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In response to
"Snorks! I will say this. I never saw racism until I was in the Army. I saw it from both races."
by
Redmond
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My most compelling brush with racism was when I first moved to Nashville. Not at all what I expected.
Posted by
TFox
Feb 12 '09, 22:44
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A kid on my freshman hall came home visibly upset, almost crying. No one knew why, but a few guys kept at him, and got him to explain it was because there were "niggers in his math class". Not mad, not hateful, just... confused, and unfamiliar, and contrary to how he was raised in a very core way.
Not the kind of thing I expected, and it seemed crazy to me in 1997, but not everywhere catches up at one pace.
My dad had an engineer friend who was sent down South to run a construction site of about 40 local workers, and he was called "boy" for a couple weeks solid. Had to ask off the job. It's just... not there yet.
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