My first factory job: standing and talking with a small group on break. Black guy goes to the bathroom. As soon as he walks away one of the guys says “i hate that fucking n####r”. The others nod in agreement. People are awful.

Are you fucking kidding me?! If I had a dollar for every time somebody made a derogatory racial comment, realized they were with me, and said, “I didn’t mean you. You’re different”, Bill Gates would be looking up at me on the Forbes leaderboard. And it hurt. Every.Fucking.Time.

WTF? Yes, hearing people saying hateful shit about people you love, constantly having to decide whether to reveal yourself to be one of the people they just indicated are less than human, that’s just a stroll in the park. Yeesh. Sure, it’s a slightly different flavor of horrible, but it’s still horrible. I have to…

I said I’ve experienced more than people I know, not all people of color. I’m not arrogant enough to make that claim. And it is true, I’ve discussed this issue with my friends and family and I’ve had more experiences with it than a majority of them have. But whatever, clearly you want to pull out our Hispanic cocks…

Imagine for a moment that you’re gay, but the guy stood next to you doesn’t know that, and he says something horrible about that gay guy over there. Different minority group, but the same principle.

Just because the bigot didn’t meant to offend you doesn’t make it hurt any less.

And that’s another weird thing to me about frats/sororities. Who are these grown ass men and women who have been out of college for decades that have time to care about what a chapter wants to do now? Do they not have jobs? spouses? pets? Something else to worry about?

If you’re able to recognize that somebody else’s experience might not match your own, why is it so hard to believe that a racial group you aren’t a part of faces, on average, a very different experience than yourself? You’re being stubborn for reasons I don’t understand.

This was truly a fascinating read.

If they’d had a black member of the frat, he would most certainly have been hazed using the racial slurs the frat was very comfortable throwing out, and that news would certainly have gotten back to University officials, likely resulting in the suspension or expulsion of the fraternity from the college.

I’m from the Detroit area which is really segregated (I think the most segregated in the country) and there is racism but it’s nothing compared to what I saw living in Northern Florida for a few years. It’s just different.

Here’s what I can add. All comments I’ve heard IN THE SOUTH from NATIVE SOUTHERNERS:

“You white people like to speak for blacks a whole lot”

I can’t help but roll my eyes at the people who say things like, the north is just as bad. Sorry but no. Yes racism is everywhere in this country. Yes northerners often use the south as a scape goat to deflect their own deeply entrenched prejudices. Yes the north has serious problems with race, but you’re kidding…

Wanna fix racism in fraternities, or the military, or Hollywood, or the media, or any other given fiefdom?

Sigh. Here come the “not all frats/sororities” and “not all Southerners!” (Toss in some random, “The north can be just as bad, they’re just not obvious about it!” as well.)

35 violent deaths in a month. You cannot put a leash on a police officer, the nature of the job doesnt allow it

is that cop supposed to say, “oh darn, he ran! I won’t chase.”

They never would have been charged if, you know, the suspect didn’t end up dead. Besides, that’s only “reasonable suspicion” - that allows them to stop him and search, not necessarily arrest. And he didn’t have anything illegal when they searched him. Hence, it’s an illegal arrest.

They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty.

Chrissamighty, it can’t be that hard for Baltimore to actually pay its cops, can it?