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?
What the actual fuck.... Especially for the bolded part....
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.
One of my wife and my own best friends are from Denmark, from me asking her this is untrue in her experience.
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
This. This really bothers me.
As far as racist thing happening to me, I haven't ran into many personally. I was always around all races growing up, I thought it was the same for everyone else. We are all kids getting into mischief, who cares about color. As I've grown up I've realized that is not how the world works. I don't really want to go into specifics from me growing up, so I will just say what happened to me and my wife while we were out for her birthday:
Two weeks ago, we dropped off our daughter with the grandparents, then we(10 people) went out to have fun for my wife's birthday.we went to an escape the room thing, we crushed it, We then went to eat some food of her choosing, and next was a nearby bar(I was the DD).
Soon we decided to drive to a bar closer to home. This is where the racist dude showed up. Me and a few of my best friends, two of my wife's cousins and her brother were playing pool, we were playing team. Her brother and one of her cousins, against me and her other cousin... The cousin on my team was lighter skinned, we ended up losing the first game somehow, as soon as we were about to rerack, this drunk dude runs up to the table slams his quarters down and proclaims, "YOU ALREADY LOST TO THE BEANERS, STOP BRING SHAME TO US!"
When told he needed a partner, since we still had money on the table, he chose my wife's light skinned cousin. They lost that game, so next was a one-on-one, him vs his team mate.
He lost that game, and started going on and on about how could they have lost to the beaners if his partner was able to beat him. At that point, his friend showed up, who was hispanic and they disappeared for a while.
Party dwindled down until it was my wife, two cousins(no names gets confusing, sorry), and me.
We go to leave and the guy is outside. One of my wife's cousins asks if he can bum a cigarette... The guy replies, "Sure, anything for a Mexican!" and jams a cig in his mouth. This cousin served in the army, he is also a bit of a hothead, so he asked the guy, "Do you always jam things into peoples mouth who served this country?"
Dude say's, "Didn't know Mexicans served this country."
You know what, I'm gonna stop here.
My wife is Salvadoran, naturally so is her entire family, except the new generation, partly my fault. She has 8 Army and 2 Marine veterans, off the top of my head who are related to her closely(brothers and cousins). This is a number that frankly I don't think many families can top, and they immigrated here...
What the actual fuck, random dumb drunk guy. He had a fucking pro veteran sticker on his truck. Didn't know he only meant the white ones.
On another note, I hope that my daughter does not have to go through anything that I have read in this thread. I am sincerely sad about a lot of what I have read in here.