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It cracks me up when whites say that there is no more racism. If you are used to certain priviliges of course you can say that. When I was a kid, I used to cry about it,but now I just expect it. My experiences with racism have inflenced my views on race relations. If you are black,you will encounter it in a covert or overt way.

I used to think it didn't bother me anymore. I used to think it was something that just made me angry in the moment, and then it passed over and I was 'over it'.

Not anymore.

A woman, for no reason, other than a Black woman was speaking to her, trying to impart some basic information on why the bus was late, decided to get indignant, and then ignorant, and starting yelling at her, and then proceeded to call her 'Darkie'.

I called her an ignorant b***h, and told her all she had to say was she wasn't waiting for that bus and the woman would have just stopped talking to her.

Sometimes, just when you think the storm has moved on, here comes the rain again... stressed

i feel okay , kinda good cause i know they just haterz

I hear that. I feel like I've had a bit more "life" than some people here, and that I can see things a little differently because I'm older; I've experienced racism from all races, from all ages, in so many scenarios, I don't dare list them all.

But I have learned to deal with it in different ways. And I think other people have too. So I feel I should share a positive view instead of the expected negative one (even though most people are too lazy to read the whole thing).

Despite their own agenda, not all people who appear to be "acting racist" really think they are. This is a day and age where you can't leave you door unlocked, you can't walk alone after dark, and you should carry mace or some other legal means of defense, whenever you leave the house. Therefore, we are taught, subliminally or outright, that we can't trust anyone.

Do black people think they are being racist if they happen to avoid large groups of rowdy white men outside a bar playing country music?? neutral

So, when the old white grandma pulls her little granddaughter away from a black man, woman or child, you can assume she doesn't trust you and you may be right. She could also just want to avoid the inevitable: her little one bumping you or bothering you.

I have had to get over many "racial boundaries" in my life; at one time, though both minorities, black people and Puerto Ricans in my area were thought to not "get along." I just went and hosted a cosmetics class in a predominantly Hispanic city at a house full of people of PR heritage. No problem.

As a woman who sells this brand of cosmetics, I have to be able to facial all people, regardless of race or color, if I want to make money. I have to cross those hidden boundaries all the time--in grocery stores, laundry mats, gyms, school functions, parks...I have to convince myself that people are people and that's all. I have to push to the back of my mind any bad experience I've had with people because of my race. And once I get talking to them, a lot of other people, regardless of age, sex, race, etc., are willing to do the same, if only for a little while.