If you are white, have you ever experienced "reverse-racism?" How did it make you feel?

Question

Non-whites--feel free to comment as well. Just couldn't fit that in my question.

Answer 1

Yeah... I am a young teacher. Last year my African American and Mexican high school kids were dead set against me because I was blonde.

They thought that I couldn't possibly want the best for them since I was white and blonde.

It was the first time I have ever felt discrimination for being white. It made me feel a little mad and frustrated.

Answer 2

I'm white and from Mississippi. I went to school with very few whites the first 6 years. I was treated like a pet by all the kids and didn't feel hated at all. They wanted to touch me because I have long soft hair. I grew up with them being "real" to me and never felt strange or unwelcome as I grew up. These school mates still say I was always cool to them...and still am!
Then I moved to Tennessee after college. I met a black woman who had not had the same opportunity to know people for "real" as I had. She assumed since I was white and from Mississippi, that I was a racist. Well, that's not how I operate. I accept everyone on a case by case basis. Not all of anything is a'ight with me. I give everybody the chance to be decent. If they screw up and show out, that's on them. Well, this woman took all summer to get to know me and before I left town, she said she had been wrong about me. I said I knew that. I'm just glad she grew as a person.

Answer 3

There is really no such thing as reverse racism. Racism is not an action limited to minorities. It is basically about discrimination based on race, so anyone can experience it.
* By the way: You can ask a short question and add longer comments in the "details" section. I don't believe there is a word limit there.

Answer 4

I went to a training school in another state, and was staying at a college campus. I went to the bookstore and saw some really pretty rainbow stickers (at that time I didn't know that was a sign for "GAY") and stuck them on my notebook. Anyway - all week long people were really unfriendly to me (to the point that none of the women would room with me, sit and eat with me), and I never could figure out why until the last night of class when we were having a luau to celebrate. I had some shell leis and I shared them with my classmates, and one of the people gave me a wooden cross necklace, and I said that my husband will like it. The people all said at once, "You're married?!?! We thought you were gay." When I asked them where they got that idea - they said I had those gay pride stickers all over my notebook ! I said "No", I'm a Christian and the rainbow makes me think of God's promise. Well they all laughed about it ------but ya know it really was a learning experience for me.

The sad thing was - I thought they didn't like me because I was from Texas - and they were all from Ohio and further north!!!

Answer 5

That's called reverse discrimination. It's just like my daughter at one point had to be bused and integrated to a far away school just to balance the student population. In other word, they want the whites to be disseminated among the Blacks and the Latinos. So not one school would have a majority of white and get the best teachers. . That's what you call ratio proportion. They don't care if the child has to go farther to go to school and for the parents to be inconvenient. Just so their demographic requirements and funds are not compromised.
Much like the Blacks and Latinos do not want to be discriminated against Would this be reinforced at the expense of the white.?

Answer 6

Not very bad, indeed. Some Blacks or other non-white races sometimes have this urge to act mean with the whites. It means really nothing, as this is mostly done in their midst as sort of an "artificial" way to make themselves feel better by getting back at the whites. Some of them are driven by hatred, some by jealousy and some by the feeling of inferiority. That's my opinion anyway.

Answer 7

Yes, I did. While visiting Vancouver with my then-girlfriend (now my wife) who is Japanese, I was jeered at by a couple of Chinese fellows. One actually kind of growled, of all things. I assume they did not approve of a white guy with an Asian woman. It annoyed me, but I guess it made me realize just how rotten someone must feel when they experience it often.

I've also been denied service here in Japan. In one case, a visiting friend and I were about to enter a Tokyo bar, but the owner shouted 'Japanese only!' Still, I've been generally treated exceptionally well here.

Answer 8

I went to a an 86% black elementary school, I was the only white girl in my 4th, 5th and 6th grade classes. The Principal was also white, Mr. Baily, he was very nice and fair. One day he walked in the class room and asked a question, he called on just about everyone that raised their hand, except me. I knew it was because he didn't want to appear to favor white kids. I didn't feel one way or the other, I understood why he didn't call on me

Answer 9

As a white individual who's a rustic citizen, i do no longer understand the country anymore by way of fact the placement it exchange into. it incredibly is the biggest clarification why i'm no longer there now, and why I in simple terms might in all threat no longer return. right here in China, i think much less harried. returned interior the country, there are various diverse ethnic communities that have animosity in direction of whites. White human beings do no longer think of roughly it openly lots, yet whilst they are honest and that they think of roughly it, they'll admit that they in many circumstances sense that they are being seen with suspicion, resentment, or hostility via one among the different ethnic communities. To be maximum honest, the ethnic team maximum probable to deliver indicators of anger in direction of white each and every physique is black human beings. this sense of no longer being needed or liked is somewhat obvious as quickly as a white individual leaves the country. sarcastically, I felt none of it mutually as I lived in black Africa for a year. to respond to your question particularly, i don't sense that i'm no longer as stable as different ethnic communities, yet I do sense that we are no longer positioned on a pedestal and that we are much less welcome interior the country than we are in different worldwide places.

Answer 10

Felt disgusted because I had never been racist to anyone else. Been called a stupid dumb--- white girl by a black lady. Been called a stupid american by a hispanic guy who could not speak english.