy target for bullying.

 

[Vermillion]

Yeah, I could have done without them beating the shit out of him, but playing football for that school was like being in a gang. You fuck with one player, you fuck with the whole team. Considering it was a really affluent school with a lot of rich kids, I was a pretty easy target for bullying.

Ahh... that also explains a lot about other football teams involved in... shadier activities.

Hell yes. As soon as you dont have your pants down at your knees, speak "properly" without slang, and generally show an IQ above a garden snail, you are "acting white"

Which completely boggles my mind, considering these things are said by black people more than white people. By saying that it is like people LIKE reveling in portraying themselves as dangerous, uneducated, thugs. It is completely sad.

Hah. I was called bourgie once because I didn't lower the window so this one guy sitting next to me on the bus could yell something at a random girl walking by.

And of course, I can't even count how many people have called me white before. Can't begin.

 

[dripdripsplash]

This just happened today as I was exiting a shopping center near my house. I walk behind this man and his girlfriend and notice him talking quite loudly about a "fucking perker", (derogatory word used against people from the Middle-East in Denmark), who apparently did something to piss him off in the center.

He then continued to say how it's so "typical of those fucking perks", all the while he did not know that I was behind him. I'm Arab by the way.

As he was opening his lock for his bike I stood in front of him and took a deep look at him as he stood there looking back at me. He then suddenly goes out in a lengthy explanation of why he was justified of saying the word and why he used it and so on.

Clearly he knew what he had gotten himself into. He didn't expect anybody to hear him.

I told him: "You do know the reason your doing all this explanation is that you know you was spewing bullshit and idiocy... If you met some other dude, that was just a little bit less forgiving than me..." He interrupted me and said "...then I'd have my ass kicked."

"I won't do that, I just want to tell you that what your saying is bullshit and that word is offensive"

"All respects to you man, sorry, have a nice day, nice weeknd."

His girlfriend was embarassed didn't even look me in the eyes. I think I handled it properly myself, I kinda imagine it as being quite embarassing for him. I hope it was. Just thought I'd share it. This is the first time I experience something so directly like this.

 

[Massive Duck. C.M.]

This just happened today as I was exiting a shopping center near my house. I walk behind this man and his girlfriend and notice him talking quite loudly about a "fucking perker", (derogatory word used against people from the Middle-East in Denmark), who apparently did something to piss him off in the center.

He then continued to say how it's so "typical of those fucking perks", all the while he did not know that I was behind him. I'm Arab by the way.

As he was opening his lock for his bike I stood in front of him and took a deep look at him as he stood there looking back at me. He then suddenly goes out in a lengthy explanation of why he was justified of saying the word and why he used it and so on.

Clearly he knew what he had gotten himself into. He didn't expect anybody to hear him.

I told him: "You do know the reason your doing all this explanation is that you know you was spewing bullshit and idiocy... If you met some other dude, that was just a little bit less forgiving than me..." He interrupted me and said "...then I'd have my ass kicked."

"I won't do that, I just want to tell you that what your saying is bullshit and that word is offensive"

"All respects to you man, sorry, have a nice day, nice weeknd."

His girlfriend was embarassed didn't even look me in the eyes. I think I handled it properly myself, I kinda imagine it as being quite embarassing for him. I hope it was. Just thought I'd share it. This is the first time I experience something so directly like this.

You handled that superbly, man. I don't know if I could be that calm if somebody was spewing epithets and nonsense in front of me.

 

[SquiddyCracker]

The worst I've experienced is my old (now dead) elderly neighbor complementing me on my excellent Swedish.

I didn't mind that at all though as she was a nice old lady. She wasn't really racist, just mildly non-PC.