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Originally Posted by Whitley
Where do you live? This happened to me three times in all of my years. Two by police and one store owner in Puerto Rico when I was on vacation at Cerromar. Do you know many poc?
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I grew up in a diverse town, which was a suburb of a diverse city, which is in a diverse state. My neighborhood was mostly white, but the school I attended was a mix of everything. In my high school courtyard we had clusters of everything, and we all mostly got along. But we saw the bigotry every day. A guy I dated (who is black) was arrested after a white guy mouthed off to him - and he defended himself (verbally), and the white guy punched him. The white guy was arrested and released. My friend was arrested and detained overnight. Even though my friend was the victim and never laid a hand on the white guy.
A supervisor at a store I worked with was a States-born Puerto Rican. A few times when someone wanted to talk to the manager about something, she'd come over - and they would say "no the OTHER manager" or "you're not a supervisor" or some other equally insulting verbiage. It didn't happen often but it did happen.
I used to live in the Boston area, and hung out with "street people" - some homeless, some squatting in tenements and abandoned buildings, it was a whole sub-culture of folks. Huge variety of "types" of people. The brown-skinned ones got the worst of the insults. They all got their share of it, but the brown-skinned ones had it the worst. I got insulted on occasion too even though I wasn't homeless, earned more money than most college students earned, paid rent on Beacon Hill, and was trust-fund baby.