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What's some of the most openly racist acts you've personally experienced?

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SomTervo

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Live in a part of a very white town in a very white country which has a much larger than average Muslim population. There are a couple of large mosques and Muslim schools nearby. One street in particular is very integrated, every second store is a Halal butcher, middle eastern bakery, Islamic library, or a hiqab emporium. It's a great part of town on the whole.

Some (by chance, white) neighbours asked us around for a neighbourhood get together a couple of years back (never happens in dense tenement blocks). The turn out is quite good, we talk to a bunch of groups of folk, then we're standing chatting to a retired reverend and his wife about how long we've been living on the block, what we do, etc. The woman says "we've been here for a good few years now, before that we lived on" *leans in* "the coloured street".

My gf didn't notice, wasn't paying much attention, so just kept looking around and nodding, but i couldn't even react. Just sort of looked away into middle distaste and clicked my shoes together. It was just so unexpected.

Of course this is nowhere near as horrific as the n-word or other slurs, but it was uncalled for and still shocking.
 
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RespectThySole

Member
- Falsely accused of robbery on two different occasions by the police
- Other instances of police pulling me over just because
- Called nigger
- On XBL a lot of racist shit was said in it's heyday and because I have a deep voice.....
- Back in HS, A LOT of people thought I was a drug dealer for no real reason. Basically, I saw it as them thinking that if a black dude has a lot of shoes, nice clothes, etc. then he must be serving type of thing.
 
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Apt101

Member
I was dating a Puerta Rican girl at the time. We were in Walmart, her and I and two of her sisters. They were all head turners, so we were a popular bunch going through the store. Out of nowhere some lady, white, 30's I suppose, starts going in on them because she overheard them speaking Spanish. Learn our language, go back to your country, you fucking spics - all the hits. And she was aggressive, which wasn't the best thing to try with these girls. I tried to separate them, but, some fists flew.

The security guards - which I think were actual off duty cops, as this was a bad-ass Walmart - threw the racist woman out and let us stay.
 
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Two Words

Member
In high school, I had several white students try and tell me how I'm "one of the good ones". They would go on about how "being a nigger is being loud, rude, stupid, poor, etc." and how since I was black and didn't have those traits, I was "one of the good ones." They would always say it as if I should have taken it as a compliment.
 
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Razgriz-Specter

Member
Getting bullied in 5th grade because I was literally the only white kid at the school.(I guess it wasn't that bad though considering school is typically like that for one reason or the other)

A black family friend getting pulled over literally every time he came to our part of the city.(probably twice a week, He later had to move there as he became a regional of a restaurant business in the area.)
 
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PillarEN

Member
RespectThySole said:
- Falsely accused of robbery on two different occasions by the police
- Other instances of police pulling me over just because
- Called nigger
- On XBL a lot of racist shit was said in it's heyday and because I have a deep voice.....
- Back in HS, A LOT of people thought I was a drug dealer for no real reason. Basically, I saw it as them thinking that if a black dude has a lot of shoes, nice clothes, etc. then he must be serving type of thing.
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Did you look like this guy?
 
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sqwarlock

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My dad right before I left for an internship in New York:

"You know I don't have a problem with black people. Hell, I was friends with the one on our street when you were a kid. Out here they're fine (out here meaning Arizona) but you gotta watch out for the niggers on the east coast."

Lost a lot of respect for my father that day.
 
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myca77

Member
Can't say I've ever had racism directed at, I'm white and British so it's not really likely to happen.

But...

I went out for a drink in my early 20s in my home town in the north of England one night. Bumped into an old school mate. Can't say we were tight friends, but knew each other enough to have a chat. The usual what you up to and all that. Shortly into the conversation he told me, slightly awkwardly, that he'd joined the BNP. I nodded and said something like "that's interesting". So I kept on nodding and saying the odd "oh right", "I see" while he spouted off the usual send them all home spiel. I think because I carried on smiling and nodding he must have felt comfortable; as it wasn't long till the N word came out along with various other racial slurs to all these people who should be shipped back.

