Have you ever experienced racism?

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Can you describe it and where?

Cormac995 · Accepted Answer

I haven't experienced it, but I've seen it. I live in Rural south Dakota and there's still a lot of people who think native Americans are savages and deserve what they got. I've done my research and I've been to the reservations multiple in fact, nobody can look me in the eyes and tell me there isn't a massive amount of racism and prejudice against native peoples in this country.

I mean for crying out loud we even fucked over the Crow! They helped us and were nice to us for the most part! There are tons of stories of crow warriors giving white travelers advice and trading with them and we still took their land from them too. They even had scouts at little bighorn that died fighting for us. (I'm not waying in on Crow and Sioux relations or anything I'm just saying the crow helped our government and we screwed them over as a thank you.)

I know to a certain extent the damage has largely been done and most of this can't be undone but there is still more we could do that we aren't and need to. They're American citizens too, people think that the reservations function as separate countries they do not. They are vassal states that have to follow American federal laws but govern their local area independently. The reservation isn't a separate country for the same reason a state isn't. They have local autonomy but answer to the feds at the end of the day.

That said no reservation police officers and even the FBI have no rights to investigate without permission as a result of this because law enforcement is up to the native cops but there are actually restrictions to what they can do to non-reservation Americans which is part of why rape kidnapping and sex trafficking are super common on the reservations.

There are so many restrictions on native cops and so much red tape and bureaucracy to get the feds involved its often months too late at best to do shit. The sons of silence literally just kidnap woman off the reservations sometimes rape them and literally sell them into slavery I wish I was kidding.

It's also simply a fact that racism is a problem everywhere. It's not an American issue it's a human issue. Even the nicest and most accepting people are slightly racist because some of it happens at the subconscious monkey brain level.

It doesn't matter if your black, Asian, white, indigenous Latino etc. everyone has subconscious biases the moment we see someone. Our brains operate on pattern recognition so when you look at a human that's a different ethnicity your brain is factoring that in as a calculation. However, that also doesn't mean people should be doing this BS with these movements that are basically pity parties about colonial guilt so the people saying they aren't racist can feel superior to people they say are which interesting enough is just exploiting the racism that people face to stroke your ego which I would say is racist too. This is part of why people hate DEI so much and it was a winning issue for trump.

EzraIsShy76028 · Accepted Answer

Usually not. I'm White and came from Brazil to the USA when I was about 5 years old. So all in all never had too much trouble as I was White and didn't have any accent either.

Though there was this case back in one of the two elementary schools I went to. In the second elementary school almost all the students were Black. It was like 99% Black to like 1% White. Maybe 2% Hispanic as well. But basically almost exclusively people with darker skin. Surprisingly or not the other kids didn't give me much shit for it. Though I did hear one boy saying to another boy: "White people are crazy! Black people are way stronger! I bet I could beat the shit out of a White boy without even trying!" Though luckily that boy never interacted with me directly.

And this next thing wouldn't really be racism, more a problem with my original ethnicity (Brazilian). Even though now I barely know Portuguese, back then Portuguese was all I knew and I was just learning English. And some of the kids at school were insensitive about this. Like they'd ask me a phrase in English and I wouldn't understand it, and I'd ask "what's that?" and they'd be like "holy shit he is stupid, he doesn't even know what (insert thing) is."

But other than that, almost nothing. This one Black teacher absolutely hated me in a class where I was the only White and also the quietest kid there, but maybe it was more like she didn't like my personality rather than racism. And she criticized some of the Black kids too, though not as much as me. And there was this one Black girl who absolutely hated me just for existing. Like I didn't even say a word to her or look at her. Literally. But then again maybe she didn't like my personality rather than it being about my skin color.

