What’s the worst racist incident you have experienced?

[Hope54321]

I’ve had quite a few:

Students in secondary school have pulled my hijab off.

After the 9/11 a group of boys threw paper balls at me and shouted “Taliban” at me.

The day after a terror attack in London, a man pulled his window down and called me a dumb whore. There was no one else around.

Walking back from school, a man told me, “Go back to your own country”.

On my way to college, I got on the bus and a woman said, “I don’t know why you would want to draw attention to yourself by wearing that”.

I’ve been spat on and called a paki by teenagers circling me with their bikes while I was taking my 3yr old brother to the park

I saw a grown man telling a little asian kid (probably about 5, I was a kid myself and didn’t know what to do) that his son would always be better than him because he’s white

had a rock thrown at me by a passing car and the obligatory paki.

a few paki go homes (not that many).

All when I was younger though.

I’m white and my husband is Asian. My kids are fairly light skinned. Once when we were walking through the city centre all together, my husband holding the hand of my daughter who was about 6-7. A man walked past them and said to my husband “it doesn’t make you white, you know” (referring to him having a light skinned child)

I had someone call me the same because I was eating a falafel in from a stall at a market in town. I didn't even know where to start. I'm not from Pakistan, falafels aren't from Pakistan... To be honest it just shows how stupid racists are.

The first time I was ever called a Paki was in my in my mid 20s, I was when heavily pregnant walking along minding my own business. Shocked me as I grew up in a multi cultural area and had only moved to my new town (which was not as mixed) a year before this incident.

Sadly my eldest has been told her skin is dirty. What made this seem worse was it came from a child of mixed heritage who we knew to come from a broken home and it made me wonder what this child had heard in her life to make her think it was a normal thing to say.

I made friends with a lovely Arab family after I stopped a boy throwing rocks at the children. One of the girls was my age and we had lots of fun despite not speaking each other's languages.

An estate agent wanted to look at the millionaire guarantor because the prospective tenant was brown.

😢 😢 😭

I've been spat at.

I've been denied jobs.

I had someone try to deny renting a room to me.

I've had someone call the police on when walking down the street with my DD misbehaving.

However the things that upset me more apart from the last incident I've mentioned - as in I will openly shame you - is someone thinking they can be racist against someone else in front of me.

Being told I have no right to speak French as well as I do.

After brexit being told to fuck off back to Britain.

Being told by a pharmacist that, having mislaid my carte vitale, I was effectively 'sans papiers' and would be thrown out of the country.

Being told by a Muslim butcher that I deserved to be raped, and strangled because I had no right to have a man's intelligence and, after I was dead, it would go to a man - Muslim, obviously.

Being told by an a+e doctor, Muslim of Arab origin, that there was no pre-emptive treatment against thrush when giving me antibiotics after I was raped by an Arab during ramadan. Thé pharmacist told me the shock of thé super strength treatment could've killed me. No treatment against aides given. The thing he did do was a pregnancy test. He'd asked me when I went through the ménopause and, at 65, not much use.

Just love the French!

Being called a "white whore" by a teenage boy as I walked down the street aged 10 or 11 (I was still at primary school). Being repeatedly and graphically propositioned on the basis of my race and colouring in Egypt despite being very and deliberately modestly dressed as a young teenager.

I appreciate that I'm very fortunate to rarely be singled out in any way because of my race given that I live in a majority white country but the few examples have stuck with me.

Too many very stupid and very nasty people in the world!

RainbowCrayons I don't know whether to laugh or weep!

I don't think this is the worst but it hurt the most as I was young amd embarrassed.

In infant school, it was soon going to be our Christmas nativity play. You just put your hand up for the role you wanted. The teacher asked who wanted to be an angel and I shot my hand up in the air, only to be very loudly told I can't be an angel because angels aren't black. I didn't put my hand up for anything else.

By friend with ginger hair has been subjected to absolutely hideous abuse , as we grew up and fhen as we started to go out as Teens and older.

She was /is very beautiful but it didn't stop all the name calligraphy and general abuse.

Calligraphy!! Name calling you bastard spell check!

On a packed bus in London a white man got on and was very loudly arguing with someone and slagging off black men using really awful language. I felt shocked and scared. The black girl next to me just gave a wry smile when I said ‘oh my god’. I remember two well dressed old black women who got up to move and were tutting and I remember feeling so uncomfortable that they had to listen to that as they looked in their 60’s at least. I don’t feel bad for not saying anything because the guy was clearly unhinged and really angry.
walking down Whitechapel and an Asian store holder call a black man walking past in front of me a racial slur. The black man was pretty restrained but did challenge him.
on a course and a Muslim black man telling a Jewish woman that she was Muslim as that is how we all originated. She didn’t say anything but looked really upset and angry and she was Israeli. Again a I just felt too shocked to say anything at the time but spoke to her afterwards in support.
to be honest living in London I saw a lot of racial tension between different races. African, Afro Caribbean, Eastern European’s, Irish, English. Not sure I am that crazy about multiculturalism anymore.

FGS, imagine saying that to a child! Not silly at all.

I've been called paki scum when walking down the street with my dad. Only ever with my dad though because I'm white passing and he's not.
I was 12 and holding my dad's hand walking down the street as I was still very child like and innocent. A man in a car wound his window down to call me "dirty Paki shagging slag" I didn't even know what he meant or why hed target me. My dad had to explain to me why some people were so disgusting.

My DDs best friend has been called a monkey and told to go and eat bananas when she was 5. My DD was furious and told them to go put bananas in their ears and leave her friend alone. They carried on making monkey noises so 6 year old DD punched the much bigger girl (DD is tiny. She.was still in 3-4 year clothing at 6) and kicked the other girl in the shin. She got in trouble off the school for it but I was secretly proud of her for standing up for her friend.

At a job interview for retail, speaking in a way which his my (gypsy) accent. Has to be done as nobody would hire me otherwise. The interviewer went on a rant about how to "spot a pikey" and how it was an essential skill because they're all shoplifters.

I told him he clearly couldn't spot me and I was no longer interested.

Also being turned away from the following places because they don't allow gypsies-

-soft play
-cineworld cinema
-bullring shopping centre
-countless pubs/bars/restaurants

Being called a white slag at school was not uncommon.

Myself and a white female friend being beaten up by three young black men for being in the "wrong" area.

I’ve been very lucky- just a few “go back home”.

what I really hate are the Asians/Immigrants come here our jobs, get council houses, change things - not you of course.. (my family being right type of immigrants apparently).

I was getting on a train & happened to help a black woman who had a large suitcase & 2 small dc. About 40 mins into the journey the suitcase fell over from the bit at the end of the carriage where you put cases. The woman went & fixed it & I kept an eye on the dc (she asked). As she was coming back it fell over again. For some reason this absolutely incensed this other woman on the train who launched into a awful tirade. I was shocked as the woman looked very professional & smart & was Asian but she was screaming that the black woman should "f off back to her own country", "stop having babies for a council house", "a ## waste of space", "raising more useless ##. Just really vicious things to say. I was speechless, so was the black woman. The Asian lady then preceded to take a phone call, she was super breezy & calm!

My partner has a Malaysian mother. Two men blocked the road we were driving down (rural) so we couldn't get past and danced around in front of the car making monkey gestures and noises. Twats.

I'm white and British, I have had loads off what would be classed racist remarks as I don't live where I was born in the United Kingdom

I'm so sorry to you all. It's appalling. No words.

What is wrong with people?!