Our conversation was cut short when I got a tap on the shoulder and a pint handed to me by a rather tall well built black man. Cue my old school mate asking me who that was, to which I replied "the father of my niece and nephew".

The look on his face was priceless, he turned white (no pun intended) turned around and walked out the bar.
 
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The Kree

Banned
Couple years ago there was this dude who started traveling across the country telling anybody who would listen how much he hated Mexicans and Black Americans and he became so popular for it that the people agreed to make him leader of the free world.
 
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TrynUrLuck

Member
I was shopping with my brother and cousin at Target and as we were in line this very old white woman looks around and says aloud "Are there any Americans left". I couldn't believe it, felt like I was getting punk'd. Mind you the store is very diverse in race including whites so idk what the hell she was on about.
 
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Vicetrailia

Member
Got told third day of my internship by an engineer that the only reason I was there was because of affirmative action. He was just a racist however.
 
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Darth Pinche

Member
SomewhatGroovy said:
I walked into a business with my backpack and the folks working there called the cops. Cops arrived with guns pointing at me. One got close enough and pressed his gun against my head and escorted me outside .They looked up the contents of my backpack and find cat food I bought at an adjacent store. They took my driver's license with them back to the police department and later mailed it back to me.

I'm Arab btw.
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Holy fuck! At this and so many stories posted here.
 
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eizarus

Banned
I'm British Pakistani. Been called a "black bastard" plenty of times. Most of it was when I was in primary school. Half of it was by adults...
 
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Aiustis

Member
Kin5290 said:
I was volunteering at a soup kitchen with my church group way back when. One guy turned down a plate of homemade food (sweet and sour chicken) after loudly proclaiming "I won't eat chink food!" to my face.

Okay buddy, your loss.

This was in New Hampshire, so it was pretty white. Most of the clientele at the soup kitchen was white, although they enjoyed the food just fine.
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Who the hell turns down chinese food?
 
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Herne

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The only one I can think of is when two black guys walked down Patrick St. in Cork city back in 1988, and everybody stared at them... my ten year-old self included. The only time I saw black people back then was on Sesame Street.

Wouldn't say it was racist, really. There was no reason for anyone to come to Ireland back then, so nobody did.

Edit - Oh shit, I forgot. A Danish friend of mine keeps calling black people the n-word (despite our telling her to stop) and insists everyone in Denmark uses it. Ugh.
 
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Westbahnhof

Banned
Herne said:
The only one I can think of is when two black guys walked down Patrick St. in Cork city back in 1988, and everybody stared at them... my ten year-old self included. The only time I saw black people back then was on Sesame Street.

Wouldn't say it was racist, really. There was no reason for anyone to come to Ireland back then, so nobody did.

Edit - Oh shit, I forgot. A Danish friend of mine keeps calling black people the n-word (despite our telling her to stop) and insists everyone in Denmark uses it. Ugh.
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Back in school, one of my friends once told me about his sister's first encounter with a black person.
She was four years old, and it was on the subway... and she attempted to see if the colour came off when rubbing the skin.
I believe children, especially that age, can be forgiven in these situations, as there is no malice. Of course, parents need to make sure their children are properly educated, especially in countries like Ireland or Austria, where you may live for years without seeing a "real life" black person.

Edit: Same in Austria, mostly when you leave the city... "neger" has been taboo for a much shorter time than the English n-word, unless I am mistaken. Many people grew up with the term being a normal way to describe black people, and they just can't grasp that it is not okay. At least my friends from the country respect me enough to try and change their habits..
 
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Herne

Member
Westbahnhof said:
Back in school, one of my friends once told me about his sister's first encounter with a black person.
She was four years old, and it was on the subway... and she attempted to see if the colour came off when rubbing the skin.
I believe children, especially that age, can be forgiven in these situations, as there is no malice. Of course, parents need to make sure their children are properly educated, especially in countries like Ireland or Austria, where you may live for years without seeing a "real life" black person.

