I Hate Racism and Discrimination

I hate racism too. In every way being African American puts me in the position of senior all times in subtle and very open ways
We are not being honest if we start saying racism in AMERICA is a thing of the past
It still exists we aren't being told about racist incidents surrounding black people that they have to endure on a daily basis

I was standing in a supermarket to check out line when a lady also in line started talking the subject went to her son who after two months returned to our city from dropping out of college.
He had been enrolled in predominately white college down in southern Indiana.
The white racism shown towards from white students on campus was to the extent he left the school for good His said when he arrived back home he asked her Mama why are whites racist why do they act like that?

You see this is an all black city. So young black kids never get the chance to see how racist whites can be until they leave here and go into predominately white situations.
My daughter has master degree in English she middle school.
She has a close friend from childhoodwho has a bachelor in nursing.This young lady relocated to southern Indiana.
Her friend lives in southern Indiana.

Every summer my daughter drives down to visit her friend in Evansville. Her warns her not to stop for gas in any of the small towns because the whites hate blacks and don't want them service any their stores.
She told to buy gas and rest in the large cities like Terre Haute she would have problems in those locations.

My daughter's friend learned the hard way about hidden racism in small white towns after she located in southern Indiana.
She stop in an white town at a service station she said everyone inside was very angry towards her and didn't want to wait on her.

I could go on but trying to post all the racist incidents I am told about would take all afternoon

Racism still lives in America

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Mamapolo2016 · F

It does. I don't argue it doesn't. I imagine it's probably far worse to see your children hurt by it than to experience it yourself.

I hate it too. My daughter actually had a similar difficulty learning about racism because where we lived was all white, rural Pennsylvania. Not wealthy, not gated - just white.

She was three when we went to K-Mart and it did not even occur to me why she was staring at the black woman ahead of us in line. She was always a forward child, friendly, curious and she reached up to touch the skin on the woman's hand amd then looked at her fingers. She asked the woman, "It doesn't come off?"

That woman was so poised and so completely a lady that she crouched beside my daughter and took her hand, encouraging her to touch and see it did not come off. She was gentle and sweet and I was in awe. It must get old, but she showed no signs of that.

I went home and called my mother, who liked to make Cabbage Patch dolls and ordered one in every shade from white to black. We read stories about people who were not identical to us. I made it a point to take her places where there were live human beings not like us.

Whether it was the dolls, the travel, the stories or that blessed woman at K-Mart, today my daughter is not allergic to any skin color and I thank God for that.

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Mamapolo2016 · F

@Starrysky I was again moved to grateful tears telling that story and again realized it could - legitimately - have gone far differently. 'Why should I have to explain to your child why my skin is a different color?'

I do feel constrained to say that I am 67. Racism is not fixed here. Racism is not fixed anywhere. But it's not as broken as it was. In the mid 70s I made a young black woman a head cashier in a grocery store in Harrisburg PA because she was so clearly the optimal candidate any other choice would have been laughable.

To my naive shock they drove her out. I was stunned. Appalled. Heart-broken. She wrote [b]me[/b] a letter of apology because she let me down. I had not anticipated it would, could, even be a 'thing.' It was 1976!

I quit my job because nothing was going to happen to the racist sexist trolls who did it. I allowed myself to be wooed back with promises of intentional change and it did change - slowly - but it changed.

At the time I thought they wanted me back because I was such a good cashier trainer. I was, but now I think it was because I was the only fool who would work insane hours on salary with no overtime.

Later it was a black AND gay head cashier, but that changed too.

But I am not unique, not by any stretch of the imagination. I am not a toothless hopeless pump jockey in Indiana who is not worthy to tie your daughter's shoes, but I'm not Mahatma Ghandi either. I am, like you, a human who wants and tries to do what is only right and sensible.

I was born to white fundamentalist Christian parents who also wanted to do the right thing and taught me accordingly.

It is not changing fast enough, but it is changing.

Starrysky

@Mamapolo2016 Stay remarkable always! It is an enlightening and pleasurable experience to read your thoughtful opinions.

Mamapolo2016 · F

@Starrysky Thank you. A pleasure meeting you.

Nyloncapes · 61-69, M

Starrysky racism exists everywhere , by ignorant thick people

SW-User

Being oversensitive perpetuates the problem.

Starrysky

@SW-User I might as well add this true incident my former neighbor told me a few ago
She was home from college in Iowa for the holidays she came to see me

She said before vacation a white female student asked her out of the blue is it true black people had tails attached to their BUTTS.
My neighbor said her question stunned her and she asked why did she ask her something like that!

The white girl answered when I was a child my parents told me that black people had tails like MONKEYS attached their behinds.

So you say we are over sensitive if a fool asks you something like are we give a big toothy grin and say that's right

Really now! Get resl

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