RE: Ask an Ex-racist
April 11, 2018 at 9:24 am
(This post was last modified: April 11, 2018 at 9:26 am by mlmooney89.)
I've always been around a large mix of people because of being an army brat. In fact in high school the cheerleaders didn't run the school it was two groups; one group of popular black kids and one group of popular Hispanic kids.
Austin has a lot of middle eastern people which is one group I haven't been around much. I loved seeing their outfits since they walk outside so much, not joking a bunch of traditionally dressed middle eastern people walk around all the time in all three apartment complexes we've lived in. I'm not talkin burka I'm talkin the women's outfits that show off their stomachs and the men's that almost look like long dresses. The only thing I don't care for is on these daily walks the women are always a few paces behind the men.
The city I work in is like white person central. I'm not exaggerating I've seen -maybe- a dozen black people in this entire town in the five years I've worked here. It's full of retired rich white people. There are a bunch of Hispanics as well but they are seldom customers of the bank, they usually just cash employment checks from the white people. It was really funny cause there is a group of about 20 Hispanic men that come to cash their check every Friday from one employer (without a doubt 95% are here illegally) but they are the nicest guys and so patient so when they come in we all chat through broken languages. The funny part is that when I taped a picture of Tony and myself to my computer one guy was like
"Who is that?"
"Uh my husband?"
"He is Hispanic."
*chuckles* "Yes he is."
He smiles at me and then points it out to all the other guys and suddenly I'm like part of their club.
Austin has a lot of middle eastern people which is one group I haven't been around much. I loved seeing their outfits since they walk outside so much, not joking a bunch of traditionally dressed middle eastern people walk around all the time in all three apartment complexes we've lived in. I'm not talkin burka I'm talkin the women's outfits that show off their stomachs and the men's that almost look like long dresses. The only thing I don't care for is on these daily walks the women are always a few paces behind the men.
The city I work in is like white person central. I'm not exaggerating I've seen -maybe- a dozen black people in this entire town in the five years I've worked here. It's full of retired rich white people. There are a bunch of Hispanics as well but they are seldom customers of the bank, they usually just cash employment checks from the white people. It was really funny cause there is a group of about 20 Hispanic men that come to cash their check every Friday from one employer (without a doubt 95% are here illegally) but they are the nicest guys and so patient so when they come in we all chat through broken languages. The funny part is that when I taped a picture of Tony and myself to my computer one guy was like
"Who is that?"
"Uh my husband?"
"He is Hispanic."
*chuckles* "Yes he is."
He smiles at me and then points it out to all the other guys and suddenly I'm like part of their club.
“What screws us up the most in life is the picture in our head of what it's supposed to be.”
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Also if your signature makes my scrolling mess up "you're tacky and I hate you."
