When I was younger I was bullied by a coloured boy who constant called me names like wigger, white-trash, honkie, all of which I found deeply offensive. One day I turned to him and said "Look, you've been calling me these offensive names long enough. How would you like it if I followed you around calling you a n****r?". Suddenly I was in trouble with the school authorities and everybody thought I was racist!
I have never had any problem with anyone based on their religeon, the colur of their skin, sexual orientation etc..., but because I turned around to this person and asked him a genuine question to show how upset he was making me, suddenly lots of people assumed I did. My problem wasn't anything to do with his skin colour, my problem was with him as a person.
It's all in the past now and we both managed to sort things out, but was I wrong to react the way that I did?
2007-06-08
10:41:23
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