Worst Racism You've Encountered

[somonels]

I'm white, nothing would be considered racist against me.

 

[yndsu]

A few days ago I somehow stumbled across some forums for a baptist church. yeah, that was pretty horrible, in the racism department but also in, like, every other department ever! That was really a saddening experience.

It has to be the Westboro Baptist Church.
Yeah, those guys are racist, xenophobic and all the bad qualities
you can think of one person having.
And sadly they are one of the most vocal churches.
Going around and giving all the christians a very bad name.

 

[Chairman Miaow]

I've been accused of shagging sheep because I'm from Scotland. I'm always tempted to live up to the Scottish stereotype and give them a Glasgow kiss. Sure that would shut them up.

I grew up in a countryside village so I encounter racism on a fairly regular basis. Worst thing I can remember was in A&E at about 1 in the morning waiting to be seen, and some middle aged man started blaming the long wait on Polish people. and then complained they were stealing all the jobs. and then started blaming inflation on them. I was amazed.

 

[Ushiromiya Battler]

I must admit that I might come off as an racist at times, might be cause I've been threatened and followed by 10black guys once.
Though I shouldn't stereotype them 'cause of this rare case.
Anyways, I'm from Norway and have a few friends in Smith's Friends(christian group(we are often having a laugh about there will always be a Smith in your class))I'm horrified with their daily use of neger(******), Jøde(jew) and polakk(polish person).
Almost every third word consists of one these words.
It's just horrifying...
Countless times I've seen them beat up black people...
*shivers*

 

[Kevon Huggins]

in the school i go to in Trinidad is uber populated with Indians and in my class the picked on me for quite a while actually it only stopped a month ago when i reported it.

 

[Johnny Impact]

BARRENS.

CHAT.

 

[Icaruss]

Old people are adorable.
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Okay, I never said that, I was quoting a larger statment made by ninjastovall0. Honestly , when it comes to elder racism my opinion is the exact opposite.

How can i explain this? i laugh so that i do not cry, the idea of an elder ,people i was taught to respect and obey my entire life,someone whos lived so long, seen so much and in all honesty should know better, being a dipshit actually depress the hell out me. it one of the saddest things in the world in my eyes to see that a person can learn nothing after so long and remain an ignorent dipshit...it makes me loose a bit of my faith in humanity.So i make a joke of it.Its my way of handling it.

 

[Icaruss]

How do I describe the last 20 years of my life? I can make a shortlist and you can be the judge of what was worse.

I've lost 5 jobs because of my black person status (they usually just n-word me.... a lot, and calling me buckwheat is also popular around here)
I was assaulted in high school (again, lots of n-words... bottles and rocks were thrown, and not shit was done about it by faculty member or local law enforcement)
I've been ejected from church... (not as much n-wording)
I've been ejected from places of business (very little n-wording, but my "kind" was not permitted)
I've been refused service at a restaurant (also a bar, but at least the owner was willing to call me n-words to my face, the restaurant manager was another of those "we don't serve your kind" people)
I won't even go into what my family life has been like, but let's just say one of my parents was not above making remarks about me either
I get harassed often when in public, which is why I'm a shut-in now, have been for most of these last two decades.
I've been n-worded by local police, so if something happens to me I don't exactly feel safe looking to them for help.
Little children have n-worded me.... that one stung a lot more than usual, though you never quite get used to it, even after all these years
I can disguise being half-black, and I generally do that as much as I can, but on occasion questions arise and I answer honestly, even knowing the consequences will usually be pretty goddamn negative. My favorite was a white girl I dated briefly that stated that the only kind of men she wanted to be with were whites only. I knew my future was not with her, but then this is not uncommon where I live, so I just sort of went with it for that final date (yes, it was the final date that she'd said that).
Friends have questioned whether or not I really consider myself a black person, treating it like an unfortunate condition. They aren't friends anymore, not all because of this, but it happens a lot here.
I was refuse employment because I revealed I was black to potential employers, who would upon finding out show me the door saying they were no longer interested in hiring, or "we just don't need your kind of trouble".
Friends have refused to be in public places with me because I am black, so I was sort of a secret for them.

I really could go on and on, but I think this should be enough to choose from. You tell me, which is worse? Which one of these has left me with clinically diagnosed debilitating disorders.

