I used to be so ignorant to just how common racism was, even where I live in Canada. It wasn't until I got married to my wife, who is Mexican, that I realized just how nasty some people can be. A lot of people say things to her, or look at her with clear hate in their eyes, and it honestly disgusts me. I'm proud to be married to her, regardless of her race, and I'm proud to have two beautiful mixed-race children!

I never thought I'd see any media dedicated to people of mixed races! I'm so happy. It's nice to be reminded that people think you exist. For me it's like being a lonely island! The Asians don't want you and neither do Caucasians, in my case. (I'm also part Native American. Throw all that together and the only people willing to teach me their language spoke Spanish or Russian.) TLDR: Assholery has no skintone.

i hate it when ppl tell me "you don't look mexican" first of all how do you look mexican? like, mexicans come in all colors. second, how do you want me to look like? Do you want me to wear a sombrero, eating a churro, saying "ariba"?

This racist sack of s**t I went to high school with once sent me a meme on Facebook that anyone could read that had a white women with a mixed child. The caption said this is how you become a single mom. Basically saying if you have a kid with a black man he’ll abandon you. I don’t understand how he still had black friends after that. He didn’t even hide his racism. Yes Jeff I’m talking about you. I didn’t forget that s**t

This gave me so many feelings. Angry and disgusted with every fiber of my soul because of the hate some people feel for others, thinking that they're superior to them. Proud of these smart and brave people telling about this and dealing with it in the best way. I think I'd know how to react, but I'd be so devastated that I'd start to cry and give the racist turds the reaction they want. That remark about shooting immigrants particularly hit home with my family being immigrants. It's just so disappointing. How easy for people who used to be immigrants themselves centuries ago and who annihilated entire nations, to feel that now, immigrants don't have the right to make a new life. Difference is, the racists' ancestors felt they could murder and conquer their way to the top, while the immigrants now work their way up a very long ladder. My biggest thanks for the posters!!!

September 11 2001. In the aftermath, all of us were talking about it. I lived in Southern Alberta at the time. Hanging with my now ex-fiance and some friends, they were all saying that "all immigrants should go back to their own countries", so I said I'd have to pack my bags then. They asked why and I explained I was born overseas so, based on their statement, I should go back to my country of birth. They said I didn't have to, so I asked why not; they were very clear that ALL immigrants had to "go home". They said I didn't have to because they meant the coloured people. I said I'd still have to go then and they asked why. I explained that I'm half European and half Asian so their criteria for staying in this country precluded me from staying. I left shortly after that and ended my relationship a few months later. Just because I look white doesn't mean I don't identify with my Asian heritage. Racists can piss right off.

I’m half Asian, half white. I have darker skin because I tan really easily, so people automatically assume I’m Latino and act accordingly. Been called “Luis,” “Diego,” etc.

Not surprising. My husband goes to the dog park regularly and is used to talking to random people he meets there. One day he came back and told me how a white woman was talking to him about how her ex left her for an Asian woman. What followed was a lot of racist nonsense about Asian people that she felt safe saying because she was talking to a white blonde haired blue eyed person. Neither my husband nor I are Asian but we don’t condone racism either.

prejudice isn't something to overcome easily. I'm from East-Germany, formerly known as GDR. After reunion but before European Borders opened, we had a phrase regularly used "dann ist Polen offen" (then Polen will open). it meant something like then hell will break loose. After the fall of the Berlin Wall there was the prejudice that our Neighbours the Polish people go to our countryside and steal stuff. so when xy is going to happen and its bad, we used this phrase. it takes a long time to not use language you learned as a kid, but everyone is capable of growing.

I know racism ain't going anywhere, ever. But that doesn't mean we can't try. My best friend in the world was a Mexican woman (she has since died and I miss her terribly). When I was 28 and she was 45 we were running errands together, talking about a mutual Egyptian friend who was having trouble with her daughter. "You will never believe what Carla has done now. Her poor mother is going crazy". I said, "What"? She answers, "She's dating a Black guy". The words hung in the air as I waited for her to catch what she said. A full 2 minutes go by as she is driving and glancing over at me, waiting for my reaction. Finally, I said, "I know how bad she feels, my mother married one"!

You don't have to be of mixed race to call out racism. I do it all the time. Mind you, it probably only works so well for me because I'm now officially 'an old lady' and can put on a cut-glass accent........ Once, in a supermarket, an old woman muttered something about people not speaking English there, so I said, quite loudly "Oooh - a dirty racist. Quick move away from her so we don't all catch it off her." And, obediently, everyone moved back several paces. .... Please don't hesitate to call out racism, wherever you find it. i's not only satisfying, it can be fun, too.

Racism is stupid. What the hell is wrong with people whos skin is a little darker? I seriously do not get it. People are idiots.

