Biracial People Who Pass For White People Share Moments When Blatant Racism Took Place In Front Of Their Very Eyes
InterviewBilly Dunn, also known as @billybillynyc on TikTok, released a video where the 20-year-old replied to a comment, revealing the crazy things people say around him, not knowing he is half black.
“I was at a party and the only other Black person left. After he left, one of the white dudes there proceeded to say the N-word. Not even in a song or nothing, just said it out loud. When I confronted him about it, he said, ‘What? He’s not here anymore.’ Little did he know, I’m a double agent. Needless to say, that situation was handled,” Billy, who has a black dad and white mom, said in the video.
Eventually, Billy’s TikTok went viral, and other biracial people started sharing similar stories as well.
@billybillynycReply to @chynali The reality of what people say behind closed doors. All of these situations were dealt with accordingly.♬ original sound – Billy Dunn
Recently, 20-year-old Billy Dunn released a TikTok to show the racist things people say behind closed doors
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According to a 2015 Pew Research Center survey, multiracial Americans are at the cutting edge of social and demographic change in the U.S.—they’re young, proud of their mixed-race, and feel their racial heritage has made them more open to other cultures. They’re also growing at a rate three times as fast as the population as a whole.
Atlanta-based hip-hop artist Cole Hedgecoth is one of the people whose TikTok you will see in this article. He’s also very proud of his racial background. “I love my family and it’s given me a unique perspective on racial inequality,” Cole told Bored Panda.
“[My racial background is an important part of my identity], though it isn’t everything. I celebrate diversity and want people to know that I’m proud of who I am, but I won’t let people dehumanize me by saying racist things.”
Hedgecoth said that being biracial (black-white) has allowed him to understand the scope of racism in the US he wouldn’t have if he was just white. “Having experienced it opened my eyes to a whole new perspective. I’m grateful to be able to see things for what they are.”
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Billy himself is also incredibly proud of his racial background. “My dad made a big effort growing up to tell me and my siblings stories about what he and his family members experienced as black people from the south,” he explained to Bored Panda. “I credit him with a lot of the knowledge that I have about the civil rights era.”
Being biracial has always been a big part of Billy’s identity but it is also something he’s struggled with. “Mainstream media oftentimes makes people with similar backgrounds to me feel like they have to fit into one racial group or another. As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that being biracial gives me a unique perspective into a lot of topics in the media today, such as racial profiling and police brutality. I always aim to try to use my privilege and platform to advocate for things I believe in.”
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According to the aforementioned survey, the majority (55%) say they have been subjected to racial slurs or jokes, and about one-in-four (24%) have felt annoyed because people have made assumptions about their racial background.
While multiracial adults share some things in common, they cannot be easily categorized because their experiences and attitudes differ significantly depending on the races that make up their background and how the world sees them.
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Multiracial adults with a black background experience discrimination in a similar way as single-race blacks. For example, among adults who are black and no other race, 57% say they have received poor service in restaurants or other businesses, identical to the share of biracial black and white adults who say this has happened to them. 42% of single-race blacks also say they have been unfairly stopped by the police, as do 41% of biracial black and white adults.
Mixed-race adults with an Asian background are about as likely to report being discriminated against as are single-race Asians, while multiracial adults with a white background are more likely than single-race whites to say they have experienced racial discrimination.
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“I don’t think you have to be one race in order to educate yourself on race relations in this country,” Billy said. “If any person makes the effort to listen to their peers and learn about what’s going on, then that person has the ability to make real change on any level.”
“If there was one thing I want people to know about me, it’s that even though I talk about my experiences very openly on social media, it is something that was very difficult for me growing up and something I still can be very cautious talking about. My goal is that if there is somebody who looks like me who may be struggling with their identity, I want them to know that they are not alone and that they don’t have to conform to what society tells them they are just because of how they look,” he explained.
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“We have an expectation in society of what a black person should look like, or what a white person should look like,” Sarah Gaither, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology and neuroscience at Duke University, said. “And if you don’t look like that, that’s disruptful.”
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The sad thing is that the general public has negative views of the country’s racial progress; more than half say Trump has made race relations worse.
However, as cliché as it may sound, change doesn’t start within institutions. We need to enforce it ourselves. And even sharing a TikTok helps.
“As long as the conversation continues, race relations should improve,” Hedgecoth added. “I think it’s unlikely that racism altogether dies out anytime soon because racists raise kids to be racists, but if people continue to fight against inequality and have a conversation about discrimination, slowly, people will begin to change their perspective.”
His video has accumulated over 2.7 million views and has inspired others to share similar stories as well
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“I’m half-Chinese. I used to work for Disney and we would have a lot of Japanese guests there. I had coworkers who, directly after helping a Japanese guest, would start mocking them. Usually, for the shock value, I’d immediately tell them I was Asian and they’d be like *covers mouth with hand*.”
@byeblossom#stitch with @billybillynyc dont even get me started on the nail lady “jokes”. tbh the microaggressions sometimes feel worse than outright slurs♬ original sound – melissa
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“I didn’t really realize how racist some people are until I was in an all-white space and people didn’t realize that I’m mixed. For example, I was at a pool party one time and this guy asked me, ‘What are you?’ I was like, ‘I’m mixed.’ He asked me with what and I was like, ‘Black and white.’ And he was like, ‘So you’re a half N-word.’ I was like, ‘What? Why is that the first thing that came to your head?'”
@colehedgecoth#stitch with @billybillynyc #ytpeople #mixed #biracial♬ original sound – cole
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“I am Mexican and one time I was dating this guy, and his grandpa had just moved to a different house, and he said, ‘Yeah, I grew up over here… but it’s really different now.’ I was like, ‘How so?’ And he’s like, ‘Well, there’s a lot of Mexicans and Blacks who live over here now. You don’t want to live in a neighborhood like that.’ I said, ‘You don’t? Why wouldn’t you want to live in a neighborhood with really good food and really cool people?'”
@littlemusestudio#stitch with @billybillynyc #stitch #EnvisionGreatness #exposed♬ original sound – Sara Dresen
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“When I was in beauty school, I was going to one of my friend’s houses, and her mom asked me, ‘Does it gross you out to touch N-word hair?'”
@beautybythebee#stitch with @billybillynyc comment if you want to hear more. This just reminded me of so many horror stories! So glad I left. #racists #whitepassing♬ original sound – Beauty by the Bee
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“I used to work in sales, and this one time, a white lady came into the store and asked me where she could find XYZ. I was busy at the time, so I said to her, ‘Oh, you can just see my colleague over there. He will be able to show you where you can find what you’re looking for.’ She looked over at him, she looked back at me, and she goes, ‘What? The fat little (insert racial slur).'”
