What experiences do you have of racism and unfair discrimination?

Question

Please share your true life experiences...

How bad is the racial prejudice, negativity, contempt and subtle discrimination in your community? What have you personally experienced?

In what ways have people from another race mistreated you, disadvantaged you or disrespected you when you know you had clearly done nothing wrong?

Please protect the privacy of others by not mentioning real names of people or companies or organisations.

Answer 1

In high school I was jumped a few times by gangs of black guys, one of those times I had a skull fracture and concussion.

Ive been robbed at gunpoint twice....by blacks. Ive been shot at twice for no apparent reason other than riding thru the wrong neighborhood.....by blacks.

A very close friend was murdered years ago during an armed robbery of the bar we worked in....by a black man who was pissed at his white girlfriend so he decided to kill a white b^tch......I was supposed to be working for her that night and backed out so Ive always felt sorta guilty.

I have been turned down for a couple of jobs because of affirmative action. I get sh#tty service almost everywhere I go around here by black employees. Ive put in for 3 promotions in the last year, all of which Im well qualified for, and all 3 have been filled by blacks. A couple more tries and you may hear about me filing a lawsuit against the state for racism.

Its a good thing that only white people in Louisiana and the south in general are racists huh?

**Bettercockster....Actually I live in Baton Rouge and most of the bad stuff happened here or in New Orleans when I lived there. It just irritates the hell out of me that the media and the general public always assume that only whites are capable of racism in the south. I find it to be more the other way around. Im laid back and get along with just about anyone and dont give a rats @ss what color they are. But for some reason end up being a racial target. ((I guess not all the bad stuff was from blacks though.....I got the crap beat out of me by some small town redneck cops when I was in college. I dont think they liked my comment about redneck cops....but that was the alcohol talking not me :) )) Oh, and I am successful, not complaining about that. I just dont agree with AA....the policy of employing based on race is....racism no matter which way it goes.

Answer 2

I would try but I think you are addressing the question to Americans. Anyway, I'm really sorry but I personally wouldn't know how to answer the question unless you specified. Do you mean discrimination on an individual level, collectively, socially, economically, institutionalised racism, ideologies, from which point in time i.e. do we look at present issues or do we take the past into consideration? It's too complicated.

I recognise the situation "Knowledge is bliss" is talking about. I sometimes wonder how I passed when other students were so bent on giving me the impression that I was speaking nonsense two-thirds of the time (there were also different types of mind games even from the staff).

Answer 3

Elementary school for two years( Summit), and my whole four years in high school( Clark) I faced discrimination. Here's a quick story: My parents were a little behind on the tuition, so I was told "Without your tuition up to date, we(the school) will not send out college transcripts, and you cannot graduate"
I was so upset and angry and I got so depressed.Also I asked my mom could I get a job and she said no, the hours would interfere with my school work it was a horrible time in my life. Anyway, one day my Caucasian friend "L" comes over to where myself and my other friends are sitting red faced and crying. So of course we're asking "What's wrong!" Well, she says she is crying because she is happy because her parents owed so much tuition for she AND her sister(so you can only imagine the bill) but the principal said not to worry because she will graduate. That's only the tip of the iceberg. About a day later I'm in class and the PA (announcements) comes on to announce that "L" has been accepted to such and such colleges.
And what do you call that situation, dumb luck?coincidence?.....

Answer 4

I was stuck in a small town in the midwest for about a year and needed a job. There was a local business hiring someone to do office & customer service work. I showed up resume in hand, wearing a suit and interviewed with the son of the owner ( a younger white guy) he was really cool and I felt like we would work very well together and he liked my resume and appearance. Isaw my competition sitting in the lobby, a mix of local white people wearing blue jeans to the interview, no resume in hand, looking unkept etc etc.
The son liked me so much he wanted me to meet the owner his dad (older white guy). The old guy took one quick look at me said a dry Hi, looked at my resume for about 5 seconds,handed it back to me and said, we'll keep ya in mind. I could see the look on his son's face that he was not happy and I knew right then and there what had just happened. I said, thank you sir. Shook the sons hand, said thanks,he almost apologized to me right there. I left, kept my nose to the grinding wheel and bagged a much better job in a prestigous area of the company a week later.
Thing is I was hired by another older white guybut this guy said he liked my attitude and could not wait to hire me and he was supposedly a racist according to some of the shop floor employees.

Lesson is, racism is everywhere and be careful stereotyping people you might think are racist, that can be a very big mistake.