Edit: Same in Austria, mostly when you leave the city... "neger" has been taboo for a much shorter time than the English n-word, unless I am mistaken. Many people grew up with the term being a normal way to describe black people, and they just can't grasp that it is not okay. At least my friends from the country respect me enough to try and change their habits..
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Well said. It's possible indeed that it was the same in Denmark - she was utterly confused when we told her it wasn't okay. I really believe she isn't a racist - she's Korean by birth and adopted by Danish parents and lived there all her life until she came here, and she's the nicest person you could hope to meet. She keeps baking us stuff.

As for education, thankfully Ireland is fairly multicultural these days. It's rarer not to run into a person of colour - though some villages in the countryside remain very... "native", let's say.
 
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Hashmal_Bringer_of_Order

Member
I once saw a, what i can only assume was, literal bum through his old ass coffee cup at a middle eastern looking dude (he missed btw) and shout something like "GTFO fucking muslims". That's about it really.
 
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Xe4

Banned
Not directed at me personally (I'm white AF), but there was a guy who was talking in a study lounge a few years back about his GF and how she cheated on him. Said the worst of it was it was with a black guy. His exact words were "I thought you said you thought niggers were gross", which is... wow.

Piece of shit asshole and girl right there. I never really talked to him again, or even had the opportunity to either really. Didn't even know his name.
 
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Gattsu25

Banned
In sequential order:
  • My brother was told that he should kill himself because my parents committed a sin of miscegenation. That his very existence was an offense to god. This was in a catholic kindergarten with the nun even opening the second story window for him to jump out of. The school fired her on the spot.
  • Walked into a class on the first day in a new state while my teacher was in the middle of telling his class that at least there were no niggers in the class that semester. Awkward
  • Was called a nigger by an old lady as I was holding a door open for her (this happened within a day or two of the last one.. my welcome to Florida was not a warm one)
  • Had to explain to my kid brother what a coon was after he was stopped by police who were "coon hunting" and wanted to know what he was doing outside (he was taking out the trash)
  • Spat at while being called a nigger
Does every single time I had to see someone wear or fly a confederate flag count?
 
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YesThatGuy

Banned
I shared my "I don't speak taco" experience with a cop here.

Long story short, was about to ask directions from a cop, he blurbs that and walks away.
 
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Arrowgigantic

Member
I was doing summer training at Fort Jackson working with the drill sergeants in a basic training company. Some private handed a white drill sergeant a note asking for help getting out of the Army-- because he didn't like the black people. I guess he figured this drill sergeant might be racist enough to help him? Obviously, not a genius, this kid.

All the drills, white and black, man and woman, one after the other yelled at this schmuck for I don't even know how long while the rest of the company sat and listened in some storm shelter bleachers.
 
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preta

Member
Gattsu25 said:
My brother was told that he should kill himself because my parents committed a sin of miscegenation. That his very existence was an offense to god. This was in a catholic kindergarten with the nun even opening the second story window for him to jump out of. The school fired her on the spot.
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Holy fuck, this one is a special kind of sick.
 
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KernelPanic

Member
Growing up in Europe as a little kid my grandparents would tell me don't eat with your hands, only black people do that.

I was only 4-5 at the time. Shocks me still.
 
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AALLx

Member
An entire country of it:
  • Doing stereotypes/caricatures of other nationalities on TV
  • Calling Indians "Bumbay" (probably from Bombay)
  • Automatically linking Indians with the lending scheme "5/6", and casually joking about it
  • Every caucasian is assumed as a "Kano" (shorthand for American) regardless of where they're from
  • Race jokes are funny and acceptable (except when other nations joke about us, then it's an international issue)
  • The concept of cultural sensitivity and political correctness is non-existent
  • Chinese are stereotyped as cheap and greedy
  • All foreigners are wealthy
  • All east asians are Chinese (recently we're getting better at identifying South Koreans)

To be fair, it's all coming from a place of ignorance and inferiority complex rather than hate. I'm sure it's common with non-developed countries that are racially homogeneous.
 
