Racism and bullying - POC

this is so heartwarming I Love how much emotion u put into this

@happychappynipnap

Thank you so much for participating in our sub-community. I will be moving your thread to a different sub-forum within the POC community. You will find it >>HERE<<

I'm sorry you grew up in an environment like that. Personally, I didn't experience it growing up (I'm black mixed w/ a lil bit of Puerto Rican), but that's prob b/c I was raised in the city. The only caucasians we had were the teachers. Honestly, I was always shocked, to see a white person shopping- anywhere in my neighborhood lol We were black, hispanic, African, Indian (from India lol). More or less, we co-existed and respected everyone's differences. Even in high school, the only difference was we had some Asians in the mix.

Skip to the present though, since I moved to a small town 5 years ago, it's... been different. I was the only black girl working at Walmart. Actually, I was a token employee b/c they were remodeling and one of the people in charge of that was a black powersuit wearing woman. But even then, everyone seemed kosher. Granted, I spent the first couple of months feeling shade from my supervisors, but it wasn't race related. I think it was b/c I loved my job.

My bfffff started working there maybe 6 months after I'd been there. Believe it or not, she was fired frm another Walmart b/c of her hair... She didn't know what to do with it (her older sisters had always done it). That Walmart was in a very upper-crust mostly caucasian town. They didn't outright say her hair, obviously, but she'd done absolutely nothing wrong. They didn't even give her a reason, but she remembered ppl talking about her hair & honestly it was unkempt, in the frizzy untamed even with a rubberband & she couldn't braid, so it was just kinda there. Moving beyond that, her personality is vibrant. She is every kind of wonderful, and sometimes I envy her, b/c pretty much everyone loves her. She's funny, always says the right thing, but she has experienced racism.. after I stopped working there.

One of the girls yelled "here blacky." Another, one whom I thought I'd really liked, talked about living in a gated community in the city b/c of black ppl, explicitly expressing her distrust in black ppl. My friend was sitting right there and my... now ex used the open door policy on her. But mi amiga vouched for her saying she didn't think she'd meant any ill will by it... sure. Skip a month or two, the same gosh darn woman pulls my best friend by her braids b/c she "wasn't finished talking to her." Like really pulled, as she was walking away. & after the manager watched the video w/ my friend, no that woman was not fired for it... she was fired months later for chasing a thief out of the store and assaulting them. (I swear, when I knew her she was a nerd, & we had similar interests. She was like a mother to me, a good person. Idk why it turned out that she was a racist psycho.)

One of my friend's friends who was a bit of a snob, said some white guy had n**** lips, in front of my bff. Another time, a girl who's soul is Regina George from Mean Girls, but my bff is good friends with her, still don't know why, she told my girl that she hated Hispanics and wished they'd speak English. That she won't let her daughter watch Dora b/c she needed to learn English first. I knew she was a gossip, a backstabber, but racist.. Idk, & then some elderly woman who works there threw racial slurs and all kinds of nasty at my friend b/c she wouldn't check her out at the self checkout register, which was no longer allowed. She went ham on my friend, & i don't even know why or what was going on in her life for her to verbally assault my bestest friend, but she still works there and had the nerve to try to add me on fb. Like why? To prove you're not racist. So that's 5 ppl at my local Walmart alone.

It's just ugly. & my mom's friend down South was pulled over by the cops and forced to stay overnight in a cell b/c they felt like it. She was driving home late that night, had just finished working a double, so she was driving sleepy. They had her walk the line, she did fine, breathelizer fine, but they lied saying she was intoxicated. Now, she's from the islands, so she seriously wanted to go off on them, but considering our history w/ cops, she just dealt with it. Sued right after though. Not all cops are bad of course, my dad's an auxillary officer and my bf is an ex cop, but when ppl turn a complete blind eye, yeeeees it bothers me. Some stories and videos are manipulated. I almost fell for one once, but some seriously aren't. Open mindedness and viewing things from all angles would make the world so much better. Sorry for rambling, but yes I understand.