Originally Posted by e3NiNe
my point is, racism hasn't stopped. It spreads. Just because I wasn't forced into slave labor doesn't mean that it's completely gone.
From 5th grade all the way though 8th ... 3 solid years of bullshit racism jokes day in and day out have an effect on you.
Don't take me wrong, I have friends of all colors and associations ... but to have the "jokes" stop by being with "my own kind", was something I really needed to develop as a person.
I think what you maybe doin't get or what I'm wrong in is that I believe kids make fun of other kids because they look different...it has nothing to do with their race. Fat kids, kids with big ears, goofy looking kids, minorities, little asshole kids will make fun of them all. Why do fat kids hang around each other? Why do all the nerdy goofy kids hang around each other? Not racism. They do it because kids are assholes.
There certainly is a lot of racism in the world but I think the best way to combat it is to realize what is and what isn't. Some white kid calling a black kid the n word then throwing a glass bottle as him is probably pretty racist. Some 15 year old white kid who has no grasp of history making black person jokes to his friends that he heard on TV gets kicked out of school, is that racist? It happens all the time. Or is it just a kid being a dumb kid? How is it going to stop racism to take such severe actions on people people dumb or just kidding around?
I'm sorry you went through a lot of shit when you were a kid, but so did I, and so did a ton of other kids. But you have to realize that maybe they weren't being racist bigots, they just saw you as an easy target to make fun of because you looked different and maybe acted different
