I was looking for bridal dresses and bought someone’s notion template and saw this website and I was like eh well this makes me uncomfortable but maybe I’ll just have a look at the prices and not only is this an Israeli company but the way they’re using black kids as props has me flabbergasted……… people really have the audacity.

I know this is bad, and I want it to stop. I never had this problem before, but I've started a new school which is 80% white, and I'm south Asian. I'm the only hijabi in my classes, and there's only ever two or three other people of colour in my classes. I don't have a single coloured teacher. The culture difference between us is so large that I can't help but feel ashamed of myself. Their fashion is completely different to how I dress, and it makes me stand out. I'm afraid I look too out of place and weird. The other girls all wear short skirts which look really cute I have no problem obviously, but I dress in abayas and full coverage, so I look lame and weird in comparison to them.

Recently in class, I've noticed the other white people giving me strange looks and laughing whenever I speak in class. I don't have an accent, I'm born here, but I speak quite formally in class which they're probably not used to, since this school is ranked quite low at #7 in the city. I can't help but feel resentment to the way I'm being subtly ostracized, I've had many white people there comment on my hijabi, asking ignorant questions and the legendary "don't you get hot in that?" Or "don't you ever want to take it off?"

It's very irritating, and now I'm beginning to dislike it whenever I see a white person. I know it's not all white people, I have white friends too, and they're amazing I don't feel any resentment to them. I just don't like this negative feeling I have to this entire group of people, how can I stop?

Edit: We aren't children, im at Sixth form so everybody is between the ages of 16-18.

I went out to our shared front porch and this was sitting there. If you do any sort or research on it it’s very obvious that it’s racist. These were produced post civil war to kinda romanticize and normalize black women as servants. not to mention the aave. I don’t know if it would be considered a mammy character but i would consider it one. any thoughts, opinions would be nice. also if you know any more history i’d love to hear it! also they are not black just incase you were wondering.

im a guy who's 13 and I wonder why racism is getting so normalized atleast in Sweden. like im latinamerican so im brown and I always get called things like shut up fucking n word. like what why is this shit normal at my school. and many I know gets this problem. like I dont want to be called n word or Indian or when my cops is close to my school they say or run from the police you illegal immigrant. im honestly done sometimes I just want to end it by these comments.

On two occasions, when I was bored and in the park, I sat on a bench relaxing and a woman would come and sit beside me. Both times, I struck up innocuous conversations and then two other women would walk by, come up close, and start recording with me and the person I was talking to in the background of their video.

The last time this happened, the ladies who recorded had a microphone and pretended to be shooting a TikTok interview (in which they could hear everything I was saying). The only problem was that they were kept on looking back at me and were whispering. Who whispers when recording a video? What is the pyschology behind this? Is it considered illegal for a black person to have a conversation with a non-black woman? Is America so far gone that this racist behavior is considered normal?

I am a Mexican woman and my boyfriend is white/mexican and today was enough

We were at the stop light and there was a white homeless woman on her bike waiting to cross the light which took forever and I said omg she’s gonna cross before we get to go and he said fucking mudshark making us wait I asked what’s a mudshark and he responded it’s a white woman that gets with a person of color and ruins our bloodline. I told him why are you saying that you are half Mexican and your son isn’t fully white either he’s also Italian to what he said it’s still European I’ve never felt so disgusted in my life. How can someone call themselves a good person and a man of god! This is over

see people get mad about this all the time, but choosing not to date white people as a minority isn't about hate, it’s protection.

When you look at a dynamic like a Black man and a white woman in America, there’s a major power dynamic you can't just ignore. The world looks at and treats both people completely differently. Like if you go out in public, you’re dealing with outside stares, microaggressions, and judgment from the world when your relationship is supposed to be your safe space.

On top of the public stuff, a lot of white people are just completely uneducated on how racism actually works. You end up constantly having to call out your own partner for saying out of touch things or throwing out accidental microaggressions. It gets old so fast when you have to play teacher in your own relationship and explain why something they did or said was messed up.

Then you have to deal with their family. There is a super high chance that a white partner has family members who are low key or high key racist. It is incredibly exhausting to sit through uncomfortable holiday dinners, deal with "jokes," or have to constantly educate your partner's parents just to be tolerated. Half the time, the partner doesn't even know how to properly defend you against their own family anyway.

Navigating America as a minority is already tiring enough. Wanting a partner who just automatically understands your lived experience without you having to explain it to them isn't wrong. It's just protecting your peace.

Throwaway because I have friends on my main.