For me this growing collage of personal experiences has sort of melted into two very simple schools of thought; I am ethnically inferior to anyone that is not black and white, and that the state I live in will always be hell.

And before anyone suggests I leave explain how I do that when I can't hold down a job long enough to make money and move....

Apologies for typos, but this thread upsets me, and writing this the first time was hard enough.

Jesus, that's awful... Where do you live, because you may want to try somewhere else, that place sounds terrible...

I just can't get over how shitty that is. Don't listen to those douches and get the fuck out, because it sounds like a hell hole there.

Fucking hell! where are you from 18th century Alabama? Honestly though where are you from?

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

Worst racism I've encountered was at the DMV...

I had one day left till my drivers permit expired, and went to the DMV to take the drivers test... The guy told me that normally they do let everyone take the test at the last minute, but the current person on duty there wouldn't allow me because I "wasn't black nor female"...

Also, not really racist, but I'm constantly mistaken for belonging to a large number of different ethic groups... Surprised it didn't happen the one time I wouldn't have minded...

 

[kurupt87]

My dad managed to get a text (two in fact, but one was funny) from someone with a far right British political point of view. It actually made my eyes goggle. I'll get him to forward it to me and I'll post it verbatim tomorrow.

 

[Jabberwock King]

I was working in a department store once and an old man came up to me while I was tidying up the shelves. He asked me if I knew how to play a Jewish piano. Because I didn't understand what he was talking about, he told me he was asking if I could operate a cash register. When I told my supervisor about this incident, she gasped and chuckled slightly.

 

[Icehearted]

Jesus, that's awful... Where do you live, because you may want to try somewhere else, that place sounds terrible...

I just can't get over how shitty that is. Don't listen to those douches and get the fuck out, because it sounds like a hell hole there.

I answered that earlier, I live in Idaho. I'd move, but it's all but impossible given I have not, in the last 20 years sine moving here, been capable of finding employment without discrimination. To my amazement, there are a fair number of black people that are doing just fine. I guess I just know how to land in all the wrong places. No money, can't move.

 

[Ericb]

I love the poor little white man act that some people on this forum have started playing.

Yeah. It's a pretty weak, though annoying, shield.

"I don't trust those White people."

He came over in the 60s, so I get it, and I love him to death, but it never made sense to me.

Maybe it's better that it never makes sense to you. Certain aspects of the sixties are downright scary, depending on whose history you read about.

Well, I read past the first sentence with no problem(...)

After a while, one gets very tired of plowing through bigoted posts on the net to get to good content.

No doubt, certainly on the Escapist. However, a good joke at the expense of the bigoted posts is always welcome, at least to me.

Sadly I didn't get to the joke part, because I took seriously the first sentence. Mistake already corrected.

But trust me, I felt better reading the posts here in The Escapist after coming from YouTube. Things here are pretty mild.

It is all b.s. and if you want to take the issue up with someone,go back in time and shoot the Portuguese man (I forget his name) that started the Africa slave trade.That's where all the modern tension's roots lie.

Much like going back in time and killing Hitler, it wouldn't accomplish as much as we would like to believe. Slave trade goes as far back 2050 BCE. =/

I've been accused of shagging sheep because I'm from Scotland. I'm always tempted to live up to the Scottish stereotype and give them a Glasgow kiss. Sure that would shut them up.

I'm not even scottish and already have done a Glasgow Kiss. Yay for multiculturalism.

The white entertainment networks are just called "networks." One of the advantages of being in the ethnic majority is that the bulk of entertainment is produced with you in mind. That's why complaints about how there oughta be "white this" and "white that" look so ridiculously insecure.

Hmm, that's a very good point. I guess I never thought of it like that before. Although it's actually very rare (from what I've seen, at least) that race plays a large part in figuring TV demographics (outside of the obvious BET type of scenario). It's usually more along the lines of "Kids 8-16" (for many of the current Disney shows), "Females 16-35" (that was Sex and the City) and etc. At least that's how I've heard all the projects I've worked on described.

Just check the yet prevalent existence of the token minorities [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenMinority] in the very shows that you quoted as examples, and then go and check just about a random variety of others.