@charlottelouisa23#stitch with @billybillynyc I have about 100 more stories like this 😑 #Racism #blacklivesmatter #whitepassingpoc #whitepassing #retailproblems #fyp♬ original sound – Charlotte
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“If you’ve worked in film before, you know 11 hours is a normal day. One time, an actress cried to the director. She said, ‘My feet hurt, it’s time to wrap.’ The director said, ‘One more take.’ The actress said, ‘OK, then you’re going to pay for my medical bills.’ I’ve never seen a director say wrap so quick in my life. This girl who overheard had the audacity to say, ‘Oh, I’m so glad the actress went ghetto on them.’ I said, ‘Ghetto?’ She said, ‘Yeah, Black!'”
@theliddlestmau#stitch with @billybillynyc #whitepassing #incognito it’s sad I have so many more stories … esp from film sets 💀💀💀#fyp #foryoupage #foryou♬ original sound – Krystalline Kitty
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@daviisenpai#stitch with @billybillynyc #whitepassing #stories #fyp♬ original sound – David Rogers
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@r3ptar336#stitch with @billybillynyc♬ original sound – R3ptar336
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Share on FacebookI used to be so ignorant to just how common racism was, even where I live in Canada. It wasn't until I got married to my wife, who is Mexican, that I realized just how nasty some people can be. A lot of people say things to her, or look at her with clear hate in their eyes, and it honestly disgusts me. I'm proud to be married to her, regardless of her race, and I'm proud to have two beautiful mixed-race children!
Hope you and Mrs Robertson tell the haters to stuff it! :)
Load More Replies...and ladies and gentlemen is why you are so much better off without Trump as your president. That man was a 1 class bigot
I like how people be worshipping black/coloured rappers like idols but irl they are like the racist ppl u have ever met!
they want you as an entertainment, they don't want to see you as a person with rights
Load More Replies...I never thought I'd see any media dedicated to people of mixed races! I'm so happy. It's nice to be reminded that people think you exist. For me it's like being a lonely island! The Asians don't want you and neither do Caucasians, in my case. (I'm also part Native American. Throw all that together and the only people willing to teach me their language spoke Spanish or Russian.) TLDR: Assholery has no skintone.
I'm so sorry. I grew up in a very diverse community and also in a family with a lot of biracial marriages, so I was so shocked when I found out as a little kid that people hate others for such ridiculous reasons. The only explanation my little-kid-brain could come up with was that they were jealous of other people's beautiful skin and awesome hair (which I personally was, since I'm so white I'm clear and my white girl hair couldn't handle the beads and braids that I adored).
Load More Replies...This is true, we have fluids, organs, and limbs. Which every and any being called human, has them :)
Load More Replies...i hate it when ppl tell me "you don't look mexican" first of all how do you look mexican? like, mexicans come in all colors. second, how do you want me to look like? Do you want me to wear a sombrero, eating a churro, saying "ariba"?
Right? Particularly when mixed with non-Mexican. My late mother was the oldest of nine. Her Dad's family was from Chihuahua, her mother's family was from Wales and Germany. My Mom and my aunts and uncles all have their own look -- dark hair and blue eyes, dark hair and brown eyes, even blonde and blue eyed -- some of that Castilian Spanish from my great-grandfather as well as the European origins, coming out with those relatives. I'm told that in his 20's, my maternal grandfather passed for white -- he could get into the dance halls that didn't allow Mexicans, back in the bad old days in LA. Much like my Grandpa, strangers would never have said my Mom's youngest brother and sister were Mexican.
Load More Replies...Can racists go away to a different abandoned Island and let us live in peace ? I'm tired :((?
Load More Replies...This racist sack of s**t I went to high school with once sent me a meme on Facebook that anyone could read that had a white women with a mixed child. The caption said this is how you become a single mom. Basically saying if you have a kid with a black man he’ll abandon you. I don’t understand how he still had black friends after that. He didn’t even hide his racism. Yes Jeff I’m talking about you. I didn’t forget that s**t
I'm mixed with a white birthfather and black birthmother (yes I'm adopted. Don't pity me), but pass as black. It's crazy to me the number of people who ask me to say the N-word for them or to say it to someone else. I've also been racially abused by white kids for being black. Sometimes it's hard to be mixed.
Im adopted too! and thats sad... why are people just so annoying
Load More Replies...This gave me so many feelings. Angry and disgusted with every fiber of my soul because of the hate some people feel for others, thinking that they're superior to them. Proud of these smart and brave people telling about this and dealing with it in the best way. I think I'd know how to react, but I'd be so devastated that I'd start to cry and give the racist turds the reaction they want. That remark about shooting immigrants particularly hit home with my family being immigrants. It's just so disappointing. How easy for people who used to be immigrants themselves centuries ago and who annihilated entire nations, to feel that now, immigrants don't have the right to make a new life. Difference is, the racists' ancestors felt they could murder and conquer their way to the top, while the immigrants now work their way up a very long ladder. My biggest thanks for the posters!!!
It's the same for family of mixed. I have cousins that are mixed and it irks me out to hear the stupid s**t people say. My cousins are friggin awesome, powerful people, and their heritage has nothing to do with anything. Hell, what even _is_ mixed blood anyway? Like there's any white person in North America that isn't already mixed. You really think that grab bag of European countries in your family are one big culture? XD
And for that matter what even IS white? The definition is constantly changing. There was a time half of Europe wasn’t white. Hell there was a time when people didn’t even use the term “white.” Now whites have expanded to even include North Africans like Ethiopians who are obviously not white. It’s so ridiculous. Back in the day Italians were not white and not welcome. Now there are racist white italians. Makes not a lick of sense. Using skull shapes and mountain ranges to determine “race” is fuçking stupid
Load More Replies...September 11 2001. In the aftermath, all of us were talking about it. I lived in Southern Alberta at the time. Hanging with my now ex-fiance and some friends, they were all saying that "all immigrants should go back to their own countries", so I said I'd have to pack my bags then. They asked why and I explained I was born overseas so, based on their statement, I should go back to my country of birth. They said I didn't have to, so I asked why not; they were very clear that ALL immigrants had to "go home". They said I didn't have to because they meant the coloured people. I said I'd still have to go then and they asked why. I explained that I'm half European and half Asian so their criteria for staying in this country precluded me from staying. I left shortly after that and ended my relationship a few months later. Just because I look white doesn't mean I don't identify with my Asian heritage. Racists can piss right off.
This is just one of the many things tearing the US apart right now. Racists used to say that they would like to send their hated minority to their own island. I wish I could go to my own island where all people were welcome as long as they didn't say or think s**t like this.
I’m half Asian, half white. I have darker skin because I tan really easily, so people automatically assume I’m Latino and act accordingly. Been called “Luis,” “Diego,” etc.
