How has racism effected you?

[fakeitormakeit2]

It's strange though, when I incur racism it kind of feels like the Hester's scarlet letter, people may jeer at it but it's your own sense of identity, they mock you for it, but you wear it proudly.

[Pirate_Felix]

However, at home its totally different. Every chance my mom gets she speaks out against gays, saying they're filled with the spirit of the antichrist, caused katrina, split up pangea, created sars, bubonic plague and cancer, shot kennedy, eat babies, and invented satanism. Ok well I may have exaggerated a tad, but she sincerely believes Katrina was caused by the gays, and they're filled with the spirit of the antichrist. When she found out my brothers best friend was gay she stopped letting him go over less and less, now he can never really go over there. I think my little sister is a lesbian, and so I asked my mom what she thought of it(she doesn't know I'm gay) and she slapped me and said "how dare I speak such words in this house, where God is, homosexuality cannot, and I will not have you speak such words over your little sisters life." and I said "well, if she is, will you still love her?" my mom said "Well she isn't, and never will be so why bring it up." >.> Its really depressing living at my house, because everyone is so anti-gay. *sigh* I try to discuss it with them, but I don't want to appear too forward incase they get suspicious.

 

I'm afraid to tell them, they have a rifle under their bed incase a robber comes in (no, they're not rednecks XD) and idk if they'd use it on me, they HATE gays. Kinda ironic.

 

 

Well thats one helluva crappy life you got there. Who does know you like males?

[mcneilp]

Can't say i've had much experience with racism really. Grew up in an area that wasn't particularly diverse racially. In my old job however, there were three dudes from Ghana who helped us on the back shift. I, and most of the shift got on good with them as they were funny as hell but there was one guy who made racist jokes behind their back. The store manager had a talk with him and we never seen him again.

[Saru Inc]

However, at home its totally different. Every chance my mom gets she speaks out against gays, saying they're filled with the spirit of the antichrist, caused katrina, split up pangea, created sars, bubonic plague and cancer, shot kennedy, eat babies, and invented satanism. Ok well I may have exaggerated a tad, but she sincerely believes Katrina was caused by the gays, and they're filled with the spirit of the antichrist. When she found out my brothers best friend was gay she stopped letting him go over less and less, now he can never really go over there. I think my little sister is a lesbian, and so I asked my mom what she thought of it(she doesn't know I'm gay) and she slapped me and said "how dare I speak such words in this house, where God is, homosexuality cannot, and I will not have you speak such words over your little sisters life." and I said "well, if she is, will you still love her?" my mom said "Well she isn't, and never will be so why bring it up." >.> Its really depressing living at my house, because everyone is so anti-gay. *sigh* I try to discuss it with them, but I don't want to appear too forward incase they get suspicious.

 

I'm afraid to tell them, they have a rifle under their bed incase a robber comes in (no, they're not rednecks XD) and idk if they'd use it on me, they HATE gays. Kinda ironic.

 

 

Well thats one helluva crappy life you got there. Who does know you like males?

 

All my friends, everyone at work. I have nothing to be ashamed of, God made me this way. Or even if you don't believe in God, if its present at birth theres no reason to be ashamed of it.

 

^^ That sentence phrasing is awkward lol, don't really know how else to convey it.

 

The only ppl who don't know are my family, and anyone my parents talk to often who I know couldn't keep a secret. The only reason why I don't tell my parents besides the fact I'm afraid for my life (which tbh I doubt they'd do it, but you never know.) is they make me pay them $100, for every time I say the 'f' word, and once I said cocaine and they threatened to kick me out of the house for being a negative influence on the family. So when I tell them they'll disown me, and all throughout my life They've never let me interact with the outside world (kinda why I cling to RuneScape so much) so when I do get kicked out, I'll have nowhere to go. I'm not even in college right now just incase they do kick me out, I'll have money for a temporary (or permanent) apartment.

[Guest Mrmegakirby]

reading those two posts - All I can say is wow. I've never seen much homophobia or racism where I live in Canada. Other then the occasional joke, but I don't think anybody takes those seriously.

[Star_Fox]

i live in a white oriented city and i've never been discriminated besides from other minorities like Hispanics or Armenians. other than that, i'm ok.

[deathdrow]

I got yelled at by a black guy for not giving him a cigarette because he thought I wasn't giving him one cause he was black. It was quite odd.

