What is your first memory about race?

[hortysir]

What is your first memory about race?

1980 Darlington 500

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_q9DiRK6tc]1980 Southern 500 - YouTube[/ame]

14 year old Boy Scout hanging on the chain link fence screaming my lungs out for David Pearson

 

[jillian]

My first memory about race is a semantic one.

I was in 2nd grade, sitting on my neighbor's stoop across the street. She was in first grade.

No idea how the conversation started but I told her, "Everybody is prejudiced." Because everyone IS prejudiced about something. I knew that because my mother taught me that prejudice means to prejudge, and we all make judgments about one thing or another without knowing all the facts.

And then the first grader said, "Nuh uh, I LIKE Sarah." . . Sarah was a girl who lived down the street from us. She was black. My first grade friend and I were white.

I had to do some damage control and say that's not what I meant, I like Sarah too.

And that's about all I remember.




Apparently the first grader's mother wasn't as much into vocabulary and nuance as my mother was.

people have 'first memories about race'??

really?

 

[Salt Jones]

My first memory about race is a semantic one.

I was in 2nd grade, sitting on my neighbor's stoop across the street. She was in first grade.

No idea how the conversation started but I told her, "Everybody is prejudiced." Because everyone IS prejudiced about something. I knew that because my mother taught me that prejudice means to prejudge, and we all make judgments about one thing or another without knowing all the facts.

And then the first grader said, "Nuh uh, I LIKE Sarah." . . Sarah was a girl who lived down the street from us. She was black. My first grade friend and I were white.

I had to do some damage control and say that's not what I meant, I like Sarah too.

And that's about all I remember.




Apparently the first grader's mother wasn't as much into vocabulary and nuance as my mother was.

people have 'first memories about race'??

really?

I don't know a black person that doesn't.

 

[Unkotare]

When I was about 4, our dog bit the shit out o' some black dude who came to the door selling Fuller Brushes.......He had never done anything like that before.

How do you know he had never sold Fuller Brushes before?

he wasn't talking about the mutt!!he was talking about the dog!!

Cowardice has clearly crowded out any sense of humor in your inbred pea-brain.

 

[yidnar]

How do you know he had never sold Fuller Brushes before?

he wasn't talking about the mutt!!he was talking about the dog!!

Cowardice has clearly crowded out any sense of humor in your inbred pea-brain.

inbred???blacks have the highest rates of incest!!www.alongwalkhome.org

 

[uscitizen]

My first memory about race was racing my big sister, she on her bicycle and me on my tricycle. I lost.

 

[tonystewart1]

I was in highschool and went to the state capital for an academic competition. That is the first time time I ever laid eyes on anyone that was not white. After talking to them at the hotel I realized that all the stuff I heard growing up about blacks was not true.

 

[hortysir]

My first memory about race was racing my big sister, she on her bicycle and me on my tricycle. I lost.

Should have used your Big Wheel!!

 

[MarcATL]

We had race riots in my high school freshman year. I remember how scary it was being locked in our class rooms and we could hear screams and chains. Our parent's had to come and pick us up and we were escorted by police officers out of the school.

There were riot police outside the high school all four years I attended.
We were not allowed to have bathroom doors on the toliets, because kids would get jumped.

Very tough time.

Where the heck did you live/are you from again?

 

[Ernie S.]

We had race riots in my high school freshman year. I remember how scary it was being locked in our class rooms and we could hear screams and chains. Our parent's had to come and pick us up and we were escorted by police officers out of the school.

There were riot police outside the high school all four years I attended.
We were not allowed to have bathroom doors on the toliets, because kids would get jumped.

Very tough time.

Where the heck did you live/are you from again?

Can't speak for Sky, but I went to high school in the South. Yup Danbury Connecticut, 7 miles south of the town I lived in.

 

[Sky Dancer]

Sounds like many of you have already seen the movie The Help

I haven't but I look forward to it. I just saw The Debt this weekend. Excellent movie. I love Helen Mirren.

 

[MarcATL]

Helen Mirren is HAWT!!!

 

[Tank]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7a7IaS3ml4g]Tribe meets white man for the first time - Original Footage (1/5) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[SW2SILVER]

Vague. My best buds in the world (circa 1964), were three kids that had dark skins than me. It didn't register. Somewhere, I remember a adult saying something about "stay away from the Negroes". Something like that, and, I never saw blacks the same AGAIN. Like they (Blacks) were contaminated. I never understood why they said that, or why it made such impact. I still miss those guys AND those innocent days, sometimes.

 

[Mr. H.]

Tribe meets white man for the first time - Original Footage (1/5) - YouTube

Reminds me of when I first met the ex's family.
And they's white folk!

 

[William Joyce]

I was called a "****** lover" for holding hands with a black boy in high school. My father wouldn't let my Native American friend come home with me because" she is too dark, and the neighbors will complain."

From the musical South Pacific:

"You've Got To Be Taught
to Hate And Fear,
you've Got To Be Taught
from Year To Year,
it's Got To Be Drummed
in Your Dear Little Ear
you've Got To Be Carefully Taught.

You've Got To Be Taught To Be Afraid
of People Whose Eyes Are Oddly Made,
and People Whose Skin Is A Diff'rent Shade,
you've Got To Be Carefully Taught."

Yet studies show just the opposite. Babies respond negatively to photographs of other races.

Don't ya hate it when musicals get science wrong?

 

[Unkotare]

How many children do you have?

 

[yidnar]

How many children do you have?

what the hell does that got to do with anything ??

 

[Unkotare]

How many children do you have?

what the hell does that got to do with anything ??

Was I asking you, shitstain?

 

[Quantum Windbag]

My first memory about race is a semantic one.

I was in 2nd grade, sitting on my neighbor's stoop across the street. She was in first grade.

No idea how the conversation started but I told her, "Everybody is prejudiced." Because everyone IS prejudiced about something. I knew that because my mother taught me that prejudice means to prejudge, and we all make judgments about one thing or another without knowing all the facts.

And then the first grader said, "Nuh uh, I LIKE Sarah." . . Sarah was a girl who lived down the street from us. She was black. My first grade friend and I were white.

I had to do some damage control and say that's not what I meant, I like Sarah too.

And that's about all I remember.




Apparently the first grader's mother wasn't as much into vocabulary and nuance as my mother was.

Mine is watching the Indianapolis 500 on TV.