I’m middle eastern and usually only other middle eastern people can figure it out. People have been racist to me without even knowing why lol. They want to hurt you with stereotypes and get mad when you’re not the race they choose to insult. So why are they mad then?! They’re so dumb it hurts.
Load More Replies...You wouldn’t believe how many people automatically assume I speak Spanish just because of how I look. I got a job once based on this assumption. It grossed me out how shocked they were when they asked me to take a phone call because the customer only spoke Spanish. One of them even said “how can you not speak Spanish”? They hired me thinking I was bilingual; at no time did I ever say I spoke Spanish, nor did I mention my ancestry.
Not surprising. My husband goes to the dog park regularly and is used to talking to random people he meets there. One day he came back and told me how a white woman was talking to him about how her ex left her for an Asian woman. What followed was a lot of racist nonsense about Asian people that she felt safe saying because she was talking to a white blonde haired blue eyed person. Neither my husband nor I are Asian but we don’t condone racism either.
The idea of "white purity" is complete BS, especially in the US. I mean, I'm Slovak, Gorali, Irish, French, and I don't even know what else. Even if your ancestors are of one ethnicity going back as far as you can trace, there's still no "purity," because white people have invaded one another's countries (and interbred) since the dawn of time. My race is human. So is yours.
prejudice isn't something to overcome easily. I'm from East-Germany, formerly known as GDR. After reunion but before European Borders opened, we had a phrase regularly used "dann ist Polen offen" (then Polen will open). it meant something like then hell will break loose. After the fall of the Berlin Wall there was the prejudice that our Neighbours the Polish people go to our countryside and steal stuff. so when xy is going to happen and its bad, we used this phrase. it takes a long time to not use language you learned as a kid, but everyone is capable of growing.
One good start is telling oneself, "Just because I think it, doesn't mean I have to say it."
Load More Replies...I'm pale skinned, and I'm Jewish - my great grandfather was a Russian landowner and a Rabbi, and my great grandmother was a Romani Gypsy Jew, so I don't adhere to the stereotypical Middle Eastern phenotype, despite most of my ancestors being from there. I was working once, and it was coming up on payday, and I was having a conversation with a coworker, who, out of the blue said: "I hope they don't Jew me out of my money." I gave him a hard stare and informed him, "You do realize that I'm Jewish, right?" He looked at me startled, and then laughed like I was making a joke. "...no, you're not." "I'm PRETTY SURE that I am," I said flatly, making it very clear that I was unimpressed. "But you're white!" He protested, growing visibly nervous as he began to realize that I wasn't having him on. "Yes. I'm also Jewish. And I find your comment to be extraordinarily offensive." He went pale and didn't say another word all day. He avoided me after that.
I know racism ain't going anywhere, ever. But that doesn't mean we can't try. My best friend in the world was a Mexican woman (she has since died and I miss her terribly). When I was 28 and she was 45 we were running errands together, talking about a mutual Egyptian friend who was having trouble with her daughter. "You will never believe what Carla has done now. Her poor mother is going crazy". I said, "What"? She answers, "She's dating a Black guy". The words hung in the air as I waited for her to catch what she said. A full 2 minutes go by as she is driving and glancing over at me, waiting for my reaction. Finally, I said, "I know how bad she feels, my mother married one"!
You don't have to be of mixed race to call out racism. I do it all the time. Mind you, it probably only works so well for me because I'm now officially 'an old lady' and can put on a cut-glass accent........ Once, in a supermarket, an old woman muttered something about people not speaking English there, so I said, quite loudly "Oooh - a dirty racist. Quick move away from her so we don't all catch it off her." And, obediently, everyone moved back several paces. .... Please don't hesitate to call out racism, wherever you find it. i's not only satisfying, it can be fun, too.
I am so sorry that you went through that. That girl is a terrible person and the teacher should be fired.
Load More Replies...Racism is stupid. What the hell is wrong with people whos skin is a little darker? I seriously do not get it. People are idiots.
It really is a roll of the dice. It is not a form of divine right to have "white" origins, it's a damn accident of birth. To believe otherwise is ridiculous.
Load More Replies...I was going around a stately home in England. A little far eastern looking toddler came into the room. She started saying daddy,daddy. There was a far eastern young gentleman in the room and we all looked at him and I think I even heard someone say there he is as the kid didn't seem to have seen him. Then a young western gent came into the room and made for this toddler. We were all getting ready to hurl him to the floor before he could kidnap her when the kid yelled DADDY and gave him a hug. At this point the child's far eastern looking mother came into the room. It just goes to show. You shouldn't make assumptions.
I feel like people need to know that every race can be racist not just white people...I am white and my best friend is black....black people can be racist and so can latinos. It is a problem but it's not all white peoples fault
everyone can have racial prejudice, but racism is a social construct, a form of oppression... so only those in power can be racist, meaning they have built a society where their race have advantages over those of different race
Load More Replies...I just pray for a day where people can be good to each other and things like race don't get in the way. I work in a very diverse restaurant with very diverse customers and when I go on deliveries people are very nice. When I got into a car accident about a month ago, the witnesses on the scene were a very diverse group and they were all very helpful and kind. There is good in all races and there is bad in all races. Instead of looking at people's races we need to look at whether they are a good person.
Canada here, the only 2 people i've heard/seen be racist is my dad, which from a young age made me angry with him and he still says that stuff today unfortunately. The second is the neighbor across from me. She's really nice and then just last week said something that shocked the heck out of me.
You keep working to be better than your Dad! My paternal grandfather was a bigot, and my late Dad hated it. He would not allow the five of us around his father, and he raised us better...and it definitely took. One of my (then teen-aged) brothers kicked a friend out of the house for saying Diana Ross was the N word after my brother made a comment on how gorgeous she was. Dad's been gone 25 years, still none of us will put up with that s**t. That cycle can be broken!
Load More Replies...I can say, unfortunately, I've experienced this. I'm a quarter Asian (some of that is Chinese, this will be relevant later) and three quarters white, and I used to date a white dude. Before he knew what my race was, we were texting one time, and I don't remember how, but the subject of Mandarin Chinese came up. He decided that it would be a great idea to then MAKE FUN OF HOW IT SOUNDED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, and he effectively said "Chinese is so funny it just sounds like chingchongheeheenoww." I was, dude, I'm part Chinese, and immediately he backpedaled and was like "it was a joke!!!" But I knew very well that it wasn't supposed to be, and the only reason he said it was was because he learned I was partially the race he was making fun of. I still feel mad that I didn't call him out on it more.
I grew up on milirary bases, and there is such diversity that no kid is rasist. we don't judge and are like a massive family.
