Experiences with racism

Gabe

Gabe

So yeah, I was watching the movie Crash and ever since I've been thinking about racial tensions and if we do, in fact, perpetuate our own racism.


Personally speaking, I've had about 3 different experiences with racism. The first time, when I was 16, some Nazi Skins gave me a boot party outside the venue of an Adicts concert. They fucked me up pretty bad, and only because I was wearing white laces on my docs. They told me since I have shit blood I couldn't wear them. But w/e, I didn't change that after it all.

The second time, me and my family were on a cruise, and we were in that stupid camp thing where they gather all the teens, and some of the other kids were really rude to us. They never called us by our names, only referred to us as "The Mexicans", and some bitch told me I was never going to make it to college, and end up cutting her grass.

And lastly, I was jumped by a group of skins again after a gig. This time just because I was walking home and hispanic.


Now my point is that when they were beating me they were saying shit like all my races does is commit crimes, we're all on welfare, this is not our country, and w/e... And it got to me. I really hate when I see a Hispanic on the news commit a crime, I feel embarrassed. Because then what those skins said is true.


Then again, every race has "ghetto" people in it. I'm starting to feel it's not a race thing, but a people thing. Some of us are just crummy assholes.

I don't think it helps black people calling each other "(BAN ME PLEASE)" though. You don't see white people calling each other honkey or cracker, or Mexicans calling each other spic, Asians calling each other "Chink" or whatever. I really think racism is fucking stupid and I really don't get what anyone gets out of it, I just wish it would stop.
 
Well, personally I've experienced racism a bit, mainly from the people on my old soccer team. It always intrigued me that despite the fact that my mom is white and my dad is black, they would always use insulting language that was only applicable to the black half of me while ignoring the white half completely. Most of the time they would call me a (BAN ME PLEASE) or whatever and I would just ignore them. (One day I gave in to their taunts and called one of them a cracker back but i felt horrible and stupid afterward and never did it again) Luckily, I've never been jumped or anything so thats good I guess.
 
Don't have much to say on this topic, since I'm white, and almost everyone who lives where I live is white. Get called a Nazi sometimes though since I'm a...quarter German? Something like that.

But, really, judging an entire race based on one or two people? People need to get a decent hobby.

Also, out of curiosity, do girls ever get jumped for their race? O_o Everyone I know that has been jumped has been a male, so I don't know.
 
My little sister getting into none of the schools of her choice despite having a 3.8 GPA from a top high school, 2100+ on the SAT, at being a fantastic ballet dancer.

Oh right, she's asian. woops
 
You have it rough man. Where i go to class, everyone doesnt talk shit about other people's races.
Ive been dissed once it my life; the worst is just words. To actually go out of their way and beat someone else up because of skin color astounds Me.
It makes me sad and ashamed there are people still like this in our world. :(
 
luckily australia's education system wised up and realised the majority of white australians are pretty average academically and now encourage international students to study in australia

that being said i'm australian born and asian and the only time my race affected me at school was in kindergarten when the principal wanted to put me in a special class for kids who didn't have english as a first language. i had to show them i was capable of performing just as well as the other white kids and it took a really long time. they were pretty determined to put me in that class for whatever reason
 
Last night while playing some modern warfare 2 multiplayer i got into a lobby and I heard some white guys fighting with this black guy over my headset. The two white guys were calling him "(BAN ME PLEASE)" and saying "white power" and the black guy was trying to defend himself.I ignored it and played another game. After that game in the lobby the black guy left and one of the two white guys said "The (BAN ME PLEASE) didnt get to see that ass whopping" and i got on my mic and i basically said cut that racism shit out.They proceeded to call me a "(BAN ME PLEASE)" and i called them nerds and other things.
 
Who gives a flyin fudge if its discrimination.Its a racial slur and it is offensive to alot of people.I know in the white community it may be cool and edgy to say n*****. But dont try to influence the people that the word offends because its "free speech". Get the puck outta here. Black people say n****. Who gives a flyin duck. Black people arnt being racist with "n****".
 
Chou Toshio said:
My little sister getting into none of the schools of her choice despite having a 3.8 GPA from a top high school, 2100+ on the SAT, at being a fantastic ballet dancer.

Oh right, she's asian. woops
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Isn't the asian stereotype, smart at evertyhing and always succeeds? Maybe its because she's a girl which would be sexism which would be the WRONG THREAD. or maybe she just has too high of standards. i knew a girl with a 3.9999999999 and a 1570 (OUT OF 1600 VADER IS A NAZI) SAT and 31 ACT who didnt get into Yale. (also asian)
 
Then again, every race has "ghetto" people in it.
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If skinheads want to put shit on your races doorstep, they better make sure theirs is clean first. White trash people are among the most notorious patrons of Wal-Mart.

I really hate when I see a Hispanic on the news commit a crime, I feel embarrassed. Because then what those skins said is true.
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One person committing a crime a stereotype does not make. Still, stereotypes do exist for a reason. The only one I can think of for latinos is that they are lazy. Honestly, Siesta is BRILLIANT in a hot weather climate. We should ALL do it, it's the cat's meow. Understand that shit spreads equally throughout the races, so racial superiority is retarded. Unless you are Kenyan, then you have a right to gloat about running because you legitimately win every fucking time.

