posted March 26, 2011 01:48 PM            

For being non Christian.(denied many social services, as was my son, and us both assaulted and had my property vandalized and death threats made, and labeled as witches for having red hair and wearing black by "good Christians")
Sorry, that was not all discrimination, but yeah, some Christians have caused me much grief.
As to being discriminated by Christians;

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Well America is very fuqued up!
When my ex3 and I went to get married, we were refused at the court house
7 times!!!!!!!!!!
Why?
WE WERE NOT PERMITTED TO SIMPLY HAVE THE LEGAL
CONTRACT SIGNED!
THE JUDGES ALL SAID;
YOU HAVE TO HAVE THE CHRISTIAN CEREMONY OR WE WILL NOT SIGN THE LEGAL CERTIFICATE!

Well we found a pagan who had an ordination which made her be able to just sign the LEGAL CONTRACT.

Yeah, her ordination was Christian but she totally ignored all that crap and signed the LEGAL certificate.
We did our own vows in the lake.
The ceremony part is not a legal thing.
The certificate is.
Why the fraking fuquque ups at the courthouse refused us was plainly blatantly illegal and discriminatory!
They said go get married by your own kind, BUT IT WILL NOT BE LEGAL!
Then I asked;
"what if people are Buddhist or whatever?"
They said,
ONLY CHRISTIANS OR THOSE HAVING THE CHRISTIAN CEREMONY DONE HERE CAN BE MARRIED HERE AT THE COURTHOUSE OR BY A JUSTICE OF THE PEACE AND HAVE THE LEGAL DOCUMENT SIGNED.

PS. We got married for the legal reasons, HIPPA, insurance and so forth.
As far as I am concerned.....
Marriage contracts should be legal only and called a partner contract for any couple, hetero, gay, whatever.
And if anyone wants a religious/spiritual ceremony of any kind.....
do that separate from the legal partnership document.
They are not the same thing!

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posted March 26, 2011 02:36 PM            

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Originally posted by PlutoSquared:
I am sorry you've gone through so much. Sounds crazy.

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posted March 26, 2011 02:42 PM            

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Originally posted by LEXX:

Sigh
No easy fixes to have agreed upon are there?

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Nope. And, the thing that sucks about it is the feeling that we all got robbed of a wonderful experience in life...

posted March 26, 2011 05:00 PM            

I remember when I worked at NY Hospital I called a patient in to register (an elderly caucasian (sp?) male) when I sat him down at my desk and begin to ask him demographic questions, he blurted out "Wow, you speak so well!" I was like EEERRR?? (Scooby Doo voice) then he quickly tried to clean up his mess by saying my voice was beautiful and it reminded him of his mother :/

posted March 26, 2011 05:05 PM            

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Originally posted by EverEvolvingSpirit:
I have felt slightly discriminated against. Because I am a black woman I feel that some expect me to be "ghetto" or "attitudish", stupid, or uneducated, but I try not to think anything of it and when the persons sees me for who I am, they often feel pretty small

I remember when I worked at NY Hospital I called a patient in to register (an elderly caucasian (sp?) male) when I sat him down at my desk and begin to ask him demographic questions, he blurted out "Wow, you speak so well!" I was like EEERRR?? (Scooby Doo voice) then he quickly tried to clean up his mess by saying my voice was beautiful and it reminded him of his mother :/

Yes, lots of folks are discriminated against. My philosophy is to be you, be proud of you and f*ck who thinks otherwise

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posted March 26, 2011 05:06 PM            

"John Lennon unknowingly (or maybe knowingly) immortalized himself through his classic melody Imagine. Why will this song stand the test of time? The world depicted in Imagine is indeed the world we are meant to be and eventually will become. A world where everyone is their true and complete self and hate no longer exists.
John Lennon exemplified the idea that, in order for the world to evolve, we must begin to love ourselves, forgive ourselves of our faults or downfalls and accept our individuality whilst embracing the diversity in everyone else. He was passionate about spreading the message (anti-war movement) and teaching the masses regardless of how often he was mocked or criticized."

Accepting our individuality whilst EMBRACING the DIVERSITY in everyone else. Can you "Imagine" a world where we are all this way?

posted March 26, 2011 05:33 PM            

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Originally posted by EverEvolvingSpirit:
I have felt slightly discriminated against. Because I am a black woman I feel that some expect me to be "ghetto" or "attitudish", stupid, or uneducated, but I try not to think anything of it and when the persons sees me for who I am, they often feel pretty small

I remember when I worked at NY Hospital I called a patient in to register (an elderly caucasian (sp?) male) when I sat him down at my desk and begin to ask him demographic questions, he blurted out "Wow, you speak so well!" I was like EEERRR?? (Scooby Doo voice) then he quickly tried to clean up his mess by saying my voice was beautiful and it reminded him of his mother :/

Yes, lots of folks are discriminated against. My philosophy is to be you, be proud of you and f*ck who thinks otherwise

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posted March 27, 2011 12:19 AM            

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Originally posted by MoonWitch:
Sure.

I was fired from a job for shaving my head. I was told I could have my job back when my hair grew back. Meanwhile, there were several bald men that worked there. I shouldn't have been surprised. This was the same place that had me take the responsibilities of a previous male manager but wouldn't give me a raise or title.

