Has anyone ever made a comment to you that was overtly racist?

Question

I'm hispanic, I was born and raised in Los Angeles. I was buying xmas gifts one year, I inquired about the price of a doll, and the sales clerk said "it doesn't speak spanish". He actually made me laugh, but his intent wasn't to be humorous

Answer 1

GOOD JOB AT HOW YOU HANDELED IT!!! YES! I HAVE BEEN AS WELL I AM WHITE WITH BI-RACIAL CHILDREN(beautiful children) AND WE WERE LEAVING THE HOSPITAL AND THIS MAN WITH HIS KIDS IN THE CAR FOLLOWED US ALMOST RAN US OFF THE ROAD YELLING OBSIENITIES, RACIAL SLURES AND EVEN HAD HIS KIDS FLIPPIN US OFF I WAS SO SCARED AND SOOO ANGERY AS IF WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PROBLEMS IN THE WORLD PEOPLE LIKE HIM HAVE TO ADD IGNORANCE TO IT TOO!!!!! THE BEST THING I LEARNED IS EITHER ECNORE OR LAUGH IT OFF,ALTHOUGH THERE ARE THOSE TIMES WHEN THAT IS EVEN HARD, AND CAN CALL FOR SOMEONE TO BE "CHIN CHECKED" YA FEEL ME? LOL GOOD LUCK AND DON'T LET ANYONE BREAK YOUR SPIRIT WE ARE ALL GODS PEOPLE!!!!

Answer 2

Actually my 5 year old asked me once (in front of my black OB-GYN and black nurse) If the doctor was going to make our new baby white. I almost died on the spot. I was mortified. In front of the doctor I explained that yes our baby would be white but that being black or any other color is no different from being white. That our black doctor just had a black mommy and daddy. That other than that he was no different then us- he had a job, house, kids and family and that if you opened us up and looked on the inside we are all alike. The doctor laughed at the question but listen intently to my answer. I was very afraid that I would explain it in a way that made him feel offended. When my daughter left the room to get a sucker he praised my answer and told me that his own children had asked him similar questions. Racism is just a fear of the unknown and people are sometimes very close-minded.

Answer 3

What in regards to the Soho Nail Bomber - he was a terrorist AND a Nazi. there have been others who fortuitously have been stopped, one in Grimsby now not long in the previous. After Al Quaeda and the dissident IRA companies the third maximum deadly women and men everybody is anti-immigrant extremists So your son can't be very reliable in the event that they're brought about. there have been lots and lots of immigrants in 2001-7 whilst each and every guy or woman concept the economic gadget became as quickly as doing brilliantly and it would final for ever. there have been way,much extra arrived the place I stay than in even maximum cities and unemployment became in spite of the undeniable fact that low. Even now it is under 5%. in spite of the undeniable fact that for the time of 1980-4, in my a factor of the rustic we had rarely ever any immigrants yet unemployment was over 10%, which became undesirable - queuing out the door in the JobCentre. So I reckon the point of immigration wasn't lots to do with it finally.

Answer 4

My mother has 5 of us and when we were little we lived near the east village in lower manhattan in NYC. At that time alot of people would put their old stuff on the street for people to buy and alot of the men selling were dark skinned africans probably from west africa. This scantily dressed obviously high, drugged up white woman comes storming down the street kicking peoples stuff around and calling everybody names. My sister, who is usually very polite tells the lady "this is probably where you buy all your clothes." The lady starts yelling at my sister who was only about 10 years old at the time. My mother, a woman who should not be messed with, stops the lady in her tracks with one look. We all start to walk away and when we get halfway down the block the lady yells out "I can buy and sell your whole monkey family!" THen she ran away when she saw us all turn around in unison and say "What?" We were in shock. We were raised to love the many shades of our skin and even though we were little kids we understood it was racism. We calmed down and the shock gave way to tears. Imagine; a young widow and 5 young children walking down street sulking and crying because we knew she was not the only one who felt that way. As useless as this lady was in the state she was in, we still felt the sting of racism and the truth that slavery and oppression still exists and that people see other people no matter their color as pawns and cattle.

Answer 5

Definately

Answer 6

How about Anti-Semitic comments? I am Jewish but as is proper, I do not go around telling people at work what my religion is. Just this week someone made yet another Anti-Semitic comment.

There are just a lot of ignorant bigoted people in this world.

Answer 7

Yes on the phone when I answered in the house of a friend, and a female caller took me for the black maid.
When I asked who was calling she told me that was no concern of mine and to "move my black a.r,se" I just replaced the receiver and she actually had the neck to complain to my host, who told her about her mistake. I don't know whether it's childish, but I have ignored her ever since.

Answer 8

I have biracial children and nanny for 3 other also biracial children no matter where I go people say how much my children all look so much alike, as if sinceall of them have a tone of brown skin (each of them DIFFERENT shades due to age, sun and parents being different) and curly hair that they are all mine and all related. Noone even stops for one second and looks beyond their skin, non of them look alike, even my 2 childen don't resemble each other, my oldest looks like me and my youngest looks like dad.
It drives me crazy.

Answer 9

I've been called a 'cracker' before by a Pakistani.

Answer 10

yes they have but i said that no matter how dark or ulgy i am god will still love me even i nobody else do