If You Were A Target Of Racism How Would You Feel?

[user54321]

if you were a victim of racism how would you feel

[davebro]

victimised

[AuntPG]

What do you mean by 'victim'. I've lost count of the times I've been called a French ******, mainly in Canada, for obvious reasons. That doesn't bother me but perhaps not getting something in life directly as a result of being a different colour or Nationality would bother me immensely.

[Redhelen72]

I have of sorts living in NI and not being of NI descent I had an awful time in the beginning.
I felt victimised bullied ashamed and heartbroken

[rowanwitch]

Same as it felt to be the victim of homophobic abuse at the hands of a fundamentalist Christian nurse who happened to be black. Angry knowing no one would place how offended I felt against her right to express her Christian belief that I would burn in hell!

[roadman]

Angry

[gness]

How would I feel now? I guess about the same as I did as an Irish person growing up in England. As a child I'd be a bit upset at the name calling and nasty comments but looking back I think I had enough about me, even then, to know that the offenders were pretty ignorant and to be pitied for that ignorance.

[fcc]

Tall people,short people,fat people,thin people,people with spots,
people with ginger hair,people with light hair (dumb blonde),
no matter who you are everyone gets called names they would prefer
not to be called at sometime or other.

[douglas9401]

Easy for you to say, four-eyes. :-P

[Ringlet]

Throughout my lifetime there have been many times when I have been the target of abuse from English people firstly because I am from Ireland, and secondly because I am specifically from Northern Ireland (especially throughout the years of the "Troubles").

One memorable example occurred on a bus in Newcastle upon Tyne when a (drunk) woman, on hearing my accent, berated me personally for all the crimes, atrocities and misdeeds committed by Republican terrorists on the English mainland. The diatribe continued unabated all the way from Newcastle City centre to Ocean road in South Shields.

Although animosity by white English people toward white Irish people is not, strictly speaking, racism, the effect on the victim is the same - anger, embarrassment, bewilderment, resentment, and occasionally fear. That is exactly how I have felt each time it happened.

I have even been abused for being Irish by white English people visiting Ireland. Most visitors who come to our shores in Ireland seem to enjoy our hospitality, our friendliness, and the spectacular scenery of the island of Ireland, yet a small percentage feel it is acceptable to invoke negative stereotypes of Irish people, to express thinly veiled insults and downright verbal abuse aimed at the Irish inhabitants simply because they are Irish.

I have never received similar abuse from a Scottish or Welsh person. Possibly because they know what it feels like to be on the receiving end of such nationalistic abuse?

[Bobbisox1]

Ringlet that’s appalling and it happened in my neck of the woods , I’m assuming you were travelling on the Metro as you mention Ocean road in South Shields? How DOI this drunken moron know you were from Ireland? ( just curious) and was it before racial abuse became a hate crime? Did you report her? I hope you did

[Bobbisox1]

Typo * did* not DOI , God knows where that came from :0)

[Bobbisox1]

I’ve never been verbally racially abused but when my Dad lived in Anglesey ,the locals in a bar only spoke Welsh when we were around, I have been mocked for my Geordie accent if that’s the same thing? And believe me I have a very watered down accent compared to a lot of them:0)))

[THECORBYLOON]

"the locals in a bar only spoke Welsh when we were around"

Why would you expect them to speak English?

[Ken4155]

Bobbi, perhaps the locals only spoke Welsh? Even when you were not around.

[Peter Pedant]

// Same as it felt t...............................ppened to be black//

same here: congolese care assistant wdnt come in the room where I had norovirus - green diarrhoea EVERYWHERE, walls etc - because I had no lymphocytes which he thought proved I had HIV ( negative on repeated testing ) . (*) so did he really slide the towel under the door? no he opened the door a crack and dropped it just inside the room.

next shift, sista said they would do without him and be one short....oo-er mrs! matron I mean - [ clean nurse, dirty nurse and only the dirty nurse goes near you ]

(*) you have lymphocytes but not CD4 cells

[Peter Pedant]

I had:
oh ay say ! - Ay can put it awn you know!

and I said - I am not putting it on - I speak like this normally

[davebro]

//Bobbi, perhaps the locals only spoke Welsh? Even when you were not around.//

Because you go into a bar & they are talking in English but switch to Welsh when they realise that non-Welsh speakers are present.

[Zacs-Master]

What has having the *** got to do with racism? Anyone?

[Bobbisox1]

Corby are you saying all on Anglesey speak their mother tongue all the time ??? It may have been a pub where they did, I don’t know but for all I noticed it, it didn’t bother me at all , they could have been calling us ,( me and my ex ) I do know at the time there was some bad feeling about the English buying up holiday cottages there :0(
Ken, yep , their prerogative indeed

[Bobbisox1]

Davebro, that’s about it