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.

[Ajmalhuuss]

I am an 18 year old Pakistani-American. I have been in this country since I was 10 years old and have no accent, know the english language well, I understand the culture and know everything there is to know about NY and NJ. I am working 3 jobs right now to try to better my standards of living. Currently I retain, after paying taxes and house payments, somewhere around the neighborhood of 45k. Now I am thinking its time for me to get a new car, since I drive a 1993 Mazda MX-6 LS right now (great GREARTTTT car, but not really something that I would wanna drive everyday). On Monday I saw this AD for a Prosche 944 Cabriotlet and me being a huge Proscha, I wanted to buy it right away. I called the owner of the vehicle and talked to him over the phone. He sounded very pleased with my knowledge of the car and said, "I would love to pass on my baby to you." I was real excited. I then set up an appointment with him to come look at the car the following morning. Everything worked out great over the phone. On tuesday around 12pm I left my house and drove the 80 miles to get to his place. When I got there I was greeted by a wonderful lady (the porsche owner's wife). The lady showed me the car and explained to me the details of it. We then waited for the husband to come back from the store for about half hour and during that time I was then invited into the home and I sat around drinking some coffee. The husband arrived 30 minutes later. As soon as he walked into the door he asks, "Honey, who the F*** is this dez in my house?" I stood up and looked at the guy, I was shocked. He stared dead into my face with grave anger. I took a step towards him and exted my arm, "Hi, I spoke to you over the phone about buying that wonderful car." You told me to come by and look at it today. I have to say sir, I would love to buy it." He walked away from me towards the kitchen and yelled out, "Hey, tell this guy that car ain't for sale and to get out of my house, I got things to do." The turned and looked at the wife who seemed as shocked as I was. She looked at me and apologized for her husband and told me to please give her a call back about the car after she had spoken to the husband. I told her I understood that some people can be really stupid and its not her fault, she did not need to apologize to me.

People like that really upset me. I mean I am a very responsible individual. I can do everything he can and probably tons more. Why should I be looked at like I am not even worth someone's time?