[Tom4784]

Originally Posted by Chaos

If you don't think white people can experience racism, then move to some parts of America. I have a friend who's had to move over there because her husband works there and she says she's never felt so unwelcome and hated in her life.

I went through it when I was a kid... If you haven't lived there, you just cannot say.

Yes, I know it sounds ridiculous that a white person can face racism, but when you're made to feel hated/unwelcome/left out/etc etc based on your skin colour, then it's racism either way. Racism has no colour.

The truth of the matter is your friend can walk almost anywhere in America and not be at risk of racial profiling and the like, while a black person will be viewed as suspicious if they dare to wear a hoodie. We don't have to worry about getting on a bus or a plane and being treated like a potential terrorist. I think that, sometimes, we do get tastes of what suffering racism can be like but we cannot compare what we might suffer to what the actual minorities suffer because, at the end of the day, white people are the majority in western societies.

When you look at the history and look at things now, I can't really blame some members of the black community being embittered by it all. As a white person it's infuriating to witness racism but I can't imagine the feeling of actually experiencing it.