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posted June 05, 2011 03:03 PM            

its very sad i tell you and so damn difficult to be a woman in the middle east!

posted June 10, 2011 04:46 PM            

i probably get discriminated more than i notice, for being an Asian in Western countries. AND behaving Western in Asian counties (this i notice more).

i think people have forgot to differentiate harmless remarks about differences and stuff with malicious intents. the world is getting dull, because too many people think it's a good thing for everyone to be the same. ugh.

posted September 21, 2011 06:40 AM            

My siblings and I didn't fit into any of those ethnic groups so we were treated as outcasts.

I remember a teacher at elementary school refering to me as a "little white Indian".

There was also an incident with my dad. He picked me up from my maternal grandparents. He had me strapped in the back seat, then heard a police sirin. He pulled over and four police officers got out the van. They took a look in the vehicle and when they spotted me, they started shouting at my dad, demanding to know who's child was in the car. When he said that I'm his daughter, they accused him of lying and started beating him. One policeman removed me from the vehicle (I was screaming and scared). He kept asking me where my mommy and daddy where.

It was a terrible experience. They thought my dad had kidnapped me as I couldn't possibly be his daughter..according to them an Indian man can't have "white" kids.

They arrested him..and I had to stay at the police station until my mum came to get us. I was five at the time. They pressed charges against the policemen but nothing came of the case.

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posted September 30, 2011 12:09 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Cops do something called "profiling."

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Originally posted by Cancer/Scorpio729:
Lexx...your IQ is 180?!?!

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posted October 01, 2011 03:50 AM            

Years ago a white guy I knew said he was repeatedly thrown off public computers for minorities at a junior college that's supposed to provide these computers to the public in exchange for being supported with taxes. He claimed that he still had time left when it happened.

So I took it my Discordian Kabal and our leader, Miss Ann (or "Mistress Anarky"), decided to involve our kabal in another enlightening prank known as an OM. (Being an Aquarius she was good at coming up with OMs )
Just so you know we were 5 women and I was the only ("token" in the words of Miss Ann) white girl. Miss Ann is a very dark black, so dark that even others in the black community have given her a hard time over it (as well as for being so book smart and having weird interests). Natch, Miss Ann has faced discrimination from other races such as whites as well.

Some of us took the remaining 3 computers after the white guy got on (one waited on the couch) and then Miss Ann entered and said she needed a computer right then. If the librarian told her to wait her turn or got someone else off who had already had their minimum time then we wouldn't do anything, but sure enough she told the white guy to get off and insisted when he said he had about 20 minutes left. Then, as planned, he said I should get off instead of him and I rudely told him to leave me alone feminazi. Miss Ann said, "Someone better get off" and we both told her to shut up "cracker." Then I pointed at another member of our cabal at the next computer who was obviously of Asian descent who told me to shut up "commie chink." Finally our entire kabal (and the white guy) were calling each other racist, sexist names that made no sense since the derogatory names would only apply to the ones using them rather than who they were used on. But we didn't even last a full minute before we all started laughing.

Miss Ann told the gaping librarian about the golden apple of discord where arguing who was the most beautiful, the most deserving, inevitably led to conflict, such as to the fall of Troy, and that all races were beautiful, and a social construct rather than an objective reality, and favoring one race over another was making the argument that one race was superior to another and that was promoting discord instead of harmony & equality that would lead to tragedy just as arguing who was the most beautiful and deserving led to tragedy for Troy, and that reverse racism was still racism as she hoped we demonstrated (like the Asian calling me a chink). She ended by reaching into her purse (which caused the librarian to flinch for some reason) and pulled out an apple in gold gift wrap and the words (construction paper cut outs glued to it) "Kallisti" & "To is the Most Beautiful" on it and offered it to her. "Will you say we're all beautiful, or will you fight over the apple of discord?"

She was staring stunned (and didn't take the apple) and I think she was a little scared when one patron started clapping. That broke her out of her insensibility and she banned all of us from ever going there again. A student there told us right after that we could fight to have the ban overturned but we didn't bother. I don't know if anyone learned anything from our OM but at least it was fun.

posted October 01, 2011 07:51 AM            

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Originally posted by charmainec:
I was discriminated against because of my race. In my home country, you were either black, white, colored (a term used to describe people who were descendants of the Khoi San and Dutch or Malay people etc) or Indian.

My siblings and I didn't fit into any of those ethnic groups so we were treated as outcasts.

I remember a teacher at elementary school refering to me as a "little white Indian".

There was also an incident with my dad. He picked me up from my maternal grandparents. He had me strapped in the back seat, then heard a police sirin. He pulled over and four police officers got out the van. They took a look in the vehicle and when they spotted me, they started shouting at my dad, demanding to know who's child was in the car. When he said that I'm his daughter, they accused him of lying and started beating him. One policeman removed me from the vehicle (I was screaming and scared). He kept asking me where my mommy and daddy where.

It was a terrible experience. They thought my dad had kidnapped me as I couldn't possibly be his daughter..according to them an Indian man can't have "white" kids.

They arrested him..and I had to stay at the police station until my mum came to get us. I was five at the time. They pressed charges against the policemen but nothing came of the case.

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