Question for those formerly or currently racist?

I've been racist to a lot of black people and now I feel so bad about it because I realized that they are humans with feelings. They are just like you and me, despite what country they came from. I've never been in their shoes. I think that many people are blinded by what they experienced in life and ignorance is really really prominent in a lot of people.

It was a realization that came to me one day.

Niceness goes a long way. I befriended 3 black racist in the town I live. They had heard that all white people where racist and not nice. I showed them that very few white people were racist and they finally realized that being racist towards whites was ridiculous.

can't we all just get along?

Very well put, you made your point so graciously. I also think many racist learned it at home from racist parents and they have no idea if the things they hate about black people are true or not. Many will be in adulthood before they spend time with a black person and learn that all the bs their parents told them was not true. You get a star for this one.

Being black myself, I think I know what you mean. I didn't fit in that well at school. The black girls in my class (only 4 out of 56 other white students) were expected to be really tough and all that, but I wasn't... I was very shy unlike the others. And I was focused on school, not boys... but they were focused on boys, not school.

The reason I was unpopular was because of what was expected out of the black girls in my grade; toughness and more frequently, meanness... exclusion, betrayal... that whole clique mess. So I wasn't their stereotypical black girl; therefore, I only had a few friends, those friends I had had since I was little, probably second grade.

Plus, to them, we black girls all looked alike even though we didn't. So there was Heather (me), Nicole, Greta, and Vanessa. I'd be mistaken as all of them as late as March in the year. It got annoying, because nobody mixed up two twins in my grade, yet they mixed up four black girls that looked nothing alike!

So really, here I am today, looking back and laughing at the whole situation because one of the girls lost their virginity at age 12, and the others... yeah, they aren't fairing off too well.

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i'm racist. i grew up around stereotypes and i had my own experiences. i was like 5 years old and my family and i were at the beach and i was swimming too close to this black man who told me to go away. i said no and he said he'd kill me. how can any man say that to a little girl? one day i was working, and this black guy assumed i was racist because of the way i handed him his change. i did it the same way i do with everybody, without touching their hands. i was pregnant and i didn't want anyone's germs. even though he assumed right, there was nothing i did to actually make him assume it. another time i was working, a group of like 5 mexicans started laughing at me and talking about me in spanish because i couldn't understand what pack of cigarettes they wanted. pointing their fingers didn't help!

i try not to be racist, but everytime i feel improvement, something sets me back. i live in the frigging city and something is always triggering my racism. i'm polite to everybody, but when someone of another race approaches me, i feel like there is automatically tension between us and it's not just me being paranoid. i guess we all carry a chip on our shoulders. i also feel like whenever i'm around a person of a different race, i'm a stereotype to them. so i feel like why should i try.

i'm also against interracial relationships. that's just part of my morals. i stick to my own race to keep my race alive.

I think we are all a little bit racist, I know I feel more comfortable with someone of my colour (and gender for that matter). As for the stereotypes you mentioned that sounds like a 'real Hull' (white) person.

Will I overcome it, probably not.

i wouldnt say i was racist, i just had first bad imppressions on black americans before even talking to them. i have and had friends who are/were black american, its just that getting to know one was not as easy. ives always had issues with them because in my school, and churches that i have been to that were all black, they werent as organized and only friendly to other black americans. to me (multiracial immigrant) some would be disrespectful and some were actually very illmannered. and im trying to get over my dislike for them, its just that now, by having friends who are black american and nice and respectful, trying to see the better in them.

I've been all over West Africa, I get on great with the ones I've met in London too.

I don't like Bengali's.

The are arrogant, spit as a matter of culture , noisy, hate my dog, litter everywhere and expect eveyone to bow to their demands.... and how they take over......my home area they have gone from 50% to over 85% in a decade.....I'm worried.

Most Pakistani and Bangladeshi meet the stereotypical image, although, I have no grudge against Afro's, Orientals or Hispanics.