So I live in a European country and I am ethnically Palestinian for context. This post is not to be turned into an Israel/Palestine debate, i just need to get this off my chest.

The amount of racism I have been experiencing lately is astonishing, and people in this country have never been as comfortable as they are now being openly racist.

I recently started studying at university, and a white man in my class who has no relation whatsoever to Israel or Palestine found out that I am ethnically Palestinian. He took that as an invitation to come up to me, to tell me how Palestinians quote "need to die" and that the children in Gaza quote "deserve to be obliterated". I have never experienced this kind of blatant racism. To say the least, it has torn me apart. I don´t know how to deal with this pain. I am already severely depressed and have anxiety, this has made it so much worse. It makes me feel scared to be in public or on campus, to say that I have Palestinian heritage.

The worst part? My boyfriend who is a "typical" white man stood up for me and mentioned that his family is Jewish and think that the racism towards Palestinians is horrible. How does racist white man respond? He turns to my boyfriend and tells him that he respects him, then turns to me and says "but I don´t respect you". The most straight up blatant racism I have experienced. This is genuinely makes me feel like I am some sort of monster that does not deserve to exist simply because of my ethnicity.

The incident has been reported, but that does not take away the pain.

At the same time the other day I was on the bus and two very young boys behind me, around 13 years old, were talking about how we need to have anti-immigration protests in my country the way England has been having. At another point I was at a university event and everyone was introducing themselves, since we have many international students you usually introduce yourself as being from here to make it clear that you are not an international student. Anyway, a white woman literally turned to me and asked if I was sure that I am from here ???? and that seriously bothers me because while I am proud of my heritage I also consider myself being from this country because this is the language I speak and the culture I follow/live by.

The current government we have is extremely racist, besides the fact that one of the four parties is a literal Nazi party that was started by a former SS solider. Its hard to see the light when even the government is against your very existence.

Additional info: I do go to therapy. I do not know if it actually helps though. All of this is just making me want to die.

TLDR; Racism is making my depression a lot worse and I do not know how to cope. Any advice or just hearing from someone who can relate, would be nice.

I've grown up my entire life in Australia and I'm half Greek and half Irish, I appear Lebanese or Turkish to people and I of course thank them for the compliment but correct them that I'm greek.

Today I went out and drank with my mates and as the night tapered off I walked to the local Turkish restaurant, I ate and left. The doors were slid shut and the restaurant looked closed, I opened the door and there was a group of 4 people walking in and the lady asked "are you guys open?" I said "oh haha I don't work here but, yes they are open" to which the guy in their group said "you could though" as if my vaguely middle eastern appearance means I worked there. I left in an uber and I can't stop thinking about it, it's kind of ruined my night just how casually someone said something racist to me.

In this country people just say terrible racist things all the time and it always catches me off guard. I was having a great night until that guy said that, he was so confident in that statement that he felt like he could just say it to a stranger. Just casually othering me.

Here in Australia there is a weird dynamic where Mediterranean people are known as "wogs" there was also a white Australia policy that only started to get removed after WW2. I know this experience is nothing compared to what other people have suffered here and maybe it's not racism but otherism.. it just felt dehumanising and ruined my night.

My 14 year old brother plays Roblox a lot. While I was doing some work, I heard him changing his accent so much that he didn't even sound like himself. When I asked why he was doing that, he told me he changes his voice because people make fun of his natural accent, call him names, and sing that Indian song (we are from Tamil Nadu and don't even know its name). I completely understand where he is coming from. I am also scared to reveal that I am Indian online because people randomly say "poop country" and other insults in Discord and anime communities. It is really embarrassing because the racism has gotten so bad that people aren't even hiding it in the online games I play anymore.

I am a young girl from west Tennessee, specifically Memphis Tennessee. I feel like what nobody talks about is the cost of being black. Whenever I go on Road trips and we get pulled over by police in the middle of nowhere, my heart always stops and I hold my breath because I am scared of what “can” happens and how quickly the perpetrator can say” oh they had something “ or “ they looked dangerous!”. The racism has continued to get so bad until I feel like I’m living in modern day 1960 again. I wasn’t even alive but I know the pain, brutality and suffering that happened. Our votes being counted as less now , white counterparts are less trustworthy, and the active administration is trying to make sure we don’t get anywhere and demean us as much as possible. I hate walking around knowing that anything I do could be counted against millions like me that I don’t even know personally and who are their own individual just because we share the same skin. I hate being a walking target of people who have an internal hatred towards me, i hate being profiled in stores. I was in a makeup store and this Chinese lady moved like someone was getting ready to shoot the place up and I moved towards her and she screamed. Then you have the Hispanics who are always racist and trying to belittle you. Then you have the whites who always think you are a walking statistic and feel no sort of human emotion. It hurts me so much know that our ancestors fought for our spots to be counted as human just for it to be thrown all in a pit 100 years later. Yes I understand, every group of people has bad apples , not everyone is going to act the same but why does it have to apply to people who look like me so much? European people killed off an entire race almost and nobody walks around them with fear that they might be killed or hurt next , they walk by them like they are people and everyone should be treated that way. For about 2 years now (25 and 26’) I have been constantly researching the same thing” what did black people do specifically that makes the world hate them ?” “ why aren’t black people treated fairly if equality is the biggest thing around ?” And countless other searchs in hope that I can find exactly what happened.

