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

oh, hbt

hai hbt <3

Two? How did THAT happen? "Y'know, this place could really use another confederate flag."

I met HBT.

He makes deltaland look like MLK.

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Got jumped one night by around 50 blacks one night for being white. Good times.

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Can't flim flam the zim zam.

It's a Zimmerman trial joke

Worked for a company in Louisiana and when I was 21 was in charge of a division of that company. I called the maintenance guy "sir" once and my boss blew up at me. He said you never call a black man sir. I quit on the spot.

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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For a couple of years in Jr. High, my best friend was a black kid. He invited me to go to his family reunion in New Orleans without asking his parents. When he told them, they said that unfortunately I wouldn't be allowed to attend.

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Did he at least bring you back a souvenir shirt?

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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.