Victum of Prejudice

[Kramer1113]

Victim of Prejudice. When were you judged to be someone or something you were not? and what happened?
I'll go first.
Before I joined the United States Army I had hair down to my butt. I had a very large beard, I wore my Brooks Leathers, and rode a Harley.
I drank a little more than I should when I was out, and I smoked weed, OK, I smoked a lot of weed. But that was about the extent.
I was working construction at the time. I never hurt anyone, and no one hurt me.
When I walked into places like Sears or JCPenny people would just stare then look away. I'll be honest, it kinda sucked.
I knew who I was on the inside, but on the outside I was trouble.

One day in Down Town Toledo Ohio I parked my bike, Got off, put some money in the meter and started to walk down the street. A little old lady was walking towards me, she held her purse like a running back hold the football. She was shaking and looking at me out of the corner of her eye.
That day changed who I was on the outside, and broke my heart on the inside. When I got home I called the Army recruiter... I have never gone back.
I may be a hippie at heart to this day but the outside is far from it.

 

[sophysully]

I've been a victim of prejudice many times. Not for being Hispanic, if someone has tried to.. It went unnoticed. I've been judged for looking too feminine, and managing a gun range. I like to wear makeup, nice clothes, and look presentable. Sometimes people see that image as a woman who doesn't know what she's doing. I've proven them wrong multiple times.. With a smile of course.

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[Kramer1113]

I've been a victim of prejudice many times. Not for being Hispanic, if someone has tried to.. It went unnoticed. I've been judged for looking too feminine, and managing a gun range. I like to wear makeup, nice clothes, and look presentable. Sometimes people see that image as a woman who doesn't know what she's doing. I've proven them wrong multiple times.. With a smile of course.

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It's funny, To discriminate against you because you present a nice image. I would have thought in this day and age a female dressed in any attire at a gun range wouldn't raise an eyebrow.
Maybe because I had two sisters and served with many capable and competent female soldiers.

 

[K7lvo]

I am 60 years old. I have never let the way I dress, shave, wear my hair, etc. keep me from getting what I wanted. I never cared to wear my hair long, (that decision was taken out out of my hands years ago ) but my beard, for example, was expendable and, while I prefer jeans, I can wear dress pants and even a tie...

 

[tcfiero]

I have been called, Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Black. I never felt a me a victim. The one time I felt like a victim was a couple of weeks after 9/11. I was getting ready to move from Montgomery Alabama back to Pensacola Florida. I had just rented a U-haul for my move, I was pulled over for no reason. The officer checked my ID and let me go. I guess my Native American heritage plus my scruffy face gave the appearance of a Middle Eastern person.

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[SR40c]

Every day when the current administration refers to me as an extremist, racist, and terrorist.

 

[tricolordad]

Every time I read some intentionally slanted ass backwards retarded anti-Islam post on this site, I am being discriminated against. Try and help them correct it? They ignore your post and ask you the same question they dreamed up from their racist fantasy world again and again and again. I get accused of being an enemy agent every time a certain member posts about Islam. Apparently I am a woman beater too, just because the Taliban does it. Ignorance at its' finest. I am a combat veteran of the United States Army, a patriot and a free man. I am also married to a Catholic blonde haired hazel eyed German Polack. Regardless, let's not let facts get in our way.

 

[tricolordad]

I have been called, Mexican, Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Black. I never felt a me a victim. The one time I felt like a victim was a couple of weeks after 9/11. I was getting ready to move from Montgomery Alabama back to Pensacola Florida. I had just rented a U-haul for my move, I was pulled over for no reason. The officer checked my ID and let me go. I guess my Native American heritage plus my scruffy face gave the appearance of a Middle Eastern person.

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Every time I fly, I get the extra screening for two reasons. I am a veteran and I am Muslim. Usually from some ghetto garbage who never learned to speak in the present tense. They always ask if I am hispanic. Morons...

 

[BC1]

A few years back my wife bought new furniture at a high-end furniture store. I tagged along and noticed the high-brow women tripped over each other to help us. A few days later my wife asked me to return a rug she had borrowed to see if she liked it. I went back, this time in work clothes and a little dirty from some yard work. I wrestled that rug to the front door but couldn't get it open. These girls sat on their asses and watched me struggle. Eventually I got it in. I grabbed the owner and told him what happened. He was quite upset. So these girls apparently didn't think some dirt-bag like me was deserving of some common courtesy... or was it that some dirt-bag like me wouldn't garner a commission? In any event it was noses in the air. Pretty nervy for a common sales associate.

 

[Kramer1113]

Every time I read some intentionally slanted ass backwards retarded anti-Islam post on this site, I am being discriminated against. Try and help them correct it? They ignore your post and ask you the same question they dreamed up from their racist fantasy world again and again and again. I get accused of being an enemy agent every time a certain member posts about Islam. Apparently I am a woman beater too, just because the Taliban does it. Ignorance at its' finest. I am a combat veteran of the United States Army, a patriot and a free man. I am also married to a Catholic blonde haired hazel eyed German Polack. Regardless, let's not let facts get in our way.

tricolor Brother, I Like You.
Simple as it can be. The Muslim Religion has been hijacked and distorted. Most Christians will not give the Muslim religion the time of day to understand where the difference is.
A friend of mines wife has the extra screening every time as well. She is a light skinned red head who has it going on. They just want to scan her and search her. Its a little creepy.
Profiling is something we have to deal with. What a terrible statement. But, If your wife walked through some poorer neighborhoods in this nation all by herself she would not fair well. Unfortunately, the area in its entirety has to be profiled for safety sake.
If a park or mall has problems with sexual predators I will not allow my children to go there.

