(to whites on here) have you personally been in racist situations?

[Anonymous]

I own a business and regularly deal with it from customers. Generally they throw out the "race card" when they don't like something we tell them (which is the exact same thing we tell everyone). They treat the white employees like what TV shows depict blacks were treated during Jim Crow, like refusing to speak to them, telling them they want a black employee to help them (and it isn't a hair salon where it might make sense). It is exhausting and I've had several employees quit because they are treated so rudely.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot be racist against a white person, so this whole thread is kind of moot.

of course you can. what a stupid comment.

[Anonymous]

youngblackdude wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm not sure I follow the question, but I'm white and have been in situations where people I am with that are minorities are treated by others in a way that I think is racist.

Example- you're out in public ,let's say a supermarket.& you may skip somebody in line whose of another race .& that person may call you a derogatory racial slur (not gonna say the racial slur for whites) .that type of situation is what I'm referring to

Why do you write so poorly?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot be racist against a white person, so this whole thread is kind of moot.

Bullshit-

Webster defines racism as:
: poor treatment of or violence against people because of their race

: the belief that some races of people are better than others

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I own a business and regularly deal with it from customers. Generally they throw out the "race card" when they don't like something we tell them (which is the exact same thing we tell everyone). They treat the white employees like what TV shows depict blacks were treated during Jim Crow, like refusing to speak to them, telling them they want a black employee to help them (and it isn't a hair salon where it might make sense). It is exhausting and I've had several employees quit because they are treated so rudely.

i had the reverse happen at neiman marcus. two black salespeople who completely ignored me (well dressed white woman) in one of the departments. I mention well dressed because I look like i shop at NM. they pretty much refused to help me. two black women came in while i was there, and they fell all over themselves trying to help them. it was interesting. i left without purchasing what i intended to. i shope at NM often, and didn't see the salesclerks again. not sure if the were temporary or what happened, but it isn't really the NM way in general.

[Anonymous]

youngblackdude wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in multiple situations.

I have been verbally harrassed and threated multiple times while walking by groups of teens who threatened to rape me, rob me, spit on me, and threw rocks at me, while referring to me as a white B, cracker, etc.

In high school (predominantly black), I was jumped by 3 girls and beaten up while them calling me racial names.

In Memphis, I bought a house in an all black neighborhood, and my neighbors flat out told me I didn't beling in their neighborhood and to get out. Their campaign against me included:

Stabbing threatening notes to by front door with knives.

Shooting my dog with a BB gun.

Vandalizing my car countless times.

Constantly breaking into my backyard and stealing my lawnmowers.

Some of those events could have been unrelated, but who knows. I eventually moved. I never found out which neighbors were the responsible parties.

Whoa.that's deep stuff

I stopped walking to the metro and drive to work now, because it was happening so often and my husband was afraid I would actually get hurt one day. It was near the Rhode Island Ave. station.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have been in multiple situations.

I have been verbally harrassed and threated multiple times while walking by groups of teens who threatened to rape me, rob me, spit on me, and threw rocks at me, while referring to me as a white B, cracker, etc.

In high school (predominantly black), I was jumped by 3 girls and beaten up while them calling me racial names.

In Memphis, I bought a house in an all black neighborhood, and my neighbors flat out told me I didn't beling in their neighborhood and to get out. Their campaign against me included:

Stabbing threatening notes to by front door with knives.

Shooting my dog with a BB gun.

Vandalizing my car countless times.

Constantly breaking into my backyard and stealing my lawnmowers.

Some of those events could have been unrelated, but who knows. I eventually moved. I never found out which neighbors were the responsible parties.

Hey, I'm from Memphis. Where and when did this happen?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You cannot be racist against a white person, so this whole thread is kind of moot.

Of course you can, idiot. I lived in an Asian country where they routinely discriminated against me, up to and including some boderline physical behaviour.

So ignorant. (You, I mean).

[youngblackdude]

Anonymous wrote:

youngblackdude wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, as a white man in my 40s, I've had people assume I'm looking for drugs or a hooker when driving through primarily AA neighborhoods.

Exactly.lol

However- do you think that most white men are looking for those things? I mean, there's a reason for some stereotypes, right?

A lot of white guys I've seen in black neighborhoods was 1- addicts or 2- was in the area doing work(mainly construction) But nowadays with gentrification going on its a new ballgame

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Also, as a white man in my 40s, I've had people assume I'm looking for drugs or a hooker when driving through primarily AA neighborhoods.

Were you looking for drugs or a hooker?

[Anonymous]

In a traffic altercation some girl called me a white bitch once. I have to say I was more amused than anything else.

[Anonymous]

Yes. About 17 years ago, when Barry was still mayor, I was stopped by a DC cop allegedly for making an illegal right turn on red. I say "allegedly" because I was very familiar with the intersection, which allowed right on red turns from the major street (from which I was turning) but not the intersecting minor side street. But yet there was the sign, turned and a bit askew, as if it had been turned by someone or perhaps something to face the major street. When I pointed it out to the MPD officer he said "Shut up, or I'll do what I'd like to do." When I asked what that was, he (who was black) said "take your white ass to jail." I was shocked. I thought later about filing a complaint against the officer and taking the ticket to court, but MPD in those days was notoriously fickle (lots of recruits in the Barry era got hired even after multiple fails of the police exam), as was the DC government. I even considered moving out of the city, but decided to stay once Mayor Williams came in and things really started to improve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Also, as a white man in my 40s, I've had people assume I'm looking for drugs or a hooker when driving through primarily AA neighborhoods.

Were you looking for drugs or a hooker?

lol. No, visiting a friend and slightly lost. But I was propositioned for both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes. About 17 years ago, when Barry was still mayor, I was stopped by a DC cop allegedly for making an illegal right turn on red. I say "allegedly" because I was very familiar with the intersection, which allowed right on red turns from the major street (from which I was turning) but not the intersecting minor side street. But yet there was the sign, turned and a bit askew, as if it had been turned by someone or perhaps something to face the major street. When I pointed it out to the MPD officer he said "Shut up, or I'll do what I'd like to do." When I asked what that was, he (who was black) said "take your white ass to jail." I was shocked. I thought later about filing a complaint against the officer and taking the ticket to court, but MPD in those days was notoriously fickle (lots of recruits in the Barry era got hired even after multiple fails of the police exam), as was the DC government. I even considered moving out of the city, but decided to stay once Mayor Williams came in and things really started to improve.

I had a similar experience in NWDC in '95. DC cop yelling at me about how he was sick of rich white girls, blah blah. Basically I turned into my apartment complex's parking lot, through his "police barricade". It was a brown sawhorse, no polic markings. I drove around it because I had NO IDEA it was supposed to be a barricade of any sort. It looked like a painter or worker had left it sticking slightly out into the entrance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have been in multiple situations.

I have been verbally harrassed and threated multiple times while walking by groups of teens who threatened to rape me, rob me, spit on me, and threw rocks at me, while referring to me as a white B, cracker, etc.

In high school (predominantly black), I was jumped by 3 girls and beaten up while them calling me racial names.

In Memphis, I bought a house in an all black neighborhood, and my neighbors flat out told me I didn't beling in their neighborhood and to get out. Their campaign against me included:

Stabbing threatening notes to by front door with knives.

Shooting my dog with a BB gun.

Vandalizing my car countless times.

Constantly breaking into my backyard and stealing my lawnmowers.

Some of those events could have been unrelated, but who knows. I eventually moved. I never found out which neighbors were the responsible parties.

Hey, I'm from Memphis. Where and when did this happen?

I lived on the 1300 block of Faxon Ave from around 1996 to 1998. Sorry, but I hated Memphis