[Bouwzie]

You could say I'm pretty damn racist, but I know when I have to keep my mouth shut though.

[Denith]

Has anyone here seen the Epic Beard Man vid?

[soulless]

I am Middle Eastern, ever since 9/11 I have been the end of a lot of prejudices [even though I am Christian]. Anything from sheer terror of me to disgust.

 

I was speaking with someone from a public school about fights or whatever. They said about how all the Arabs stick together. And I was like yep, that's what we do, support one another. As soon as I said that they looked like they had seen a ghost. They were terrified and lost all interest to talk.

 

I use to be harassed at school by this kid who use to constantly make airport jokes and say how inferior "my people" are. He would find me and my Arab friend just to insult us. It was quite a damper on the spirits and I dreaded seeing him. Till one day I had enough and reported him to the guidance counselor. Somehow he had convinced the guidance counselor that I and my other Arab friend bullied him and we were terrifying and that we said he was a dirty Palestinian and that he wanted to blow up Israel (which is funny because that kind of sounds like what he would say to us...). After explaining to my guidance counselor that I never said such things, and how it is blasphemous to yell Allah in mockery and that he was a damper to my spirit. I was threatened with receiving a suspension and half the amount of demerits needed for expulsion if I did not apologize to him for "threatening" and "belittling" him.

 

I sat next to a moderately dark skinned man on an airplane once. He looked Middle Eastern and it was confirmed when he pulled out something with Arabic writing on it. Not to be rude but I read some of it and it was a prayer to Mary. He saw it had caught my eye and he smiled and handed it to me to read. I thanked him in Arabic with a "shookran sayyid" and passing people saw that I had something written in Arabic and I was muttering I heard "oh my God... I don't feel safe with those crazy Muslims sitting next to each other showing each other their terrorist language".

 

My teacher for Speech was also my debate coach and she knew I like political and educational things. She asked me to give a speech that was really informative and political without being persuasive. So I picked the Israeli-Arab Conflict, illuminating on the Arab side since the Israeli side is covered amply in US media. After my researching and writing of the paper, I had been harassed to the point were I had to change my subject, being called a "Jew hater", etc. My teacher was disappointed in me and I was disappointed in myself. My paper was not anti-Judeo at all, not even anti-Zionist and focused on the political aspect but without people even hearing it I was forced to abandon it.

 

There are certain Eastern Christian religious customs I have which are discriminated against as well. I have been called a stupid towel head for fasting. During one feast day, you hand out roses to people, especially those you have a hard time with to try to make amends with them and someone asked me what I poisoned them with and what plot "my people" were planning. A whole slue of other customs, including bowing, wishing blessings upon people (i.e. God bless your hands for preparing such a delicious meal and may He grant you a long life because of the fruits of your labors) and carrying prayers in Aramaic on me, and when some people see this they attend to [voluntarily and involuntarily] discourage me from my stupid "sand people" things.

 

I'm a Maronite [a type of Christian], extremely anti-terrorism and anti-war and I want to be a consultant for the FBI like someone I know to translate things from Arabic to English. If people hear that, they think I'm joking because I must be automatically a Muslim and pro-terrorism. It is truly sad.

 

I could go on for years, hahaha. Good luck with your paper.

 

I feel sorry for ya mate. And I would have to say that I "DO" hate Israelis, not Jews but Israel as a Country. They are no better then the Germans in WW2. I guess monkey see monkey do. The people that made that Country also started out as Terrorists against the Arabs. But that is all off topic...

[stonewall337]

Well, from personal experience, blacks I meet seem to be treated better by the system, then whites. Most are also more lazy.

 

However, I have a very strong defense against anyone calling me a racist. 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters have been adopted from Ethiopia, as well as I have one brother adopted from Bulgaria. Thus, I don't have a "bias", all that i feel is based off experience.

 

And if someone plays the race card, I'd tell them to go to hell. They are the ones spreading racism far more then others.

 

I joke around against and for all races. I tell black jokes, but also white jokes. People are too damn sensitive. In America, you have the right to freedom of speech, not the freedom to not be offended.

 

And to the idiot above me, I say sir, learn you history. I don't think that the Jews killed 6 million people, and I also don't think that Israel is the country threating to blow another country into the sea.

