<p>Today was a very interesting day... Several students from different schools abt (50 or so) came to this palce in Atlanta,GA. Our school is mostly (well more like all) black and the others schools are from rural Georgia which is mostly white and countryish. When we presented our project, we were followed by boos and stuff like that. The boys were trying to be smart and saying stuff like "You guys know how to present something without using cuss words or rapping?" We were also the last to come and this girl took one look at us and said to her friend a little loudly, " Oh My God!!!! We are in ghetto country!!!". Her friend then said "More like darkness. If we turn off the lights we cant see them!!!" They then started laughing hysterically(sp?) Anyways, we won 3rd place, we were booed some more, and when we wee getting the trophy a girl tripped the girl from our school who was getting it.</p>
<p>I understand that they dont really know anyone outside their boundaries, but we didnt sterotype anybody... It was just weird..Has this happened to anyone before?</p>
<p>Never happened to me but I wish you guys would have gotten first just to shove it in their faces that the color of a person's skin means absolutely nothing. To you I'm sorry that you had to go through that. Noone should have to deal with ignorant stereotypes like that. </p>
<p>It really is ashame that segregation still exsists today. You would think that in this day and age, people would be able to make smart, educated choices but obviously they're not. I think its exactly the reason why if Obama runs in 08 he won't win and if Hilary runs in 08 she won't win. Most of America still believes in white male rule.</p>
<p>I seriously have no comment. That is completely disgusting. I come from a school which is only .07% Black, me being one of the few. I go through alot of the same stuff each day, it seems like the idea of a black person coming anything near intelligence is so convoluted to their ignorant minds that they just bawk at me. I get the N word dropped on atleast once aday, and people call me the whitest black man they know because I actually try in life, and instead of slapping *****es or pimpin hoes or whatever they think "we" are suppose to do. Instead I am reading a book or studying for a test, what a novel concept. Today someone told me look "kunta kinte can read." I sort of regret that I said this as I stooped to their level but I said, "and look I jacked your daddies lexus." I totally regret this as I feel like i gave him what he was looking for. </p>
<p>I am sorry for this diatribe but I'm just so frustrated about It.</p>
<p>In southern cali, we're more or less tolerant of other races and every mixes pretty well. Of course, there are always exceptions, but I never experienced something like your situation, where MANY people acted like *******s to your school and disrespected you all based on the stereotypes.</p>
<p>I'm from the North, so I can count the incidences of blatant racism that I've experienced on one hand (while in my region). However, that's because in the North racists tend to hide their beliefs...until they blurt out the wrong thing.</p>
<p>Giantredlobster I experience the exact same thing at my high school. Everyone basically thinks of me as the whitest black man, or oreo, or white chocolate, and i've even been called Affirmative Action. Sometimes its hard to want to do well in school when you know you'll be rejected by your black peers and made fun of by white peers</p>
<p>That is just sick and disturbing! Even in the "progressive" school I attend, the African American population is very divided. A black student who does well usually hangs out with white students, not black. I agree with what someone said above, the racism is much more hidden in regions outside the South. It really is a tragedy we are such a divided people, be it religion, sex, or race.</p>
<p>I just want to say that I am sorry you had to go through that. Surely the teachers must have noticed if they booed you-- didn't they do anything?</p>
<p>Props to you for not snapping back at any of them. I'm trying not to stereotype based on location like that girl did, but those people definitely sound like trash. They'll be in for a rude awakening when they find themselves in a city or college campus with much more diversity, and they have to face the fact that not every African American person is unintelligent or ghetto, and that they are even less intelligent and more trashy for automatically assuming that. </p>
<p>Don't let people like that get you down. You still placed in the competition, right? They might have laughed at you, but it probably wasn't as funny to then when you won.</p>
<p>Well, the teachers were just sitting there smiling for some reason...And I forgot to say, when we were about to leave, they were asking random qs like "Where did you get your clothes from?They look so expensive.Save that money and you wouldn't need food stamps." How can they just "assume" that we need food stamps?It was just ridiculous... Thanks to all the ppl that responded.</p>
<p>I have never heard of something that rude happening.</p>
<p>I suggest that you write a letter detailing your experience to the other students' principal and to their local newspaper.</p>
<p>What you experienced also would make an interesting topic for a college essay or interview especially if you emphasize what it taught you about the world and your own character including your ability to rise to challenges.</p>
<p>That is absolutely terrible. I come from the northeast-ish region, and I have NEVER heard of anything like that happening!!! My school is so integrated, no one blinks an eye at interracial dating (which happens all the time). That is so awful that kids would be so ignorant and bigoted...it's actually just disgusting. What's worse is the teachers...you'd think they'd know better. I really hope people in America learn to judge people by who they are, not by what they look like. I don't know what i would have done in that situation! You and your classmates are obviously the bigger, better, people, musiclover! It's sad that people in your area can't see that.</p>
<p>At my school, people are racist behind others backs, but most of the white people(including teachers) are afraid of the black kids at my school and won't say ****.</p>
<p>It's so sad to know that stereotyping still exists, as well as racism. I hope one day this can all end. When is it ever going to stop? Society today teaches us what is right and what is wrong, they teach us which race is better than others. This sickens me. The fact that you had to undergo something like that is unfair and unprofessional for the ones who laughed at you guys. I do not think a person's capabilities should be judged through the colour of their skin. Each race is capable of doing the same thing as the other and people should never forget that. Your school probably worked just as hard but did not get the right appreciation because of your race. Which is absurd! I pray for those who shamed you, in reality they are the ones who are shameful. They represent a group of teens who are still immature and feebleminded, not able to accept reality and others.</p>
<p>It is quite sad to see these things happening. Where I live, almost everyone pretty much accepts equality. There's quite a number of interracial relationships. By the way, this thread reminds me of the hate crime in Australia, in which 15 to 20 white Sydney gangmembers jumped a lone Asian.</p>
<p>Here's an interesting comment: "Wow, I thought people down under treated each other with respect and dignity and such, guess im wrong, [they're] just like Americans."</p>
<p>^I wish people would realize that racism isn't inherently American, nor is it inherently white. Racism is found in every corner of the earth, in every ethnic group. Despite what some people believe, it isn't just white Americans hating the rest of the world.</p>