On 6/22/2013 5:29 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>
> She readily admitted to have used "the N word" in the past. She is her
> 60s and grew up in the south. I would not have believed her if she said
> she had not used it. I wonder if the complainant ever used the words
> cracker,honky or whitey.
>
There *is* the flip side. But no, I've never been called a cracker,
honky or whitey.

I *have* encountered more reverse discrimination than I care to think
about. But that was in Memphis, TN. Probably due to lingering
resentment. Hanging onto it doesn't help.

In the mid-1980's, I went to lunch with a black co-worker, Clarissa.
She wanted to buy an alarm clock. We went the Target store across the
street. She bought her alarm clock then we decided to grab lunch at the
lunch counter. The black woman behind the counter took her order then
pointedly ignored me. Clarissa spoke up, "Aren't you going to ask my
*Sister* what she would like?" The woman started sputtering... "Uh, uh,
I didn't know..." No, she'd have no way of knowing, would she? I was
simply dismissed for being a white woman.

Clarissa asked me while we were eating our lunch, "Does that happen a
lot?" Yes. It does.

I could recount many more experiences like this. Racism isn't one-sided.

Where I live now in SC, I have yet to encounter it.

Jill