justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Feb 7, 2012 9:24pm
My friend and I were once kicked off a public transportation bus in Charlotte some time after midnight. We were the only two white people on the bus.
Driver: you two in the back, this is your stop.
Us: No, ma'am, this isn't where we need to get off.
Driver: Yes, it is.
Us: No, it isn't.
Driver: You two need to get off the bus.
Us: Oh, ok.
So we ended up stranded in the middle of who the fuck knows where Charlotte for a few hours while we waited for a cab to come pick us up. It was also cold and rainy.
Driver: you two in the back, this is your stop.
Us: No, ma'am, this isn't where we need to get off.
Driver: Yes, it is.
Us: No, it isn't.
Driver: You two need to get off the bus.
Us: Oh, ok.
So we ended up stranded in the middle of who the fuck knows where Charlotte for a few hours while we waited for a cab to come pick us up. It was also cold and rainy.
majorspark
Posts: 5,122
Feb 7, 2012 9:25pm
Back in my day your types were called "wiggers" or "wannabes"bwcomet89;1078975 wrote:During a football game last year I was called the "N-word." Being as white as I am I was initially stunned and confused. I've been confused for a lot of things, woulda never thought black.
j_crazy
Posts: 8,372
Feb 7, 2012 9:33pm
Once while walking home from the bar in cody Wyoming with one of my Nigerian friends, I was giving him shit because he spilt a drink on his really expensive silk shirt. He shoved me (not aggressively at all) and a police cruiser whips in behind us and a cop gets out looks at me and says 'is this boy bothering you?'. That's as close as I've got.
justincredible
Posts: 32,056
Feb 7, 2012 9:44pm
lol, he called him boy? What a dick.j_crazy;1079010 wrote:Once while walking home from the bar in cody Wyoming with one of my Nigerian friends, I was giving him shit because he spilt a drink on his really expensive silk shirt. He shoved me (not aggressively at all) and a police cruiser whips in behind us and a cop gets out looks at me and says 'is this boy bothering you?'. That's as close as I've got.
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mella
Posts: 647
Feb 7, 2012 9:52pm
I got pulled over in Macon Georgia back in 1988. I thought I was toast. I was in the car with my 2 friends who are Jewish...Northern Jews. Fortunately the state trooper let us go with a warning. I figured an EYEtalian and a couple of northern Jews where going to disappear that night in GA.
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rydawg5
Posts: 2,639
Feb 7, 2012 9:52pm
Wasn't it rascist of you to think the Trooper was racist?mella;1079056 wrote:I got pulled over in Macon Georgia back in 1988. I thought I was toast. I was in the car with my 2 friends who are Jewish...Northern Jews. Fortunately the state trooper let us go with a warning. I figured an EYEtalian and a couple of northern Jews where going to disappear that night in GA.
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mella
Posts: 647
Feb 7, 2012 9:57pm
No, I was relieved when I saw he was black. I made an assumption before he got out of the car. I think that's why we got a warning. A white trooper from Macon GA, knows how to disappear 3 northern boys.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Feb 7, 2012 9:59pm
Black people are the worst.
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mella
Posts: 647
Feb 7, 2012 10:01pm
I think I just experienced racism.sleeper;1079077 wrote:Black people are the worst.
bases_loaded
Posts: 6,912
Feb 7, 2012 10:15pm
Some lil black kid called me a kracker today on Call of Duty, I told him to shut his welfare ****** ass up. Time marches on
Mooney44Cards
Posts: 2,754
Feb 7, 2012 10:29pm
Saying that black people are on welfare and are gangsters because of the way they dress is fun and accurate!
Yay internetz!
Yay internetz!
Cat Food Flambe'
Posts: 1,230
Feb 7, 2012 10:32pm
Racism, no. But...
I spent two weeks in San Antonio several years ago when I worked for a trucking company. The company put me in a hotel within walking distance of the terminal, which was in a purely Hispanic neighborhood (or, as the locals called them, the "Meskins"). My off time was during the day, so I spend some time roaming around the area, and was usually the only Anglo guy around. I usually ate my meals at a little mom and pop joint a couple doors down from the hotel - I never heard a word of English spoken while I was there (the food was incredible, though).
