Everywhere we went in Haiti, people yelled "blanc, blanc" (which means white) and in one city they threw rocks at us.

ccrunner609;1078948 wrote:I was beat up in thrid grade by 2 black kids......pretty sure they were racist

That's b/c you were staring at their weiners.

Twenty-five years ago, I moved from my well sheltered, anglo-saxon community in NE Ohio to NJ to start a job just out of college, Hackensack to be exact, Nice little garden apt. with some guy I didn't know from Adam at $950 a month ('87). A couple months pass, job is fine, but I need a damn haircut.

So I pull out the yellow pages and see what's close by, never really paid attention to the barbers in the area as it wasn't a need at the time, and more pressing needs like groceries and pizza joints were front and center, anyway. So the closest "barber" was just about 3 blocks away, cool I'll walk. I call and get an appointment for later that day at "Hair's Our Family" barber shop (this should have been the red flag required, but hey I was 23) So I walk down the 3 blocks and see the sign and sling open the door and walk in...here I stood, the only white guy within a few blocks and a damn mop of hair on my head that had it's own micro-climate and an appointment. I'm not sure whose look of shock was more evident, mine or the 13 black ladies who were staring at my blazingly white countenance...oh the horror.

I quickly suveyed my options and decided to sack up and get my haircut anyway, figuring I would look pretty shitty turning around and walking out, besides, how bad could it be? Once they realized I wasn't going anywhere they had me take a seat and discussed who would be the sacrificial lamb to cut the "white guys" hair. I laughed along with them because, well by now it was just funny. Even more funny was the look on the endless parade of old black dudes who would pop in to charm the ladies, see me sitting there and watch their faces change from wanna be pimp to what the fuck, the ladies just laughed. So this poor young girl fresh outta cosmetology school, laboriously struggled through my haircut.

Long story short, that was a perfect opportunity to spread racism from either direction, in the end though, we all just kinda had a good laugh about it.

The haircut was fine but I decided not to return...

going to school in se ohio...got called a lot of names in elementary middle school...hershey bar, wetback, ******, etc...by high school i had learned to fight and go good at sports so it pretty much stopped and then everyone wanted to be my friend and im like wait do you think i forgot the names you called me in fourth grade???


in college i dated a girl and during the summer she wanted me to come meet her parents she was from parma ohio...right before i was getting ready to leave she called and said her parents changed their minds they just couldnt deal with her dating a black guy..so i broke up w her.

as i got older it really hasnt been that bad...once on the way home from the rehersal dinner before i got married i got pulled over w my fiance in the car in stuebenville and she was yelling at me cause i was speeding and the cop was like maam are you ok? she was like yea im fine. and he put me in the back of his cruiser just to ask her if she was ok while i wasnt around just in case she was scared to say it in front of me. i thought that was pretty messed up...but at least i didnt get a dui cause i was wasted lol..

mcburg93;1078886 wrote:My best friend called me today telling me about a place he went to in a small town in Georgia. he walked in to get food and they wouldnt serve him till a certain time. he said there was white people eating and sitting at the tables and it had open seats. he asked if it was a private party and the lady told him know. She told him he would have to leave. so he left and was pretty upset by the situation. He called me cause weve been friends since childhood and wanted to know how there were still places like that. Ive never experienced anything like that because im white, i guess, but ive heard it happens to all races. have anyone here ever had something happen like this?

There are black people in Mechanicsburg?

ccrunner609;1078948 wrote:I was beat up in thrid grade by 2 black kids......pretty sure they were racist

I'd rep them, if I could.

I lieved in Atlanta for several years. I made friends with some great guys while there. But after I'd gotten to know them a bit, I realized how incredibly racist many of them were. They were so nice and giving in so many areas, but sooner or later their feelings towards black would come out. It was literally shocking to me. These weren't the Atlanta transplants from up north. These were GA and AL boys who happened to live there.

I actually felt sad for them because it was the way they were raised. They had known those attitudes since before they could walk.

