Purely anecdotal, but I am biracial (black and white) and grew up in an all white small town area in the midwest and things were fine until we moved to a city in Louisiana in high school. The black people there would stop and stare at us in the grocery store and talk openly and make fun of my family, and would refuse to sit by me on the school bus because I was half white. They would talk about me at school and at family reunions (YES, family reunions). Being mixed was worse to them than just being white. It was very eye-opening for me. I had never experienced such pure hatred simply for my race.
Thank you! It was very difficult at the time, being a teenager, but has definitely opened my eyes in ways that some of these people with blinders on will never see, and for that I'm thankful.
Black people generally are racist af, yet no one calls them on it.
Purely anecdotal, but I am biracial (black and white) and grew up in an all white small town area in the midwest and things were fine until we moved to a city in Louisiana in high school. The black people there would stop and stare at us in the grocery store and talk openly and make fun of my family, and would refuse to sit by me on the school bus because I was half white. They would talk about me at school and at family reunions (YES, family reunions). Being mixed was worse to them than just being white. It was very eye-opening for me. I had never experienced such pure hatred simply for my race.
I'm very sorry you had to experience that, fren. My heart goes out to you.
Thank you! It was very difficult at the time, being a teenager, but has definitely opened my eyes in ways that some of these people with blinders on will never see, and for that I'm thankful.