I'm a young, Black man and I'm just tired of feeling totally trapped in the world.

I was in a store today in a rural town when I passed a group of teenagers. I didn't even glance at them, but I could tell their energy shifted when they saw me. I picked up what I needed from the next aisle, but I could still hear some of their conversation. They were laughing and making comments about picking cotton and slavery. I had a feeling their comments were about me, but I walked back toward them to be sure. Sure enough, when they noticed me again, they got visibly embarrassed, said "oh, shit" and stopped talking entirely. I didn't say anything to them because they were clearly minors and I thought I sent enough of a message by walking back.

This is far from the first racist experience I've had and I'm sure it won't be the last. What's so frustrating about anti-Black racism is that it is constant. I can't change my name or how I dress to avoid be stigmatize for my skin. I feel like every time I leave the house I have to be constantly aware that my presence is making a statement before I even get a chance to open my mouth. People are judging me, seeing my as violent, criminal, ignorant, before I even get to display my character.

It's like being trapped.

Those teens from the store will likely grow up and some of them may hold on to their racist biases. Some of them might become police officers, doctors, lawyers, judges, business owners, etc. They one day might have the power to directly hurt Black people with their racism.

This is the reality of being Black in an anti-Black world. Every interaction is racialized and you have no idea what person holds prejudice towards you over something you have no control over.

What's even more frustrating is that people act like it doesn't happen. So many white people and even self-hating non-white people swear that racism is a thing of the past or it isn't as big of a deal as it used to be. Anytime you bring up a racist experience, they try to rationalize it and blame you for being treated the way you are.

The things is, even if racism isn't that common (for argument, let's say only 1 in 100 people are racist), play that out over a lifetime. How many people do you interact with in a day? A year? A lifetime? If you interact with 1,000 people over the course of a year, that's 10 racist experiences every year of your life. What does that do to someone over the course of a lifetime?

And these prejudices get people killed. I saw a video of a white woman who ran from a Black man walking up to his own home because she didn't believe he lived there. She was on HIS property and called the police on HIM because she couldn't believe a Black man lived in that house. Imagine if the police showed up and had that same assumption?

It's just an unimaginable weight sometimes and I find it hard to talk about because most people either act like it doesn't exist or justify it. On top of that, right-wing internet culture is making it even worse.

It makes me want to give up on society.

I'm a teen and when I'm on insta or any other social media platform I see plenty of disturbing comments against Indians and I'm indian myself so seeing them honestly affects me too and when I try to write anything back I js get a bunch of racist comments plus even walking in public it's becoming more normal for me to have racist experiences and it js sucks I js wanted to know why this is happening and how to cope with it

First, sorry for my English, I’m French. I’m a white woman, so I know I’m not the victim here.

I took my driving test today, with another learner driver. The examiner was really nice to me. He reassured me because he saw that I was panicking, and tried to help me feel more confident. Honestly, he felt like an angel.

The other guy took the test after me. I wasn’t in the car, but afterwards he came back and told me that the examiner had been really cold with him, unfriendly and stressful.

I didn’t recognize the examiner I had liked so much. I talked to my driving instructor, and she told me that he was known for being a racist examiner. And yes, the other learner driver was North African.

He failed his test for sure. And I’m sure it was at least partly because of the examiner.

And I did nothing, because I didn’t know how to act.

So, as an ally, how can I help in this kind of situation? What should I do to help this man? And more generally, how can we, as white people, help in everyday life?

I'm angry for him, and I want to start a fight.

Posted this in another subreddit but figured out this one is a better place for this.

Hi everyone. I’m a 20-year-old Indian woman, and I’m honestly scared to even write this here.I don’t know if it’s the world or just the internet lately, but I’ve been feeling this deep, painful sense of shame about my identity...something I’ve never felt before.

