to my followers who are of colour, what's the earliest encounter you remember having with racism

mine happened when I was about 4 or 5 playing in the park with my brother and a group of white kids we'd just met. one of them starts giving out chewing gum and we asked if we could have one, he replied, "my mummy says I'm only allowed to share with white people"

also if your takeaway from this is that I used the phrase 'of colour' rather than the plethora of other terms that can be used to refer to racialised minorities, get your head checked