28 Common Racist Attitudes And Behaviors

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83. Did you grow up in the 1940s or something?

I grew up watching The Jeffersons, Good Times, and listening to Bill Cosby and watching people like Chuck Foreman and OJ Simpson and Duane Thomas and Bob Hayes on Sundays.

It never once occured to me to whine "hey, those people don't look like me". Well, personally I think I looked more like JJ, than I looked like Lou Grant.

Well I dunno. I just wrote a check to the County Treasurer, and they asked to see my ID, even though I just ran for that office. I wrote a much smaller check to a toy store, where I know the owners, and was asked to show ID. At the credit union they are constantly changing tellers, and so I am asked to show ID.

Now this woman is telling this story, and she starts out with "the checker is chatting away with my sister in law" and then "there is no conversation with me". Can we be sure that the sister-in-law did not initiate the conversation and that the other woman did NOT? Conversations can go both ways. Did SHE try to say anything to the checker or did she walk up to the checkout thinking, "this blond white girl might be a racist, so I have to be prepared". Is THAT possible? She has shopped there for years, then why didn't SHE know the checker already? Why didn't she say, "Hi Debbie, how you doin' today?"

Sure, white people NEVER face any kind of harrassment. So here I will go with a BWAME. I shopped at the Dollar General regularly for many months. I always wear a backpack so I can carry my stuff home on my bicycle. One day I go in and the checker is all stern with me "you can't wear that backpack in here, take it off, policy, bla, bla, bla."

Been shopping there for months, now suddenly I am treated like a shoplifter. I could blame that on racism, except I am white.

The point of sharing a story like that is that black people might not be aware that sh*t like that sometimes happens to white people too.