Quote Originally Posted by Lucky Dawg
One thing i would like to address though that i feel like no one has brought up is the fact that white people can feel that they are the victems of racism too. I have worked at places that are majority black employers when i was younger and have had jokes cracked on me that some wouldn't have taken in such good humor as me.

I have a hard time believing no other white people have experienced the same thing. Sometimes i do feel like black people feel that i am directly responsible for my ancestors and label me before they know me.


Note i do not speak of black people as a whole, just in some instances
I tried to touch on that point a little bit. All races & cultures face injustices, and that's the problem with the WORLD as a whole. Honestly, I commend you for not taking that negative experience, and labeling the black race. If EVERYONE would take the "be-humble" approach (black and white), then maybe we could all move foreward. My own experience hurt a lot (and that's not the only one), but it didn't make me hate white people. More than anything, it made me wish that people with that mentality would try to understand who I really am.

Quote Originally Posted by stephen
Some people will never understand the term "You don't know what it's like to be _____ (fill in the blank)." I learned about, and have personally been a victim of racism. I'm not just talking about "I can't say a word you can say." No, I could've lost sooo much because of the color of my skin. I could've had a criminal record, lost my scholorship, would've had an even harder time trying to get a career, and could've spent a few years in prison. Why??? Because a white woman felt like all black people look alike. She was mugged/assaulted by a young black kid. I had just finished football practice (I was in high school), and was walking home. A cop stops me, and tells me the lady was mugged, and I fit the description. He shows me to the woman, and she says, "Yeah, that looks like him....They all look alike to me." If it wasn't for the time the crime ACTUALLY happened, the bus driver that dropped me off, and my football coach, they were going to take me to jail. Think about it...