All in all, I'm in no way criticizing all Black people. Just the specific Black people I mentioned. The boy who said he could beat up White people, the rude teacher, and the girl who hated me. They were stupid because they were stupid, nothing to due with their race, obviously.

sage2021 · Accepted Answer

It's kinda strange that no one ever called me a racist until the Biden Administration moved into the White House!
I am white and born in America and don't say things that are prejudice against any people yet people throw around the word racist for just about anything anymore and it's totally lost its meaning.
I'm wondering that now that Trump is my president again if people will continue to say that I am racist for the slightest thing.
I got to the point of saying to the last person that said I was racist that so what - what are you going to do about it.
It's only on this website that I was being called a racist even in the face of what I was saying was not racist.
As far as Asian people go - weren't they the race that invented COVID in their Wuhon lab that killed millions of people all over the world and a lot of us were vaccinated for COVID and became disabled, sick or died from the vaccinations? I am one of those people.
Also isn't the Asian people that the Trump administration is going to punish for making Fentanyl that poisoned hundreds of thousands of Americans?

Malriarch1990 · Accepted Answer

Yes. In the Midwest in the 70s as a child, my sister and I were under ten years old and multiple times almost got beaten up by high school age African-American kids because, according to them, “our ancestors enslaved theirs.” Our parents families are from Massachusetts and New Hampshire respectively, so had nothing to do with slavery. Have been called honky and worse by “minorities” simply for being in their vicinity.

OlderAndWiser · Answer

Yes, I have had many black people subject me to "revenge racism" purely because I am Caucasian. I am married to a Chinese woman (now an American citizen) and I just love her for who she is.

MisterWack · Answer

I will share learning disability discrimination & discrimination for being a guy…

Even though I’m ‘high functioning’ I’d get treated differently just for acting different. People fake clapping, people making comments, people being overly friendly though don’t actually care about me… Hurtful belittling and many other examples that made me feel small. Even actual bullying too, outside those parts.

As a guy, I get a lot of those stereotypes pushed onto me mainly from insecure men also some nasty women that push the idea “men are supposed to be tough & strong & not show emotion to their significant other”…. I don’t care about feminine or masculine roles, I choose to be myself and I don’t hold others to those standards since I myself don’t care ‘bout them. I can play a video game and not watch sports, & everyone has a right to choose to be themselves. I can be warm and inviting though stand up for my beliefs / stand up for others when applicable even if we don’t see eye to eye. That is the energy I put into this world, idc. “Boys don’t cry” is bullshit, men are allowed to have emotions other than anger & rage just like women.

Anyways, those are my situations with discrimination…. Treat people the way you would want to be treated: Compassion, respect, dignity, help, guidance, kindness, and warmth. That is just my perspective though….

WhatTheHelvetica · Answer

Absolutely. I grew up in the 80s and my mother is white and father is black. Mixed race kids are pretty commonplace today, but back then it was really, really, uncommon. Everyone just assumed you were the race of your skin tone. My skin tone is very light, except for summer when I tan really easily. So, it was hard to look at me back then and know I was half black.

I have very vivid memories of kids in elementary school telling me “My parents said I can’t hang out with you anymore because you’re black.” And I didn’t really understand what that had to do with anything or why it mattered. I also have very vivid memories of kids coming up to me in Jr. High and High School and saying something like: So, I heard something about you… and I’d just simply answer “yeah, I’m half black.” Because I knew that’s what they were going to ask or were afraid to ask so they’d do it in a round about way. “Tell me about your parents…”

I was like this freak or oddity that nobody had ever seen before. I lost friends, I was called wigger to my face, suddenly people I had been close with suddenly didn’t want to hang out or be around me anymore once they learned my “secret”. It was strange. It was eye opening. And it’s been happening my whole life. Still happens to this day.

RSav4013 · Answer

Yes. At a place I used to work the HR team forced me to fire a white guy for an issue that truly was a fireable offense, no issue there. A month later, a non-white person committed the same offense so naturally I started the firing process but was told that I couldn't fire them and then I got penalized with a write-up and had to attend DEI training. Then, another white guy committed a similar offense that was less severe and was terminated immediately by HR.

Soon after, the HR representative was fired for racial discrimination and the two white guys that were fired were offered their jobs back but they didn't take the jobs.

glennos89 · Answer

Everyone experienced racism at some point during their life.

