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Originally Posted by freshnesschronic
I remember two years ago or so I was inside my Jewel Osco (grocery store) and looking at the magazines. Specifically the video game and computer gaming magazines. An elderly WHITE lady past behind me and stopped to my left. She gazed around for a second then said abruptly "isn't it awful how they can put that crap on shelves? I can't believe they allow those people to do that." She was obviously referring to the hip hop and import car magazines slightly below the gaming magazines I was looking at (she thought I was looking at those mags). I wasn't expecting her to have said anything and her statement was a bit off, to me at least, so I was like "uh...eh" and didn't say anything as I didn't even really know how to react. She then looked at me with a disapproving frown and said "Oh, you don't speak English do you."
Have you ever experienced such a high level of racism that you can't even comprehend it?
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Originally Posted by elderly white lady
I was at the grocery store, and I saw a nice young man reading a computer magazine. I noticed that the store also stocked those horrible magazines with the girls in skimpy outfits all over the cover. I commented to the young man about how those sleazy pornographers are allowed to put that kind of magazine on the shelves at a grocery store where families shop.
He just stared at me with a strange, bewildered expression on his face. I have no idea what he could have been thinking. Does he have no social skills? Does he not speak English? He just stammered some nonsense, so I continued on my way. I have no idea what his problem was.
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Two years later, and you’re still fuming about this "racist" encounter. The "white" lady didn't specifically mention anything about race; she didn't do or say anything that couldn't have a non-racist explanation. The "racism" could have been in your imagination - notice that you're the one injecting racist commentary into this encounter.
You constantly assume racism to be the motivating factor in your encounters with white people. Therefore you are classifying them by race, and assigning qualities to them based on race. That's racism!