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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, reverse racism at work. I realize that "racism" I experience as a white woman is not the same think as real racism. But being judged & attacked in part because of your race ... Well, nobody likes that, no matter your color.

How is it not the same? It may not be the same on an institutional level, but the effect remains the same at the personal level.

Well I have never been Black so I can't really know for sure. But the difference is that I know as a white person I can fairly easily go find another job where I don't face this if I get sick of their crap, whereas might not have the same confidence if I were black. At the same time, it is NOT a fun feeling to feel like your job is threatened due to race, no matter your race ...

[Anonymous]

I had a women at the Giant in Columbia Heights start yelling at me and the deli worker, yelling that the worker was going to help the white bitch and not her. I had just walked up and barely got to the counter when the woman started yelling at me for no reason.

I worked at a minority clinic and was one of the few white people there. People would routinely refer to me as the white girl and say that they did not want to see me because I was white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I've been called a "honky".

By whom, George Jefferson?

[Anonymous]

I was riding a bus in Chicago and a group of young black teens threw ice at me from their soft drink cups and told me to get off the bus white girl.

I was walking home to my apartment in Brooklyn and eggs were thrown at me and I was called a white bitch.

These incidents were 20 and 15 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am half white (and look white). I was once surrounded by a group of white college kids who were saying horrible things about another race of which I am half (the other half). It was horrible. I ended up telling them off and transferring colleges.

Oh wait did you mean experiencing racism as a white person? I am 99% sure this doesn't occur. I think white people read "social slights" as racism.

"Social slights" like being told to get my white ass out of "their"neighborhood? Like being beaten up by a group of blacks shouting "FUCK YOU, WHITEY"? Like finding a giant loogie in my sandwich at an AA-owned deli?

Those kind of "social slights?"

[Anonymous]

youngblackdude wrote:

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.

Lol@"take your white ass to jail"..you're the first white person I've seen say something about police brutality I must admit

I know a man in flyover country who sued a city when he was called a "black boy" by city police offers during an encounter. He used the settlement from the lawsuit to pay for law school.

[Anonymous]

I've been called "ugly white girl" many times.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I had a perfect SAT score and did not get into Harvard.

[Anonymous]

Yes. I have been called white bitch and cracker quite a few times which is f'ed up because it's usually when I've done absolutely nothing except walk down the street minding my own business, so I assume this person is just a raging racist who is looking for a fight or trying to intimidate whites for sport. I know this isn't as awful as what most blacks in America must face on a continual basis.

I have much more often faced sexism and misogyny. It's pervasive in almost every part of my life.

[Anonymous]

Yep. Over spring break in West Palm Beach back in high school (about 20 yrs. ago), a group of us (white kids) were eating in a McDonald's and a group of black kids came over and started eating our food, punching us, hitting us in the head, swatting our hair. The manager did absolutely nothing. I had never experienced anything like it.

[Anonymous]

I got lost later at night trying to get back to a dorm in Baltimore I was staying at for a summer and was driving slowly (in the days before GPS) trying to figure out where I was and how to get back and I ended up in a not-so-great area of town. The police pulled me over and accused me of looking for a drug house because I was driving around slowly and there was no good reason a young white girl would be in that area otherwise. They eventually let me go and told me where I needed to be going, but they followed me all the way there.

[Anonymous]

At my first job as an adult my manager was AA. She pulled me into her office my first day and told me I didn't have the right color skin to work there and I'd never advance in her group. I was too stunned to even know what to say.

[Anonymous]

I literally could not tell you the number of times I've had racial slurs yelled at me in the streets of DC, all by black men and women. I've never had anyone Hispanic or Asian say anything negative to me. Oh, and I've lived downtown for many years - long before living downtown was ok.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I got lost later at night trying to get back to a dorm in Baltimore I was staying at for a summer and was driving slowly (in the days before GPS) trying to figure out where I was and how to get back and I ended up in a not-so-great area of town. The police pulled me over and accused me of looking for a drug house because I was driving around slowly and there was no good reason a young white girl would be in that area otherwise. They eventually let me go and told me where I needed to be going, but they followed me all the way there.

Not sure I think this is racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At my first job as an adult my manager was AA. She pulled me into her office my first day and told me I didn't have the right color skin to work there and I'd never advance in her group. I was too stunned to even know what to say.

Holy shit! What happened?