First Encounter with Racism by Ashley Womack https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq What is your first encounter with racism? This can either directed at you or you witnessed it. en-us 2020-09-09 18:05:05 UTC 2023-03-30 06:41:35 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155874807 I got bullied for being Korean on an American base in Korea]]> 2021-02-02 20:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155874807 My first encounter with racism was https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875087 My grandpa was making comments against black males when i was about 4. ]]> 2021-02-02 20:22:51 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875087 In gradeschool, I got bullied for having dark and thick arm hair. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875401 2021-02-02 20:22:56 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875401 elementary school, lots of comments (teasing or bullying. Take it as you will) about my eyes maddisonhahn https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875529 2021-02-02 20:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875529 I guess my first experience with racism was when I watched a MLKJ video in elementary school. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875781 2021-02-02 20:23:00 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875781 I realized that black kids weren't considered as beautiful as light skinned people. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875972 2021-02-02 20:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155875972 Last year is when I actually started paying attention, but im sure ive witnessed racism before but I just wasn't aware of what was going on https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876151 2021-02-02 20:23:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876151 School, but also at public experiences https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876388 2021-02-02 20:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876388 elementary school https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876556 2021-02-02 20:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876556 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876587 people being judgemental towards a family in a store/ making assumptions ]]> 2021-02-02 20:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876587 I have never witnessed it but my first encounter was learning about rosa parks. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876623 2021-02-02 20:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876623 My father doesn't want me to date dark-skins or Mexicans because he believes they're lazy, loudmouths, or aggressive. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876651 2021-02-02 20:23:14 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876651 jessicasolis1 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876714 In elementary school, not just the kids also the adults ]]> 2021-02-02 20:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155876714 First time when I played call of duty in elementary school https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877318 2021-02-02 20:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877318 I was always made fun of how dark my skin tone was compared to the other kids isabellabrown2 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877346 2021-02-02 20:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877346 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877563 My father use to always make racist jokes that were so terrible and I heard my sister repeat one of them and genuinely feel that way about people of color because of him.]]> 2021-02-02 20:23:27 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155877563 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155879422 I don't really care about it but my friends say the N word all the time, doesn't bother me tho]]> 2021-02-02 20:23:55 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155879422 I was made fun of the way my eyes looked and called slurs isabellabrown2 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155880937 2021-02-02 20:24:18 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155880937 jessicasolis1 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155881086 This year, kids kept repeating the N word even though they are white ]]> 2021-02-02 20:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155881086 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155881245 it was when i learned about rosa parks]]> 2021-02-02 20:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155881245 jessicasolis1 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155883436 Students telling others to go back to their country even though they were born her in the US]]> 2021-02-02 20:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155883436 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155886770 when i learned about martin Luther king]]> 2021-02-02 20:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155886770 bridgetlockhart https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155888123 In grade school we were learning about slaves and a student turned around and looked at the only person of color in our class and said "don't worry ___ we aren't going to do that to you"]]> 2021-02-02 20:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1155888123 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1169926816 when i was in grade school I didn't experience this myself but my friends did and people were saying the n word and all around it was upsetting]]> 2021-02-05 19:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1169926816 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1701290181 The first time I learned about slavery in about fifth grade I think ]]> 2021-08-27 18:27:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1701290181 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1707512549 When I was younger, around four, my mom was in an interracial relationship and a lot of people in my family, like her mother, was upset with her dating a black man.]]> 2021-08-31 16:16:31 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/1707512549 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761097 in like pre k when we learned about mlk and the civil rights movement ]]> 2022-01-20 20:14:55 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761097 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761428 Some of my friends think that saying the N-word is funny and "just a word"]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761428 First encounter https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761594 My friend says the N-word

]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761594 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761689 in elementary school when people where making fun of a black person in our school ]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761689 First Encounter https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761720 I brought a friend to my house who was born and grew up in Mexico but moved here and she speaks English well she just has an accent and my grandpa said things about her after she left our house.]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003761720 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762059 Learning about slavery in 4th or 5th grade ]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762059 In elementary school, when people would make fun of someone. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762105 2022-01-20 20:15:30 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762105 I have learned about it in elementary school, and some of my friends experience it. I really notice it at the nursing home i work at. You can't change old peoples thoughts though. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762165 2022-01-20 20:15:32 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762165 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762547 my whole family has always used the n word i've been around it my whole life but i dont really care if they say it its not me 

]]> 2022-01-20 20:15:48 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003762547 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003763425 When I was little I heard my great grandpa make some racist comments ]]> 2022-01-20 20:16:22 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003763425 First encounter https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003763602 when i was in 6th grade and my teacher called a kid the n word for everything wouldn't call him his name until another teacher finally heard her.,]]> 2022-01-20 20:16:29 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003763602 i learned about racism when i was younger my mom told me about races and how other races are treated different and she told me that no matter what race they are or what they look like we don't treat them different because they are humans and have feelings too. https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764020 2022-01-20 20:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764020 first encounter https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764413 I grew up in life being told I'm not like the other kids and have to act differently around certain people. i never listened but one time i realized it was true when i wasn't hired for a job becuase " we have more than enough minorities" i didn't think anything of it but I told my parents and they were shocked :/]]> 2022-01-20 20:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764413 i hear racism in every song i listen too https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764631 2022-01-20 20:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764631 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764960 When people made fun of one of my classmates for being a different race ]]> 2022-01-20 20:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764960 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764987 I think my first one that i remember was my grandpa making comments about the basketball players on TV. Kinda just making a remark about how one basketball team won because they were are all colored. ]]> 2022-01-20 20:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003764987 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766034 During thanksgiving a few years ago we had magazines out and my great grandpa pointed at a boy on the magazine and ask if i was interested in "That kind of person" my mom shut him down almost immediately. ]]> 2022-01-20 20:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766034 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766089 I think the first time I ever realized there was racism was when my dad had told me about his step dad, who was a different race, abused him as a kid.]]> 2022-01-20 20:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766089 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766677 One of my family members are openly racist, he doesn't hire anyone that isn't white and he also jokes a lot about the whole 2020 commotion and how people were overreacting. ]]> 2022-01-20 20:18:19 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003766677 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003767559 I was with my grandpa eating out. We had sat down and there was a family that sat down by us. The family was not white. My phone was on the table close to where the family was. My grandpa grabs my phone and puts it on the other side of me. ]]> 2022-01-20 20:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2003767559 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2004099366 When I was younger I went to Bakers Dozen to get donuts with my friend and mom. It was early on a weekend morning so there were some old people. When we walked in I realized my friend and I were getting stared at for not only being mixed, but also for being with my white mom. ]]> 2022-01-21 01:24:30 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2004099366 https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2005607584 2022-01-21 18:40:41 UTC https://padlet.com/awomack4/w89klz2nvd8r89wq/wish/2005607584