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Toddlers: 12 - 24 Months
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s/o heather's post: have you ever experience blatant racism?
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I have. Twice. Once, at a cracker barrell in TX with our awesome friends from church who happen to be black. We were practically ignored and waited forEVER to get seated...other people who got there after us sat before us. I didn't know why- until this one white man gave me the most evil look- I was holding her 9 month old son. I wanted to cry and punch him at the same time.
Another time I was working in administration at a childcare facility (in TX), and a woman who was behind on her payments gave me attitude because I had to ask her for the money. She yelled at me, accused me of being racist because she was african american, told me she didn't trust me with her daughter (i loved her daughter), then on her way out the door, turned around and called me white trash. All this- at 7am on a monday. My week was shot! LOL
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Re: s/o heather's post: have you ever experience blatant racism?
Texas is racist!!
We went out Sat night for my bachlorette party and the 1st bar we walked into this black guy asked to buy us drinks. Cool! Well as we were walking into the bar, there was a group of black ladies. All of a sudden I start hearing them go on and on about him buying us white girls drinks. I was like whatever. If you ask me I just think they were jealous cause he was buying me drinks and not them. lol
well no. i was always the racist one. duh. //rolls eyes
I'm in HR. I hear and investigate lots of stories. There are lots of racist people out there.
Two situations I run across at work really bug me. When people are treated unfairly and don't speak up and get assistance and let me fix it. And people who have NOT been discriminated against but use it as a weapon - its cheapens the claim for those who really experience it.
I've also directly been told comments about being "jewed down" on a fee, been told offensive Jew jokes, etc, that were personally offensive to me, by people who didn't know I was Jewish.
DMoney will be a kickass big sister
Yes, against myself.
When I was in elementary school, I was terrified to ride the school bus because I was tormented for being the only white girl on my bus.
I have scars on my back on the lower-left side from being stabbed repeatedly with a broken pencil.
I was never so happy in my life to be able to walk to school when I entered the 5th grade.
aokiedokie
Thanks.
It wasn't exactly something I could go to my parents about either. Because they would go to the school/bus company, the other kids' parents would be notified, and it would have made my life even worse because of it. Oh my parents knew, to an extent, but they didn't know the half of it.
It makes me very sensitive to racism now. In every example/shape/form. It's not tolerated at all in my house.
aokiedokie
quite a few times but these are the incidents that always come to mind first.
i used to work for a henna tattoo shop in the mid-90's. we would travel to festivals. i was forbidden from attending a huge African American festival (where i would have made a ton of money). all of my coworkers were either black or hispanic, they all got to go and came back with fistfulls of cash.
in college i had (what i thought was) a pretty serious boyfriend who is AA/hispanic. he would never take me home to meet his parents - even though we had lived together for nearly a year. i pressed the issue and boy did i regret it. upon setting eyes on me, his sister called me an 'f'ing white biitch' and grumbled something about 'ruining our men'. my bf didnt even try to defend me. yeah we totally broke up soon after.
My husband and I had to go to rural Missouri once. We were sitting in a movie theater waiting for the movie to start and my husband said something about me being Jewish. The teenagers in front of us turned, stared at me for a second, and then started whispering to each other: "OMG she's Jewish! Uh-huh, I heard them say so!" As if I were some zoo exhibit.
That's the only time though.
I had to help a friend move dorm rooms because her AA roommate was so racist. When friend's mom would call the dorm room and roommie answered, she would so "who? Oh. You mean cracker. She ain't here." I went to help her move and roommie told me "cracker, you need to get out." Funny how the dorm staff did nothing about that. There were other names from this girl about my friend and I being white.
At work, I had to go to another department to pick something up. I was the only white person there. I waited at the counter and no one would help me. An AA lady walked in after me and someone promptly came up to the counter to help her. She sat back down after that lady left. I waited 20 minutes! Two AA people came and left before anyone would break down and give me what I came to pick up.
I moved into my freshman dorm in college and had even spoken with my future roomate a couple of times before moving in and she seemed nice and normal. Well, after we move in, I come to find out that she identifies with the skin head group and was racist as all get-out. Funny thing was that she was jewish (one of the many groups skin heads hate). Needless to say, I was moved out by mid October.