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

[youngblackdude]

Speaking about outside.has it been situations where you personally have been in racist situations .so much focus on us I'm wondering what people from other races situations was like .

[Anonymous]

A racist situation? What is that?

Do you mean in a situation where someone discriminated against me based on my race? Yes, many times.

[Anonymous]

I am a white woman, and no, I can't think of any.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A racist situation? What is that?

Do you mean in a situation where someone discriminated against me based on my race? Yes, many times.

Same here, but sexism happens more often for me.

[youngblackdude]

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

[Anonymous]

White woman here. I have not personally been the victim of racism, but my husband is hispanic and I have been with him when he has many times.

[Anonymous]

Yes, many times. White woman living in NE DC who is not afraid to go anywhere I want. Some of the AAs in this city try the very fiber of my liberal democratic self.

[youngblackdude]

I've seen on news that whites in dc & Baltimore areas were being targeted for hate crimes around the time of trayvon martin case/Zimmerman verdict .

[Anonymous]

Many times. I was one of 2 white people in a school of 500 inner city blacks. My freshman year was horrible, but by my junior year I didn't have any problems at all.

[Anonymous]

A few times.. mostly, older women of my husband's ethnicity scolding him for marrying a white woman bc they think I can't understand what they're saying. But let's be honest, I don't have to care what they think bc my people run shit. Racism against minorities by white people has bad real-world consequences... vice versa, usually not so much.

[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

I'm sorry, I still don't understand. This example doesn't make sense to me. Am I a checker at the supermarket, and I skip a person in line and go to the next person in line?

[Anonymous]

When I lived in West Africa I tried to visit a friend who lived on a military base I was refused entry to the base because "no whites are allowed after dark." The reasoning was that South African mercenaries could be hired to overtake the base on behalf of rebels. Mind you the country was at peace at the time. I was like, you've got to be kidding, I'm a 20 year old American college girl, do you really think I'm here to start a coup d'état? But they made me get out of the car and wait at the front gate while the rest of my party (an African guy and an African American guy) were allowed inside. I was furious and embarrassed to be treated like a criminal for such a ridiculous reason. It helped me to understand the frustrations of AAs who have to deal with that crap all the time here.

[Anonymous]

When I was a new mom (read: young and only had one kid/still very green) I signed up for a "Mom and Tots" class. My very tall and big 2 year old snatched a toy out of a girls hand and swatted at her. I was mortified and had him apologize and took him out of the class for a time out. When we re-entered everyone was like "no big deal we've all been there" and it was ok. That night I got a call from the little girls father (keep in mind her mother was in the class and said nothing to me) telling me he didn't work hard his whole life just for his daughter to accept beatings from white men. He told me that he is sickened that I encourage my son to beat black women. I was literally dumbfounded. It made me feel terrible and horrible for YEARS.

[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

Yeah, occasionally black women give me grief for having a mixed-race child. Other than that, no, not really. I don't count white people jokes, because sometimes they're really funny.