When I was 9 I was playing with some white girl on my area and she said come back my house, before my foot even got inside he screamed in my face 'the isn't coming into our house' .
1st and last time being called that, even though I didn't hear the name before I new it was bad, cried all
the way home.
2nd -I was on a bus when this mixed raced/light skin girl picked on me and not my other 2 somali friends by giving me dirty looks which I laughed off and than saying go back home- I said firstly you have a fucked accent how can you tell me to go anywhere when it's clear you haven't been in this country for very long, you have the audascity to tell me to leave, you so mixed up you think your white. Second you look like a tramp your benefits come from This immigrants taxes. I have a passport and you don't.. She begins to cry.
3rd incident a few years ago, me, my sister and cousins were on the bus, on for a few stops and this huge white guy sits right next to her. He was wearing one of those yellow jackets with paint all over him- some sort of builder. Anyway he said huffing and puffing, and giving everyone dirty looks, than suddenly he said go back to India to us!
I said were not indian were black can't you tell the difference and laughed. So he goes back to Africa than, so I said give me all my taxes since I started working from the age of 17, compensate me and I may think about it - he starts getting excited when I say everyone on this bus who's black or Asian btw should all get deported than I laugh and said that's how easy you racists are to munlipate- I'm not going no were I have a British passport! He gets so angry his face turns bright red - he doesn't utter a word more, silence.
All the times I've been called eritean black people - who than proceed to say you don't look somali- I just shake my head and say I look very somali and I'm proud!
Oh and the time I was going through a connecting flight in Chicago airport- I've never received such dirty looks from white ppl in my life!
Anyone else experience racism? If so please share your experiences.
1st and last time being called that, even though I didn't hear the name before I new it was bad, cried all
the way home.
2nd -I was on a bus when this mixed raced/light skin girl picked on me and not my other 2 somali friends by giving me dirty looks which I laughed off and than saying go back home- I said firstly you have a fucked accent how can you tell me to go anywhere when it's clear you haven't been in this country for very long, you have the audascity to tell me to leave, you so mixed up you think your white. Second you look like a tramp your benefits come from This immigrants taxes. I have a passport and you don't.. She begins to cry.
3rd incident a few years ago, me, my sister and cousins were on the bus, on for a few stops and this huge white guy sits right next to her. He was wearing one of those yellow jackets with paint all over him- some sort of builder. Anyway he said huffing and puffing, and giving everyone dirty looks, than suddenly he said go back to India to us!
I said were not indian were black can't you tell the difference and laughed. So he goes back to Africa than, so I said give me all my taxes since I started working from the age of 17, compensate me and I may think about it - he starts getting excited when I say everyone on this bus who's black or Asian btw should all get deported than I laugh and said that's how easy you racists are to munlipate- I'm not going no were I have a British passport! He gets so angry his face turns bright red - he doesn't utter a word more, silence.
All the times I've been called eritean black people - who than proceed to say you don't look somali- I just shake my head and say I look very somali and I'm proud!
Oh and the time I was going through a connecting flight in Chicago airport- I've never received such dirty looks from white ppl in my life!
Anyone else experience racism? If so please share your experiences.