[KontanKarite]

Hmmmm...

I seen two sides of the fence from my experiences.

When I was in the military, it was absurd to be racist. You couldn't be. You were punished severely for it.

During boot camp, they didn't tolerate anyone who thought they had to "represent" their hood, overly country or overly what ever. If you shown any amount of pride for what ever you thought you belonged to, you were pretty much punished for it or you learned to keep your self pride quiet in the spirit of keeping the team together.

What I found surprising was when I moved to Louisville. The lines between racism and classism are fairly blurred and though you aren't in any immediate danger for being a certain race, you are or can be for what class you belong to.

The upper class streets don't want me around because I appear poor or eccentric, but the ghettos are dangerous for me because I may not be "gangsta" enough or whatever it is. It's so bad that there's parts of town I should never step foot in because they will straight kill me. Then the middle class either hates me or loves me, depending on their political or social slant. Conservative middle class wants nothing to do with me. So that pretty much pigeonholes me in a place I'd rather not be.

I can only imagine it being much worse in larger cities.

Then again, I live in the south and there's lots of blacks who think that it's okay for them to be racist because white people did it first.

I find this to be weird because I'm predominantly Irish with some Native American. When I'm faced with racism because I'm white, I find it odd because it was the indentured servants (mostly Irish), that taught the slaves how to read and write and you can't get much whiter than Irish.