Dr Winston O'Boogie;1079435 wrote:I lieved in Atlanta for several years. I made friends with some great guys while there. But after I'd gotten to know them a bit, I realized how incredibly racist many of them were. They were so nice and giving in so many areas, but sooner or later their feelings towards black would come out. It was literally shocking to me. These weren't the Atlanta transplants from up north. These were GA and AL boys who happened to live there.

I actually felt sad for them because it was the way they were raised. They had known those attitudes since before they could walk.

There are white people in Atlanta?

...Some years ago my wife and I went down to Myrtle Beach to vacation (her lay in the sun/me to play some golf). One morning I went to the course (won't say the name) and as I'm pulling in I see another Ohio plate (Franklin County) in front of me with (2) black guys in it. I get my clubs out and head to the club house to ask if they could get a single out (possibly since it was early to sneak out the back) since I wanted to play a fast round. They said no problem, go see the starter and he'd do what he could to get me out. Once I got down to the 1st tee I asked the starter what he could do for me & he noticed the two black guys also now driving down to the tee. He looked at his starting time sheet & asked me "Ya'll want to play with those two black birds"? Not thinking about what he said and just wanting to play fast, I said not really. He then says " I'll get ya off right quick sir". It then hit me that if I had said yes and not wanting to play quick as a single, that I'd still be waiting to hit. So racism is alive and well in the South.

ernest_t_bass;1079426 wrote:There are black people in Mechanicsburg?

yes there is but, he didnt go to mechanicburg he went to urbana.

i also had a set of great grandparents who were racist...i met my great grandma once but never met my great grandfather...he died a few years back and in the weeks before his death he asked to see his grandchildren. the rest of my brothers and sisters went and my cousins went but i didnt. i mean at the time i was 35 years old and this dude never cared to meet me before so i was pretty much like eff you..

my grandma i guess was racist until i was born and then she changed her tune after seeing me. i didnt find this out until a few years ago. i guess she tried to have my dad arrested when she found out my mom was preggo since my dad was 18 and my mom was 17.

Growing up in an Inter City Housing Project in the late 60's took it toll. What was once a low income Blacks and Whites striving to make a living and sharing in the difficulties became a neighborhood of conflict and despair. Where friends and old relationships where split by the choosing of color. Where once there was unity became radical attitude. Where friendship with once neighbor, playmates and athletic teammates became difficult and challenging, the equality that once was, had now been replaced by a different equality. Many of us (black and white friends) did not understand but where caught up in it because many who lived in the Projects were the focus to stir the racist hate of division. </SPAN>

I have witness this first hand in the late 60&#8217;s, I see this happening now &#8211; </SPAN>
Black and White and now add Rich and Poor </SPAN>

Pitting Americans against Americans for political power never ends good&#8230; Wake up America </SPAN>

Yes, when I filled out college applications.

Belly35;1079498 wrote:Growing up in an Inter City Housing Project in the late 60's took it toll. What was once a low income Blacks and Whites striving to make a living and sharing in the difficulties became a neighborhood of conflict and despair. Where friends and old relationships where split by the choosing of color. Where once there was unity became radical attitude. Where friendship with once neighbor, playmates and athletic teammates became difficult and challenging, the equality that once was, had now been replaced by a different equality. Many of us (black and white friends) did not understand but where caught up in it because many who lived in the Projects were the focus to stir the racist hate of division. </SPAN>

I have witness this first hand in the late 60&#8217;s, I see this happening now &#8211; </SPAN>
Black and White and now add Rich and Poor </SPAN>

Pitting Americans against Americans for political power never ends good&#8230; Wake up America </SPAN>

+1

I don't think I've experienced, but I've witnessed it. I watched someone who was going through resumes sort them out based on if their names sounded foreign or if she thought she would be able to understand them.

Before I got paroled from prison I was a skin head. I shot some blacks who were trying to steal my car out in front of my house and then curb stomped this one colored kid who couldn't get away and killed him. When I got out of prison I was reformed, I liked negros, but my brother was big into the brethren. After some hard work, I finally got my bro (Danny) to stop hanging out with the neo-nazi gang. But in the end, I saw racism first hand. I walked Danny to school and some black shot him in the bathroom...cold blood...dead! All because he was white! I hate racists now.

