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(57,010 posts)by whites. The discrimination you and I got was a situational thing. It happens. The discrimination a PoC gets started before they were born and goes on every day regardless of affirmative action, busing or any other kind of program and it goes on to where they can be buried and will be passed on to their kids.
What you and I got is nothing. Water off our backs - petty maybe but minor and not life threatening.
I'd much rather white and discriminated against than face the discrimination any person of any color faces. Too bad you missed the learning moment of your experience: what it felt like form your minor minimal experience and developed a little empathy. That fact you've felt it for sooo long and did not get any more lesson about racism and discrimination and the fact you don't get your white privilege in that you could move away from it is astounding. PoC get to carry their being discriminated against every where they go. They will never ever be able to move away from it like you did.
You lost the opportunity to learn from your experience and get past black and white which I guarantee would have happened if you would have stuck it out and learned about people and gave them an opportunity to learn about you.