re: Have you ever witnessed an act of racism?

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Then he’s lying.

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So he has a different perspective than you and he is a liar? Can he not be simply naive or just plain wrong?

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Can't wait to see a thread populated by 25-75 year old white males from Louisiana who will all claim never to have seen one.

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Damn! Yes, the old "I have black friends...I can't be a racist" or, even worse, racism does not exist because as a white man I have never seen it. Gotta love it....



Why does it have to not exist at all??? Why is that the bar y'all claim exists? Why not "yeah, it probably exists, I am white and therefore not in a position to say for certain but lots of black people seem to be of the opinion that it does and, knowing some of those black people and knowing they are of good mind and character, I would suppose it is entirely possible". Why don't any of you ever just be honest...if you are white who are you to say what a black person experiences in life? Given that many black people who are otherwise, by all outward appearances, smart, hard working and capable, usually tell another tell, is it remotely possible that that man or woman is in a better position to make that call???

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Have you ever witnessed an act of racism?

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I saw a friend of mine who is a resident of Florida fill out an absentee in 2016 and he voted for Trump! I am still having to go to therapy for it.

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Last week, my son made an amazing comment "Dad, I have been on this earth for 30 yrs and I have never seen an act of racism"

Your son is full of shite
I don’t think racism is a huge problem anymore, but I’ve witnessed blatant racism - from blacks as well as whites - hundreds of times. Hell, I’ve seen David Duke give a speech in which he goes on and on about racial purity and the inferiority of blacks.

Surely your son watched the news when Central Park Karen tried to use that dickhead’s race against him.

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Of course he is full of shite...probably never said anything of the sort....but if he did he is full of shite. It is not possible to go through life without seeing some hint of racist acts.


Was the poor brain dead bastard in a coma in 2015 when a gunman opened fire in a church full of black people in South Carolina because they were black??? If he is mentally challenged then he should be given a pass but if he ain't you should have told him he was a fricking liar.

I believe the point of OP is have you Witnessed it personally. Not just see it on the news.

I’ve definitely seen people call names (mostly behind closed doors 99.9999%) but those are just words.

Sometime last year I was in a regions bank in Baton Rouge and a Hispanic woman was trying to send A western union to Honduras - the black teller told her she couldn’t understand her - the Hispanic woman was speaking English - although not too well but you had to be a dumb arse not to be able to understand plus most of it was written down - well the Hispanic woman started crying and another black teller came out and said ‘we can’t understand you, go somewhere else’

Well I had had enough plus I was on my lunch break and it was taking way too fricking long - so I spoke to the Hispanic woman in Spanish and ‘translated’ - the two tellers glared at me the whole time - when the woman left they said ‘you people all stick together’ and I said ‘what people? I’m not Hispanic’

Absolutely without a doubt “yes”

Witnessed one today. Boss today called a drink a coon finger instead of a black Cuban. Everyone laughed but me. Weird shite.

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I believe the point of OP is have you Witnessed it personally. Not just see it on the news.

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So it'd be akin to asking "has anyone here actually died in a plane crash" and suggesting that plane crashes don't really happen because no one says they have indeed died in a plane crash....I'll accept that.