I am so sorry this is happening! But be assured that this is not the norm all over the world. I have never heared such language. And I couldn't be more white.
Yup. I've lived this. From hearing people betch about "mexicans" in front of my face, to the whole living in the UK and hearing all the racism toward me b/c I had dark hair and ethnic features (I mean people would vent their spleen on Egyptians, Italians, Spaniards, Israelis, Persians, Saudis, pick one, right?) and baldly not even blink if you called them on it. Trump only normalized it in the US, but it's global. Why do you thing people wanted Brexit? Idiot racists.
Ugh... just once, at school, me and this dude that I’m really good friends with we’re just shooting back and forth each other with inside jokes that we had built up, and this completely random guy that I’ve never met before in my life (he was my friend’s friend) just called out to me calling me an “ugly fat Chinese man”. Mind you, three things. One, I’m Korean. Two, I call myself what I want. Three, I don’t think you should be one to talk about things like ugly or fat with an introduction like yours. My friend just blanched and stared at his friend like “dude what the hell” but it was just the fact that it was my friend’s friend that stopped me from cursing at him.
I have Frederick Douglas in my family tree. I also have a condition called vitiligo. When I was a child, one kid asked me if I scraped my skin to see if I was black underneath. I said yep.
"Pass for white"?? Like it is a good thing? Sounds kinda biased to me: White = Good, Other = Not. Maybe could have been " MISTAKEN for white" or "not recognised as their race" or something along those lines?
Yeah “pass” is an old term from slavery times sadly.
Load More Replies...This is so sad, but not trying to ruin things, but I saw the first video on buzzfeed a week or 2 ago. How does bored panda work? Cause a lot of its posts are similar to buzzfeed's..
I think they copy off of each other sometimes. Sometimes I see the EXACT same list on BF a week after BP
Load More Replies...I remember how I just started to talk to a random person at one party and how she was so wary of me at first and when we had like partied the whole night with the same bunch of people, she said that she thought I would say something about her skin color etc. Apparently she was somewhat used to people doing that. Made me really sad and I also made a friend for life.
My maternal grandfather was Mexican, my paternal grandmother was French Canadian, there's also some Swiss, German, Scotch -- basically I think of myself as a mixture of many groups of people. But, I am blue-eyed, fair-skinned with freckles, get sunburn easily. The only thing that gives away any of my non-white origins is when the dye job starts to grow out, and I have dark roots in my hair. Everyone takes it for granted that I just plain vanilla white European. Quite awhile back, I was going out with a couple of friends and one of them was fretting about the fact that his roommate was going to have a holiday gathering at their apartment while we were off at the theater. The issue? His roommate and his friends were all Mexicans, and according to my pal, "they stink and steal things". I said, "I'm part Mexican." He didn't believe it until my roommate verified. Didn't talk like that around me ever again....and he actually grew up quite a bit in the years since, thank God, so it no longer comes up. But then: oh, I was not happy.
My great grandfather was pureblood Romani and greatgran was pureblood Irish, and the family now jokes that the only reason her dad let the marriage stand was because they were both Catholic and that she may or maynot have been three months pregnant at the time.Three generations later, you have me with my mixed Mediterranean/Middle Eastern facial features and white skin and deo mea,the amount of misunderstanding and/or hate I hear is astounding.Everything from "You have nothing to worry about, you're white" to "Say what? Wait, you're actually a POC?" (from other POCs) to "towel head", "sand n*****" and "jihadi whore"(from a bunch of white idjits in my high school years during the Bush/Cheney admin after I objected to our servicemen and women going into the Middle East to go after Bin Laden).
Short answer: yes. Just like they have forgotten the men who wrote the Constitution weren't Christian by a conservative evangelical definition. But in race, politics, religion, and the movies, Americans do love to rewrite history.
Load More Replies...This just shows how pointless racism is, but people still don't seem to get it. The guy used the term "double agent" as a joke, but it still highlights how different races are seen as barriers, visible or invisible. This isn't and should not be the case, ethnicity exists, race: the idea that the way someone looks determines trait (Black people=bad) is so absurd. Races should NOT EXIST.
Okay. The German one was completely innocent. How is COMPLIMENTING SOMEONE ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN RACIST? Good lord, Find yourself a dictionary, please. Go.. Right now, then come back and read this again. Now that you know the actual definition of Racism: Atleast a third of these are NOT RACIST, just ignorant. Racism involves Hate and Fear. Saying "Oh the color of your skin is nice" is not f*****g racist, you dimwitted ass hats. I know someone that grew up in an area where there just aren't black people. He didn't even know the N-word was something you don't say around people until he used it in Casino and we all freaked out. That's called ignorance, NOT RACISM, you idiots. He didn't hate black people, he literally just had no idea it was wrong to say that(don't ask how, I don't know to this day). PLEASE know your words before your high school dropout asses make these articles and comments, THANKS!
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20111012125231893 You are wrong. The current definitions of racism in the English language do not include hate or fear, similar like "homophobia" has changed in meaning even with the latin roots. Please research your facts before asking people to change their facts. Thanks.
Load More Replies...#2, just to piss my mother off, and “ show” her. Then immediately realizing , how racist my immediate thought was, to do that.. made me feel so impotent, because I could do nothing with that anger that would be fair to anyone.. this is how ingrained racism is in human beings. And only as long as others are watching or listening, and caring and policing it, will it ever be .0000001% taken care of. Meaning it never will. We will always be fighting the good , or not so good fight for equality and fairness. I do not want to go through life, feeling as if my hands are always tied. But they are, so I do what I can. When and where, I can. But it will never be fair.
I think, I would love to know when and where racism started. What horror of a person started it, and why, what were they thinking, and why no one called them on it. It’s been around since biblical times,I realize this, the blatant, evil and self righteous crap of racists… then I realized something. It is so ingrained and so deeply that to fix it, we all have to stay n top of it forever. Any repairs, social or otherwise are only given lip service, air time, and they get behind closed door and bam. The things they will say. I was definitely shocked, when my sisters and I became of marriageable age, and my mom said to me, half joking half not, marry any man you want, rich or poor, though it’s just as easy to marry a rich man as a poor man, ba75 never marry a black man. My parents never, ever. Spoke a racist word in our hearing that I can remember. Until my mom said that. I was truly shocked and then I got mad. I literally thought, I am going to find myself a black man, and date him.
Yes I was told ALL white women are trash, sluts etc. I am white and the person who was talking to me was Asian
This level of ignorant racism does not exist in Britain yet we are being made to pay for what happened to that black man and a policeman
oh really? how about all those disgusting comments about Meghan Markle, just to name an example. There are so many nasty incidents in the UK involving racism. I am shocked about your comment.
