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23 Insensitive Racist Moments People Witnessed

13.

Middle school. There was a white kid at a very predominantly black, low income school. Sh*t was brutal, man.

14.

This was sometime in 2005. “Racism is a thing of the past, it doesn’t happen anymore.” Said by an upper middle class white guy. Yeah, he’d be one to know. The worst racist are the ones who don’t know they are.

15.

In Georgia, I used to work as a hotel front desk clerk back in college. This one really old redneck dude that stayed there a lot would always talk to me about the good old days before “the n*ggers took over” and “stupid spics were all over the place” (his words, not mine). Funny thing is that I’m not white at all. Eventually he pulled a knife on one of the black housekeepers saying that she’s polluting the society. I jacked the knife from him, told him to go to his room, called the cops and they took him away. Never saw him again.

16.

I was in class and a student told teacher that he didn’t like his NBA calendar. When questioned about this statement the student replied “Because there’s a spook on there”

Written by Irvi Torremoro

Irvi Torremoro is an Austinite by way of Las Vegas. She's worked in various outlets in food & beverage and is now focused on writing, eating all the things, talking about Beyonce, and petting all the puppies. She runs flavorandbounty.com, a lifestyle blog about people in the service industry.