Racism, Has it affected you? Options

[Simba]

Has racism ever had an effect on you?
Not just being called racist slurs, but actually being limited in some way because of race.

Something like this happend to my parents a few years ago.

I know my parents went to some foriegn store our of the U.S. (Rome I think it was) and stood in line to buy some things. When it was my parent's turn, the cashier ignored then but, continued serving people that were even behind my parents. My parents didn't get helped until my father complained. It was supposedly because my parents are Filipino.

[jennyjenny]

There has been many "have you been a victim of racism" in createblog. i made one myself a couple years back when roxy and trish were still here, and the conclusion was that racism can't be stopped.

i live in a town where mostly whites dominate. the blacks who attend the school are usually from the city and have to wake up at 4 or 5 to get here so they can get a better education.

the first racial remark i cared about was in 7th grade by this really annoying kid. since then, i think all the guys who think they're "tough" decided to be prejudice. they all called me a chink and a gook and shouted stereotypes such as asians can't drive. i got racial remarks almost every day.

so here i am, in highschool, and i STILL get made fun of because of my race. the other asian people from the other middle school can back me up, that they've been discriminated too. you don't see other white people getting made fun of, only the asian people.

i've lived in towns where there are mostly white people my whole life, except for this one town (which everyone calls will be the next chinatown) and kids as young as 8 would be going "ching chong chang" and all that sh*t.

it pisses me off, but if you cared a lot, you could probably report it to the school as a hate crime or harassment.