Have you ever been accused of being racist?

[Sexual Harassment Panda]

Only once. During a basketball match I played some good D against a fella who had been attempting to ridicule me before the match had even gotten started, not to mention throwing his weight around whenever he could and generally being a bully. I actually played within the rules, I just put more effort in because I was annoyed with him... but got an accusation of racism anyway.

It was probably wishful thinking on his part that it was because of differing ethnicity and not because he was an insufferable tool.

 

[craftomega]

Surprising no.

I am very aware of racism and am personally against it; but I believe that everyone is racist to a point. It could be as simple and there sexual preferences to how they feel about others unconsciously.

I believe that because I am so aware of it, and aware of how I am racist, it keeps my feeling and actions in check. I know I am racist so because of that I think very few people think I am racist.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

ohhhh yeah plenty of times, here is a funny story from high school:

Was walking down the hall with my friend john (me being a white guy and him a black guy) to class because we had a pass to go talk to a teacher then come back, and there were a few black girls at their locker a bit down the hall by the classroom that John and I were heading towards.

we were talking casually and all of the sudden he decides to yell out "WHUIITEEE POWERRRRR!" and proceeds to look at me really fast in utter shock that I would say such a thing, and in that moment all the black girls turn and look at me with the most pissed off face you can imagine.

of course, I was caught completely off guard and my brain just goes into "oh fuck" meltdown mode..

cutting out all the bullshit, i get sent to the principal's office, get a 10 minute stern talk about racism and how wrong it is to ever proclaim to have pride above another, and then i get sent back to class...all the while, my friend john is cracking up in the hallway as he was trying to get into the office to explain it was all a blown out of proportion joke.

eventually, the principal looked at us both in disgust and sent us about our way, but she was still super pissed off regardless.

I laugh at the story all the time, and my friend John still pulls stuff like that in public for shits and giggles, but it definitely sucked at the time and the principal never quite looked at me the same after that.

also obviously said a few really *bad* racial jokes here and there, that whole "taking it a bit too far" moments. (Don't worry, i'm an equal opportunist bigot, I make fun of white people the most, can't tell you how often I make fun of myself.)

 

[TheLion]

-snip-
Can anyone confirm if that is actually true, the muscle density thing? I thought it was, but now I think about it, the only place I remember hearing it was from my dad.

It isn't. It's just that most Black people, in America, don't have ready access to pools. That, and swimming isn't really a thing for Black Americans.

 

[soren7550]

Not exactly. I have been called Nazi, and the other day my pothead roomie and his Sasquatch friend were yelling how the Irish were all racists because they were involved in the Holocaust. (I'm German and Irish in case you were wondering)

 

[Evan Lang]

Yes, when I told my friend I prefered Mitt Romney over Obama. I mean honestly, just because i didn't vote for him doesn't make me racist, I just don't agree with his policies. It was extremely irrational thought of my friend but then I discovered that this was happening to many people very often.

 

[Launcelot111]

I volunteered at a food bank for a while, and we give out flowers to everybody if they want any. One day, we only had white flowers, so I offered a bouquet to everyone who came through. One black woman took me aside and told me quite sternly that she would not accept the flowers "on racial terms."

There was also one black kid in high school who called everyone who got mad at him a racist(which was everyone because he was an immense asshole).

 

[Cheery Lunatic]

Actually no.

Though I guess I technically should be since I get nervous and intimidated by white people (does that count? I honestly don't get the intricacies when something is deemed as racist).

 

[klaynexas3]

Yep. To be fair I called a guy a n*****. In retrospect that wasn't cool but I just really hated the guy who constantly gave me shit in school and wanted to hurt him.

Still a dick move on my part.

On the one hand, my first thought was "keeping it classy."