Brother, I am sorry you have to deal with this.

 

[tricolordad]

tricolor Brother, I Like You.
Simple as it can be. The Muslim Religion has been hijacked and distorted. Most Christians will not give the Muslim religion the time of day to understand where the difference is.
A friend of mines wife has the extra screening every time as well. She is a light skinned red head who has it going on. They just want to scan her and search her. Its a little creepy.
Profiling is something we have to deal with. What a terrible statement. But, If your wife walked through some poorer neighborhoods in this nation all by herself she would not fair well. Unfortunately, the area in its entirety has to be profiled for safety sake.
If a park or mall has problems with sexual predators I will not allow my children to go there.

Brother, I am sorry you have to deal with this.

My sister in law is also a light skinned redhead with a whole lot goin on and I watched some greasy assbag pat her down and then hold her for his "supervisor" buddy when she boarded her flight to college. I wanted to do something, but anything I did would get us both sent to prison. She had tears in her eyes by the end of it. I also keep my kids away from certain places. My 5 year olds bus stop will be at the adjacent trailer park, which is populated by 5 and possibly a 6th... child predators (some things a neighbor has seen and told me about raise reasonable suspicions.) She is not allowed to speak to them, play with them or be in the same classes as them. Although I will be getting out of work 15 mintues before her first class begins, I will be driving her in. If I find out that any of those kids is put near her by our school, I will be enrolling her at one of the other three schools in our town. The apple doesn't fall too far from the tree, and she's already been victimized once under the school system's watch. I have a hard time believing that even one of those kids will grow up to be a normal child. I've seen two of the boys touching each other from my yard, all while under some form of adult supervision...and reported it to child services to no avail...and while she is far from helpless, practically a little samurai girl, not on my f'in watch...

 

[tricolordad]

A few years back my wife bought new furniture at a high-end furniture store. I tagged along and noticed the high-brow women tripped over each other to help us. A few days later my wife asked me to return a rug she had borrowed to see if she liked it. I went back, this time in work clothes and a little dirty from some yard work. I wrestled that rug to the front door but couldn't get it open. These girls sat on their asses and watched me struggle. Eventually I got it in. I grabbed the owner and told him what happened. He was quite upset. So these girls apparently didn't think some dirt-bag like me was deserving of some common courtesy... or was it that some dirt-bag like me wouldn't garner a commission? In any event it was noses in the air. Pretty nervy for a common sales associate.

Sounds like the furniture store/hotel/morgue in our town. Sometimes I wonder if the other occupation of the owner effects the sales reps...

 

[Stengun]

Howdy,

As a blonde haired, blue eyed white male

I have only been discrimanated against one time in my entire life that I can think of.


Many years ago I applied for a job with the US Dept of Agri. As a field investigator and even though I had to highest score of anyone that took the test and was selected for the job it was give to a non-white female that wasn't qualified for the job.

The really sad part is that I am a Disabled Combat Veteran and the woman had never served in the military.

Paul

 

[wolf_fire]

I am an educated, white, male professional.

Several students at my high school will snigger when I speak with proper grammar and diction; what's sad is, certain colleagues do as well. Am I to assume that teachers should not use proper grammar and diction when they speak?

Apparently, it is cool to be stupid, ignorant, and illiterate.

Stengun, a similar thing happened to me when I took my state police entrance exam. I scored in the high 90th percentile and I have military service. These two things should have made me a shoe in for the academy. However, not that go-around. They needed minority numbers, specifically black females, to fill an anti-discriminatory quota. One can discriminate against an educated, white male in this country without any repercussion.

 

[SR40c]

My employer has to deal with the same mandatory "quotas" as well. We keep hiring based on "those quotas" and the "quotas" keep failing miserably. Just another revolving door. Incompetent, lazy, and stupid. At least an 80% failure rate. Try firing one "for cause", almost impossible. Sometimes I think to myself; Thank God for laziness. Makes things much easier.

It's just sad that with so many people who need and really want these jobs cannot get them because we are forced to hire lesser qualified people who do not belong there.

 

[Kramer1113]

My employer has to deal with the same mandatory "quotas" as well. We keep hiring based on "those quotas" and the "quotas" keep failing miserably. Just another revolving door. Incompetent, lazy, and stupid. At least an 80% failure rate. Try firing one "for cause", almost impossible. Sometimes I think to myself; Thank God for laziness. Makes things much easier.

It's just sad that with so many people who need and really want these jobs cannot get them because we are forced to hire lesser qualified people who do not belong there.

I have been the guy walking around my place of work asking the female employee's "Are you Hispanic?" because we needed to promote a Hispanic female at the moment to get our numbers in line.
I tend to agree. This type of equality is Bu!!$hit.

 

[tricolordad]

Howdy,

As a blonde haired, blue eyed white male

I have only been discrimanated against one time in my entire life that I can think of.


Many years ago I applied for a job with the US Dept of Agri. As a field investigator and even though I had to highest score of anyone that took the test and was selected for the job it was give to a non-white female that wasn't qualified for the job.

The really sad part is that I am a Disabled Combat Veteran and the woman had never served in the military.

Paul

Maybe you opened your mouth before the cat was in the bag and blew it...