Have you ever experienced racism?

Question

Both sides answer because I do realize that there is also reverse racism. Share your experiences!

LOL REBEL REBEL
I am married to a white man, with biracial kids, so how can I possibly be racist? lol I am also part Indian and my husband is actually mixed with many other ethnicities, he truely doesn't look "all the way" white. The reason I said "BOTH" can answer Is because unfortunately alot of people do not think that black peopl ecan be racist for some reason. And I know first hand that reversed racism exists. Have a good day. :)

Answer 1

I got into a heated " talk " with an idiot not long ago.He then started making racial comments stating he would not want me in his home for any reason ( I'm a firefighter ).
I asked him where he lived so in case his home was to burn,I'd be sure not to go and possibly get his family out of the burning house,or what kind of car he drove in case they got into a car accident I'd make no effort to get the family out in case they were trapped and needed the Jaws of Life.
After that he kind of changed his tone of voice and got to thinking.
Of course I was joking with him but I just wanted to see the reaction on his face.
Regardless of who you are I'll risk my azz to save yours !

Answer 2

Yes, once a few days after 9/11/01, I was walking back to my apartment at night with my friend and two (probably drunk) caucasian guys in a pick up truck drove past me and started yelling things at me about killing all the foreigners like me. This may have been because I am Hispanic and they were being small minded and they were either trying to direct their anger and Muslims which they may have assumed I was or they were using 9/11 as an excuse to direct their anger at Hispanics. Who knows?! Anyway, it made me very angry and took me some time to get over. I live in the US South, which is really a nice place to live but there are some small minded people here. Not all, just some. I've met alot of really open minded people here too.

Answer 3

Yes trying to rent a home. I have a traditional white persons name I won't say what it is,but when I left a message to be called back about a rental the guy called me back and relized by the sound of my voice I was not white he started saying immediately the people that live around there are very quiet and they don't like loud music or noise. I don't even own a stero or radio, so he heard no music in the backround.But , yes it still exists unfortunately.

Answer 4

Yes. I am white and my wife is asian. We have a 1/2 & 1/2 child. We were checking into an airport and requested a baby bassinet. Our child is well within the weight requirements (20 lbs with a 45 lb limit) but the asian clerk nearly refused us a bassinet. We had to demand several times to get one (this was a 13 hour flight with a 12 month old).

We later found out there were several empty bassinets so there were plenty.

I feel she was angry that my wife married a white man.

Answer 5

All the time .........i am part white and part indian (indian as mom is a indian from India). I now live in Mexico. Mexcians think I am something else, whites think I am Mexcian, Blacks see me and think I am black...........The rest just cant figure I look out what the hell I am....i have been called everything from being a cuban, indian, black, etc etc.
In a serious not .............i have been discriminated for work, race, face, color and the language i speak........and i speak a bunch of different languages. The story is to long and some very graphic so i will live them out because I think you get the point.

Answer 6

Yeah, ppl cant decide if im white,black or mixed. I was in jail and everyone seperates by race on the inside and the brothers are asking me if Im black and the white guys are asking if my momma was a niqqer lover, so yeah, i get it quite often,.
It has given me a good perpective also, as when white people accept me, I find out how racist they really are (thats for all the white people who say racists are just ignorant rednecks...THATS NOT TRUE!!)

Live your own life and find real people.

Answer 7

I am white and the proud auntie of a bi-racial child. We have been discriminated against by both white and black people. While shopping with my neice (who is 2 years old), I was told by a black woman, obviously thinking that my neice was my daughter, that I should leave the "brotha's" alone and stick to my own. I don't think I have ever been so angry in my life! I told her that my neices father was a black man, and not to worry- that she could still sleep with her "brotha" but that imbreeding was sick! She was pissed that I turned her "definition" of "brotha" into something else. I have also been approached by a white woman who in an overly sweet voice commented on how cute my neice is and the proceded to ask me how do I ever manage to take care of her hair? I played dumb with her and said "well I just wash it with shampoo and conditioner and then brush it, haven't you ever done that to your hair?" Racism is very existant. White on black. Black on white. Mexican on Puerto Rican and vice versa. One day maybe the world will wake up and realise that we are all human and just differ in culture.

Answer 8

I've never experienced racism, but I have experienced homophobia. I was beat up because I was gay. Also, when I was little, I found a Barbie doll and picked it up and started playing with it, and all of the other kids were laughing and pointing at me. It made me so scared and depressed because I was so different. But, I learned to accept myself for the way that I am.

Answer 9

a (white, german) girl i used to work with experienced a lot of racism from her (black, kongolese) husband's friends. she'd be visiting a non-racist black friend when suddenly hearing a voice from the door saying, hey, what's the whitey doing in your kitchen. she was also often told by her husband that she had no right to take part in certain debates because being white she lacked the life experience to understand what he and his friend were talking about. i also remember a time when i was staying with relations in a north-eastern us state and they had another person staying from a southern state. when we went out together we were asked for the way somewhere by a (regular middle class) mixed race couple. we answered their question but as soon as they were out of ear shot the girl from the southern state starting ranting about how the woman was a slut for dating a black guy. another american experience happened to (black, american) former neighbours of mine who had come to see another girl frfom our neighbourhood who was staying in a new england state as an exchange student. they picked her up at the house and spent the day with her, and after they had brought her back her hostmother admonished her for allowing herself to be seen with black people, it would damage the family's standing in the neighbourhood. these black people, btw, were perfectly nice, good, hard working members of the educated middle class, we're not talking ghetto here, just to make that clear. sorry, none of these happened to me, but i thought they were quite interesting anyway. i'm german btw.

Answer 10

Of course I have, as a Black woman (see my recent Qs). For example, every time I read some people's posts, I feel their racist tendencies.

I'd love to hear of Black people who haven't experienced it.