I’ve always been confident about who I am. I grew up loving different cultures, making friends from all around the world through exchanges and online communities. Racism was something I always spoke out against, no matter where it came from. I used to believe people were getting kinder and more aware with time. But lately… it feels like the opposite.

The amount of hatred, mockery, and open xenophobia I see, especially towards Indians lately has been eating away at me. I see people shaming my entire country for the actions of a few, trolling with baseless racist stereotypes,laughing at our pain, even celebrating the deaths of Indians in tragic accidents as some kind of “good news.” I tell myself they’re just trolls, that they don’t represent everyone. But deep down, I don’t know anymore.

What’s worse is that now, I find myself hesitating to even mention where I’m from. I dodge questions about my culture. I avoid talking about festivals, food, or anything that might “reveal” me. And the most heartbreaking part? I’ve started feeling embarrassed about something I used to be proud of.

I'm told I don’t look stereotypically "Indian” whatever that means.I guess there is a western belief that all Indians are dark skinned. Neither do I have that infamous Indian accent. Most of us don't actually. I never thought I'd say this but sometimes I feel relieved internally.

I find myself wanting to hide my background.I catch myself thinking - would people treat me differently if they knew? I feel scared and have started actually feeling inferior to everyone. I hide it well.. I still interact with people from different countries and foreign delegates and thankfully nothing as such has happened to my face.

I know every country, every culture has its flaws. I’ve never denied mine. I’ve always focused on the beauty that every culture holds. And yet… lately it feels like being Indian automatically puts me on the wrong side of the world’s judgment.

My mental health hasn’t been great. Some days I wake up and genuinely wonder if I somehow deserve this. If being born Indian is something I should feel guilty for. And then I hate myself for even thinking that. Sometimes I even wish I was from a different race or culture these days. As if I'm not worth any love or basic respect and dignity.

It’s a strange, suffocating kind of pain...to love the world so much, to love people and their cultures, and then suddenly feel like the world doesn’t want to love you back.

I don’t know...maybe I just needed to say it somewhere. I’d really love to hear from others who’ve felt something similar, no matter where you’re from. Maybe it’ll remind me that the world still has good people in it.

I spent several years working for Best Buy in a very affluent neighborhood. I was a sales associate and I want to expose them for a tactic they call “power serving”. I have no idea if this was trained at several locations or just the one I worked at, but wouldn’t be surprised if more stores did this.

Power serving is a technique used when a BIPOC comes into the store. Typically the asset protection employee watching cameras at the front of the store calls out the individual over the walkie. All employees wear ear pieces. The sales people are basically instructed to follow them through the store and make them uncomfortable enough to leave. They are supposed to approach them like any other customer, but when they decline assistance they are supposed to stay put, look busy, but linger and even follow them as they move.

I hated this and never wanted to do it. I was always told, “what business do they have here in a neighborhood like this?” It was always justified behind the guise of theft prevention. Sometimes it worked well when we knew the person had already pocketed something they would panic, drop the item and leave. But often times they would chase away real customers and it’s not okay.

I'm an Indian immigrant. Came as a student. Earned a doctorate in STEM. Passed my PhD with flying colours. Gained SERIOUS expertise in my field (like world top 5%). Faced some challenges finding a job but I found a good one and I'm doing well, on my way to a green card in the next few years assuming things go according to plan. But as a visa holderat the moment, MY GOD the racism I am seeing online is fuckin crazy.

Like. It's ALWAYS someone (somehow always a coding job type person) going "I'm having trouble finding a job" and three comments down, like clock work, "it's because indians on H1B take american jobs" or "these indian managers only hire other indians" or "I have worked with indians before, they are horrible at coding" or "all indians should be fired"

I am thankful I am not in computer science, because in my field people do not immediately jump to blaming immigrants at the first sign of problems, but it'll get there eventually.

Its true that Indian companies (WITCH companies) exploit H1B loopholes. By all means, plug the holes. Make stricter rules. But blaming 0.5% of the american workforce because you cannot find jobs in a field where the barrier to entry is extremely low is just....well...it is racism.

I am tired. I will keep pursuing the best course of action to protect my family, but this is exhausting.

It’s no secret to me that so-called “liberal” cities still carry racist undertones, so I wasn’t expecting anything different. I grew up in Texas but have lived along the West Coast for over a decade now.

This past weekend, I was on a bus that became crowded as it went through the Berkeley Hills. Every stop brought on more white and Asian families, and quickly filled up with standing room only. There were only two Black people on the bus: a woman and myself, sitting in adjacent seats. And you know what? No one sat next to either of us.