Though I do believe that, in most cases, it's simply force of (a bad) habit and outright racism. A bad habit that needs to be dropped though.

All it takes is that more people think of it this way. Both the makers of the show and especially the audience. =]

The white entertainment networks are just called "networks." One of the advantages of being in the ethnic majority is that the bulk of entertainment is produced with you in mind. That's why complaints about how there oughta be "white this" and "white that" look so ridiculously insecure.

Hmm, that's a very good point. I guess I never thought of it like that before. Although it's actually very rare (from what I've seen, at least) that race plays a large part in figuring TV demographics (outside of the obvious BET type of scenario). It's usually more along the lines of "Kids 8-16" (for many of the current Disney shows), "Females 16-35" (that was Sex and the City) and etc. At least that's how I've heard all the projects I've worked on described.

Just check the yet prevalent existence of the token minorities [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TokenMinority] in the very shows that you quoted as examples, and then go and check just about a random variety of others.

Though I do believe that, in most cases, it's simply force of (a bad) habit and outright racism. A bad habit that needs to be dropped though.

All it takes is that more people think of it this way. Both the makers of the show and especially the audience. =]

I answered that earlier, I live in Idaho. I'd move, but it's all but impossible given I have not, in the last 20 years sine moving here, been capable of finding employment without discrimination. To my amazement, there are a fair number of black people that are doing just fine. I guess I just know how to land in all the wrong places. No money, can't move.

That being the case, I must say again that you shouldn't give up.

 

[WorldCritic]

I haven't experienced much racism before except when a couple classmates made slightly racist jokes to me. The only time I can think of that someone actually said something racist to me in a non-joking way was when someone heard my full name and said something along the lines of "I see that your last name is Irish, tell me young man, when was the last time you had a drink?"

Yeah it's not big, but I was kind of annoyed that they automatically assumed that.

Worst racism I've seen in person was when I was in 4th grade. 9/11 had happened not long before and a middle eastern boy was rejected from the school because the principal thought that he would make the other students uncomfortable.

 

[Icehearted]

@Ericb
I appreciate the thought. I'm not dead, and I'm terrible at going down quietly, but there are some things that are simply beyond my control, and racism is one of those things. It hasn't killed me... yet... so don't go assuming I've surrendered to bigots. I'm still fighting, just not winning so far.

 

[Amethyst Wind]

I have, in a personal beef in high school, used the word "******" to insult the other guy (I'm white, he's black). I'm not proud of that, that wasn't cool since I only had problems with that one guy because he personally was a dick. It's been years since then but I've seen a fair amount of racism, mostly stuff I've called people out on, usually towards arabic peoples post-9/11.

The worst two instances of racism I've seen are:

1) When I was 12, we were in the airport going to America and there was a guy cursing out an asian holy man in the middle of the concourse. The words "fucking paki!" were repeated several times.

2) I was 18, in 6th form college, and talking to a guy who I considered a friend and overall good guy, we didn't have any black guys in our group (I didn't think anything of this until this day) and we get onto the subject of black people and the guy straight out tells me that if I were black he wouldn't talk to me. I honestly didn't know what to say and stopped hanging out with the guy soon afterwards.

 

[Littlee300]

My mom works with black racists.
She is freinds with a white dance instuctor who has to fuss sometimes like all teachers do but she loves her students.Despite this some BLACK teachers have the idea that she bullies the students because most of em are black.
Do ya think they get called out?
Hell to the no.
This is unfair shit.
Due to years of negro suffering the world has the idea blacks can't be racist because they wouldn't dare retalliate BUT THEY DO.
Whites are treated to be a master evil race because of the PAST.
SLAVERY IS OVER.
SEGREGATION IS OVER.
GET OVER THE PAST OR THE PRESENTS WILL BE BE CRAP!
Im black and I think Im annoyed by my one race.
Because its made up of ungrateful for what their ancestors did douches who supposedly can do no wrong and cannot be portrayed as slang speaking rappers even though from a close point of veiw THATS EXACTLY HOW THEY ACT.
The most ultimate racism is demonizing of whites and treating blacks as heroes when correct many are sophisticated young minds but that would only be 10% to 20% of them.
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*sigh*I god that was alot of typing

Are you related to MLK?