I was a little cute kid, couldn't have been older than 6 or 7.
I was on the BART train in San Francisco (Underground/underwater subway system in the San Francisco-Bay Area) and unbeknownst to me, I was sitting right across from a neo-nazi. He had a swastika and other symbols tattooed and some teenage girls actually came and got me and moved me to another car with them
That's the first time I can remember even thinking about race.
The police force is
very weak and limited in Oakland, so they don't harass at the same level as other police forces. They're too busy dealing with actual crimes.. but they won't even come into some hoods.
I grew up around an extremely diverse population.. name any race, and any class, all were together and got along perfectly without any problems. It was truly beautiful looking back at it. The Bay Area is a very special place. You would have inner city black kids best friends with rich white kids, Australian kids with Indian kids, Latinas with Bosnians, British with Japanese, etc. just everyone intermingling and getting along having fun.
In my Junior year of high school (for this one year I was in San Diego
) I was one of the only two black kids in a class of mine, and the other one didn't show up to this class that often, so I was effectively the only black kid. One of my teachers would make jokes about how blacks can't swim, and routinely put on ghetto voices and speak in ebonics.. it was a thing of his where he would make lists with statistics, for example:
Sarah 18.9s
John 14.4s
Lauren 16.7s
LaQueesha 37.6s
These would be swimming times that we would use for calculations.
He also said at least a couple times that blacks are superior athletes because they bred the strongest in slavery.
I felt like a fish out of water, and didn't do anything about it, even though I regret it looking back. I ended up never going to his class, but your boy still earned that A easily.
What destroyed my innocence when it comes to race was being surrounded by nothing but upper class conservative whites who had grown up with nothing but upper class conservative whites.. nothing overt happened, but you could just feel the pressure surrounding you constantly. I made friends with the black kids of course, and I admit there was enough curious white/Asian p*ssy to go around.
I also became friends with a good amount of white kids. However, they would always tell me about other people coming up to them and asking why they were friends with a ******/******s. This wasn't surprising though, because when you're in an environment like that you can just feel the vibes of hatred and prejudice bouncing off of you.
Edit: I have another story, lmao, just remembered this one.
There was this white lady who came in to teach an English class of about 35 students about midway through my Junior year after the original teacher went on maternity leave. I forget what was happening around this time, I think it might have been after the Trayvon Martin shooting but I'm not sure. Well, she decided that we were going to discuss race for the rest of the year.. watch documentaries, have class discussions, write, etc.
In this class, there was a cute white girl that I always had blushing and fawning over me, and then there was another pretty brunette with a
body that liked me. All of the rest (of the attractive girls) were
according to my well honed senses. There was a half black girl that had nice titties and a jiggly ass, but she had just moved from New York in the middle of the year, and I never really talked to her. So anyways, we're discussing race every class period for about a week, and any time she would leave the classroom, all of the white guys would start whining and bytching about how they didn't want to do it. A fresh off the boat Chinese chick tried to say that blacks aren't oppressed because they have access to public school just like "we" do, mind you this is a wealthy white area where kids drive Mercedes' and live in mansions.. this is a top school in the nation. I told her some horror stories from a public school in Oakland
and she shut up. A white girl said that it's not fair how black people get affirmative action, and that it hurts her chances to get into college.. I pointed out to her that affirmative action actually helped white women more than black men or women, but anyways, it was already banned in California.
Another white chick said that her whole family, especially her father, is vehemently racist towards blacks but she still loves them, and I said, "You're going to hell with them." This was all leading up to my favorite moment..
We come in the classroom and all of the desks are in a circle.. we're having a class discussion
They're just droning on and on about reverse-racism.
I eventually look to the other blacks in the room and confirm that I am justified in what I'm about to do. I say -- [
edit: redacted cause too much info] -- and the entire class room erupts in laughter. That just pissed me off even more that they were only expecting amusement from me. Then the spirit got on me
--- [
edit: redacted cause too much info] --- A few completely threw away all of their veiled racism and just called me a ******.
All of the other black kids in the class were
after listening to the constant bullshyt for a couple weeks.
A whole group of kids from the class snitched me out but I just said they deserved it
and mentioned that they called me a ******.. nothing happened. The teacher was fired when I came back the next week though.