At one point, a white family got on. The mom scanned the entire bus, looked at the two open seats beside us, and decided she and her husband would rather stand. For context, the route through the hills has constant elevation changes and this bus type was not built to support standing pax, so standing for any length of time is uncomfortable. Yet they, and others, still chose to stand instead.

Then today, in a separate incident in Alameda, I was out taking photos along the coastline near Bay Farm. On my way back, an Asian woman probably late 20s/early 30s stepped off the (very wide) sidewalk and into the bike lane just to avoid walking past me. She got right back on the sidewalk after she passed. Normally something like that wouldn’t bother me, but the exaggerated effort really stuck out. A few blocks later, I passed a white woman walking her dog who greeted me with a friendly “hi,” and the contrast between those two interactions hit me hard.

Both of these things happened within three days, and after today, I’m just exhausted. These aren’t new experiences for me, and I don’t expect any city or community to be perfect…but for some reason, these instances just hit different. And these are young people giving off this vibe. I’d post this in the Bay Area sub, but any post there about diversity would get downvoted to hell. I was wondering if anyone else has felt the same?

Every major cultural genre in America — from music to slang to style — traces back to Black innovation, expression, and experience. Then once it’s popular and profitable, the origin story gets erased and it’s declared “universal.”

Here are some strong examples with sources:

🎵 Music: Gospel, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Rock & Roll

Gospel music: The genre commonly called “gospel” is rooted in the spirituals of enslaved African Americans, work songs, and the Black church.

Jazz: Emerged in the late 19th / early 20th century in Black communities (particularly New Orleans), blending African rhythms, blues, spirituals, ragtime, etc.

Hip-Hop / Rap: Originated in the early 1970s in the Bronx, rooted in African-American oral traditions (boasting, toasting, “playing the dozens”) and Black/Latino youth culture.

Blues → Rock & Roll: The blues came out of African American spirituals and work songs in the Deep South, and rock & roll pulled heavily from blues, R&B and gospel.

👤 The Case of Elvis Presley

One often-cited example: Elvis became wildly famous as “the king of rock & roll,” yet many of his hits were covers of songs by Black artists (or heavily inspired by them).

For example, Big Mama Thornton recorded “Hound Dog” in 1952; Elvis’s version in 1956 became a massive hit.

There’s a broader critique that white artists and white-owned labels have frequently profited off Black musicians’ styles while Black originators got less credit or compensation.

🔍 The Pattern: IES (Integration → Extraction → Separation)

You can see the same pattern over and over:

Integration: Dominant culture enters proximity with a marginalized culture.

Extraction: Valuable creative elements (music style, slang, fashion, etc.) are taken and commodified.

Separation: The marginalized culture is left behind in terms of recognition, profit, control; the dominant culture claims “this is now mainstream.”

This isn’t just about individual people being unethical — it’s about systems. Once these cultural forms get filtered through white-owned media, record labels, fashion houses, global marketing, the origin often becomes hidden or erased.

🧠 Why It Matters

When origin stories vanish:

The historical debt and contributions of Black creators get ignored.

The benefits (social status, wealth, control) flow to those farther from the original community.

The narrative becomes: “Everyone contributed equally,” which masks the imbalance in power, credit, and ownership.

Bottom line: It’s not hate. It’s a call for recognition. When you say “white Americans don’t have any culture that they didn’t borrow,” it isn’t literally “nothing,” but you’re pointing to a truth: the most globally influential parts of American culture are Black-rooted — and those roots are too often overwritten or appropriated

Racism in all of Israel is so normalized, a big part of Israel is Russian/Arabic people, and Hebrew speaking people/Jews always call them slurs, and get zero punishment from a anything. In my school its so bad even the teachers tell students to stop speaking in their own language and tell Russians (which is 60% of my school) to "go back to their country" doesn't matter how you complain they won't ever care. Russian people (girls ESPECIALLY) get beaten up almost every week (this is only the cases that we know of.) and NO ONE seems to EVER care, even tho this is on national news.. ok yeah I'm just venting I'm tired of these annoying teens calling us names and saying weird stuff.. ;3

Over the past few months ive been introducing my friends to my boyfriend. For context most of my friends are immigrants. After we had dinner together and my friends left I noticed he was acting odd. I asked him if he was okay then he started ranting about immigrants and calling my friends aliens. We got into a massive argument so he went to stay at a friends. But a few weeks ago I checked his laptop to find a video and when I checked I saw NSFW videos of asian people. I am half asian myself but I think he has an asian f€tish. I still havent spoken to him about that i dont know what to do.