When did you first encounter racism?

[Big Jack McBastard]

Are you sure he didn't say "Big Black Bastard"?

(EDIT: Oh I hope that wasn't the joke and I've just spelled it out for everyone)

No, I had no jokey intent, that actually happened, he's a little weirdo; named all his toys like they were furniture pieces from an Ikea catalogue and is obsessed with spinning fans, even likes Youtube videos of them.

[Small Man Big Horse]

It was always "catch a tiger by the toe" when I was at school.  I didn't find out it was originally "n**ger" until years later.  Maybe political correctness really does work.

Oddly enough the version I grew up with was "Catch a Tigger by the toe", which I always presumed related to the much beloved friend of Pooh Bear. I didn't realise it was originally racist until about ten years later.

I grew up in a small posh town in Surrey and at school there was only one black child, who came in for a lot of abuse sadly. His parents ran a newsagent which was termed "The p**i Shop" by, well, cunts, but I loved it as it had the best comics, and always had a go at anyone who used that term.

My Grandfather wasn't racist as such, he had no problem with my Sister dating a black guy, but I do remember one time she was going up to London with him and my Grandfather was concerned, and warned her not to get stabbed. Which is good advice in general, obviously, but the context always bothered me.

[Hanslow]

Mine was when I was 11 and I brought my new mate back from secondary school. And my dad goes 'so you've p**i back'. That's when I started to realise he wasn't the all-knowing all-powerful being I took him for. And I weren't getting a Ferrari for me 18th. 

Probably came into contact with it plenty of times before, given the area I grew up, but that was the first time I cared.

EDIT
I remember being a racist show-off at a much younger age.

[Noodle Lizard]

I grew up in a small posh town in Surrey and at school there was only one black child, who came in for a lot of abuse sadly. His parents ran a newsagent which was termed "The p**i Shop" by, well, cunts, but I loved it as it had the best comics, and always had a go at anyone who used that term.

Did you er ... skip down there on a Sunday morning and read the comics?  Eh ... maybe buy some sweets with your pocket money too?

[Danger Man]

I'm with you.  I know four Australians pretty well, used to date one, and they've all been a bit racist.

Aussies and Kiwis are ridiculously racist by today's standards.

Kiwis aren't quite as bad as they don't treat Maoris like dirt. If only because they need them for their rugby team.

[Small Man Big Horse]

Did you er ... skip down there on a Sunday morning and read the comics?  Eh ... maybe buy some sweets with your pocket money too?

Yes. Yes I did. I'm confused by what you might be referencing though.

[non capisco]

My Grandad on my old man's side was a bit of a closed book to say the least but one of the things I do remember him telling me was that I didn't want to go to Brixton because it was "full of spooks". This contradicted my parents assurances that there were no such things as ghosts and my Dad had to calm me down by telling me Grandad didn't mean ghosties are real, he's actually a daft old racist.

[syntaxerror]

I have to say this forum is incredibly white and non-diverse.

[Danger Man]

I have to say this forum is incredibly white and non-diverse.

4 posters have declared themselves 'non-white' out of 12,457

So, unless others come forward, we have to assume that CaB is 99.97% white.

But non-whites don't like comedy so that figure isn't much of a surprise.

[mook]

my great grandad was an athiest jew who married an english lass from cambridge, does that count at all with including me as one of the exotics?

[canadagoose]

I have to say this forum is incredibly white and non-diverse.

That's not our fault, though. I didn't even see a black person in real life until I was 10, but that's not my fault either; it just so happens that hardly anyone wants to move to where I grew up.

Anyway, there was a fair bit of casual racism in my home town when I was growing up, but nothing major. Having said that, my friend's dad used to go on about "the derkies, straight oot the jungle" whenever there was a black football player on the TV, and a lot of people would talk about going to the "Chinky" for dinner. It's not as common now, though, I don't think.

[Ein Sof]

I have to say this forum is incredibly white and non-diverse.

Then maybe they should do what they're most adept at: coming "over here", assimilating poorly and then taking our 'jobs'! Or is CaB not good enough for them?!

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

My family were going to emigrate to New Zealand when I was a kid*. My gran on my mum's side was mortified at the thought of us being so far away. Determined to convince us to stay in Blighty, she looked at me with genuinely sad, worried eyes and said, in a trembling voice: "There's a lotta ch**ks over there."

Naturally we immediately cancelled our plans.

