When you were younger (like about 4 or 5), did you know about racism or did you learn about it when you were..

Question

racisted by somebody of an oposite race?

Answer 1

I was at a Hardees in MD and some big scary fat black mama gave me, a 5 year old white kid, the verbal whoop down for trying to order...she thought I was being rude and trying to go before her, and I was confused and shocked by the treatment...maybe it was racist...but I could give a sh*t about "racism"

Answer 2

No, I didn't really understand racism until I was in Junior High. I went to meet up with a girl to hang out, but her mom answered the door and ran me off. The comments were very ugly. I knew the differences with people's skin color but, never had dealt with an issue like that.

Answer 3

I don't remember how old I was when I learned about racism. But I was an adult when I saw it the first time.

As a criminal defense attorney, I am "racisted" constantly.

And I remember having to teach my own 5 year old what it was, and it broke my heart to take his innocence in that way.

Answer 4

When I was about 6, I sat in the laundromat in Joshua, Tx while my mom loaded blankets in a machine. I chatted with a 'black' girl my age and immediately wanted her to be one of my best friends! Of course, after we said goodbye, I never saw her again.

I miss that purity of mind and spirit. Now I walk around the city and wonder if people of other races are afraid of me or hate me for being white, although I have nothing personally to do with causing segragation or slavery all those years ago.

Answer 5

I was rascist when I was about 5, because I was raised in a rascist home. I learned later how ignorant my family and I was, when I joined the Army and lived with different races and became freinds with them. Now I'm actually married to someone of a different race AND religion!

Answer 6

Good question! I never even saw a black person, except on TV, till I was 13...I lived in a small town in Iowa. In our 'shopping' town, 17 miles away, a family of black people moved in, and all the people from miles around would go and look at them. I remember thinking how beautiful they were, and how I wished I looked like them, and how hard it must be to have to go into the grocery store and be stared at like that.

Answer 7

I grew up in a really small city with no black families that I can recall. In fact, I remember my little brother being about 5 and seeing his first black person on our main street and thinking it was benson... you know...from that tv comedy.. uh..soap I think it was. Even now, we are much more diversified but still not that many black families. Lots of cambodians and orientals and natives and as far as I'm concerned, it's all good and I've raised my children to not see colour at all.

Answer 8

When I was in kindergarten (1969) I walked to school. There was a black girl in my class who lived on the way, so I would stop at her house on my way to school and we would walk together. When my parents found out, they asked me why did I bother to stop and get a colored girl on my way to school? And they made me stop walking to school with her.

To this day I do not know whether my parents were trying to protect me from the girl and her family or from violence that may have resulted from my being friends with a person of color.
Either way, my parents hurt the feelings of two 5 year old girls....all because of skin color.

Answer 9

Nope.

"You Have to Be Carefully Taught" is a song written by Rogers and Hammerstein in 1949, for the show "South Pacific".

The lyrics have it right.

Answer 10

I learnt about racism when I was about 5 and I heard someone in the playground using a term of racial abuse, though not directly at someone.

When I went home I asked my mom "What does ***** mean" and she explained about racism.