Have you ever been subjected to prejudice?

Question

What have people "picked" on you for? You skin color, your religion, the country you came from, etc.........

I'm sure a few of you have more than one story. Feel free to tell as many as you want.

What did you do after you were subjected to this treatment.

If anyone submits racist comments, you will be promptly reported and/or deleted. I am SO sick of that crap!!!

To Tom T: I asked for no racist comments, because I want to give people who have been picked on a chance to vent. These people are laying their hearts out on the line, and the last thing they need is some bigot tearing them down some more.

While I am obviously against racism, I DO understand that it is hypocrytical to hate the haters. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, but there is a time and place for it. And like I explained (and you so boldly ignored), THIS is not the time. Consider yourself reported.

Answer 1

I was picked on for being dirty, smelly and neglected by my Mom who was orphaned at age five, had eight kids by a handsome drunk, one sister who was 'holier than thou' , was deeply depressed and had no help or understanding. The book I'm writing is so full of human tragedy its proof that miracles happen. I am the evidence

Answer 2

I've been called a redneck just because I'm white, a Nazi because of my families German back ground. For the most part I ignore it. I believe that every man, woman, and child has the right to a quality life regardless of their race, nationality, or religion, as long as they are not violating the rights of others. We all live on this earth, the sooner we learn to live together the better.

Answer 3

When I was a young married man of all but 18, I was in the service stationed in Virginia, My wife and I where two of a total of 14 white people living in low budget apartments, where there where 480 black families, to make a long story short, I was raised in an all white county in New England, and had no racial bias that i was aware of. Except for making Frenchman Jokes, learned from my grandfather, who was an old lumbrerjack on the Canadian border, Anyways, I really did have the clunkiest car in the whole complex, it seldom ran, I fought with it every day, the battery was always dead, and I had e to work on it everyday. One day a 4 foot crow bar was jammed through the hood, the car was od, it had no hood ock, you just flipped a lever. Well they and pried it up, and someone cut my battery terminals and stole my junk battery? The police even said, it was because I was white, all the cars around mine where newer and nicer and all ran, why MIne? our house was broken into more than 6 times in 4 months (we had nothing to steal), We had pretty racist stuff written on the doors a few times, I had beer bottles hurled at me several times by guys screaming drunk at me as I came home a few times, told me to get my white *** out of there place etc. ONe night had a huge black man smash my door down, the funny thing is what saved me from his drunken tirade of destruction was that he had the wrong apartment, and we sobered quickly when he saw I was a little skinny white guy, who was holding onto his 8 month pregnant wife who was leaning out the window, ready to jump for the second floor if he tried to harm us, we didn't press charges, yet the harassment got even worse. that was enough of that insanity, It went on and on for 5 months, then we got out of there, I was getting pretty racist in my mind, but I worked with all black people on the base, and I got along fine with most of them, and realized that you can't judge all people of any color or background the same, each as an individual, that was over 25 years ago,seems funny to look back on< I couldhave gotten really prejudice I guess but time went on And ter I drove truck all over the USA, and there is racism coming from all colors against another, in fact many within there own race. No people have it less than any other it seems, it mostly depends on the economic outlook of many, the poorer the more blaming of someone else. And once again, I'm very poor these days,( no job in 8 months) but I got no one to blame but my own poor choices and luck. I try to not stoop to playing th blame game weather by color, rich or poor, nationality, or political leanings, life demands more from us than that easy paths to vent our frustration on.

Answer 4

I have been picked on a couple of times for being a) English and b)a non Muslim.
It hurt, but then any form of prejudice does. However in the scheme of things it was very paltry and I thought demeaning to the person who was being snotty.
They obviously didn't really know me and in some way felt threatened by me. So be it. Their loss not mine.

Answer 5

I have a learning difficulty and have experienced some prejudice because of that. It's amazing how easily some people will comment upon childish handwriting and just assume that it's down to laziness.

Answer 6

I have been bullied and picked on and subjected to extreme prejudice and I feel that it has made me a stronger person and I am glad that there was prejudice against people like me

Answer 7

I was told often as a child that, "girls can't do that..."
I would do it anyway. I learned to just "do," and not ask for advice or tell others what I was doing.

Answer 8

Black people pick on me because I don’t act ghetto and try to better myself...Hey black people can be racist too u know!

Answer 9

I have a problem with anyone who posts a question, then proceeds to provide instructions upon how it should not be responded to. Being one who doesn't post nor respond to racist type garbage does not place me in a position to restrict the freedom of others to respond as they will, nor do I think it appropriate to make threats of being "reported" if a particular response happens to fall within your guidelines of censorship. You say (your own words, not mine) that you are "sick of that 'cr*p," yet you cloak your own question within the very framework of the same ca*p. Have you a fascination with cr*p?

Answer 10

With a name like "Kooties" people always pick on me!
( ^ _ ^ ) Circle, circle, dot, dot, now I've got my "cooties" shot!