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BriGuy

Member
If we're referring to incidents that personally involve ourselves, I've been called a "guinea wop Jew motherfucker" before. I've also been called a "race traitor" for marrying an Asian girl. It doesn't bother me though because of how infrequent it's been. Lots of folks deal with way worse, way more often.
 
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squeakywheel

Member
1st day after moving to Tacoma and was walking along the road to a mall.
Got yelled at by a bunch of folks from the back of a pickup truck to "Go back to fucking Korea" (I do not remotely look Korean) and they chucked a beer bottle in my direction (they missed).
Depressed me for a while being openly judged based on my skin color.
 
Rellik

Rellik

Member
I was walking through town at night and called a "Paki" and told to "fuck off back home" by a group of drunk men.

I'm white British. I'd just returned from 2 weeks in Florida so I was heavily tanned. Apparently that was enough to cause me problems.
 
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Gila Moo

Neo Member
My family and I went out to a Wal-Mart late at night while vacationing in Arkansas. There was this middle aged white guy that had just parked next to us. As soon as he stepped out and saw me he freezes up. There was this awkward few moments where we just stared at each other and suddenly he just bolts it across the parking lot into the Wal-Mart. I looked behind me and noticed that my niece was the only one to notice this as the other family members were just getting out of the truck. Thankfully, we didn't run back into him while we were shopping.
 
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Steeped in a Sea of Games

Member
You guys have been through some real shit. Just knowing how shocked I felt at the relatively small potatoes makes me really empathize with and put into perspective all of the things being written here.

I've always thought as myself as a proponent against racism, but it's really crazy trying to figure out how to even deal with people who are willing to be so brazen. How does someone even get to that point in their life? Yeah, I know it's years of normalization and ignorance, but still. Ugh.
 
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LionPride

Banned
Thankfully ain't been through a lot

"You sounded white over the phone"
"You're so articulate"
"You're black, but you're not BLACK"
"You're a credit to your people"
"You're one of the black guys I could bring home to my family"
(After telling my life story to a sea of white faces)"You said that story so nice, with a little 'hustle' to it"

Having a woman pull her purse to the other side as I walked by
Someone locking the door as I passed their car
Being followed in stores

Bout it rn
 
LordKasual

LordKasual

Banned
LionPride said:
Thankfully ain't been through a lot

"You sounded white over the phone"
"You're so articulate"
"You're black, but you're not BLACK"
"You're a credit to your people"
"You're one of the black guys I could bring home to my family"
(After telling my life story to a sea of white faces)"You said that story so nice, with a little 'hustle' to it"

Having a woman pull her purse to the other side as I walked by
Someone locking the door as I passed their car
Being followed in stores

Bout it rn
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oh this is just par for the course

"You're one of the black guys I could bring home to my family"
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except for this one, holy shit ahahah
 
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Violence Jack

Member
Two Words said:
In high school, I had several white students try and tell me how I'm "one of the good ones". They would go on about how "being a nigger is being loud, rude, stupid, poor, etc." and how since I was black and didn't have those traits, I was "one of the good ones." They would always say it as if I should have taken it as a compliment.
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I feel your pain. Got called an Oreo throughout middle and high school while being told the same fucking things.
 
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Costanza-san

Banned
I had a white friend in middle and early high school who casually said the n-word a lot. Worst part is that I thought it was funny at the time.

I changed but he didn't.
 
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LionPride

Banned
Violence Jack said:
I feel your pain. Got called an Oreo throughout middle and high school while being told the same fucking things.
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Oh I fixed that issue real quick
I kept telling folks not to call me an oreo cause shit was not okay

People kept trying me

Next person to do it got slapped

Next person after them who did it got slapped

It stopped after that
 
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SamuelSupreme

Banned
Some gas station attendant called the police on me because I was black.

