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Have you experience racism?

My experience: I was just riding my bike around in the summer and this kid walked by me and stopped dribbling his basketball because I ( a person of darker skin) was nearby, his dad just said "this guy's an asshole, he won't have a future anyway." I was extremely offended by it, my color shouldn't determine what's in store for me. The dad, ironically, had a spray tan. So he thinks someone with darker skin can be so unsuccessful, yet he tries to look like he has darker skin.

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Pinkrainbowkisses · F

I don't know about racism.. maybe it was.. but my first few selfie pics on HERE were in the summer so I was darker, I have olive skin as it is so I do get kinda dark.. but MANY people thought I was African American or mixed and I was actually treated differently (nicer) when they found out I was Caucasian. It was eye opening.

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Pinkrainbowkisses · F

@HoraceGreenley: Actually, now that I think about it when I rejected a guy he called me a black ape. 😳 That's when I first realized I was being mistaken for another race.

HoraceGreenley · 56-60, M

@pinkrainbowkisses: Holy Crap! that's terrible.

64snails · 56-60, F

Yes I have. In 2014 I was working as front desk clerk at a condo in Rockport, TX. A young black female came in and left her job application with me. After she left, I stepped over to my supervisors desk to give her the application and she said, "Oh we don't hire them." Then proceeded to show me the procedure for apps from people "like her". Write "colored" at the top and lay it on the Manager's desk.

In those moments, I was feeling physically ill, and trapped. I did not work there much longer.

RealMustangGuy · 61-69, MVIP

Young man, there might have been another reason that kid's dad said what he said besides your skin color, but anyone would be offended by that kind of remark.

Just know that there are a great many people who do not judge anyone by skin color, and who are likewise offended when people such as that dad base judgements on skin color. You yourself know your own worth, and you have it in you to achieve anything you want in this life. The only limit anyone has is what they themselves place on themselves.

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DoorMattress · 22-25, M

I'm sorry to hear that...

pearllederman · 61-69, F

no, but i think its mean to be racist

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DoorMattress · 22-25, M

How were you bullied?

SW-User

sounds made up..

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DoorMattress · 22-25, M

I do see your point where I may come off as racist with some of what I wrote down. I only wanted to put context. But i didn't provoke the two in any way. I just sat on my bike waiting for the cars to pass and he just said that as he walked by. Maybe it isn't race at all, maybe overall i looked intimidating, maybe they had a bad experience with people on bikes stealing their basketballs. Who knows... maybe it was wrong of me to say that was a racist situation, maybe overall I am a racist and don't even know it.

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MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

😜 How do you know that it was because you had darker skin...?

DoorMattress · 22-25, M

Because the dad reacted fine with all the lighter skinned kids around, even the extremely intimidating looking ones, but once they went passed me they reacted different

MartinTheFirst · 26-30, M

@DoorMattress: Hmm well you know how we often feel like people are judging us? Maybe it's that..? overly conscious?

DoorMattress · 22-25, M

@MartinTheFirst: Maybe, but why would I judge a kid just dribbling his basketball? I didn't mean to look like I was judging him, all the white kids around the neighborhood boast about their skills and yet he's unaffected by them

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