The only time I was exposed to racism was about 10 years ago. I'm so white, my sister says I glow in the dark when I'm in a swim suite. I was working/living in a small (tiny-miniscule) midwest town doing quality assurance in a factory. From the time I started until the company's summer picnic about 10 months everyone was really friendly to me, would help me get my samples, we got along great. Until the company picnic and we all brought our families out.
My husband is Asian, from another country. After that, at work all I got was "What's wrong with you? Wasn't a white guy good enough for you?" The guys all turned away and made me get my own samples from then on, wouldn't talk to me and would say really awful things in my hearing. Until I got mad after one said something about my husband being an illegal immigrant only marrying me because I was a citizen.
I went totally off in the lunch room where everyone could here, "For your information, my husband is a PhD chemist working at the University, he didn't need to marry me to become a citizen, he would have become one anyway." Sprinkled liberally with 4 letter words and called them a bunch of backward redneck hicks and if they were examples of good white boys I'd take any other nationality over them any day. I quit soon after.
There are racist jerks in every race and nationality and we (I'm one of them too) thin skinned people just have to suck up the pain and go on with it. It sucks royally I know and understand. It's easy for people to say, "that's the way it is, you just have to get over it" But we tend to more open and easily hurt by others. It tends to stay with you like a slow boil for a long time.
Can you call the police and report them as a drug house? Call social services, let them know the kids are unsupervised? I know it's kind of scary living in an area like that. Maybe if there are enough complaints against them, they'll move away. Of course it's easy for me to suggest these things, I'd probably just hide inside and lock the doors so I wouldn't have to see or deal with them.
On the plus side, you can lose the weight, you don't sound crazy and they are just rude, ignorant jerks that can't handle people who have more then they do.
Many hugs, and good luck
Sarah
Last edited by sarahyu; 10-11-2005 at 09:57 AM.
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