On the other, I've had this exact same experience, and I think I am slightly racist myself anyway. I've been stuck at a school where half the populace are black people, and most of them act like the stereotypical "swagfag" that will steal anything left unattended, sell drugs or rob people of said drugs off campus, raid people's cars for items, have sex at the local park during school hours or in bathrooms, walk around saying "swag," and constantly getting in trouble for fighting. I would like to give people the benefit of the doubt, but sometimes, there are just stupid people(and it doesn't matter if they are white, black, blue, or green), and there is only one word you can really use to describe them, and it's the same derogatory term they use to describe each other, which I'd much rather not say on this forum.

 

[Generic4me]

I certainly know I have negative views...or rather, subconsciously think negative thoughts and make assumptions about people of certain races, I try to be as fair as I can.

However, I was called a racist once by a REALLY annoying girl that also happened to be African American. I really couldn't stand being around her, she smelled bad, talked really poorly, yelled a lot, and was just a general miserable person. However, she shared my last name's first letter, so that meant I'd always end up paired up with her in the classes. (The desks were set up in twos) She for some reason felt the need to yell at me, always for something, so I told her one day to "fuck off or shut up". She shut up, but later went to a teacher and claimed that I hated her because she was black.

The teacher had known I really didn't like being around her, and believed her, and I was transferred to another class, AND they sent a note home. Thankfully my parents didn't take it very seriously.

Sorry, but just because you're a different race doesn't mean you get to act like an ass.

 

[generals3]

Once. I made a joke about a colored person, the joke however wasn't even aimed at his ethnicity however someone couldn't resist assuming the joke was aimed at that.
I have also witnessed other people being wrongfully accused of being racist.

 

[clippen05]

The only time I can remember was when I was with my friends waiting for the photographer to show up to take a team picture for soccer. All the team pictures were being taken today, so we saw the cheerleaders pass by to take their picture. There was this one really ugly girl who also happened to be African-American. I made a comment about her appearance, (I didn't say anything regarding her race in the comment) and my one friend called me out on it.

 

[Heronblade]

I used to be able to say that I had never been outright called a racist. Then the past two elections rolled by, and a disturbing number of people have made that accusation against me by virtue of daring to vote against Obama.

 

[Heronblade]

First off, whoever invented the term "reverse racism" was a moron...... what that term should mean is people who are racist against racists...... but for that to even work "racist" would need to be a race, and it is not.

If someone is racist against blonde haired blue eyed white people they are still just racist, no reverse necessary.

On topic though..... No never, however I did break up with someone because of racist comments she made.

I always thought the term "Reverse Racism" referred to extreme niceness/politeness towards someone of another race, based solely on their race.

Then you and Fox News are at odds with one another, because they take it to mean racism against white people.

Wait, wait, wait.

First you say that reverse racism is racism against racists. Then you add that it is racism against white people. Put one and two together and that means you think all white people are racist ergo making you racist.

Let me try to untangle this a bit. The term actually is used to refer to the act of being racist against a race who represent a majority, in the US, its used in regards to racism against people of Caucasian descent. (which is moronic beyond belief in my opinion, racism is still racism, regardless of how large or small a percentage of the populace it is directed against, and should be referred to as such.)

He complained that the term and the way people use it makes zilch sense. I happen to agree

 

[Fipback]

Never ever, although the fact that my town is 99% white might have something to do with that. I find it sort of depressing that I don't have any friends of a different ethnicity to me, although it shouldn't really matter. The colour of your skin is no more a defining characteristic of your character than the colour of your hair.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Well, there was that unfortunate incident at Nuremberg. Thankfully I think I managed to get away with it.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

Only a couple of times. There was a guy at my school, who was black, and he was a prick. And when you told him he was being a prick, he would proclaim you were being racist, which was even prickier of him. Thankfully no one bought into his prickish bullshit, people were very aware that he was a prick.

Well, there was that unfortunate incident at Nuremberg. Thankfully I think I managed to get away with it.

Posting from Brazil I presume?

 

[Sacman]

No, that doesn't happen, I'm Native American, regardless of whether I'm actually racist or not, which I'm not, I can get away with pretty much anything on account of being Indian...<.<