Look, man, as someone suffering from mental health shit I can tell you I know what it's like to get stereotyped and harassed for it. Hell, it's something I even rip on. I handle it in various ways but the most successful, for me, is to acknowledge that things are what they are. The stereotype exists, latino people (same as any race) will commit crimes and people will make comments about it. There is little you can do to stop it, but you have little choice to acknowledge it. By doing that, it helps me understand the situation and deal with it. It also makes it so that I don't over inflate things and make them worse in my own mind, like you appear to do. :D

What kind of pisses me off is the reverse racism/profiling here in Canada. Our universities are mandated to recruit up to 60% female just to appear not sexist. They also reserve entire dorm buildings for foreign students, which is awesome- except that they get the cheap housing so us local people had to look elsewhere for far greater expense.
 
mingot said:
Here is the million dollar question.

Why is it always like that? White mom, black dad.

Asian mom, white dad. Why is THAT always the combination we see there?
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my mother is white and my father is black, too, lol

I don't get much offended by racist crap, and I think I can show, by my own, I'm better or different.

...that said, I'm not very proud of being hispanic, and wouldn't mind saying I have no nationality whatsoever.
 
black guys with hot white women is ubiquitous. Many women find black guys hot and the stereotype of huge dicks certainly doesn't hurt. Whatever man doesn't find white women to be hot is one that I haven't met, so that math makes sense.

As for white guys with asian women...well lets just be blunt and say that as a white man I find asians to be very sexy, but they have to be a good one, which there are plenty of I guess.
 
I've never had many experiences with racism, at least not any in the kind you have had. Sometimes I hear people whispering then laughing, but then i just walk up to them or give them a serious look and they stop. I'm an "above average" sized Mexican, which makes me an average sized person over-all. 225 6'. A lot of people wont fuck with me. I don't go to concerts or anything like that, so I haven't got jumped or anything.

The worst thing that happens to me, is that people assume I can't speak English. It happens to me all the time when i go to a store or something, which pisses me off. People would rather speak fucked up Spanish than talk to me in English. I'm not sure if they do it on purpose to be racist or not, but it really gets on my nerves. That's more prejudice than racism though.
 
Alan said:
Isn't the asian stereotype, smart at evertyhing and always succeeds? Maybe its because she's a girl which would be sexism which would be the WRONG THREAD. or maybe she just has too high of standards. i knew a girl with a 3.9999999999 and a 1570 (OUT OF 1600 VADER IS A NAZI) SAT and 31 ACT who didnt get into Yale. (also asian)
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No, the problem I'm point at is that because Asians are so successful, that it is in fact harder for us to get into a college now even having the same grades/scores/etc. as a person of minority x.

The only thing worse than racism is institutionalized racism (yes this is an anti-affirmative action rant, and no the irony of a person of minority bitching about affirmative action in a racism thread does not escape me).
 
Before I had ever seem a black person I was told that different skin color was like different hair color, so you wouldn't treat a black person any differently than a redhead.

It was logical.

I grew up in a small town with alot of racism and small mindedness. When I was in the third grade, I went once a week to a highly capable class. When I was gone, my teacher told all the other kids that I was in special ed, and told them about my autism. People on the internet have said "oh my god, how irresponsible of you to embrace mental disorder" bullshit, but when I was bullied by kids and teachers I could either say that I wasn't autistic, implying that autism is bad because I didn't want to be it, or fight for better treatment as an autistic person. That was my whole life until I got out of that town. It's not racism but, people will hate anything different regardless of skin color. People need to look down on others to make themselves feel better.
 
Chou Toshio said:
My little sister getting into none of the schools of her choice despite having a 3.8 GPA from a top high school, 2100+ on the SAT, at being a fantastic ballet dancer.

Oh right, she's asian. woops
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This surprises me; the number 1 school in my State (by a significant margin, like 30% difference between the number of exams sat and the number of 90+s) rarely has more than one non-asian student per year.
 
Well MrIndigo, in the US we believe it's ok to reverse-discriminate against hard working students based on others of their skin color being "too successful," and discount the academic excellence of individuals in favor of those who "had it hard" being born of other minority groups.

Yeah, after the whole Japanese internment camp thing I'm not about to feel sorry for other minorities or believe they deserve to get into school with inferior performance. Frankly, affirmative action in general is ridiculous.
 
Darkamber8828 said:
Aaaaah...positive discrimination.

Sure, you feel a bit pressured to do well, but it's still...nice.
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Which brings on some other not so positive positions on being a "model minority." Such as unrealistic expectations that "all Asians are good at math." Pressure doesn't cook too well when you consider the mental health statistics.
 
While I haven't experienced racism as I am White and racism is rare where I live, I have experienced discrimination because of my slight physical disablilities. People always assume I can't do things like play sports etc. I have made rep hockey and we won the State Championships. People always make fun of me and I have few friends.

People often assume that I have a reduced mental capacity because of the way I look. Fuck that, I missed two years of school because of cancer and I am still duxing subjects at school.

In general, I am disappointed with the human race that racism and discrimination still exists in our world.
 
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