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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?

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

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm usually the only white person in my classes at UDC and get discriminated by classmates and teachers before.
I'm also German and can't count the times I've been called a nazi here (I kinda count that as racism).

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Anonymous wrote:While not racism, I experienced a race-based decision that significantly impacted my career. I was an associate at a law firm along with a very competent African American woman. I was told in different ways but very clearly by four, yes four, partners that the firm would not be making more than one partner from our group, and that I would not make partner unless the African American woman left the firm. Three of these partners stated that I was generally considered the top choice for partnership based on my legal skills and client relations, but that the firm needed to increase diversity. These and other partners assisted me in finding another job outside of the firm, which turned out well in the end, but I still regret not having been able to compete fairly for partnership after years of working many, many hours. I do not begrudge the African American attorney at all, and found her to be both competent and a personally terrific individual. I am now much more careful, though, To avoid professional situations and which my primary competitors for promotion are African American or other underrepresented minorities. I have also experienced probably a handful of minor racially charged events. Nothing, however, that would rise to the level of affecting my day today life in any way.

You know, this kind of thing sucks, but mostly it sucks that it still kind of needs to happen. That black woman had to work a thousand times harder than you to get where she was, no matter her socioeconomic status growing up.

I disagree. I know her very well. She had a much, much more privileged background than I did, with parents who were high-educated professionals. She was raised in a wealthy community and attended the best private schools. I did not have any if these benefits, and the relatively amorphous claims that I have had white privilege my whole life don't in my view hold a candle to the actual tangible be edits and luxuries she was raised with. I liked her very much, and respect her professionally and personally, but to say that she had to work harder than I did based on some pretty extensive assumptions just avoids one if the main issues here. For what it's worth, I'm actually in favor of affirmative action as well as organizations consciously expanding diversity. But to make it seem that she worked harder than I dud to get to the point of partnership at a law firm is way off base in this case.

I still respectfully disagree. She has to work harder to be taken seriously no matter where she's from (unless like the whole room automatically knows she is the daughter of somebody super famous). But maybe she didn't have to work harder to get there (if you're a woman, but if you're a white man she certainly still did), but she definitely had to put up with a lot more shit.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:While not racism, I experienced a race-based decision that significantly impacted my career. I was an associate at a law firm along with a very competent African American woman. I was told in different ways but very clearly by four, yes four, partners that the firm would not be making more than one partner from our group, and that I would not make partner unless the African American woman left the firm. Three of these partners stated that I was generally considered the top choice for partnership based on my legal skills and client relations, but that the firm needed to increase diversity. These and other partners assisted me in finding another job outside of the firm, which turned out well in the end, but I still regret not having been able to compete fairly for partnership after years of working many, many hours. I do not begrudge the African American attorney at all, and found her to be both competent and a personally terrific individual. I am now much more careful, though, To avoid professional situations and which my primary competitors for promotion are African American or other underrepresented minorities. I have also experienced probably a handful of minor racially charged events. Nothing, however, that would rise to the level of affecting my day today life in any way.

You know, this kind of thing sucks, but mostly it sucks that it still kind of needs to happen. That black woman had to work a thousand times harder than you to get where she was, no matter her socioeconomic status growing up.

I disagree. I know her very well. She had a much, much more privileged background than I did, with parents who were high-educated professionals. She was raised in a wealthy community and attended the best private schools. I did not have any if these benefits, and the relatively amorphous claims that I have had white privilege my whole life don't in my view hold a candle to the actual tangible be edits and luxuries she was raised with. I liked her very much, and respect her professionally and personally, but to say that she had to work harder than I did based on some pretty extensive assumptions just avoids one if the main issues here. For what it's worth, I'm actually in favor of affirmative action as well as organizations consciously expanding diversity. But to make it seem that she worked harder than I dud to get to the point of partnership at a law firm is way off base in this case.

I still respectfully disagree. She has to work harder to be taken seriously no matter where she's from (unless like the whole room automatically knows she is the daughter of somebody super famous). But maybe she didn't have to work harder to get there (if you're a woman, but if you're a white man she certainly still did), but she definitely had to put up with a lot more shit.

That is pretty racist in itself. You assume that because she is black she grew up oppressed and struggling. She may have grown up without a care in the world and breezed through life. Your preconceived notions that everyone shares the same experience based on the color of their skin is pretty sad.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I'm usually the only white person in my classes at UDC and get discriminated by classmates and teachers before.
I'm also German and can't count the times I've been called a nazi here (I kinda count that as racism).

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

U was wondering the same damn thing.

Anonymous wrote:so . . .

You were jumped by girls who also called you names and you moved into an all-black neighborhood?

short memory or very forgiving, I'd say

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.

youngblackdude wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

U was wondering the same damn thing.

(Yawns) what's sup with some of you nerds on this forum.the spell police..you talk the way you talk & let me talk the way I talk.I'm not trying to be nothing I'm not(in this case being proper for a bunch of strangers when I know in real life I'm not proper.that's called being s fake). If you don't like the way I talk(or type) don't click on my topics..the spell police in this forum is seriously getting annoying & are strange .stop coming in my topics with this b.s....thank you & enjoy your night