What is the most racist thing anyone has ever said or done to you?

I was once called a "Dancing Indian Midget."

 

You'd be surprised. I'm Vietnamese and my wife is Chinese and even that is a small issue with my parents.

 

Usually it goes something like this.

Hate the Chinese because we've been at war with them forever. But likely the group we're most similar with in culture.
Hate the Japanese for all the atrocities during WWII and for snobbery in general.
Hate the Filipinos because they're more European than Asian because of the Spanish blood. Then again there is a lot of French influence in Vietnam too due to occupation.
Hate the French for above mentioned reason.
Hate Cambodian and Laosian because of skin color. Their language is most similar sounding to Vietnamese, as an aside.
Hate Koreans - not sure why either.

In general, let's hate everyone. That's why I married a Chinese girl. So I could hold her down... suppress her. But I'll leave my bedroom antics for another thread

 

Interesting thread; I'll need to read the rest of it, but I know everyone is aching to hear my stories.

1. Not actually my story exactly, but my wife (who is half-black and half-Chinese) went to a local cafe here in the Third Ward for a poetry slam with a friend of hers (who was half-black, half-white). The poetry slam, as it turns out, was a black-supremicist get-together in which they read poetry about sex and black oppression. She talked to one of the poets and told him that her husband was white (not sure why she did). He told her that all the white people need to get out of the Third Ward or they'll need to force them out. He also told her that whenever a white person has sex with a black person, they're just re-enacting the oppression of slavery. And, that children from a mixed couple were some kind of abomination. That was pretty rude.

2. When I lived in Hyde Park in Chicago, more than once, black guys would hit on my wife (then girlfriend) in front of me. They'd say, Why do you want to be hanging out with this whiteboy; you need to be with a brotha. We'd ignore them or else my wife would make some sarcastic remark and we'd move on. Obviously, it's not an effective line if you're actually trying to pick someone up, so I have to assume the motivation for saying it is to get a little racial jab in.

3. Also in Hyde Park, I had a summer job changing lightbulbs at the University. I had a teammate, who was Korean (and crazy). He was also a U of C student, so we'd have academic debates while we worked. One day, he told me that white America owed something to blacks and any black person could tell me so (assuming, here, that having a black person say so would mean it was true -- but a lot of his debate was specious). So, he said he'd ask one, but I told him not to. We get into an elevator and a black woman steps in with us. He asks her if she thought white people owed her something. I pretended to not know him. She said no, that the injustices were in the past. But, an hour or two later, our boss called him in and said that woman came into her office crying and complained of being harassed. He got chewed out pretty good. Okay, no racism directed at me in that story, but it was funny.

4. And, of course, all the playground basketball racism of my skills being doubted because I was white, and generally being singled out.

 

That, and sucking at basketball.

 

it means "ghost man.

 

"Oyubo pepe
if you eaty pepe
you go yello mo mo"

I was the only white kid (oyubo can be = to cracker...... sometimes) @ the Emotan Elementary School (pulic school to "get an understanding" my parents would say..... i never ojected) in Benin City,Nigeria. Some of the other kids would taunt me w/that chant during recess. It didn't help that a driver in a Merc would pick me up after school.

Also, a few times when i would get in trouble, the nun would tell me (in front of the whole class) "I will beat you less because you're white." Gee thanks! Recess will be a picnic today!

 

a while back i was at this summer program at a college in florida. went with a couple buddies (black guys) to the mall to just kill some time grab something to eat. also we had a end of the program dinner coming up so a couple of em wanted to pick up some clothes. went to a men's wearhouse. there was this persian/indian subcontinent older gentleman working there. he harassed us the whole time. remember i was with 4 other college aged black men. these guys all went to superb colleges. a couple of em actually were a bit metro. exactly the kinds of people the store should want to attract. yet he trailed us the whole time. asked us if we needed anything at least 4-5 times. and when me and a buddy went to the other side he had someone else trail us.

the guys didn't even care it was almost routine i guess for them. i was appalled.

 

I've experienced a variation of this. Not black guys hitting on my girlfriend, but just dirty looks in my direction. Likewise, she gets dirty looks from white women every now and then.

I just think it's funny because these same people would turn around in a second and date someone of another race...

The other double standard is the "ok for my son but not for my little girl" mentality. My girlfriend's dad doesn't like her dating me, but it's ok for his son to be with a white girl... Whatever. It's 2006. This stuff should have been over with back in the 70s.

