Last one for a while unless there is more interest. This happened about twelve years ago.

My second wife left me and moved to Oklahoma. After a few years of separation we reconnected and I flew down and visited her on a regular basis in her third floor apartment.

Beautiful apartment, one bath, one bedroom, balcony with a view of the pool. Well maintained. The problem was being on the third floor with stairs and no elevator.


more later

I always knew stairs were racist

Wow, truly eye opening. Thank you for sharing all of these stories wheel gunner.

Finish that apartment story wheel gunner.

pokerface what's your non gimmick account

Anyway I ended up buying a house in Tulsa in a nice neighborhood. Four bedrooms, two baths, one third acre corner lot, pool, Koi pond, detached "play house".

My second wife referenced above wanted to redo the concrete deck. She hired two white guys on the fly who placed flyers in her mailbox. They showed up drunk and in sexually harrassment mode (I was out of town).


When they had not completed the task at the end of the day they asked for their full pay. My wife told them that she would not pay them until the job was finished. They responded by threatening and cursing my wife and using their tools to damage the work that they had done. My wife retreated inside the house and called the police.

They threatened her and she told them she would defend herself with a gun as they were trying to break in though the closed backyard door.

The police showed up and took statements. At that time she called me. I told her to demand that police arrest her assailants. She told me no, she just wanted it to go away.


Two weeks later she found out the District Attorney had made out an arrest warrant for her. More later

Not sure if something got cut out this post or what. In retrospect I do not see why I posted this in a thread about racism.

Anyway, my petite, sexy, mature African-American wife hired some sketchy patio workers and... see prior post

About two weeks after the police involved conflict, my wife got a few letters in the mail from bail bondsman and the like informing her there was a warrant for her arrest.

Her mistake, my wife, was to get into a verbal altercation with them. When she told them they would not be paid until the job was completed as agreed they threatened her. They told her that they knew people and they would get her. She told them that while she was born in Tulsa, she had lived in Los Angeles, had three grown sons and knew people too.

The police took the reports and sent them to the DA. The DA looked at the reports with a statement of a 45 year old black woman homeowner with no criminal record vs the statements of two white dudes with criminal records.

Perhaps it is not racism, maybe it is strictly a cash grab. It cost me about $17,000 to get her out of this.

wtf?

According to the articles there was no fight. There was a confrontation in which a gun was pulled and "randomly" went off according to yours and another article from the next day. Both articles say no one was targeted with the discharge. The supposed young middle eastern guy the shooter was supposedly calling racist names (these two descriptions according to you and only you) was named Justin D. McCoy from Springfield Virginia?

I call bull****. What this is is an example of the local yocals in a college town passing around a story and creatively editing it to be more recognizable to their "worldview" in the process. Meet Pokerface21, yocal local.

I can't remember if I posted this here already. I observed some pretty sad racism at Busch Stadium in St. Louis several years back during the "Kiss Cam" between innings. For those of you who haven't been to a US sporting event in the past decade, the kiss cam is an entertaining spectacle whereby the stadium cameramen zoom in on unsuspecting fans who appear to be together and broadcast it on the big screen for the rest of the stadium to see. The camera doesn't move until they kiss. Hilarity ensues, especially when old geezers tongue their haggardly wives, siblings and "just friends" turn red, and the opposing team's pitcher and catcher are caught sitting side by side.

One sad day in 2008 the kiss cam operator at Busch captured a mixed-race couple, and as the black man kissed the white woman a hush replaced the typical laughter and there were scattered boos. At first I was shocked, but then I was like oh I'm in Missouri.

It is hard to believe this really happened only 6 or 7 years ago. I could see this happening maybe 20 years, but in 2008 I couldn't imagine anything more than a very slight change from the typical laughter/cheering and the hush & boos you describe seem far-fetched.

Either way, it is nice to know that this **** would never fly in today's America, which is more than a lot of countries can say.

It wasn't like everyone just shut up, but there was a discernable hush, mostly apparent by the lack of ordinary laughter. And there were scattered boos, probably just a few country bumpkins. I honestly don't know if much has changed here. I've been looking for the kiss cameraman to do it again, but I haven't seen it. Wouldn't be surprised if he's been told not to.

Yeah, I mean, how can it not?

Not racism, but religious prejudice -

I come out of the Baha'i Faith and was way more into it in college than I am today. I was looking to move in with my homeboys (brothers) who already had a roommate, a Gamblor-level secular Zionist (I had never heard that word at the time) who interviewed me, asked after me, and ended up single-handedly nixing the deal. Why? I asked the older brother.

"It's your religion."

"What!"

"Yeah, it's too close to Islam for him. He says he could understand if you were born into it, but that, well, something like, he can't live with someone who *chose* 'the enemy.' "

"......"

For anybody who knows anything about the Baha'is, there are so many lulz there that one hardly knows where to start.

Guy who posts bull**** story about black people being racist doesn't understand that opposition to interracial relationships is racist.

shocker

Yes, it makes them very racist and also horrible human beings. Any more dumb questions?

five finger death punch works for me.

This happened approximately 16 years ago.

My teenage son was arrested because he shoplifted two video games from Target. In those days they were worth about $40 each. My son allegedly used an X-acto knife to remove the tags from the items and put them in his backpack.

He was charged with felony conspiracy to commit commercial burglary (we are black). I made all the appearances at the Inglewood court with my son. We had a cool public defender. He made the motion in court to have the charges reduced to a misdemeanor. The prosecutor strongly objected, the judge actually laughed at him and granted the PD's motion. (We were middle class).

My son ended up in a diversion program. I had to take my son to a Target headquarters and listen to a 22 year old intern yell at me for being a bad parent. I was a 45 year old professional customer service manager and teacher, lol.

Wow that's that's some crazy upping the charges. Did they find an exacto knife? Because a fingernail rip of the cellophane where the sensor tag is attached can look like a clean knife cut in some cases. And I'm kinda surprised Target felt like such a small case was even worth pursuing. Usually only the pros and repeat offenders are worth taking to court for shoplifting.

I have no idea. My son was clearly in the wrong, he intended to steal. I guess the point I am trying to make is "racial" prejudice for the most part is unconscious and institutional as opposed to overt.

Last one for now, I promise. (see previous posts for timeframe)

Out of concerns for my son's education, I paid and enrolled him in a Catholic High School in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County right out of Jr. High.

One day I had occasion to come to the school and was asked to listen to feedback on my son by the staff. The Nuns made me sit in a tiny desk/chair and marched my son in and proceeded to berate us because my son had brought, not a gun, not a BB gun, but a small instruction manual for a BB gun to class (we are black, my son refused to play football, lol).

I took my son out of that school and enrolled him in a free public high school the next day.

Not really racist at all they probably would have done that with any student/parent

The only time I've ever experienced racism was when I was playing cee-lo with a black guy and Brazilian-American back in college. The Brazilian kept saying n***a, even calling me one, I casually threw in a n***a and the game stopped dead. Then we got into an argument for 5 minutes about why they can say n***a, especially the Brazilian, but I can't, we agreed to disagree, and the game continued. I didn't say it again. To add insult to injury I lost like $20. I wouldn't be surprised if I got hustled by the Brazilian as he didn't pay his March Madness dues either if I recall. Even though they're racists I still consider them friends.

You disagreed, huh?

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