I wish I was joking but when he told me he was calling the cops and I asked "Is it because Im black" He looked me dead in the yes and said "Yes".
 
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Conkersbadfurday

Member
My cowworker has said some pretty racist shit. Now and then he has to deal with our facility in China and that always elicits a mumbled, "we should just nuke them." Some times he'll call them slant eyes.

And once he told a story about this really dangerous neighborhood because it had "lots of black people."

Gets really offended when you call him racist though.

I'd report him but he's been there 20 years and I've only been there about one and a half. He's also best friends with the plant manager.
 
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Memento_Mori15

Member
Man, this thread.

I was working one day outside at a supermarket and a white guy with his buddy decided to throw a penny right in my forehead and proceeded to call me beaner. All I remember after get hit is me standing still, looking down at the penny. My pride was destroyed by a single penny...

I was always bullied by a couple of skin heads because of my skin color while my other sister, who is white, never received anything. I don’t think they ever noticed we were related. For a long time, I always wished I had my sister’s skin color.

Oh, and of course I was called too white to be Hispanic so many times. This stopped, thankfully, once I entered university.
 
Amibguous Cad

Amibguous Cad

Member
I had a boyfriend, and he wanted to establish hat was fine if we wanted to fool around outside the relationship... unless it was with a black person.

I was shocked, particularly since, like, we're gay, he's probably not motivated by the feelings of racial inadequacy that the people shouting "cuck" are. Suffice it to say the relationship didn't last long.
 
milkham

milkham

Member
When I was in 7th grade I rode the public bus to and from school. One day this old dude is just constantly muttering about gooks. I'm like, looking around wondering where the vietnamese person is. My only exposure to that word until that point was from war movies. I'm the only asian person near the guy, so that was the day I realized I was not just a chink, but also a gook.
 
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AtomskEater

Member
When my grandmother was in a nursing home we'd go weekly to visit, drop off clean clothes, etc. The general setup was that everyone had to share a room, so once when I was in there collecting dirty clothes and hanging clean outfits up my grandmother's roommate (a white lady) suddenly said, "Do you know the difference between a black person and a nigger?" and proceeded to tell me that black people have jobs but niggers don't work for anything etc. I just finished my business and noped out of there.

My mom told me she had experiences where that lady would fail to recognize her and screech "What're you doing in here, don't touch that!" (again she's on my grandma's side of the room, touching grandma's stuff) before she'd recognize her and put on the sweet old lady act. Just stuff that made us go "hmmmm."

I've also experienced people being asshats in mmos. The earliest thing I can remember is playing Maple Story, some guy decided he didn't want to share the entire screen with me so he called me a "nigger mage" or something, probably hoping I'd cry and run off. I stuck to him like glue and killed off monsters before he could get to them. Only time I've ever kill stealed intentionally, and I have no regrets.
 
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tbm24

Member
My dad owned a trucking corp(just 3 trucks) that he’d use for deliveries for corporations, like Sleepy’s. So naturally there’d be a truck pretty often at our house moving items in and out of our garage depending on the jobs during the week. A few months after 9-11 happened(we’re in NYC), in the middle of the night cops knock on our door stating a neighbor called in saying we’re moving terrorists in Trucks. My dad shut the door on them pretty quickly. The reason for this? Me and my mother are brown Latinos. My father and older brother are white skinned funny enough, but they didn’t care. My mom and aunt hunted down who it was on the block that called in and delivered a profanity laced tirade in heavy Spanglish, made me feel better, though I still felt shitty. Up until that point I never really looked in the mirror and acknowledged my skin color among other things. I have ever since, made High School a really weird experience and killed a lot of my self esteem as a minority in a predominantly white private school.
 
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