Have You Ever Experienced Racism In Yankee?

Have you ever experience racism in Yankee? I used to hear about racism but l never really believed in it until lately at my student job as a waitress . I got the shock of my life from one of my new supervisors. Imagine , one day  l had a costomer come in to eat at my job and then the costomer left the job for some wierd reasons, so l asked my boss while did the costomer leave the job and he replied that , when my so called white costomer saw that l was around , they left because they couldn't stand me. " What tears pouring down my eyes"! Shock of a lifetime. I don't know if it was my naija blood in me that couldn't stand that statement , l found myself abusing my so called supervisor and calling him a hard core "racist"before his very eyes. The shock of his lifetime. He will never forget me in his lifetime.

OFFTOPIC:

I have taken some time to meditate over my original response to this topic as well as the replies. 

Nferyn has sensitised me to the reality that Nigerians abroad - about 83% - have to deal with the painful issue of racism from time to time.  As a result, it's important to show some empathy, which is something I have not considered until now.

Characterizing disney's response (not disney, but her response) to her boss as being "like a black monkey" was calculated to shock people into seeing things from a different angle, but it backfired massively because people were responding to me as the forum admin and not as a random member with unpopular views.

This upsets me.  Not because of how people may percieve me personally - I don't care about that - but because of the impact of such insensitivity on the Nairaland members (Nigerians in the diaspora) who have genuinely suffered from racism.  As the Nairaland admin, I hereby apologize for the insensitivity I may have shown.

As a person, my views haven't really changed, but I'm going to open myself up try to understand the feelings of Nigerians abroad who are affected by racism.  Thanks for reading!

Very disturbing situation. But disney, was the supervisor telling you what the customer said or what he thinks etc? Did you quit? What Uni do you attend? (Or for discretion) Where do you go to school?

Really quite sad. I also started to experience racism when I went to my "diverse" college.

I face this nearly every week in College and i always report the teacher to my personal tutor but she's stupid enough to say sorry and still reapeat the racism behavior, its in their blood. at the moment I'm not really bordered because i know in the area i live if u say it to their face without swearing that they are racist, they will cool down.

My Dame where are you located?

@ chinani

I live in UK

@ chinani

I believe its worse if u don't know how to handle them. I have a friend from another African country that we always fight it together, so I'm not the only one and its easier that way

Nigeria is my Yankee o, and theres racism here too, 

True talk my Dame. (I love your name. Can you tell?) But we must fight it on both fronts. In Nigeria & abroad.

 

@Nwoke, why didn't you say these things since. ur former response really set me off but now, after thinking about how i was responding to your former post, i think i should have just ignored you becuase you were speaking out of ignorance.

exactly!

It was prevalent in my polical science class and the teacher knows i don't like the way he portrayed the blacks in the capital punishment issues we dealth with. What he is saying is true but anything that will hamper the way a student thinks about race should be avoided. Anything that will cause racial. 

I wrote my capstone paper on racisim in defence of the blacks and the teacher graded it bad, so I have to argue on why my grade was low but  nothing could be done about it because all my trails to get to the dean ended to no avail.

@larger

what  ***** you had to deal with. In many ways i am glad i am from UK, though i had my share of knocks mostly in small towns, i think you guys in the US are up against so much.

Does Urkel remind you of someone?   

hi y'all, sad truth is racism is a reality in whatever form it rears its ugly head. if it wasn't racism, it would be tribalism or sexism or any of the other 'isms.' i'd rather not dwell on it because u tend to have a victim mentality. fact is people will always discriminate, against what they don't understand.
the caste system exists in almost every nook and cranny on this planet. in ibo land its osu, and the indians have the untouchables.
until everyone looks inwards and abolishes the superiority complex (which is inherent in everyone), only then can they point fingers.
think about it!