Load More Replies...One of my female friends is very light skinned, blonde hair and blue eyes - she's also half-Mexican. I can't event imagine the racist stuff she's heard growing up. I've had folks who know I have a Jewish background and those who don't know my last name (which is very Jewish) say anti-Semitic things to me. Fortunately there isn't any history of Jews being persecuted so I am not so shocked ;-)
The big deal about it seems to be how not a nig deal it is to many. Those things, said casually, that aren't meant bad, but some of the listeners take them dead serious and reinforce their racism ... or the other way round, it isn't taken serious what is said, but meant all the way, and no one ever intervenes.
Dude: There is no "casual" way to make comments about someone's race. A person's family and heritage are really personal things, and no one has the right to make that the point of joke, a poke, a snarky comment, or a slur. THE END.
Load More Replies...As a white-passing (not black though, but Slavic people may know) person, I heard so much since I was as young as 4 about people my father´s family stems from. Revolting.
it takes courage to speek against the voices inside of a group, but everyone can learn it. there is nothing to be afraid of ... the good thing is: If you are used to it, it´s getting easier everytime. one day without any bad feelings, just being centred and calm, so they are able to listen ...
Can't even begin to explain the racism in India. Experienced the worst when I had not so fair skin which got changed due to vitiligo. The people have got s**t in their brains
I had a tumblr where I very clearly stated I'm mexican... so a guy felt compelled to leave a message saying he hated white looking mexicans because that was deceitful... what?
Yeah cause it's definitely your fault for that. ( Joke)
Load More Replies...And then the diplomatic toner speech. Oh, you're nothing like that. Guess that makes it all alright dipshit?
These young people are clearly not hanging around the right people. They need to find a better class of people to hang with. There are bigots out there, all sizes, colors, ages, religions, nationalities, sexes. You just need to shun those ignorant people and they’ll get the message you don’t agree.
This is tragically, staggeringly disgusting...and I'm "white" with only a very little Native American ancestry. Many in my so-called adoptive "family" are so racist(not against NA people only because they have that heritage too) which made me cut off all contact forever.
Being a white kid that grew up really poor and went to a 95% all black school I can tell you that black people are the biggest racist people I've ever met! When I transfered to a 95% all white school my senior year I was shocked to see how well the black kids were treated in comparison.
It doesn't surprise me, it's the majority kicking on the minority. I'm a Caucasian in Korea and, while I wouldn't really call them all racists, racism is indeed a huge problem in general here too. It only proves the point we anti-racists are trying to spread - we're all people, regardless of colour or face features. Travelling and cultural exchange, alongside a good education about various types of sciences combined with art, is the key to erase massive stupidity, in my opinion. Still, change takes time. And the root of racism is bringing rushed conclusions based on merely aesthetics. Appearances are deceiving. We should never forget that.
Load More Replies...I heard about an entire movement that is predicated upon race-based discrimination. Doesn't get more racist than that. And it's mainstream. These people have such a superiority complex they actually can't see themselves for the racists, sexists, and any other kind of bigot imaginable that they are; behaviour that they project upon everyone else. Woke-ism is a plague.
Racism is extremely common. The problem is that liberalism itself is dying and we are classifying ourselves by race and creating/enforcing social codes on it. The foundation of liberalism is individualism, which means you treat the person as a person and not as their inherent factors. Racial social codes are the new Jim Crow laws in the name of social justice.
I don’t think you have the best grasp of history...
Load More Replies...So you’re from the KKK town but you’re still acting like people are wrong to even point out the racism they get from white people. Nobody said all whites. It’s clear you don’t care so why not just say you don’t care? All of your rambling was just extra steps.
Load More Replies...“But what about meeeeeeeeeee!” - Leah Helbig
Load More Replies...Just say you don’t care about racism and go, Toby.
Load More Replies...Yes, this bullshit again. No one is forcing you to read it.
Load More Replies...Generally when we talk about white people negatively it's from an experience or situation in which we have been affected by white supremacy.
Load More Replies...I used to be so ignorant to just how common racism was, even where I live in Canada. It wasn't until I got married to my wife, who is Mexican, that I realized just how nasty some people can be. A lot of people say things to her, or look at her with clear hate in their eyes, and it honestly disgusts me. I'm proud to be married to her, regardless of her race, and I'm proud to have two beautiful mixed-race children!
Hope you and Mrs Robertson tell the haters to stuff it! :)
Load More Replies...and ladies and gentlemen is why you are so much better off without Trump as your president. That man was a 1 class bigot
I like how people be worshipping black/coloured rappers like idols but irl they are like the racist ppl u have ever met!
they want you as an entertainment, they don't want to see you as a person with rights
Load More Replies...I never thought I'd see any media dedicated to people of mixed races! I'm so happy. It's nice to be reminded that people think you exist. For me it's like being a lonely island! The Asians don't want you and neither do Caucasians, in my case. (I'm also part Native American. Throw all that together and the only people willing to teach me their language spoke Spanish or Russian.) TLDR: Assholery has no skintone.
I'm so sorry. I grew up in a very diverse community and also in a family with a lot of biracial marriages, so I was so shocked when I found out as a little kid that people hate others for such ridiculous reasons. The only explanation my little-kid-brain could come up with was that they were jealous of other people's beautiful skin and awesome hair (which I personally was, since I'm so white I'm clear and my white girl hair couldn't handle the beads and braids that I adored).
Load More Replies...This is true, we have fluids, organs, and limbs. Which every and any being called human, has them :)
Load More Replies...i hate it when ppl tell me "you don't look mexican" first of all how do you look mexican? like, mexicans come in all colors. second, how do you want me to look like? Do you want me to wear a sombrero, eating a churro, saying "ariba"?
Right? Particularly when mixed with non-Mexican. My late mother was the oldest of nine. Her Dad's family was from Chihuahua, her mother's family was from Wales and Germany. My Mom and my aunts and uncles all have their own look -- dark hair and blue eyes, dark hair and brown eyes, even blonde and blue eyed -- some of that Castilian Spanish from my great-grandfather as well as the European origins, coming out with those relatives. I'm told that in his 20's, my maternal grandfather passed for white -- he could get into the dance halls that didn't allow Mexicans, back in the bad old days in LA. Much like my Grandpa, strangers would never have said my Mom's youngest brother and sister were Mexican.
Load More Replies...Can racists go away to a different abandoned Island and let us live in peace ? I'm tired :((?
Load More Replies...This racist sack of s**t I went to high school with once sent me a meme on Facebook that anyone could read that had a white women with a mixed child. The caption said this is how you become a single mom. Basically saying if you have a kid with a black man he’ll abandon you. I don’t understand how he still had black friends after that. He didn’t even hide his racism. Yes Jeff I’m talking about you. I didn’t forget that s**t
I'm mixed with a white birthfather and black birthmother (yes I'm adopted. Don't pity me), but pass as black. It's crazy to me the number of people who ask me to say the N-word for them or to say it to someone else. I've also been racially abused by white kids for being black. Sometimes it's hard to be mixed.
