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 have read that back and that's not what I meant, it came out wrong. I meant the programmes that show the trouble caused, I'm in no way saying all gypsies/travellers behave the same, of course they don't, no more than every woman called Susan behaves the same.
I should have said that the programmes themselves have fuelled the fire of racist behaviour by only showing the worst.
I can only compare what I mean to the programmes that show benefit claimants, they're all shown as useless scroungers which is again not true

Sat next to a Filipino lady when I worked in a call centre a long time ago. She spoke perfect English but with a slight accent and god the shit she used to get on a daily basis was disgusting. I don't know how she stuck it out. I was fairly young at the time but it really opened my eyes. I think prior to that I definitely would've believed that racism was a problem in the past but not anymore etc.

A friend's boyfriend being refused onto a bus straight after 9/11.

A Sikh friend making 'joke' badges saying don't freak I'm a Sikh after his uncle was attacked also just after 9/11.

Op there are lots but I saw them coming and I won’t be drawn into it.
some of these posts themselves are sneakily racist.

That's fucking awful! And stupid, from a teacher- why would angels have to be white??? What is the logic behind that?

I'm sorry for all those giving examples, and those culprits should be dealt with.

I hope OP doesn't mind but here is me last night.

Exceptionally rural Scottish community, party in a shed for an 18th.

Very white community, no getting away from that, but I as others raise my children inclusively.

The DJ, who was absolutely superb, had travelled from Down south and was Muslim. One extremely drunk female and male began hurling racist obscenity's.

The pair were removed and parents called but in addition police called. Both were charged as they should be, there was not a single parent there, maybe forty of us at a guess to hundred plus teens who disagreed with that course of action, including the parents who arrived for those two,

So it is despicable but there is also support. This is not ever acceptable.

We have had a clear up help day today the DJ and his partner are still there, enjoying a holiday cottage and have booked to come back.

Why are posters pretending they do not know which posts @Daydreamsinsantafe is referring to?!? I agree with you @Daydreamsinsantafe

When I was 21 my home was broken into, I was asleep in my bed. I was violently raped. I remember the warmth and the stench of his breath on my face as he told me "this is what dirty half niggers get".

@sunshineandshowers40 thank you. They do know but are being deliberately obtuse.

@Lalosalamanca I’m sorry. So very sorry.

Being told that I’m the dirty person in the family because I’m mixed race… by my grandad’s ex wife. I was a child.
presumptions by people that I’m a muslim just because my skin is brown… didn’t go back to that church!
being called a paki slag because I turned a guy down for a date.

And I suppose this is playing on my mind because he said he felt safe here. And I was horrified, after what had happened. But they said they had felt the horror and support and the anger we felt.

I'm not Brazilian but I lived there and I was shocked by how incredibly racist Brazilian society is. It's so deeply ingrained, people think it's normal. Racism and xenophobia are normal on an daily basis for mostly dark-skinned, Native Brazilians or mixed raced people. The use of racist words and expressions is common even on tv or by politicians.

“The ‘reverse racism’ card is often pulled by white people when people of color call out racism and discrimination, or create spaces for themselves … that white people aren’t a part of. The impulse behind the reverse racism argument seems to be a desire to prove that people of color don’t have it that bad, they’re not the only ones that are put at a disadvantage or targeted because of their race. It’s like the Racism Olympics. And it’s patently untrue” (Blay, 2015).

For those struggling....

@Daydreamsinsantafe I see them. And I also support you and agree.

I had a Middle Eastern surname as a child as my that was where my dad was from. I had a few mildly racist comments at junior school. At secondary school I remember having to report to head of year as they wanted to know if I needed a translator for parents evening based on my surname. When I had my DD I was put in a ward with people that couldn't speak English, again because they saw my surname and made assumptions. I now have a very English surname and have noticed that people treat me and my child differently to how I was as a child!

When I was about 10 their was an Asian man on the street talking to a white couple he obviously knew and was holding their baby talking away to it. All fine......then a group of men who were driving past stopped and shouted ' get your filthy hands off white man's child you paki cunt '

I can still see the way he went from smiling to looking down at the floor and I'm 40 now. The way the atmosphere changed. I'd never seen anything like that before, probably because where I grew up isn't particularly diverse but I knew I wanted to get away from it and ran into the shop I'd been waiting outside to find my mum.

As kids we'd been bought up to just get on, maybe the odd clipped ear would be dished out for arguing but issues such as racism just weren't discussed. Probably because it didn't affect us so why would it ? My kids have been brought up very differently.......partly because of that poor guy stood minding his own business who may not even remember that incident that day if it was one of so many. And certainly won't remember the horrified kid running into the shop to get away from it.

I bought a Groupon deal for eye lash extensions in Glasgow and it turned out the place was in predominantly Asian area which I wasn't familiar with at all. After the treatment I stood outside the shop and waited on a taxi when a group of men stood and gave me dirty looks. I was only in my early twenties and extremely confused as to what was going on. My taxi eventually pulled up and as I walked past them one of them spat at me and called me a white slag. It doesn't seem like a huge thing but it shook me up so badly

Being called grey people by our neighbour

Oh and I forgot the time I went away for the first time with DH and his family and I was stopped and fully searched etc at the airport because of my name!

At secondary school my siblings and I were the only brown children, my english teacher made me read the poem the little black boy out to the class, and told the class I wouldn’t even be an equal when I was dead.

Growing up windows in the flats we lived in were regularly smashed, being attacked for being a ‘Paki bastard’ as a teenager wasn’t uncommon. In primary school hearing parents discourage their children from playing with the ‘dark kid’.

It became a lot worse after 9/11, people asking if I was going to bomb them with my school bag became a daily occurence.

BNP marches in my home town hoping to have us all deported to which ever country they thought we were all from.

Being told there are no tables available in a restaurant, for my white husband to then successfully gain a table after asking the same person.

Being illegally searched by the police multiple times.

Being randomly selected virtually every time I fly, only to wait in the holding room with all the other ‘suspicious’ brown people.

Im so sorry everyone. Ive witnessed a few incidents but nothing like what's been described.

I asked why because my previous post had mentioned gypsies/travellers. Predominantly white but protected by racism laws?

My adopted brother was Indian. There was constant racism directed at him at primary school - we grew up in a very deprived culturally mixed area and my (non-adopted) brother used to get invited to go out "paki-bashing" by groups of lads from school

The worst racism I ever saw, though, was from my stepfather's very naice genteel middle-class aunt, who must have been in her 90s. She refused to have my adopted brother stay overnight in the house, because she said his skin would come off on her pillow cases (I'm not joking), and said things like "they smell, don't they". I was only about 9 and I was fucking appalled.