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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?

U was wondering the same damn thing.

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OP, since you asked (!)

I have been in racist situations.

Where there has been assumed "white guilt" if I am nice to a person of color. Hostile much?

Where someone has pretended not to speak English, when they are clearly in the wrong. Don't underestimate me, you will be sorry, because the wrong will be "righted", right quick.

Anonymous wrote:OP, I've been called "white bitch" exactly twice - once by a crazy woman on the sidewalk and once by a young guy on a bus passing by. Oh, and I was waiting for a bus and talking to a man who told me he didn't like "light-skinned" women. None of these people had any power to make my life difficult. Yes, I thought the guy on the bus was an asshole but I could tell the woman on the sidewalk and the man at the bus stop were both a bit "off." Either way, I didn't feel threatened as a white person.

Now there was one time when I wasn't sure whether my dd would be accepted to a DC magnet school because she was white. At the interview, the head of the department was a little distant and left the room for a bit. After dd got in, I got to know the department head and it turns out she's just a really disorganized and reserved person so I realized that her behavior probably had nothing to do with my kid being white. And I understood much better the daily experience of African-Americans who codon't such situations not knowing whether their race is an issue or whether something else unrelated is happening. It must be exhausting to deal with that.

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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?"

Well you could be pursued, accosted & shot dead simply because the color of your skin reduces you to a violent caricature and not a human being minding their own business. You could be followed in most stores because you can only be up to no good because of your skin color. You could be constantly stopped by police because an incident that happened was perpetrated by someone of your same skin color & you are automatically a suspect. You could be shot dead by those cops & the cops receive promotions for getting rid of "the issue." You can be denied employment or promotional opportunities because of the color of you skin. To compare, white people really don't have it all that bad! Congrats your privilege and entitlement serves you well!

NP here and you sound like an idiot. Just because you feel white people don't receive racist remarks does not mean it doesn't happen. I'm not white myself and want to slap half the posters on here who are seemingly white for some of their comments but to say that one race has it worst so the race that receives less negativity shouldn't complain is ridiculous.

You damn right I laugh at these stories because of this pp here:"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." You can sit here & feel for whites whose stories will never impact their lives like other races like the idiot that you sound like.

And you just explained my "social slight," thank you. Having people be mean to you or call you names is not the same as the systemic racism we have in America. Sorry that people said some things that were not nice but take comfort that the system, overall, isn't rigged for your failure! Reverse racism is a fantasy, like unicorns, fairies, and Hobbits.

It's not fantasy. It does really happen. It has happened to me, blatantly. But I wouldn't for a second say it's anywhere near as big a deal as plain-old usual racism. You're making a mistake turning this thread into a contest. Only an idiot would argue the other side of that contest -- no, of course as a white person I don't believe i've experienced more racism or worse racism than other groups who have traditionally dealt with racism. But that doesn't mean that racism against white people doesn't happn. It does. The OP ("youngBlackDude", so I'm guessing a black guy unless he's into really misleading names) asked whether it has happened to people. Some of the examples really seem like racism. Some don't. Saying it NEVER happens and is just fantasy just makes you not sound very smart.

Anonymous wrote:I'm white, and my husband is black. His family doesn't accept me as "one of us." In their eyes, I will always be an outsider. I do like them, and my husband is truly part of my extended family.

Also, I was once the only white nurse's aide in a nursing home. The other women were all Haitian immigrants or African-American. They simply wouldn't talk with me or work with me. In this work, it goes much better if you can team up and help each other out with lifting people, making beds, etc. But they just wouldn't help me or allow me to help them. The Haitian women would always sit in the break room talking in Creole and completely leave me out. There were a few who were decent to me. But if they were not working that day, it was very lonely. It was many years ago, and I'm over the anger of it by now. But it did have a huge effect on me. I never want to treat anyone like they treated me, for any reason.

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.

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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?