I feel like people need to know that every race can be racist not just white people...I am white and my best friend is black....black people can be racist and so can latinos. It is a problem but it's not all white peoples fault

Canada here, the only 2 people i've heard/seen be racist is my dad, which from a young age made me angry with him and he still says that stuff today unfortunately. The second is the neighbor across from me. She's really nice and then just last week said something that shocked the heck out of me.

I had a Vietnamese friend who had a tan from the summer. Her skin was pretty brown and I heard people assume she was Indian. They acted accordingly. It's stupid.

I am so sorry this is happening! But be assured that this is not the norm all over the world. I have never heared such language. And I couldn't be more white.

Yup. I've lived this. From hearing people betch about "mexicans" in front of my face, to the whole living in the UK and hearing all the racism toward me b/c I had dark hair and ethnic features (I mean people would vent their spleen on Egyptians, Italians, Spaniards, Israelis, Persians, Saudis, pick one, right?) and baldly not even blink if you called them on it. Trump only normalized it in the US, but it's global. Why do you thing people wanted Brexit? Idiot racists.

I have Frederick Douglas in my family tree. I also have a condition called vitiligo. When I was a child, one kid asked me if I scraped my skin to see if I was black underneath. I said yep.

This is so sad, but not trying to ruin things, but I saw the first video on buzzfeed a week or 2 ago. How does bored panda work? Cause a lot of its posts are similar to buzzfeed's..

I remember how I just started to talk to a random person at one party and how she was so wary of me at first and when we had like partied the whole night with the same bunch of people, she said that she thought I would say something about her skin color etc. Apparently she was somewhat used to people doing that. Made me really sad and I also made a friend for life.

My great grandfather was pureblood Romani and greatgran was pureblood Irish, and the family now jokes that the only reason her dad let the marriage stand was because they were both Catholic and that she may or maynot have been three months pregnant at the time.Three generations later, you have me with my mixed Mediterranean/Middle Eastern facial features and white skin and deo mea,the amount of misunderstanding and/or hate I hear is astounding.Everything from "You have nothing to worry about, you're white" to "Say what? Wait, you're actually a POC?" (from other POCs) to "towel head", "sand n*****" and "jihadi whore"(from a bunch of white idjits in my high school years during the Bush/Cheney admin after I objected to our servicemen and women going into the Middle East to go after Bin Laden).

This just shows how pointless racism is, but people still don't seem to get it. The guy used the term "double agent" as a joke, but it still highlights how different races are seen as barriers, visible or invisible. This isn't and should not be the case, ethnicity exists, race: the idea that the way someone looks determines trait (Black people=bad) is so absurd. Races should NOT EXIST.

Okay. The German one was completely innocent. How is COMPLIMENTING SOMEONE ON THE COLOR OF THEIR SKIN RACIST? Good lord, Find yourself a dictionary, please. Go.. Right now, then come back and read this again. Now that you know the actual definition of Racism: Atleast a third of these are NOT RACIST, just ignorant. Racism involves Hate and Fear. Saying "Oh the color of your skin is nice" is not f*****g racist, you dimwitted ass hats. I know someone that grew up in an area where there just aren't black people. He didn't even know the N-word was something you don't say around people until he used it in Casino and we all freaked out. That's called ignorance, NOT RACISM, you idiots. He didn't hate black people, he literally just had no idea it was wrong to say that(don't ask how, I don't know to this day). PLEASE know your words before your high school dropout asses make these articles and comments, THANKS!

#2, just to piss my mother off, and “ show” her. Then immediately realizing , how racist my immediate thought was, to do that.. made me feel so impotent, because I could do nothing with that anger that would be fair to anyone.. this is how ingrained racism is in human beings. And only as long as others are watching or listening, and caring and policing it, will it ever be .0000001% taken care of. Meaning it never will. We will always be fighting the good , or not so good fight for equality and fairness. I do not want to go through life, feeling as if my hands are always tied. But they are, so I do what I can. When and where, I can. But it will never be fair.

Anyone else notice that whenever there’s a things about racism, there’s a whole bunch of trump supporters in the comments crying!?! Wonder why.

Been there, suffered that and then saw my children suffer it. Nothing changes.

One of my female friends is very light skinned, blonde hair and blue eyes - she's also half-Mexican. I can't event imagine the racist stuff she's heard growing up. I've had folks who know I have a Jewish background and those who don't know my last name (which is very Jewish) say anti-Semitic things to me. Fortunately there isn't any history of Jews being persecuted so I am not so shocked ;-)

Jesus H Christ, people are assholes!

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Just imagine what Makle went thru...

Title person: "pass" as a white person?! Seriously?! I don't even know what to say. You are part of the problem.