The most annoying, what I percieved to be, racist moments in my life were as such:
1. Back in 8th grade/middle school I was in this gifted program that brought together kids from different districts and areas.
We used to go to school about an hour early, and get out an hour early too. In 8th grade, our new school, the hall to the buses also led to the gym/athletic lockerrooms.
I remember that one day, I was walking to the bus down the hall, and the tardy bell rang for the regular zoned kids to go to class. As soon as the bell rang, about 4 or so kids took off running for their athletic lockeroom, on the
opposite side of the hall from me.
A random teacher immediately screamed after them and stopped them and made them come back so that she could write them up.
Coincidentally, all of those kids were black.
The teacher then saw me walking on the opposite side of the hall, and told me to stop. I calmly told her, "I'm in *insert gifted program* and kept walking."
"HEY STOP AND COME HERE," she yelled.
Being the good student I am, I walked back and repeated myself.
Her reply?
"I've heard that story before. Sorry, I've worked here long enough to be able to tell who's in _______ and who's not."
I was sort of in disbelief.
This teacher then proceeded to ignore me while I tried to convince her I was in the gifted program. So, I promptly flagged down a few other gifted students that were passing by, and they also confirmed I was one of them.
Her reply was to ignore the first group and then say "Don't cover for him, do you guys want to get in trouble?" to the second group.
Either way, being the nicest teacher she could possibly be, she decided to write my tardy pass up last - because since I
obviously wasn't in the gifted program, it's not like I had a bus to catch or anything.
Finally, she finished and I rushed as fast as possible down the hall and out the door, only to be greeted by the sight of the bus driving down the road - long gone.
I mean, I'm surprised the bus was still in the area, I guess some of them got the busdriver to wait a while.
My parents were pretty furious, especially since we don't live in the school district or anything, we live far away.
Looking back, I should have just ran and ignored that bitch.
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2. Similarly, I had an encounter with a school truancy officer this year when I was leaving school with my friend because we didn't have any Dual Credit class that day, because apparently she thought we might have been skipping and - "What about you? I know you're not in Dual Credit" (Ummmm okay. I don't know you or why you'd think that and my school records clean)
Except this time I had my dual credit college card as proof
Of course, maybe neither of these incidents had anything to do with my race. *shrug*
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Anyone else have annoying racism moments that they're willing to share?