There's every possibility some amount of what you suffered in high school was the result of racial prejudice. It is impossible that you've suffered racist persecution, because we do not live in a society in which racist persecution of white people is possible.
Even if we consider the case arguendo where all of your suffering in high school stemmed from racial prejudice, what you suffered is not racism. Yes, the school you were in was a majority people of color. Then you went home, living in a country with a white majority. Then you graduated and exited this majority-white environment. The fact that there is that exit is a difference between what you went through and what a racist system is. This takes nothing away from the reality of whatever it is you suffered -- it is simply that it is qualitatively different from racism.
But I've got to tell you: I went to a white-majority private school, with a small number of students of color. I, too, was a social pariah for most of my time there, and it is not possible that my being white had anything to do with it.
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Date: 2010-08-20 09:50 pm (UTC)Even if we consider the case arguendo where all of your suffering in high school stemmed from racial prejudice, what you suffered is not racism. Yes, the school you were in was a majority people of color. Then you went home, living in a country with a white majority. Then you graduated and exited this majority-white environment. The fact that there is that exit is a difference between what you went through and what a racist system is. This takes nothing away from the reality of whatever it is you suffered -- it is simply that it is qualitatively different from racism.
But I've got to tell you: I went to a white-majority private school, with a small number of students of color. I, too, was a social pariah for most of my time there, and it is not possible that my being white had anything to do with it.