I also remember being friends with a group of older lads when I was about 6 or 7. We used to play on the cricket field opposite my house, but one day we were chased by a rival gang, making me late back home. When asked by my parents to explain, I repeated what the older boys had said; "We were chased by The Pakis!" I think I just assumed that was their gang name, like The Jets.

*I was invited, too.

[Ein Sof]

my great grandad was an athiest jew who married an english lass from cambridge, does that count at all with including me as one of the exotics?

I'm "white but disappointed that I'm not Jewish." Do I count at all?

[Sexton Brackets Drugbust]

4 posters have declared themselves 'non-white' out of 12,457

To be fair, around 12,000 of those are TC aliases.

[syntaxerror]

Then maybe they should do what they're most adept at: coming "over here", assimilating poorly and then taking our 'jobs'! Or is CaB not good enough for them?!

Correction - They're taking our jobs and scrounging off the benefits system.

[syntaxerror]

CaB is 99.97% white.

This site must be giving Stormfront a run for its money

[Ein Sof]

Correction - They're taking our jobs and scrounging off the benefits system.

I don't think there's a comparable system on here, unless Neil wants to give some of us money for the often-arduous task of ignoring certain members?

This site must be giving Stormfront a run for its money

The arguments they have on there are sometimes amusing; some of them are really suspicious of the Greeks/Italians/anyone who isn't 'Nordic'. Despite being 'white nationalist/supremacist' website, their membership certainly didn't think it was imperative to make a final decision regarding who are going to be 'white' and who are going to be "mischlings" in their fantasy nation.

[Danger Man]

This site must be giving Stormfront a run for its money

Don't black people have their own forums?

Oh...here's one. Cocoa Lounge?

http://www.cocoalounge.org/

[biggytitbo]

The children at school used to call me titty lips, which is worse than racism.

[Fry]

The first CaB meet I went to when I was forced into a nearby helicopter and told to fly Ziggy Starbucks to Huddersfield.

Oh and and SMBH called me "niggerbait."

[Default to the negative]

4 posters have declared themselves 'non-white' out of 12,457

So, unless others come forward, we have to assume that CaB is 99.97% white.

But non-whites don't like comedy so that figure isn't much of a surprise.

I'm 1/4 Sicilian and sometimes the people around here, who aren't accustomed to such exotic sights, mistake me for an Asian or a Jew of some kind.

Can I be in the CaB black gang? I probably have some black genes if Christopher Walken's speech in True Romance is to be believed.

Pleeeze. I can dance to big beats in a hippety-hop style and sometimes my sentences rhyme when I don't even mean them to. It's my natural blackness showing through.

[Thomas]

'I'm whiter than the ace of Tipp-Ex, right, but this guy make me feel like a full-blown motherfreakin' n**ger brother [...] I live in Compton, man. I have the shit being beaten out of me by honky cops just because I put my foot down on the freeway.'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds2FY4uq6h4&t=6m18s

[Ein Sof]

The children at school used to call me titty lips, which is worse than racism.

It's not necessarily racist, unless they were invoking the old British proverb: "A nipple on the lips saves plenty of Gyps."

It's definitely racist because nobody actually wants to save Gypsys! "Titty lips" are bad thing to have in this situation. It's quite right that they insulted you!

[Danger Man]

Can I be in the CaB black gang?

The CaB People of Colour Group is open to all. You can only become a full member after you've spent a night in Fry's bed and avoided contact with his full member.

[Fry]

It's a hard challenge.

[Johnny Townmouse]

Someone painted "Green Wog" in green paint on the pavement outside of my house when I was about 6.

In fairness, there was a lot of IRA boming going on.

[Default to the negative]

The CaB People of Colour Group is open to all. You can only become a full member after you've spent a night in Fry's bed and avoided contact with his full member.

I gave Fry a big karma boost when he asked for one, so I don't need to go to bed and play whatever sex game that is with him. I'm calling in that debt.

So now I'm in CABPOCG.

Do we have uniforms? Titles? Any cool stuff like that?

[canadagoose]

I go blue when I'm ill; do I count?

[Thursday]

I don't think it was my first exposure, but I remember seeing Die Hard with a Vengance when I was about 10 and being really confused over why they were making such a big deal out of race. I think I had to have the sign John Mclane wearsexplained to me. I think I thought racism was some thing that had all but died out in the 60's and now there were only a few bad people that still believed in it.