After the World Cup match Monday, Delta airlines tweeted about America’s win with the number of goals each team made over a picture that resulted in accusations of racism.
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The one thing that has happened to me my whole life is that all people say I’m not black or that I act white… I’m Black, my whole family is Black, but because in my family I was taught to speak in a proper way and not use slang or pronounce words in a certain way, I’m an Oreo (white on the inside, Black on the outside). I don’t like the fact that White people are associated with speaking well and Black people are associated with speaking poorly. It goes, both ways. If a White person grew up in a community where people spoke ghetto or used Black English, people would say, “he thinks he’s Black”. I know a lot of Africans who speak French, but that doesn’t mean they are white… It is just really silly when people say things like, “you speak very well for a black guy”. I don’t know how to ever respond to comments like these where I’m not “acting my race”.
While most claims of racism targeted towards white people is utter garbage (or racial prejudice at best), there is one area I know first hand where racism exists against white people, Hawaii. Now not all of Hawaii is like this, for example the very wealthy out of staters do not have much contact with the local culture and society, the tourist areas, and the military bases. If you are white and not in one of these areas there is a rather unique situation to experience. Some locals in Hawaii that have ancestors living in Hawaii since the plantation days had developed an anti-foriegner mind set and specifically an anti-white people mind set. The word they used to call me is haole (pronounce howl-lee), which means foreigner in Hawaiian but has become a derogatory name towards white people. Hawaii is isolated enough to prevent an influx of Americans from the mainland and allowed Hawaii to retain a large and majority native/Asian population. They established a culture, society, infrastructure, and government with little interaction of the racist pro-white power structure found on the mainland at the same time. This allowed for what would eventually become an institutionalized racism against whites. My personal experience is that of a kid and teenager growing up there. In terms of some of the incidents there, I have had teachers give me detention, seize my things because a Hawaiian child claimed it was theirs, gotten suspended when a group of Hawaiian kids started a fight with me while they were free and clear, just to name a few things at school. I have had to deal with groups of kids throwing rocks at me and chasing me down on what I would later hear has been called kill haole day. In 7th grade I got a blessing in the form of a growing spurt and by 8th grade was 6’2, very few wanted to mess with me after that (the average height in Hawaii is lower, and even more so if they are eating traditional asian diets). There were a lot of other incidents but I just wanted to highlight the some similarities to racism I have seen in Baltimore, mainly against black people, and what I saw in Hawaii. I had two good friends that helped make it a lot easier and showed me I was a local as much as they were. About the word haole, I remember using that word all the time in resentment towards mainlanders (which I had equal disdain for as the other locals had) but now the thought of using it so casually sickens me.
Its not just Hawaii. Racism exists anywhere against any minority. If you are white and you are poor and live in a poor neighborhood the other ethnicities treat you like garbage and call you all sorts of racist names. Im white and i grew up in a very very low income household in a neighborhood near hartford ct where whites are the minority to hispanics and blacks. I got called every name in the book for being white. Got discriminated against all the time as well. You are willing to admit that it happens in Hawaii because you have seen it first hand, but let me tell you racism towards whites exists across america.
theres a difference between racism and racial prejudice. In order for it to be racism there needs to be institutionalization of the racial prejudice. its racism because institutions and our cultures are designed to give one group the reins of those cultures and institutions to control. the people in control dictate how things work in society at large. that control based on race is racism, not a person preferences over certain people’s skin tone. I cannot say Hartford Ct doesn’t have this institutionalization in place but I doubt it. I wish it was just name calling that I went through. what you went through sucks but it doesn’t sound like racism. Ask yourself what race were the police, the politicians, the teachers, pretty much anyone in civil authority? Was the culture of the area (not just your neighborhood) geared towards exclusion and harassment towards certain groups? Were there television broadcast and common jokes in this culture geared towards mocking, insulting, degrading mostly white people? Were some teachers encouraged to have classes read books portraying how whites feel living in CT and the harassment and discrimination they go through? I say most racism geared towards whites is not racism in America because I have seen both sides of this coin. In Maryland the treatment I get is completely different and I the closest example I see to how I was treated is when I go to Baltimore, South East DC, or Prince George County. The people being treated like this are largely black and hispanic. In school you see the same kind of focus for some classes and similar to what I mentioned was in Hawaii. I believe Hawaii is a unique situation in America due to it’s isolation, history, and size. There is no where else in America that is more isolated, besides Alaska (which is largely white),
no…just no