YT, sounds like you live in one of those chit hole towns in Louisiana like Buras or Lutcher, it might be time to move. I know how this is going to sound and man I'm raeally sorry for what has happened to you but, the American economic system was created to benefit whites. You really have no excuse for not using it to be successful, I know most of my wite friends have and the ones who haven't, don't want to.

Good Luck man.

Answer 5

When I was in high school, the "career" (whatever he was) counselor recommended to all the Black students to attend a 2 year tech school because it was unfortunate that we would not be accepted to a 4 year college. My friend at the time, who was White, had grades that were not the best, but the counselor still recommended her to four year colleges. This caused great concern among the Black students and parents. I'm not sure about the other ethnic groups.

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shabazz are you serious? how in the world did you get into that situation?

Answer 6

I was the only Black female in my advanced classes last year. I faced discrimination because I was the 'Token Black' people said. Some felt that I wasn't as smart as they were and that I was there because the school didn't want to seem racist. (I had the highest score out of the entire class on Midterms however) They rarely communicated with me because I 'wouldn't understand' and often called on me to settle disputes like "Black women date Black men because they are good in bed. No, they date them because they are bosses" (Which pissed me off because I date Hispanic men more often than Black men) So yeah. That was my little year of discrimination.

Answer 7

I know that many whites (not all) in Australia are seriously racist. I have even dated and loved several white girlfriends, and had to put up with so much negativity and prejudice from their ignorant white racist friends, who kept on slandering me behind my back when I had clearly done nothing wrong to deserve so much disrespect... Anyway, here's my true story:

I have brown skin, but I have lived in Australia all my life.

I earned the highest grades in every year in high school in Australia. Grades 8, 9 and 10, I got straight A's and the highest averages in Maths, Science, English, Graphics, etc. but the teachers gave the Junior Dux (top student) award to a white guy whose marks were much lower than mine. He had the highest mark only in History.

In my senior years, Year 11, and 12, I averaged 95% to 98% in most of my subjects, and even scored perfect 100% marks in all 4 Physics exams, in one semester. I clearly had the highest grades in Maths 1, Maths 2, Physics, Technical Drawing and English, and my name was listed as the winner of the "Senior Dux" prize, who was supposed to give the valedictory or graduation speech on "Speech Night" - sadly, the next day, my name was scribbled out in red pen and the name of the best "white" student (who was only about the 3rd best student overall in my year), was written over the top of my name, for the entire school to see. This white guy was a friend of mine and we always used to compare marks with each other after tests and exams... and he told me: "This is so unfair! You deserve to be the dux" (because he only came top in Biology and Chemistry, but was just a B average student in all the Maths and Physics subjects) I went to the Principal to find out what was going wrong, and he told me: "Unfortunately, most of the teachers protested and demanded that the other student should get the dux, despite the fact that he is a repeat student, because repeat students should not be allowed to win dux prizes."

This was clearly very wrong and unfair. My achievements and hard work were not rewarded and recognized because I was not white. There was no explanation given to me regarding WHY I was not allowed to be the Senior Dux, and the teachers pressured that other student to accept the honours... they awarded the wrong "top student" just because they couldn't believe that a dark skinned person could be smarter than their best white student... This is the kind of DEEP-ROOTED subtle racism still being practiced in Australia.

Very often, white people ignore me when it is my turn to get served in shops, and they choose to quickly serve the white people who came after me, even though I was in line before them. Occasionally, I even get yelled at and abused for no good reason... Why? Because many whites here in Australia hate dark skinned people, and think they are ugly, inferior, dodgy and untrustworthy, by default... based on the brainwashing they had received from a lifetime of white loving mass media. I would safely guess that the number of racist white people in Australia, is still about 20-30%. The majority of whites today are pretty open minded now, but almost every day, I come across a stupid racist white person who believes he is superior by birthright.

LOL, I have a 6-figure salary, a PhD (2 University degrees), my wife looks like a supermodel goddess, I own a $2 million house and property on a 10-acre block of land, and I drive a $81,000 4WD SUV ... and these racist white people still treat me like a low-life and keep on deliberately ignoring my successful achievements and overlooking me for promotions...

Racism is really sad and stupid, that's why I have to keep exposing it for all white people to see.

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Answer 8

i have experienced reverse racism (black people being racially abusive towards me)
after that i vowed something: i'm never going to be a hypocrite or like them and won't hate black people for what they did

Answer 9

This space is entirely too small and quite frankly, I do not have that much time.

Answer 10

i tasered a white dude by mistake and now he is suing me cuz am black. if i was white he would have endured the pains and broken ribs from falling onto the pavement, and let me off with a stern disaproval