Is it true that you will experience a racist encounter at least twice in your life if you are Black?

Question

I read it in some article before. Anyone agree or disagree and why?

Answer 1

You have to be joking right?  Once is an understatement!!! Almost every freaking day..

Answer 2

i have, i don't know if that is true for everyone but it is highly possible

Answer 3

Depending on where you live, most likely.

Answer 4

More like twice a day!

Answer 5

Twice... ugh... Try more times than you can count!  And now we live in a world where it's 'not as bad' (take that for what it's worth) so you may have long stretches between the times you experience it and when it does happen to you, you will be run over with the reality of, "I forgot! No matter what I do or where I go or what I accomplish, to many of Them  (non whites--especially the ones over 40) I will always just be a   n  i  g  g  e  r. "

It always breaks into my reality every few months, when I go into a Bath and Body Works and some white store worker asks my two white friends directly if they need help and ignores me... You don't want to believe what it is, but you KNOW what it's about.

Answer 6

at least twice a day.

Answer 7

Twice?

Oh please.  

Answer 8

I doubt the people in Kenyan tribes are racist towards one another

Answer 9

it depends on where you're from, and the kind of environment you live in

but there there are quite a few black people who see it and are the victims of it on a daily basis

Answer 10

that number sounds too low!

Answer 11

Yup, I think its true. At least if you live a normal life and you go places...places that are not just filled with your own kind. I face it all the time even if it is just something very small, it still wouldn't have happened if I wasn't black.  

Answer 12

It's not a matter of disagreeing or agreeing, it's the fact that it does happen. Whether it is subtle or obvious. It happened to me yesterday up in Frankfort, Ky, and the fact that I live in Kentucky raises the chances for me. People aren't as open-minded in reality as you would like to think, if it was like that, the media wouldn't have as much racial tensions to reflect on.

It happens several times. For those who don't think it won't happen to you, or who it hasn't happened to, it will.

Answer 13

im not black and ive experienced several racial encounters in my life time. being black doesnt really have anything to do with it.

Answer 14

Agree..BUT I believe EVERYONE NOT just blacks will encounter racism in their life.  

Answer 15

All of these people crying about there times of being made fun are really stretching what they mean by a racist comment.  On average I would say maybe twice sounds like it.  

Answer 16

more than twice but thats how it is ..people just can't get over that were are darker than them thats it ...

Answer 17

WAY MORE THAN THAT!

Answer 18

I wish it was only twice, lol!

@ zenith, usually when Black American use the term Black they are referring to other Black Americans.

Answer 19

Too many times to count my friend, sometimes they even make me laugh, they are so pathetic. At least I have a life.

Answer 20

everyone experiences racism! I am white and have experience it more then twice.