Im adopted too! and thats sad... why are people just so annoying
Load More Replies...This gave me so many feelings. Angry and disgusted with every fiber of my soul because of the hate some people feel for others, thinking that they're superior to them. Proud of these smart and brave people telling about this and dealing with it in the best way. I think I'd know how to react, but I'd be so devastated that I'd start to cry and give the racist turds the reaction they want. That remark about shooting immigrants particularly hit home with my family being immigrants. It's just so disappointing. How easy for people who used to be immigrants themselves centuries ago and who annihilated entire nations, to feel that now, immigrants don't have the right to make a new life. Difference is, the racists' ancestors felt they could murder and conquer their way to the top, while the immigrants now work their way up a very long ladder. My biggest thanks for the posters!!!
It's the same for family of mixed. I have cousins that are mixed and it irks me out to hear the stupid s**t people say. My cousins are friggin awesome, powerful people, and their heritage has nothing to do with anything. Hell, what even _is_ mixed blood anyway? Like there's any white person in North America that isn't already mixed. You really think that grab bag of European countries in your family are one big culture? XD
And for that matter what even IS white? The definition is constantly changing. There was a time half of Europe wasn’t white. Hell there was a time when people didn’t even use the term “white.” Now whites have expanded to even include North Africans like Ethiopians who are obviously not white. It’s so ridiculous. Back in the day Italians were not white and not welcome. Now there are racist white italians. Makes not a lick of sense. Using skull shapes and mountain ranges to determine “race” is fuçking stupid
Load More Replies...September 11 2001. In the aftermath, all of us were talking about it. I lived in Southern Alberta at the time. Hanging with my now ex-fiance and some friends, they were all saying that "all immigrants should go back to their own countries", so I said I'd have to pack my bags then. They asked why and I explained I was born overseas so, based on their statement, I should go back to my country of birth. They said I didn't have to, so I asked why not; they were very clear that ALL immigrants had to "go home". They said I didn't have to because they meant the coloured people. I said I'd still have to go then and they asked why. I explained that I'm half European and half Asian so their criteria for staying in this country precluded me from staying. I left shortly after that and ended my relationship a few months later. Just because I look white doesn't mean I don't identify with my Asian heritage. Racists can piss right off.
This is just one of the many things tearing the US apart right now. Racists used to say that they would like to send their hated minority to their own island. I wish I could go to my own island where all people were welcome as long as they didn't say or think s**t like this.
I’m half Asian, half white. I have darker skin because I tan really easily, so people automatically assume I’m Latino and act accordingly. Been called “Luis,” “Diego,” etc.
I’m middle eastern and usually only other middle eastern people can figure it out. People have been racist to me without even knowing why lol. They want to hurt you with stereotypes and get mad when you’re not the race they choose to insult. So why are they mad then?! They’re so dumb it hurts.
Load More Replies...You wouldn’t believe how many people automatically assume I speak Spanish just because of how I look. I got a job once based on this assumption. It grossed me out how shocked they were when they asked me to take a phone call because the customer only spoke Spanish. One of them even said “how can you not speak Spanish”? They hired me thinking I was bilingual; at no time did I ever say I spoke Spanish, nor did I mention my ancestry.
Not surprising. My husband goes to the dog park regularly and is used to talking to random people he meets there. One day he came back and told me how a white woman was talking to him about how her ex left her for an Asian woman. What followed was a lot of racist nonsense about Asian people that she felt safe saying because she was talking to a white blonde haired blue eyed person. Neither my husband nor I are Asian but we don’t condone racism either.
The idea of "white purity" is complete BS, especially in the US. I mean, I'm Slovak, Gorali, Irish, French, and I don't even know what else. Even if your ancestors are of one ethnicity going back as far as you can trace, there's still no "purity," because white people have invaded one another's countries (and interbred) since the dawn of time. My race is human. So is yours.
prejudice isn't something to overcome easily. I'm from East-Germany, formerly known as GDR. After reunion but before European Borders opened, we had a phrase regularly used "dann ist Polen offen" (then Polen will open). it meant something like then hell will break loose. After the fall of the Berlin Wall there was the prejudice that our Neighbours the Polish people go to our countryside and steal stuff. so when xy is going to happen and its bad, we used this phrase. it takes a long time to not use language you learned as a kid, but everyone is capable of growing.
One good start is telling oneself, "Just because I think it, doesn't mean I have to say it."
Load More Replies...I'm pale skinned, and I'm Jewish - my great grandfather was a Russian landowner and a Rabbi, and my great grandmother was a Romani Gypsy Jew, so I don't adhere to the stereotypical Middle Eastern phenotype, despite most of my ancestors being from there. I was working once, and it was coming up on payday, and I was having a conversation with a coworker, who, out of the blue said: "I hope they don't Jew me out of my money." I gave him a hard stare and informed him, "You do realize that I'm Jewish, right?" He looked at me startled, and then laughed like I was making a joke. "...no, you're not." "I'm PRETTY SURE that I am," I said flatly, making it very clear that I was unimpressed. "But you're white!" He protested, growing visibly nervous as he began to realize that I wasn't having him on. "Yes. I'm also Jewish. And I find your comment to be extraordinarily offensive." He went pale and didn't say another word all day. He avoided me after that.
I know racism ain't going anywhere, ever. But that doesn't mean we can't try. My best friend in the world was a Mexican woman (she has since died and I miss her terribly). When I was 28 and she was 45 we were running errands together, talking about a mutual Egyptian friend who was having trouble with her daughter. "You will never believe what Carla has done now. Her poor mother is going crazy". I said, "What"? She answers, "She's dating a Black guy". The words hung in the air as I waited for her to catch what she said. A full 2 minutes go by as she is driving and glancing over at me, waiting for my reaction. Finally, I said, "I know how bad she feels, my mother married one"!
You don't have to be of mixed race to call out racism. I do it all the time. Mind you, it probably only works so well for me because I'm now officially 'an old lady' and can put on a cut-glass accent........ Once, in a supermarket, an old woman muttered something about people not speaking English there, so I said, quite loudly "Oooh - a dirty racist. Quick move away from her so we don't all catch it off her." And, obediently, everyone moved back several paces. .... Please don't hesitate to call out racism, wherever you find it. i's not only satisfying, it can be fun, too.
I am so sorry that you went through that. That girl is a terrible person and the teacher should be fired.
