Were you bullied at school because of your race?

Question

How did it affect your work and your life? Does it still affect you now?

Answer 1

no, the kids in my school were surprisingly sensible,unlike most white kids.

Answer 2

My daughter was in kindergarten and first grade. She was the only white kid in her class the others were African American and Filipino, mostly. Worse, she was blond and blue-eyed. She was often called "white and ugly." She told me she wished that she was black so the kids would like her more.
I wasn't prepared for this; I had always heard of prejudice going the other way. My daughter had always been around a variety of races, and she thought nothing of it before kindergarten. I didn't know what to do. But I did my best to assure her that she was beautiful. I told her that some white people were also mean to non-white kids, and that it was wrong to act this way. She did her best to get along, but she got very sensitive on the subject of prejudice.
Then we moved to a different city where she had more white classmates. She seemed to get along well. But in the 5th grade she was asked to write an essay on "equal rights," and without hesitation she wrote an impassioned essay about how she was treated in kindergarten and first grade, and how "lucky" it was that she herself hadn't become "prejudiced." She seemed to have a pretty good idea of what prejudice is. She wrote, "Ignorance causes it," and gave the example that if a child had never met a Mexican that wasn't a maid, they would think all Mexicans were maids. But her response to the assignment showed that she still felt strongly about what had happened.
In her teens she seemed okay with race, she seemed to get along with any race. She knew some kids who belonged to racial gangs (in our neighborhood usually Hispanic), but she didn't get involved in that. She's not around now, so I can't ask her whether it still affects her.

Answer 3

In middle school me family moved to SC. I was raised to not see peoples race, and it was hard for me to adjust to a place where racial tension is so high. When we first moved there my sister and I ended up riding on a bus as the only white kids going to school (most other parents in the area drove their kids but our parents both worked), every day we were taunted, rocks and pine cones thrown at us, our bus driver was a older black man and he would stop the bus and yell at the kids. I don't judge others because of it, later in high school I made and still have many close black friends. We did move out of that area of town though when a cat was mutilated on our porch. You can't judge a race by what a few of the members do. Later in High School I was teased and called a Nazi because I was born in Germany (to American parents on an American base) and my hair is blonde and my eyes blue.

Answer 4

No - I went to mostly white schools and I'm asian. But all my friends were white and they were very hateful towards blacks. I must have heard just about every black joke ever told by the time I was 12. So I guess it affects me daily because I'm always racially aware even when it is not an issue.

Answer 5

Only once in a great while - I'm German/Irish and have a distant relative who was Native American - I attended school on the Rez and now and then a Navajo or a Hopi would get a little ticked at me for being the only white boy in "their" school. I dealt with it. End of story.

Answer 6

my daughter got bullied at her old school because she was "the little white girl" in a schoool full of latinos. When we moved to a different city, she got culture-shock because it is almost all white. not much diversity.

Answer 7

Actually, yes, because I was a very fair, nontraditional, Mexican/American, did not speak Spanish fluently, couldn't cook "traditional" dishes. In the work place, got the same thing. Now, I'm older and don't care if they disapprove.

Answer 8

Im white british, same as nearly everyone in my school- so no