I just recently moved from Sweden to Long Beach, CA where I study psychology. Campus is incredibly huge and I'm not familiar with the city. I was in need of cigarettes and since I'm not aware of where the closest gas station is located I decided to explore on my own (Google Maps ain't ****!) So I'm waking on this pretty dark and creepy road, I thank God cars are driving close to me.
I called my cousin and decided to talk to her since I was kind of lost. While I'm waking I see a guy on his skateboard coming my way. He looked like a regular guy, he was white had a buzzcut hair and a pretty urban style.I tried to stop him and ask him where the closest gas station is at, before I was even able to finish my sentence he told me he doesn't like black people!!!. He kept skating and looked back at me almost as if he wanted to kill me!!!!. It was incredibly scary and my cousin who was still on the phone heard the whole thing and couldn't believe what she just heard.
I decided to get away from that dark road especially since he looked back at me as if he wanted to kill me.
I keep wondering what would he have done if there wasn't any cars driving near by. What would he have done if I was a guy instead? A lot of people can't identify with this kind of fear. The fact that you know someone dislikes you and possibly might harm you because of your skin color or sexuality is incredibly scary.
Have any one of you guys encountered with racism or discrimination in the same sense as I have? If you have please share it with you since a lot of people today seem to think racism is something that belongs in the past.
For anyone wondering how I can be black and from Sweden, I'm born and raised in Sweden with parents from Somalia.
Wtf? Was there anything heavy near you??? I would've picked up a trash can or something and THREW it at the back of his head, knocking him off of that bitchass skateboard
But no, nothing like that has ever happened to me. I'm so sorry that happened, I wouldn't know how to feel if I were you. Just know that he got lucky, rest assured, if he keeps up with that it's only a matter of time before he gets his ass stompedT!
I think it's all how you take "racism", because the word is being thrown out so quickly these days
I went to school with 99% asians, and the remaining 1% were non-asians. Since majority of the school were asians, yes all my friends were asian, but we had that one token black friend that we were close with. Whenever we spoke in our language, he would mock us (ching chang chong, etc) but we would laugh because it's his way of saying "hello, I'm here too". We could have looked at it as racist, but we didn't.
And no - I am not saying racism is a good or bad thing. It's just like when someone uses the N word. Isn't that racist?
I'm really sorry, it's a shame in California especially Long Beach people are still pulling racist remarks like that trust me he would've never had the balls to say that to a black guy he did it knowing he wouldn't face a consequence
This actually happened to me yesterday. I asked my longtime friend out and at first she was quite and I kinda got nervous . After a minute full of awkward silence she muttered some words I never want to hear again in my life.
"That's sweet. I would totally go out with you but I don't date minorities. A lot of them are ugly"
Disgusting, in every sense of the word tbh. I further asked her what she meant of THAT, and what that has to do with me. She further explained that I have dark skin (which btw is untrue my skin tone is similar to Rihanna) and it wasn't white enough to be attractive. She doesn't like my hair because it's too curly and she also hates guys with long hair so overall, she just kissed me on the cheek and walked away.
First of all, what she said to me was basically "you're not white". I mean, she wanted me to have white skin, straight hair and shorter since I'm a guy. She's evoking the type of "dream" guy that the media puts out and if a guy doesn't have those qualities, no matter how good he is he just isn't good enough. It's sad, and I had this problem before (which is why I always find it hard to date interracially). I had to learn to love myself because if I don't, no one else will