 

Terrorizing the Arabs...You go to public school, correct?

[KnightLite]

Has anyone here seen the Epic Beard Man vid?

 

 

Amber Lamps?

[Amaranth_GTO]

Any form of Prejudice would work.

 

No it wouldn't. We're talking about RACISM here. ;)

 

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To answer your question, no, I have never experienced racism against me (that I know of). I live in a white society, and I am a white man.

 

The only "problem" in relation to racism that I have experienced would be the rampant political-correctness that runs through society where anyone can easily be labeled a racist. I have never harbored feelings of racial superiority, but I have been labeled a racist for criticizing black American "culture" because I believe that it is degenerative and displays lack of self-respect for themselves.

 

 

Still, I'd be curious to learn about a homosexual that has been discriminated on, and how he felt about everything.

 

 

In that case:

 

 

The city I live in, Virginia Beach is VERY VERY diverse. I am actually surprised many of my friends who are white have very few friends of different races. I actually only have 1 friend that is white, I have about 20 black friends, 6 Mexican friends, and idk 3.5 Asian friends. (long story LOL). My school is primarily black, and Asian, with Whites being the next, our city However, white is the most common, then filipino, then black, then mexican I believe. (HUGE filipino influence as we're next to the biggest naval station in the country. (I;m pretty sure it's the biggest LOL I heard it on the radio)

MORE STUFF!!!!!!!

Oh hey I live very close to VA beach too! *high-5* And yeah Hampton Roads is the biggest port/naval base on the east coast USA.

I didn't know Pat Robinson was here though... :o that explains a lot of the homophobia. My school is a small private school, so it's not as diverse as the school you go to, but the homophobia is pretty much the same. A friend of mine came out earlier this year, and since almost all her female friends have flat-out refused to talk to her. It's really sad... And it didn't help that the WBC was in the area earlier this month

[Saru Inc]

Yeh WBC was here lmao. May I ask what city?

[Skull]

My town is like 98% white, and I'm white, so none towards me. Although a lot of kids are legitimately afraid of black people. Makes me lol.

 

I did get harassed for being an atheist once but that was more funny than anything else.

[fakeitormakeit2]

Well, from personal experience, blacks I meet seem to be treated better by the system, then whites. Most are also more lazy.

 

However, I have a very strong defense against anyone calling me a racist. 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters have been adopted from Ethiopia, as well as I have one brother adopted from Bulgaria. Thus, I don't have a "bias", all that i feel is based off experience.

 

And if someone plays the race card, I'd tell them to go to hell. They are the ones spreading racism far more then others.

 

I joke around against and for all races. I tell black jokes, but also white jokes. People are too damn sensitive. In America, you have the right to freedom of speech, not the freedom to not be offended.

 

And to the idiot above me, I say sir, learn you history. I don't think that the Jews killed 6 million people, and I also don't think that Israel is the country threating to blow another country into the sea.

 

Terrorizing the Arabs...You go to public school, correct?

Please keep quiet, do not judge him and say based on his opinion he must have received a public education. You have been poisoned by American media bias. I condemn the PLO as a terrorist group and they constantly unjustly bombard Israel with missiles which puts them in fault. However, I also personally know many innocent Palestinians, some Christian, some Muslim, who were just citizens are were forcibly removed from their houses by israeli soldiers, so please do not speak because the media has told you something and you have no person experience. Israel also forcibly invaded Lebanon, an ally at the time, who was trying to put down Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel, but instead they decided to just bust right in. They wrongly hold Golan Heights from Syria and they held the Sinai Peninsula. I will not even touch the matter of them occupying land they should not be in, and the European Jews treat the Mizrahi Jews poorly, and if any Jew should be in the Holy Lands it should be the Mizrahi because they've actually been living there.

 

And if you would like to challenge me as someone who was educated in a public system, my family has been attending only private institutions as far as we can prove with record (which is my great great grandfather who attended an academy funded by the sultan of the ottoman empire) and I have one-on-one tutors for Arabic, writing composition, drawing, violin, guitar and fencing (and formerly Italian & Aramaic which I've sufficiently learned). I have been profusely educated and I hold the position you scoff at. Besides, I have no doubt there are probably people who have attended public schooling all their lives and they're more intelligent then me because of their great desire to learn.

