My Experiences Of Racism
Kinda interesting.
Living in the multi-cultural country of the United Kingdom. Being brought up in Nottinghamshire before moving to Derbyshire. Huge ethnic background. Cool.
People had moved to those areas, from aboard, since the 1950's. As generations grow, new generations come. Different attitudes are fostered.
Speaking personally, I've not really had any direct racism as such. Not verbally. Occasionally I have had those eyes that linger just a bit longer than they should be. I've never - thankfully - had the 'N' word thrown at me.
But, what I have had, and it's mostly the older people but sometimes people in, oh, I'd say, their 30's. What I have had is people saying something like [i]'Oh, I'd never thought that we'd get on, y'know?'[/i], which I have taken as some form of indirect racism. Calling those people out - not always, but when I feel that I can - I hear them backtrack.
Racism? I've never understood. I, as a black woman, would never think about calling someone something like 'white bread', y'know? It's just disrespectful. Do black lives matter more than any other lives? No, of course not, but we as non-whites are subjected to, obviously, a huge history of abuse, but recent more subtle racism that we have from day to day.
Just my own thoughts...
Living in the multi-cultural country of the United Kingdom. Being brought up in Nottinghamshire before moving to Derbyshire. Huge ethnic background. Cool.
People had moved to those areas, from aboard, since the 1950's. As generations grow, new generations come. Different attitudes are fostered.
Speaking personally, I've not really had any direct racism as such. Not verbally. Occasionally I have had those eyes that linger just a bit longer than they should be. I've never - thankfully - had the 'N' word thrown at me.
But, what I have had, and it's mostly the older people but sometimes people in, oh, I'd say, their 30's. What I have had is people saying something like [i]'Oh, I'd never thought that we'd get on, y'know?'[/i], which I have taken as some form of indirect racism. Calling those people out - not always, but when I feel that I can - I hear them backtrack.
Racism? I've never understood. I, as a black woman, would never think about calling someone something like 'white bread', y'know? It's just disrespectful. Do black lives matter more than any other lives? No, of course not, but we as non-whites are subjected to, obviously, a huge history of abuse, but recent more subtle racism that we have from day to day.
Just my own thoughts...
26-30, F