I find the whole rascism subject dumb as hell to be honest. We all got our own skin color and our own culture but in the end we are all still the same human beings trying to survive and find love.

Every human race should be proud of their heritage and who they are as a race. All races are equal! We are all different but the color of your skin doesn't make you better or worse then someone else period!

We are suppose to be "The most intelligent lifeform on earth" but I have never seen dogs being rascist to eachother. I have never seen cats having racial issues amongst eachother.

So tell me... Are we really that intelligent? 🧠

AMS700CX4u2 · Answer

During my first job in St Mary's, Georgia. The year is 1972. I worked for Gilman Hospital, a company hospital. the Hospital was adding new surgeons. Doctors offices were partitioned. It did not have to be occlusive but it had to be there. A waist high wall with aquariums on the top was sufficient and of course the clientele was segregated. I believe the new surgeon was from Guantemala. When setting up his new office be saw no need to segregated the patients with a wall , either abstract or solid. He was stopped by the local law enforcement and beaten. I was the X Ray tech on call that night and had to do a skull series on him. I don't think he stayed long. It tookthe federal government building a submarine base there to straighten the situation out. We stayed 10 months and headed back to Florida.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

Yeah, I have in East Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean. If I have to describe every little incident, we'll be here all day. But it mostly had to do with the locals looking down on anyone who wasn't their own. They would look at us as distrustful and inferior and unworthy of equal treatment. They would give better/priority treatment to their own people, or just straight up be rude bullies. And in Taiwan old ladies preferred to stand in the metro than sit next to two White people which I found hilarious, and one lady took her mask off and got me sick on purpose.

jahaims · Answer

I used to get jumped and bullied a lot for being one of the only white kids at my first elementary school. Kids would tell a teacher I called them the N word to try and manipulate situations even when I obviously didn't. I had a few friends in a clique that ran with some gang. I eventually had their protection which helped some. It mostly stopped when I was walking home with a plant I grew at school for mother's day. I got jumped. I fucked up the dude that knocked the plant out of my hand and drug him into the road by his backpack trying to get him ran over by traffic.

Unap0logetic_ · Answer

Yes, when I was 10 and lived in Texas. A lady kept calling me the n word and telling me that she would kill me.. Apparently I was in some part of the city that didn’t like “my kind”. I laughed at the situation then, but it’s sad that people really feel that way towards kids. Kids are innocent for the most part.

Zack-Bann · Answer

People only have the power over you that you give them.

So i give none.

If someone is racist to the point of wanting to harm me physically I would kindly return the favor.

If not he can just piss in the wind for all I care

Massageman · Answer

Absolutely. I was told to my face that with my credentials, if I was a black or a female, I be hired in the second. In other words, the hiring entity put DEI ahead of merit, intelligence, accomplishment and results. And recently when I looked up that company, I couldn't even find its name!!! I guess they got what they wanted- compromised results.

jazzy34 · Answer

Not that I remember, but my mom told me that, when I was a little girl, she and I went into a convenient store while on a road trip. Apparently, some white woman came in there, saying “look at all these n*ggers in here.” My mom told me that she grabbed my hand and we walked out. Again, I don’t remember this incident. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Since then though, no I haven’t.

RealMarek · Answer

Yes. Only 6% of new jobs in major corporations during 2021 went to white people, most of those to women and sexual minorities. I couldn’t get a job to save my life and was told multiple times I was “not diverse.” So I started my own company.

Jennz6 · Answer

I was called a racist but I don’t know 🤷‍♀️ why!

Iron_Man · Answer

Yes walking through grand Avenue near Coconut Grove in Miami, Florida going home because my friends played a silly joke on me and I was mad so I just started walking home, and it was a very long way I took a shortcut through the hood. I was targeted and robbed, but they only got three dollars off of me, but they caught him and a big police chase then he finally planned guilty in court

tzdc21 · Answer

Oh yes. Mostly during school. High school especially. I'm black so I've heard a fair share or rascist remarks. From water melon jabs, to not seeing me in the dark unless my teeth are showing, to assuming I'm up to no good.