Load More Replies...Racism is stupid. What the hell is wrong with people whos skin is a little darker? I seriously do not get it. People are idiots.
It really is a roll of the dice. It is not a form of divine right to have "white" origins, it's a damn accident of birth. To believe otherwise is ridiculous.
Load More Replies...I was going around a stately home in England. A little far eastern looking toddler came into the room. She started saying daddy,daddy. There was a far eastern young gentleman in the room and we all looked at him and I think I even heard someone say there he is as the kid didn't seem to have seen him. Then a young western gent came into the room and made for this toddler. We were all getting ready to hurl him to the floor before he could kidnap her when the kid yelled DADDY and gave him a hug. At this point the child's far eastern looking mother came into the room. It just goes to show. You shouldn't make assumptions.
I feel like people need to know that every race can be racist not just white people...I am white and my best friend is black....black people can be racist and so can latinos. It is a problem but it's not all white peoples fault
everyone can have racial prejudice, but racism is a social construct, a form of oppression... so only those in power can be racist, meaning they have built a society where their race have advantages over those of different race
Load More Replies...I just pray for a day where people can be good to each other and things like race don't get in the way. I work in a very diverse restaurant with very diverse customers and when I go on deliveries people are very nice. When I got into a car accident about a month ago, the witnesses on the scene were a very diverse group and they were all very helpful and kind. There is good in all races and there is bad in all races. Instead of looking at people's races we need to look at whether they are a good person.
Canada here, the only 2 people i've heard/seen be racist is my dad, which from a young age made me angry with him and he still says that stuff today unfortunately. The second is the neighbor across from me. She's really nice and then just last week said something that shocked the heck out of me.
You keep working to be better than your Dad! My paternal grandfather was a bigot, and my late Dad hated it. He would not allow the five of us around his father, and he raised us better...and it definitely took. One of my (then teen-aged) brothers kicked a friend out of the house for saying Diana Ross was the N word after my brother made a comment on how gorgeous she was. Dad's been gone 25 years, still none of us will put up with that s**t. That cycle can be broken!
Load More Replies...I can say, unfortunately, I've experienced this. I'm a quarter Asian (some of that is Chinese, this will be relevant later) and three quarters white, and I used to date a white dude. Before he knew what my race was, we were texting one time, and I don't remember how, but the subject of Mandarin Chinese came up. He decided that it would be a great idea to then MAKE FUN OF HOW IT SOUNDED RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME, and he effectively said "Chinese is so funny it just sounds like chingchongheeheenoww." I was, dude, I'm part Chinese, and immediately he backpedaled and was like "it was a joke!!!" But I knew very well that it wasn't supposed to be, and the only reason he said it was was because he learned I was partially the race he was making fun of. I still feel mad that I didn't call him out on it more.
I grew up on milirary bases, and there is such diversity that no kid is rasist. we don't judge and are like a massive family.
I am so sorry this is happening! But be assured that this is not the norm all over the world. I have never heared such language. And I couldn't be more white.
Yup. I've lived this. From hearing people betch about "mexicans" in front of my face, to the whole living in the UK and hearing all the racism toward me b/c I had dark hair and ethnic features (I mean people would vent their spleen on Egyptians, Italians, Spaniards, Israelis, Persians, Saudis, pick one, right?) and baldly not even blink if you called them on it. Trump only normalized it in the US, but it's global. Why do you thing people wanted Brexit? Idiot racists.
Ugh... just once, at school, me and this dude that I’m really good friends with we’re just shooting back and forth each other with inside jokes that we had built up, and this completely random guy that I’ve never met before in my life (he was my friend’s friend) just called out to me calling me an “ugly fat Chinese man”. Mind you, three things. One, I’m Korean. Two, I call myself what I want. Three, I don’t think you should be one to talk about things like ugly or fat with an introduction like yours. My friend just blanched and stared at his friend like “dude what the hell” but it was just the fact that it was my friend’s friend that stopped me from cursing at him.
I have Frederick Douglas in my family tree. I also have a condition called vitiligo. When I was a child, one kid asked me if I scraped my skin to see if I was black underneath. I said yep.
"Pass for white"?? Like it is a good thing? Sounds kinda biased to me: White = Good, Other = Not. Maybe could have been " MISTAKEN for white" or "not recognised as their race" or something along those lines?
Yeah “pass” is an old term from slavery times sadly.
Load More Replies...This is so sad, but not trying to ruin things, but I saw the first video on buzzfeed a week or 2 ago. How does bored panda work? Cause a lot of its posts are similar to buzzfeed's..
I think they copy off of each other sometimes. Sometimes I see the EXACT same list on BF a week after BP
Load More Replies...I remember how I just started to talk to a random person at one party and how she was so wary of me at first and when we had like partied the whole night with the same bunch of people, she said that she thought I would say something about her skin color etc. Apparently she was somewhat used to people doing that. Made me really sad and I also made a friend for life.
My maternal grandfather was Mexican, my paternal grandmother was French Canadian, there's also some Swiss, German, Scotch -- basically I think of myself as a mixture of many groups of people. But, I am blue-eyed, fair-skinned with freckles, get sunburn easily. The only thing that gives away any of my non-white origins is when the dye job starts to grow out, and I have dark roots in my hair. Everyone takes it for granted that I just plain vanilla white European. Quite awhile back, I was going out with a couple of friends and one of them was fretting about the fact that his roommate was going to have a holiday gathering at their apartment while we were off at the theater. The issue? His roommate and his friends were all Mexicans, and according to my pal, "they stink and steal things". I said, "I'm part Mexican." He didn't believe it until my roommate verified. Didn't talk like that around me ever again....and he actually grew up quite a bit in the years since, thank God, so it no longer comes up. But then: oh, I was not happy.
My great grandfather was pureblood Romani and greatgran was pureblood Irish, and the family now jokes that the only reason her dad let the marriage stand was because they were both Catholic and that she may or maynot have been three months pregnant at the time.Three generations later, you have me with my mixed Mediterranean/Middle Eastern facial features and white skin and deo mea,the amount of misunderstanding and/or hate I hear is astounding.Everything from "You have nothing to worry about, you're white" to "Say what? Wait, you're actually a POC?" (from other POCs) to "towel head", "sand n*****" and "jihadi whore"(from a bunch of white idjits in my high school years during the Bush/Cheney admin after I objected to our servicemen and women going into the Middle East to go after Bin Laden).
Short answer: yes. Just like they have forgotten the men who wrote the Constitution weren't Christian by a conservative evangelical definition. But in race, politics, religion, and the movies, Americans do love to rewrite history.
Load More Replies...This just shows how pointless racism is, but people still don't seem to get it. The guy used the term "double agent" as a joke, but it still highlights how different races are seen as barriers, visible or invisible. This isn't and should not be the case, ethnicity exists, race: the idea that the way someone looks determines trait (Black people=bad) is so absurd. Races should NOT EXIST.
