Does anybody have any personal stories of discrimination?

Question

Also, what do you feel about discrimination in general? What can the common person do about it and will it ever go away?

Answer 1

Everyone discriminates sometimes. No one is perfect.

All of us stereotype sometimes. No one is perfect.

A lot of us realize when we do it and then pull our feet out of our mouths and move on.

Some people insist that their stereotypes are accurate and their discrimination is justified. Those people scare me.

I run into a lot of them because I am a Christian and a Biker and I could give you hundreds of examples.

Answer 2

I think I was maybe 8 or 9. I was walking home from school, and this white kid yelled across the street to me, "N igger!"
That was the first time I was ever called the "N" word. Personally I hate discrimination! If we as a people would learn "tolerance", life would be so much easier. As far as it going away? It's "do able." But people have to be "willing." There are no over night cures.

Answer 3

Yeah, one summer I worked at an ice cream stand. And there was this really hot white chick who used to come and only order a Banana Split.
She was like 4th in line one hot day and I only had 1 banana left. The produce delivery was late that day. All three people in front of her: a *****, an Oriental, and either an Arab or Hispanic all wanted a Banana Split and I told them we were all out.
The hot white chick came up and said, oh, you're out of Bananas? I said, nope, that I saved the last one for her and made her a nice one.
of course the uppity Black lady, saw the chick walk away from the serving window with a banana split and she started yelling about racism and oppression. I told her to shut up in front of a bunch of people. She said how did the White lady get a banana and not her?
I calmly answered that the other lady had called her order ahead of time , and therefore the last banana was reserved. (which was a lie of course) ...LOL

Answer 4

I hate when people come to N. America from 3rd. world countries and expect all these rights and privileges, my folks never had them back in the 50's after WW2...What are they thinking? Do they really think they are special? They go on and on about how great their culture and homeland is...so why are they here? How many soldiers lost their lives to make "our country" better? Are they that lazy to stay put and fight and lose their lives to better their homelands? They are chicken shits who are looking for a easy way out and in the end take our dollars back to their homeland...they are pathetic!

Answer 5

When I was nine years old, my family and I were kicked out of a gas station in Missouri because we are Hispanic. We weren't politely asked to leave; the store clerk called the police and about five cars came by and escorted us out of town. It was only my parents, and four kids, I'm the oldest, the youngest was 1 year old. That's when I realized I was different. After that incident, I went through a long period of wanting to be White, like the other kids. I was ashamed of my culture, of my heritage and everything else about me that set me apart. I'm now past that, and I'm trying to teach my child to be color blind and like people for their qualities, not the color of their skin, or anything else that makes them different, and to be proud of his heritage. There was another incident when I was about 20, and this lady I worked with kept making what she thought were funny "Mexican" jokes. I filed with HR a complaint for harrassment, and nothing was done. A couple of months later, I quit because I kept getting in trouble for small things, and was constantly threatened by the OWNER of this place of termination.

Answer 6

In the early eighties I applied for a job and qualified for it, however I was told the company was looking for a ''person of color'' to satisfy federal regulations.

Answer 7

i do, but it would end up being a book since it's been most of my life.