racist thing you have ever experienced or seen?
2006-12-25 09:45:07 · 15 answers · asked by princezzjin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
It's rude of me to ask without giving my own personal anecdote, so here it goes: When I was in preschool, my 1st boyfriend was white, it was a pretty diverse suburb, but yeah, so one of my bestfriends, who was also white told my boyfriend that we shouldn't be together because I was dark & not white & that it wasn't right. Ofcourse young children believe most things they hear, so he dumped me. I can't remember ever being betrayed by a friend that badly. It REALLY hurt. My mom had to pick me up from school early that day. : (
2006-12-25 09:57:00 · update #1
Another time was my 3rd bf in 2nd grade was a boy from California of Japanese descent. There were only about 19 Asian kids out of about 300 kids, but everyone would make fun of us when we sat together & say "ching chong ching" I was selfish back then & just brushed it off, but he didn't like kids teasing me just because he was Asian, so he asked if it would be easier for us to break up & I said yes. I really regret breaking up with him because of that. I knew it was wrong for those kids to do that, but I guess I was afraid I'd also get picked. Kids can be so cruel. Anyway, AJ & I stayed friends until I moved.
2006-12-25 10:02:27 · update #2
My dad is Arab & a muslim & he used to sometimes wear his traditional NE African garments around the house. It's a robe that kind of looks like a dress & sometimes it comes with matching pants, but sometimes kids would laugh & say my dad wore a dress. I'm sad to say, but it was mostly the 'ghetto' kids. Now that I'm older, noone cares what my dad wears, but back then I used to beg him not to leave his room with it on.
2006-12-25 10:07:06 · update #3
the holocaust
2006-12-25 09:46:11 · answer #1 · answered by Beth 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The worst racist thing I have ever seen and must be hands down the worst racism ever in America was in New Orleans during Katrina.
Our Top government officials denied knowing anything about thousands of people starving and dying when it was being shown on every major network. That alone should be enough for impeachment. This is the USA and the world was watching!!!
2006-12-25 09:56:22 · answer #2 · answered by letfreedomring 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I have not personally experianced that much, but I will never forget looking at an apartment years ago. I asked the manager about safety and she said "Don't worry dear, I work REAL HARD to keep the blacks out of here."
I was speechless. I wish I had said something, I sort fo feel guilty that I did not.
And, no, there is no possible way I would have decide to live there.
2006-12-25 09:53:50 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
I suppose I have seen or heard a lot of racist things toward minorites in my life. But one that sticks with me is a time when I was on the bus in high school and two black girls were saying how much they hated white people. I guess it kind of hurt my feelings, and opened my eyes. I didn't know that black people didn't like white people. I mean, I had just never though of it. Of course I know that doesn't apply to everybody or even the majority.
2006-12-25 09:48:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Racism, no one likes it but it effects everyone. Everyone has something to say about someone that is different from them. I am chubby and when I was in school, the words fat white girl stung like everything, but what made it worse, was the people that would say these things were black people who were twice my size! What's up with that?
2006-12-25 10:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by Mrs. SmartyPants 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
The grocery store scene in the movie, American History X.
I'd go into some shopping stores and the workers wouldn't bother to say hi or help. They thought I couldn't afford it.
Also, I was in Hawaii during the summer, and I was helping my relative's business. A customer came, and I don't know what their conversation was, but he walked out of the store and down the street yelling, "YOU STUPID F*CKING G*OK... YOU STUPID MOTHERF*CKING G*OK."
My friend in 7th grade was made fun of because she was Asian. People excluded her and called her names. She said she seriously wanted to kill herself.
2006-12-25 09:46:52 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
I live in a simple town so a black person at my school reffered to as being one of the whitest people in the school... I'm not sure what that means
2006-12-25 09:49:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
was ridding on the bus only one african american kid on the bus listening to his walkman (happened in the 80's ) not loud not being disrespectfull to anyone just minding his own bussiness gets to his spot rings the bell and gets off the bus driver said " thank God no more ni_*ers " I was pissed but to afraid to say anything
2006-12-25 09:49:58 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 0⤋
I am a straight white man, and I have had this behavior from other races, women, and gays. I do everything I can to stay strong whenever some fool acts out their passive agressiveness toward me.
2006-12-25 09:48:21 · answer #9 · answered by samaustinashlee_billiewjr 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
a clerk in a drug store being very rude to a mexican customer who had amounts of money orders she needed written down and fairly easy to understand i interpreted it for her and dropped out of 9th grade spanish
2006-12-25 09:49:00 · answer #10 · answered by kelly r 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
"You filthy rat arab muslim terorist scum. go back to were u came from(?)"
Someone here emailed me that. Not the exact sentence, but all those words were there.
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Yeah, I know what you mean.
2006-12-25 10:02:14 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