 

My favorite comments are the racist slurs thrown my way by the natives when I was in Mexico. Apparently, a white person who speaks Spanish was something outside their experience. I didn't start any fights (I'm not stupid enough to land myself in jail in Mexico) but I gave them more than a few dirty looks that made them realize the gringo know what they were saying. Looking back, I just find it funny now.

 

Works everytime



With my right foot, I will kick your face. With my left, I will kick your nose. With my fingers, I will poke your eyes out. Take a good look at my face. I'm an Oriental.

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I used to live in an all black neighborhood across the street from some uh government sponsored buildings, and went to junior high school with most of them, surprisingly I never really felt any racism from anyone. The worst I heard when I was in that neighborhood was "chink" etc. Maybe I got too used to the word to let it affect me.

The only thing that really stands out is a couple of times. Once, I was walking to work and in a hurry, so I turned at a corner and narrowly msis this woman who had turned from the other direction into the same way I was walking. We both almost hit each other but didn't. She kept walking and I heard her muttering, but I didn't catch what she was saying, and I didnt think too much of it till suddenly she started screaming at me "Ching Chong Chan Wa, maybe you understand that!" I whirled around and was stunned at this. First of all she's a middle aged business exec type. I didn't expect that to come from her at all, especially at 9:00 AM in the morning in Wall Street. I don't say anything for a couple of seconds while she gets off a few more "Ching Chong" type remarks, and then she follows that with "what you can't speak English? F***ing chink" Not to pat myself on the back or nothing, but I spent a year tutoring college kids on how to write a proper college pape. Anyway, I get so pissed at the last remark, I start calling her a KKK member, a racist, etc. I follow her to her workplace, and started yelling at her, calling her a racist and that everyone in her building should know that about her. She started apologizing to the people standing outside! LOL I kept asking her if she's embarassed. I think she said "sorry" as she ran off into the building, but I don't remember.

Other than that, I think most Asians get off lucky, people tend to hide their racist feelings about us and not display it as openly as they do to other minorities.

 

I think racism towards Asians is usually a more subtle 'model minority' type of racism. They expect us to be certain ways. Good at math. Engineer or doctor. Subdued. Respectful. Driving Hondas
You'll also notice that most Asians you see on TV are women TV reporters. You don't see many guys and if you do they're doing kung-fu or they're real nerdy. Asian woman are mysterious, far east, sexual creatures who can give you 'happy ending'. Guys are usually emasculated. Like Yao Ming has been potrayed somewhat. You'll see Asian women with other races but never the other way around.
Sorry. Hit a nerve.

 

My roommate (Chinese) is doing the same things to his Vietnamese girlfriend almost nightly too (you know the noise they make... ). Are you guys trying to wage wars in the bedrooms?

 

"Guai Lou" means "Ghost Guy". Yes it's a Cantonese term. And there's a compatible term for it in Mandarin (Mandarin is the official chinese language). In Mandarin it's "Gui Lau".

I don't know exactly how you all feel about it, but from my point of view it's not really derogatory. It came about because when Caucasians first showed up in bunches in China back in the 19th century, it was the first time most of the Chinese back then had ever seen people with white skin, blue eyes, golden hair, hair all over arms, etc. They must be ghosts! Haha! So, "Ghost Guy" for you.

I'm a Chinese in Singapore, and sometimes I still use that term to refer to Caucasions. It's just a normal term now, we don't really think about the meaning of the "Guai Lou" term when we say it.

And it looks like there're many Americans that always provoke each other randomly. Most of you guys' stories are really unimaginable to happen in where I live. Mind you I'm in Singapore, a multiracial country (perdominantly Chinese but many other people of other races such as Malays, Indians, Caucasians, Japanese, Filipinos, Thais, Indonesians, Vietnamese, blablabla). But I believe if I ask all my colleageus, 99% would say they have never had a racial slur thrown their way, much less a racial-related physical assault. We're not all angels here in Singapore because I know that many of us are racists to a certain degree. Heck I'm a little racist myself but all your stories are really beyond me.

 

I laughed out loud at the "Go back to pearl harbor" one.

Laughed at how stupid that sounds....

Why would you go back to Pearl Harbor even if you were Japanese? Would they want you to attack it again? I don't get it...

LOL!

 

It's not a matter of logic. It's in the US government 2000 census report. 50 percent of Hispanics list themselves as Whites in the race categaory. The remaining percentages consisted of Others and some Blacks. The government recognized the fact and identify them as " Hispanic Whites ".

The semantic of referring to Hispanics as non-Whites is not true.

 

So um, he's white?