No one was ever rude or disrespectful to me (I spoke and understood Spanish, which helped), but it was unnerving as hell.
I spent two weeks in San Antonio several years ago when I worked for a trucking company. The company put me in a hotel within walking distance of the terminal, which was in a purely Hispanic neighborhood (or, as the locals called them, the "Meskins"). My off time was during the day, so I spend some time roaming around the area, and was usually the only Anglo guy around. I usually ate my meals at a little mom and pop joint a couple doors down from the hotel - I never heard a word of English spoken while I was there (the food was incredible, though).
No one was ever rude or disrespectful to me (I spoke and understood Spanish, which helped), but it was unnerving as hell.
bigdaddy2003
Posts: 7,384
Feb 7, 2012 10:33pm
What a joke of a thread. The original thought behind the thread was fine but when someone basically says minorities cant be racist because the majority of people who hold power are white it's time to close the thread.
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mella
Posts: 647
Feb 7, 2012 10:41pm
I was actually restating the definition of racism. It is based on power structures within a society. Racism and prejudice are 2 different things. I never said minorities could not act in an ignorant manner. I stated that technically they could not be racist. With that said, I don't really care about black, white, brown...because a person can be ignorant regardless of ethnicity. And racism is alive and well in the USA.
sleeper
Posts: 27,879
Feb 7, 2012 10:45pm
You can blame affirmative action as well as hiring quotas for this. No one respects minorities.mella;1079152 wrote:I was actually restating the definition of racism. It is based on power structures within a society. Racism and prejudice are 2 different things. I never said minorities could not act in an ignorant manner. I stated that technically they could not be racist. With that said, I don't really care about black, white, brown...because a person can be ignorant regardless of ethnicity. And racism is alive and well in the USA.
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
Feb 7, 2012 11:01pm
Black people have no soul.rmolin73;1078950 wrote:Amen brother and in some cases there isn't one white soul to be found in them.
rmolin73
Posts: 4,278
Feb 7, 2012 11:04pm
What about a black ginger?dwccrew;1079201 wrote:Black people have no soul.
majorspark
Posts: 5,122
Feb 7, 2012 11:11pm
It only takes one wrong turn to make a white guy wish he was black.rmolin73;1078950 wrote:Amen brother and in some cases there isn't one white soul to be found in them.
hasbeen
Posts: 6,504
Feb 7, 2012 11:18pm
rmolin73;1079218 wrote:What about a black ginger?
Double negative = soul
dwccrew
Posts: 7,817
Feb 7, 2012 11:44pm
The devil incarnate.rmolin73;1079218 wrote:What about a black ginger?
There is one other thing that could make a white guy wish he was a black guy. 12 inch donger for the ladies to love.majorspark;1079236 wrote:It only takes one wrong turn to make a white guy wish he was black.
rmolin73
Posts: 4,278
Feb 7, 2012 11:46pm
That's funny as hell reps for both.dwccrew;1079304 wrote:The devil incarnate.
There is one other thing that could make a white guy wish he was a black guy. 12 inch donger for the ladies to love.
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I Wear Pants
Posts: 16,223
Feb 8, 2012 12:56am
That's because you're a dirty haole.Midstate01;1078896 wrote:When we lived in Biloxi, the Colonel in my wife's building told us about a few places in northern Mississippi that still are very racist and still have signs that say no blacks. I think it's messed up.
Personally though, I've had some racist comments made towards me here by the Hawaiians. But I always just smile and keep walking. Hawaiians HATE the military and tourists. And I get it. Yet every base is full of thence working on them and they also flock here to use the base for personal use(those who work on base have civilian dod passes). Pisses me off.
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sportchampps
Posts: 7,361
Feb 8, 2012 3:00am
When I worked in west Virginia at a summer camp I saw racism first hand. One night we went into our usual bar in marlington, wv. Happened to get there first with another counselor. He was an Ohio state rugby player from Zimbabwe. As we sit down I look up and were surrounded by skinheads. Luckily right then another group of counselors arrived. The second group of counselors were big English looking hooligan types and they came and stood right in-between everyone and the skinheads left.