Okay. The German one was completely innocent. How is COMPLIMENTING SOMEONE ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN RACIST? Good lord, Find yourself a dictionary, please. Go.. Right now, then come back and read this again. Now that you know the actual definition of Racism: Atleast a third of these are NOT RACIST, just ignorant. Racism involves Hate and Fear. Saying "Oh the color of your skin is nice" is not f*****g racist, you dimwitted ass hats. I know someone that grew up in an area where there just aren't black people. He didn't even know the N-word was something you don't say around people until he used it in Casino and we all freaked out. That's called ignorance, NOT RACISM, you idiots. He didn't hate black people, he literally just had no idea it was wrong to say that(don't ask how, I don't know to this day). PLEASE know your words before your high school dropout asses make these articles and comments, THANKS!
https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20111012125231893 You are wrong. The current definitions of racism in the English language do not include hate or fear, similar like "homophobia" has changed in meaning even with the latin roots. Please research your facts before asking people to change their facts. Thanks.
Load More Replies...#2, just to piss my mother off, and “ show” her. Then immediately realizing , how racist my immediate thought was, to do that.. made me feel so impotent, because I could do nothing with that anger that would be fair to anyone.. this is how ingrained racism is in human beings. And only as long as others are watching or listening, and caring and policing it, will it ever be .0000001% taken care of. Meaning it never will. We will always be fighting the good , or not so good fight for equality and fairness. I do not want to go through life, feeling as if my hands are always tied. But they are, so I do what I can. When and where, I can. But it will never be fair.
I think, I would love to know when and where racism started. What horror of a person started it, and why, what were they thinking, and why no one called them on it. It’s been around since biblical times,I realize this, the blatant, evil and self righteous crap of racists… then I realized something. It is so ingrained and so deeply that to fix it, we all have to stay n top of it forever. Any repairs, social or otherwise are only given lip service, air time, and they get behind closed door and bam. The things they will say. I was definitely shocked, when my sisters and I became of marriageable age, and my mom said to me, half joking half not, marry any man you want, rich or poor, though it’s just as easy to marry a rich man as a poor man, ba75 never marry a black man. My parents never, ever. Spoke a racist word in our hearing that I can remember. Until my mom said that. I was truly shocked and then I got mad. I literally thought, I am going to find myself a black man, and date him.
Yes I was told ALL white women are trash, sluts etc. I am white and the person who was talking to me was Asian
This level of ignorant racism does not exist in Britain yet we are being made to pay for what happened to that black man and a policeman
oh really? how about all those disgusting comments about Meghan Markle, just to name an example. There are so many nasty incidents in the UK involving racism. I am shocked about your comment.
Load More Replies...One of my female friends is very light skinned, blonde hair and blue eyes - she's also half-Mexican. I can't event imagine the racist stuff she's heard growing up. I've had folks who know I have a Jewish background and those who don't know my last name (which is very Jewish) say anti-Semitic things to me. Fortunately there isn't any history of Jews being persecuted so I am not so shocked ;-)
The big deal about it seems to be how not a nig deal it is to many. Those things, said casually, that aren't meant bad, but some of the listeners take them dead serious and reinforce their racism ... or the other way round, it isn't taken serious what is said, but meant all the way, and no one ever intervenes.
Dude: There is no "casual" way to make comments about someone's race. A person's family and heritage are really personal things, and no one has the right to make that the point of joke, a poke, a snarky comment, or a slur. THE END.
Load More Replies...As a white-passing (not black though, but Slavic people may know) person, I heard so much since I was as young as 4 about people my father´s family stems from. Revolting.
it takes courage to speek against the voices inside of a group, but everyone can learn it. there is nothing to be afraid of ... the good thing is: If you are used to it, it´s getting easier everytime. one day without any bad feelings, just being centred and calm, so they are able to listen ...
Can't even begin to explain the racism in India. Experienced the worst when I had not so fair skin which got changed due to vitiligo. The people have got s**t in their brains
I had a tumblr where I very clearly stated I'm mexican... so a guy felt compelled to leave a message saying he hated white looking mexicans because that was deceitful... what?
Yeah cause it's definitely your fault for that. ( Joke)
Load More Replies...And then the diplomatic toner speech. Oh, you're nothing like that. Guess that makes it all alright dipshit?
These young people are clearly not hanging around the right people. They need to find a better class of people to hang with. There are bigots out there, all sizes, colors, ages, religions, nationalities, sexes. You just need to shun those ignorant people and they’ll get the message you don’t agree.
This is tragically, staggeringly disgusting...and I'm "white" with only a very little Native American ancestry. Many in my so-called adoptive "family" are so racist(not against NA people only because they have that heritage too) which made me cut off all contact forever.
Being a white kid that grew up really poor and went to a 95% all black school I can tell you that black people are the biggest racist people I've ever met! When I transfered to a 95% all white school my senior year I was shocked to see how well the black kids were treated in comparison.
It doesn't surprise me, it's the majority kicking on the minority. I'm a Caucasian in Korea and, while I wouldn't really call them all racists, racism is indeed a huge problem in general here too. It only proves the point we anti-racists are trying to spread - we're all people, regardless of colour or face features. Travelling and cultural exchange, alongside a good education about various types of sciences combined with art, is the key to erase massive stupidity, in my opinion. Still, change takes time. And the root of racism is bringing rushed conclusions based on merely aesthetics. Appearances are deceiving. We should never forget that.
Load More Replies...I heard about an entire movement that is predicated upon race-based discrimination. Doesn't get more racist than that. And it's mainstream. These people have such a superiority complex they actually can't see themselves for the racists, sexists, and any other kind of bigot imaginable that they are; behaviour that they project upon everyone else. Woke-ism is a plague.
Racism is extremely common. The problem is that liberalism itself is dying and we are classifying ourselves by race and creating/enforcing social codes on it. The foundation of liberalism is individualism, which means you treat the person as a person and not as their inherent factors. Racial social codes are the new Jim Crow laws in the name of social justice.
I don’t think you have the best grasp of history...
Load More Replies...So you’re from the KKK town but you’re still acting like people are wrong to even point out the racism they get from white people. Nobody said all whites. It’s clear you don’t care so why not just say you don’t care? All of your rambling was just extra steps.
Load More Replies...“But what about meeeeeeeeeee!” - Leah Helbig
Load More Replies...Just say you don’t care about racism and go, Toby.
Load More Replies...Yes, this bullshit again. No one is forcing you to read it.
Load More Replies...Generally when we talk about white people negatively it's from an experience or situation in which we have been affected by white supremacy.
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