Have you ever experienced racism from a minority?

Loads of times in the US but I just say this.
"you've been here for 300 years and that's the best you can come up with!?" and walk off shaking head :)

But that's nothing compared to "you deaf mate" "OI move you deaf or something" I'm hard of hearing.
 
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I've experienced it a couple times, mainly in London and Bristol.

Retorting with a similar ethnic slur really gets their goat.

I've lived in other countries and have been the minority, where to get some stick is expected. Doesn't particularly phase me though.
 
I have not experienced racism personally as far as I know (I'm white) but when I was a kid, my Dad landed a job at coal mine in South Africa. He endured 2 years of racism from the Voortrekkers ( White Dutch descendants) who ran the mine. It started on his first day. After arriving he was taken by his boss to a bike shed. His boss explained to him that the blacks were there to do everything they were told without question. He then called over this poor black guy who just happened to be within shouting distance. The boss told this man to remove his helmet. He then urinated into the helmet and handed it back to the black guy, telling him to wear it, which the black guy did.

My Dad was shocked at this but he'd just moved his family from the UK to South Africa to start a new life so he figured he would persevere. It soon became known that my Dad got on well with the black guys at the mine. He'd chat and crack jokes with them and help them where possible. The Voortrekkers saw this and simply ignored my Dad when he sort help, calling him a kaffir lover. My Dads life was hell and after 2 years of being treated like scum, he finally gave up and we came back to the UK.

Ironically the racism my Dad suffered was white on white.
 
I just think it's a personality issue rather than a race issue - but perhaps I just don't notice it as I assume the best in people all the time.

Retorting to someone's impoliteness with a racial slur is frankly rather vile and abhorrent.
 
tried to shop in an african shop in ireland and was told by the owner it wasn't food for "my kind of people" lol
 
Sliver said:
I have not experienced racism personally as far as I know (I'm white) but when I was a kid, my Dad landed a job at coal mine in South Africa. He endured 2 years of racism from the Voortrekkers ( White Dutch descendants) who ran the mine. It started on his first day. After arriving he was taken by his boss to a bike shed. His boss explained to him that the blacks were there to do everything they were told without question. He then called over this poor black guy who just happened to be within shouting distance. The boss told this man to remove his helmet. He then urinated into the helmet and handed it back to the black guy, telling him to wear it, which the black guy did.

My Dad was shocked at this but he'd just moved his family from the UK to South Africa to start a new life so he figured he would persevere. It soon became known that my Dad got on well with the black guys at the mine. He'd chat and crack jokes with them and help them where possible. The Voortrekkers saw this and simply ignored my Dad when he sort help, calling him a kaffir lover. My Dads life was hell and after 2 years of being treated like scum, he finally gave up and we came back to the UK.

Ironically the racism my Dad suffered was white on white.
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Sort of brought it upon himself in fairness.....
 
A couple of times as a teenager, different cultures don't appear to like outsiders but that's their choice so not too concerned.

I've noticed that black people hate an awful lot of other black people, Indians dislike everyone else, especially Pakistians.

White people just hate people of a different class.
 
The morning after the 7/7 bombings, in the queue in the canteen waiting to pay for breakfast, behind an asian lad who was talking to the white cashier about the previous days events.

His words, verbatim, were "About time somebody got you lot..." :rolleyes:

Not sure which "lot" he was referring to, bearing in mind the workforce there were predominantly white british, but as far as I know the 7/7 victims were a cross section of races. Meh.
 
sports_brah said:
Sort of brought it upon himself in fairness.....
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I can't believe you said that. My Dad is a good man. He was just being himself, treating people with dignity and respect, and for this the Voortrekkers treat him like scum. If he had to do it all again he wouldn't change a thing. My Dad was in the right and I have massive respect for him for that.
 
To be fair, if you go to South Africa you should already know most of the white people are racist as ****.

It should really have clicked before his dad moved there.
 
Sliver said:
I can't believe you said that. My Dad is a good man. He was just being himself, treating people with dignity and respect, and for this the Voortrekkers treat him like scum. If he had to do it all again he wouldn't change a thing. My Dad was in the right and I have massive respect for him for that.
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Me too.
 
pitchfork said:
To be fair, if you go to South Africa you should already know most of the white people are racist as ****.

It should really have clicked before his dad moved there.
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South Africa, bang in the middle of apartheid, being nice to black people in front of whites. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to know what was going to happen next.
 
pitchfork said:
To be fair, if you go to South Africa you should already know most of the white people are racist as ****.

It should really have clicked before his dad moved there.
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It was the 70's. Strikes were rampant in the UK and economy was in tatters. Millions were out of work. My Dad took a chance, he saw this very well paid job in South Africa which came with a house supplied and he went for it.

We can all be wise with hind sight. :rolleyes:
 
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