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examples of racism I’ve encountered throughout my life so far:
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when I was 4 and I went to a nursery & I was told by another pupil that because I’m brown I couldn’t play with the same toys as he could. He gave me one Lego brick and he got the whole set
when I was 6 The member of staff who was supervising the playground wouldn’t let me and my other british Pakistani friend have the ball because apparently we were dangerous apparently. She then gave the ball to a load of white kids.
When I was 7 The school I went to served halal food for lunch and when the boy who bullied me found out he put his threw his whole plate of spaghetti at me
When I was 8 a teacher told my parents in a parents evening that I was bound to be behind the rest of the class because and I quote “your kind are a bit slow”
When I was 9 I was called paki for the first time & someone threw dirt on me
When I was 10 there was some school garden party for the royal wedding and I was told by this kid that I don’t look british enough to go to the garden party while his Dad chuckled
When I was 11 I wore a bomber jacket to school on a non-uniform day and people decided to take the word bomber and abuse me abt it + accompanied by loads of people shouting “oi bin laden”
When I was 14 I was hit across the head with a ball and then slapped by a boy who was particularly angry that I was Muslim that day, apparently I seemed “too proud”
When I was 16 I was walking to a friends house at night when 3 guys who were suspiciously walking behind me confronted me and decided to physically abuse me while cursing racist slurs. I ended up in A&E
When I was 17 I told people in the room I was in that my bag was rly full and it looked like it was going to explode so they decided to make more terrorist jokes.
When I was 18 I was volunteering in a charity shop when I was asked where I came from, I told him the UK, & he said where are you really from? When I told him the same place as you, he decided to call me an ugly brown shit who didn’t deserve to have the same nationality as him.
