What's the most racist thing you've ever witnessed in real life?

You clearly never played football

My grandfather sometimes refers to touchdown dances by black players as "nig jigs". I try not to laugh, but it's fricking hard.

Being told by a kid on a playground in oklahoma that he "didn't play with black kids" when i was 6.

My brother and i got called the n word a couple of times in austin when we went there for Aggie games.

Watching my sisters get propositioned for sex by Greek men because they assumed they were african hookers.

Being called a "house _*gger" by extended family for voting Republican.

There's other little shite that happens, but it's not worth dredging up/focusing on. Others have/have had it far worse than me or other minorities here or in other countries, and I'm still a pretty happy guy at the end of the day

Was at a meeting for my old job. Pretty big one where they addressed every department and gave out stupid awards and shite based on performance. All of upper management is there including the big boss. At the end they let employees come up and ask questions and voice concerns. The last guy comes up, and he has a strong African accent.

"It's my understanding that this is an EEO employer, and that there is no discrimination when promoting people, but when I look around I notice that all of management is Caucasian."

The entire room burst into laughter and couldn't believe what they just saw. Dude just called his boss, his boss's boss, and that boss's boss a racist right in front of the entire shift.

The big boss fell silent for a minute or so before saying "And on that note, back to work!"

FWIW, earlier in the meeting they announced promotions for two black people. Never saw that dude again.

Thanksgiving with my dad's family. More n bombs that a rap album.

I avoid time with them but I went in 2008 just to hear the poop storm after Obama was elected. Last time I went or will go.

I met HBT.

He makes deltaland look like MLK.

Yeah..... My family has been in Birmingham for the better part of 100 years.


My dad and uncle lived through the high school integrations. My dad, just recently, can refer to black people as black and not the N word. My uncle was one of many people on TV protesting integration and was throwing rocks at the kids as they walked into either Ensley or West End.

My granddad and uncle were Birmingham police officers during the same time frame. I have my grand dad's service revolver and police ID card signed by Bull Connor. Anytime is see a civil rights documentary and they show the Birmingham police, I look for my granddad. I haven't seen him yet. My dad said he'd come home at night with knuckles so bloody and bruised he couldn't close his hands.

I've seen and heard about everything.

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One time in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Manhattan, Kansas I saw an old white guy yell at a white teenager who was bumping rap music in his car to "turn off that n****r music"

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It's bad that seeing something like this would be considered a normal day for me. I can't even begin to think of the most racist things I've seen in my life.

I know restaurants here that still instruct waitresses to seat whites and blacks in separate rooms.

Every delta town has what we refer to as the "white (insert chain store or gas station name) or black (inserts store name). For example a friend calls "meet me at the double quick" and you usually respond the "white or black one". In my hometown the white one had a baskin robbins and the black one had a Churchs chicken

I don't know how many farmers I've seen yell racial slurs at their labor. Actually seen them threaten black workers with guns or throw wrenches at them.

Houses in "white" neighborhoods aren't listed because they don't want a black family to buy them..have to use the "good ol boy" network to buy a nice house because it'll rarely be shown as "on the market".

Once a local farmer who was a big donor to the local private academy came into our farm office ranting about how the academy let in a black kid to play football. His exact quote "you can have a 55 gallon drum of vanilla ice cream and the first scoop of shite you put in it will ruin the whole thing".

That's just a few off the top of my head. I've seen some crazy shite living around here my entire life. And a lot of people here will get along fine with black people, there are just that group that are extremely hateful and the culture is different where the people who aren't racist generally accept the behavior of those who are rather than look down upon it.

A dad pulling his kids out of the pool and making them leave 5 minutes after they got there because a black family arrived at the pool.