Belly35;1079498 wrote:Growing up in an Inter City Housing Project in the late 60's took it toll. What was once a low income Blacks and Whites striving to make a living and sharing in the difficulties became a neighborhood of conflict and despair. Where friends and old relationships where split by the choosing of color. Where once there was unity became radical attitude. Where friendship with once neighbor, playmates and athletic teammates became difficult and challenging, the equality that once was, had now been replaced by a different equality. Many of us (black and white friends) did not understand but where caught up in it because many who lived in the Projects were the focus to stir the racist hate of division. </SPAN>

I have witness this first hand in the late 60&#8217;s, I see this happening now &#8211; </SPAN>
Black and White and now add Rich and Poor </SPAN>

Pitting Americans against Americans for political power never ends good&#8230; Wake up America </SPAN>

Wow I've been saying this for a few years.

SnotBubbles;1079558 wrote:Before I got paroled from prison I was a skin head. I shot some blacks who were trying to steal my car out in front of my house and then curb stomped this one colored kid who couldn't get away and killed him. When I got out of prison I was reformed, I liked negros, but my brother was big into the brethren. After some hard work, I finally got my bro (Danny) to stop hanging out with the neo-nazi gang. But in the end, I saw racism first hand. I walked Danny to school and some black shot him in the bathroom...cold blood...dead! All because he was white! I hate racists now.

Someone should make a movie

SnotBubbles;1079558 wrote:Before I got paroled from prison I was a skin head. I shot some blacks who were trying to steal my car out in front of my house and then curb stomped this one colored kid who couldn't get away and killed him. When I got out of prison I was reformed, I liked negros, but my brother was big into the brethren. After some hard work, I finally got my bro (Danny) to stop hanging out with the neo-nazi gang. But in the end, I saw racism first hand. I walked Danny to school and some black shot him in the bathroom...cold blood...dead! All because he was white! I hate racists now.

you should make a movie

FatHobbit;1079567 wrote:Someone should make a movie

you get reps for winning.

I don't know if I've experienced overt racism, but I have been in a "racially touchy" sort of situation.

When I was in college, a recent 5th circuit decision struck down certain race-based distinctions. I applied for a scholarship program. Unbeknownst to me, it was previously a black-only scholarship program, but because the court had gotten rid of that distinction, the program was required to admit white students as well who came from bad SES backgrounds. The rest of the country did not follow the 5th circuit, and we were the only school in the 5th circuit who had the program. The impact of this didn't become relevant until we had our national convention, at which there were approx. 300 people from all across the country. There was one other white guy, and he was gay (I received the scholarship because I was poor). So we were the two token whites at the conference. The keynote speaker talked about white racism trying to break the scholarship program down and infiltrate it. I felt . . . awkward . . . to say the least. But everyone was very friendly.

Belly35;1079498 wrote:Growing up in an Inter City Housing Project in the late 60's took it toll. What was once a low income Blacks and Whites striving to make a living and sharing in the difficulties became a neighborhood of conflict and despair. Where friends and old relationships where split by the choosing of color. Where once there was unity became radical attitude. Where friendship with once neighbor, playmates and athletic teammates became difficult and challenging, the equality that once was, had now been replaced by a different equality. Many of us (black and white friends) did not understand but where caught up in it because many who lived in the Projects were the focus to stir the racist hate of division.

I have witness this first hand in the late 60&#8217;s, I see this happening now &#8211;
Black and White and now add Rich and Poor

Pitting Americans against Americans for political power never ends good&#8230; Wake up America

This is hilarious.

mella;1078930 wrote:Technically minorities can only be prejudice not racist. Racism requires a group that is well entrenched on the power system discriminate against others because of their different color. Since the power system, or ruling class, is made up by whites only they can discriminate while all others are just regular bigots.

This is untrue. I agree that one side must have power in one form or another, but what you are describing is known as institutional racism against minorities. A minority or groups of minorities with power of some form can practice racism.

sjmvsfscs08;1079504 wrote:Yes, when I filled out college applications.

+1 reps

Mooney44Cards;1079589 wrote:This is hilarious.

Could you expound or would you rather refrain and remain stupid mofo </SPAN>