 

Even a textbook can lie to suit the victor and listening to only what the media feeds you creates racism and bigotry that you aren't even aware of.

[Grim_]

Stone may I ask exactly what private school you went to? From my experience private schooling (at least in my town) is either a mix of newer learning concepts (that may be [cabbage]) or a faith inclusive program (a school that also has church services/ bible classes).

[Guest Mrmegakirby]

No country is perfect, and it's wrong to base a person on their governement. That's exactly what creates racism: A country goes against another country, sometimes major things (war) sometimes a simple trade disagreement, and these things form. Tensions carry over, and this is the result.

 

Then people start taking every action as a form of racism, and there you go, society down the drain.

[Adeelasim]

Meh, come to Toronto Canada, most multicultural place on Earth. We are like 25% white, 25% black, 25% south Asian, and 25% east Asian :P.

 

I completely agree with fakeitormakeit2, people are brainwashed by the media. After 9-11 there has been increased racism against Muslims, which is increased through the distorted and biased lens of the mainstream media. It's good to see that at least here no one takes it seriously. Like black jokes or white jokes, there are arab jokes i.e. "Hahahaha when are you gonna blow up the school Abdul?". No one takes them seriously :P.

 

With regards to terrorism, Anti-terrorist (Primarily NATO) nations needs to realize that by sending their nations to war against a group of people living in caves with a couple of AK-47's is counter-productive. The aims of the terrorists are not to win - they know they can't win - but to cause as much disruption and mayhem as possible. By keeping nations focused on the terrorists, they are unable to deal with much more important issues at home.

 

Terrorists are a nuisance, but don't wage conventional war against them. Instead, it's more effective (and WAYYY cheaper) to send spec-ops teams to infilitrate and destroy them.

 

Back to the topic now, I still encounter racism everytime I go to the airport. Being a Muslim means I get "special" treatment -_-.

[superson]

Well, from personal experience, blacks I meet seem to be treated better by the system, then whites. Most are also more lazy.

 

However, I have a very strong defense against anyone calling me a racist. 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters have been adopted from Ethiopia, as well as I have one brother adopted from Bulgaria. Thus, I don't have a "bias", all that i feel is based off experience.

 

And if someone plays the race card, I'd tell them to go to hell. They are the ones spreading racism far more then others.

 

I joke around against and for all races. I tell black jokes, but also white jokes. People are too damn sensitive. In America, you have the right to freedom of speech, not the freedom to not be offended.

 

And to the idiot above me, I say sir, learn you history. I don't think that the Jews killed 6 million people, and I also don't think that Israel is the country threating to blow another country into the sea.

 

Terrorizing the Arabs...You go to public school, correct?

Please keep quiet, do not judge him and say based on his opinion he must have received a public education. You have been poisoned by American media bias. I condemn the PLO as a terrorist group and they constantly unjustly bombard Israel with missiles which puts them in fault. However, I also personally know many innocent Palestinians, some Christian, some Muslim, who were just citizens are were forcibly removed from their houses by israeli soldiers, so please do not speak because the media has told you something and you have no person experience. Israel also forcibly invaded Lebanon, an ally at the time, who was trying to put down Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel, but instead they decided to just bust right in. They wrongly hold Golan Heights from Syria and they held the Sinai Peninsula. I will not even touch the matter of them occupying land they should not be in, and the European Jews treat the Mizrahi Jews poorly, and if any Jew should be in the Holy Lands it should be the Mizrahi because they've actually been living there.

 

And if you would like to challenge me as someone who was educated in a public system, my family has been attending only private institutions as far as we can prove with record (which is my great great grandfather who attended an academy funded by the sultan of the ottoman empire) and I have one-on-one tutors for Arabic, writing composition, drawing, violin, guitar and fencing (and formerly Italian & Aramaic which I've sufficiently learned). I have been profusely educated and I hold the position you scoff at. Besides, I have no doubt there are probably people who have attended public schooling all their lives and they're more intelligent then me because of their great desire to learn.

 

Even a textbook can lie to suit the victor and listening to only what the media feeds you creates racism and bigotry that you aren't even aware of.

 

 

I don't even see the point you're trying to make in your post... All i see is gross amounts of pretentiousness. Anyway, your assumption that public schools are inherently worse than private ones* is far worse than Stonewall's guess that the person he's addressing went to public school.

