Racism: 101...... posted 11/2/2009 9:47:42 AM | 4 kudos what's this?     report abuse

ragtopcookie

First of all.....i was raised in it...born in whitebread america.......every joke.....a racial slur......all my family......uncles aunts and cousins.....all felt the same way.....even the town i lived in......all white......nobody of color.....any color... ever came thru our town.....it wasnt allowed.....i was told.....i even remember the first black person i ever saw.....we were shopping better than twenty miles away from town.....back then..it was safe for us kids to scatter around the store....i might have been maybe six or seven at the time....i always went to the toy department to look at the car models.....i remember i was looking at one of them...when i happened to look beside of me.......and there was this tall black guy just standing there doing the same thing i was......looking at the car models......as i looked up at him....he looked down at me......and then he smiled at me.....i saw a mouth full of gold colored teeth and i let out a scream that brought my dad running towards me.....he snached me up.....and took me back to mom......i had nightmares about it for weeks......to this day...i wondered what that guy must have been thinking.....how he must have felt with every eye on him as to what he did wrong that set me off that day.....fast forward a few years.....got married and moved to that same town.....started working around many people that were diffrent than me.....found out really quick.....each race had their own ideas as to how things worked.....worked side by side with a young black guy...the same age as myself.....once we started talking.....i found out that he was raised the same way as me.....and we started to compair our diffrences back and forth....to me.....it was just the same.....but to him.....whitey was the cause of all his races problems....i never held it against him.....and after awhile.....he saw that what we were both caught was just the same.....only told by diffrent teachers......we even became friends.....but only at work.....because we both knew that our families would never understand.....a few years later.....i moved to the big city.....indianapolis.....the capital city of indiana.....talking about a mixing pot of people......its sad to say.....but in the medical field.....what you do...and how much you make dictates how you act around people that make less or do jobs that seem below what you do.....thats how most everybody in my department felt.....and they acted accordingly.....but that shit never flew with me.....i worked my way up to where i am now.....ive worked those kinds of jobs before...and im sure i was looked down for it.....i even remember that our locker room was full.....and that i was gonna have to wait for an opening.....so i asked about the locker room just down the hall from us.....was told it was the house keepers room....and i was givin a look....asked again if there were lockers available in there.....was told that there was.....told them to assign me one......same strange look again.....but to this day.....almost 19 years later...my locker is still there....and we get along just fine.....sure...ive had many issues with lots of people over the years....but you see...i try to treat everybody the same......just as i want to be treated.....some...i can get along with...others ive givin up on.....and try to avoid.....cant win them all.....but its not from lack of tring on my part.....so you see.....no matter how we are raised.....or what we are taught.....we still can get along.....its just a matter of showing everybody that we are the same...and that we just cant let any diffrences get in our way.......conversation is the key.....cookie

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