MissTrix · Answer

Black History month and every gay holiday! Cultural appropriation! Every race playing black!

DJB72 · Answer

Yep. I had the terms for eligibility for a job change  during the interview  for me so I wasn't qualified.

midnightmoon05 · Answer

Sure but I don’t care to remember it or think much of it. It’s part of life that people want to put others down.
the best one can do is understand the situation and love in from.
so… I don’t recall.

lightbulb27 · Answer

yes. I was cheated in a sports competition and the judges same race person (whom I think was their child) was cheated to win. It was obvious favoritism. So could have just been parental favoritism , but don't know for sure.

andreasderjuengere · Answer

Numerous times.

Myself being European and living in Asia (Malaysia and Thailand, mostly), I often enough have been preferred over other ethnicities that I have been in company with.

This makes me uncomfortable.

Shortkay4568 · Answer

At a resort me and my bff and guy bff went to. Girls were in tiny string bikini's, but when I put my bikini on (that I basically pulled up my ass they had a huge problem saying I was inappropriate. White girls could though

Joshydavid25 · Answer

Eh.. I mean I probably have in small doses, but it was never enough for it to ruin my life.. I just chalk it up to people being a bit too tribal for their own good..

jshm2 · Answer

Yeah, a Motocross supremacist tried to claim it was "better" than my F1  He lost teeth.

dustybiker2 · Answer

Sure. Always misjudged. I've definitely felt white before.

lilBigPotato · Answer

There are around borderline comments but nothing worth crying about compared to what other people have to experience

Lliam · Answer

Only subtly by some blacks who resent/distrust whites.

MemeSupreme · Answer

yeah  i was a white kid in east st. louis lol

Jersey2 · Answer

DEI is racism and I have experienced that multiple times as a white male.

Xoirwinkan · Answer

Not racism but a peculiar dynamic. I was in China in the early 2000's and sometimes a group of people would practically surround us and just gawk, being the first white people they had seen. I felt like I was a zoo animal.

molonski2 · Answer

I think staying here , you do experience it , you are accepted , but there is an attitude.

AnonAndrew · Answer

Yeah, of course. There will always be some people out there who hate "whitey."

Unnaturalthinking76 · Answer

I was working at a marketing event in Toronto setting up a camera outside and someone called me a white peace of shit. I’m from Scotland so this was something I’m not used to.

genericname85 · Answer

yeah. few times. not personally for the most part but for the most part i witnessed racism against others.

beefcakebradybatson · Answer

I'm black. OF COURSE I EXPERIENCE RACISM FROM MY WHITE INTELLECTUAL AND AESTHETIC LESSERS, EVEN ON G@G !!!

MikeRJ · Answer

I was once told that as a white person I am a racist. That generalization seems racist to me.

Snakeyes7 · Answer

Yeah, all I gotta do it open social media. There are racist fucks everywhere. It's the internet, racism comes with the territory.

noohair · Answer

I was refused service at a Waffle House in Atlanta because my wife was Asian. That was the mid 1990's.

standardguy · Answer

I don't understand why Asians hate other races. I have high respect of Asians. Why they don't do it in reverse?

Crazzyyworld · Answer

Not really. As an Asian I encountered some assholes and bitches that’s all. I am a bitchproof

Surely · Answer

Never racism. But yes on affirmative action!

jenifg · Answer

As a black woman that's daily. And I'm used to it. It doesn't define me. I'm still amazing, beautiful, intelligent etc.

MikeTheGreek1979 · Answer

No, I’ve gone to my restaurant with my aunt and my cousins I haven’t notices.

Dargil · Answer

I have observed it.

4ngelic · Answer

dont think i ever have

Ethan_T · Answer

No i didn't i don't think

Sinthia99 · Answer

Yes, many times unfortunately.

CupcakeTheDestroyer · Answer

I’m white, so no.

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

Fuck yeah and they experienced something too

katsiaryna_994 · Answer

I'm totally agree with you.

Kelly6 · Answer

Never

Max3205 · Answer

Yes.

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