 

*by talking about someone smarter than you who might have gone to public school as if they were some sort of infinitely rare quantity.

[Shiny]

We have 2 Arabs in my school and they pride themselves in being Arab, make jokes about how they'll blow up school, that kind of stuff.

 

I make racist oriented jokes to every single racial group out there, but all in good spirit. People understand I'm joking.

[Denith]

Has anyone here seen the Epic Beard Man vid?

 

 

Amber Lamps?

 

Yeah, I wanted to know what is your (the replier) opinion on it. If anyone is interested I can post a censored transcription of the video here..

[fakeitormakeit2]

Well, from personal experience, blacks I meet seem to be treated better by the system, then whites. Most are also more lazy.

 

However, I have a very strong defense against anyone calling me a racist. 2 of my brothers and 1 of my sisters have been adopted from Ethiopia, as well as I have one brother adopted from Bulgaria. Thus, I don't have a "bias", all that i feel is based off experience.

 

And if someone plays the race card, I'd tell them to go to hell. They are the ones spreading racism far more then others.

 

I joke around against and for all races. I tell black jokes, but also white jokes. People are too damn sensitive. In America, you have the right to freedom of speech, not the freedom to not be offended.

 

And to the idiot above me, I say sir, learn you history. I don't think that the Jews killed 6 million people, and I also don't think that Israel is the country threating to blow another country into the sea.

 

Terrorizing the Arabs...You go to public school, correct?

Please keep quiet, do not judge him and say based on his opinion he must have received a public education. You have been poisoned by American media bias. I condemn the PLO as a terrorist group and they constantly unjustly bombard Israel with missiles which puts them in fault. However, I also personally know many innocent Palestinians, some Christian, some Muslim, who were just citizens are were forcibly removed from their houses by israeli soldiers, so please do not speak because the media has told you something and you have no person experience. Israel also forcibly invaded Lebanon, an ally at the time, who was trying to put down Hezbollah, an enemy of Israel, but instead they decided to just bust right in. They wrongly hold Golan Heights from Syria and they held the Sinai Peninsula. I will not even touch the matter of them occupying land they should not be in, and the European Jews treat the Mizrahi Jews poorly, and if any Jew should be in the Holy Lands it should be the Mizrahi because they've actually been living there.

 

And if you would like to challenge me as someone who was educated in a public system, my family has been attending only private institutions as far as we can prove with record (which is my great great grandfather who attended an academy funded by the sultan of the ottoman empire) and I have one-on-one tutors for Arabic, writing composition, drawing, violin, guitar and fencing (and formerly Italian & Aramaic which I've sufficiently learned). I have been profusely educated and I hold the position you scoff at. Besides, I have no doubt there are probably people who have attended public schooling all their lives and they're more intelligent then me because of their great desire to learn.

 

Even a textbook can lie to suit the victor and listening to only what the media feeds you creates racism and bigotry that you aren't even aware of.

 

 

I don't even see the point you're trying to make in your post... All i see is gross amounts of pretentiousness. Anyway, your assumption that public schools are inherently worse than private ones* is far worse than Stonewall's guess that the person he's addressing went to public school.

 

*by talking about someone smarter than you who might have gone to public school as if they were some sort of infinitely rare quantity.

I said I have no doubt that there are people who have attended public schools and they're more intelligent then me. If I have no doubt that means that there is a 100% chance of me thinking there are these people. You say I said it like they were infinitely rare, which would mean they are little to none existent. Obviously you're contradicting what I said with your own assumption because no doubt is the opposite of an infinitely rare amount >.>

 

And I was not saying that private schools are better then public schools, that's another wrong inference you've made. I was saying I hold the same idea that the other person did and I go to a private school, so even if he went to a public school it makes no difference. So you have literally taken it from the exact opposite end of which I was meaning, you say I'm being pretentious when I was stating that the attendance of private schools, numerous private tutors and what not can easily be superseded by someone who have a sheer desire to learn and is confined to a public institution in their situation.

[Guthorm]

What racism? I am currently in the Southern part of USA and like the only Asian guy here. Most people gape when they saw me like I am that awesome, which I am of course.

[Amaranth_GTO]

Yeh WBC was here lmao. May I ask what city?

Norfolk :P I actually just realized we got the worst place ever. We got PETA, we got Pat Robertson, and that's about it.