Anyone ever experienced racism

• justincredible

  

  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.
• majorspark

  

  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.

  Back in my day your types were called "wiggers" or "wannabes"
• DeadliestWarrior34

  

  
  
  
  
  
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• j_crazy

  

  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

  

  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.

  lol, he called him boy? What a dick.
• mella

  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.
• rydawg5

  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.

  Wasn't it rascist of you to think the Trooper was racist?
• mella

  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

  

  Black people are the worst.
• mella

  sleeper;1079077 wrote:Black people are the worst.

  I think I just experienced racism.
• bases_loaded

  

  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

  

  Saying that black people are on welfare and are gangsters because of the way they dress is fun and accurate!
  
  Yay internetz!
• Cat Food Flambe'

  

  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.
• bigdaddy2003

  

  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.
• mella

  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

  

  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.

  You can blame affirmative action as well as hiring quotas for this. No one respects minorities.
• dwccrew

  

  rmolin73;1078950 wrote:Amen brother and in some cases there isn't one white soul to be found in them.

  Black people have no soul.
• rmolin73

  

  dwccrew;1079201 wrote:Black people have no soul.

  What about a black ginger?
• majorspark

  

  rmolin73;1078950 wrote:Amen brother and in some cases there isn't one white soul to be found in them.

  It only takes one wrong turn to make a white guy wish he was black.
• hasbeen

  

  rmolin73;1079218 wrote:What about a black ginger?

  
  Double negative = soul
• dwccrew

  

  rmolin73;1079218 wrote:What about a black ginger?

  The devil incarnate.
  

  majorspark;1079236 wrote:It only takes one wrong turn to make a white guy wish he was black.

  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.
• rmolin73

  

  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.

  That's funny as hell reps for both.
• I Wear Pants

  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.

  That's because you're a dirty haole.
• sportchampps

  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.