• 6daemonbag@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Having grown up where David Duke also lives, ambiguously failing the paper bag test, and coming of age during 9/11, I encountered a wide variety of racial insults. Many of them involved the n-word.

    The most memorable one for me happened after the orator learned that I was neither black, Arabic, Hispanic, Italian, nor Asian.

    “Oh you’re Hawaiian? I heard you Island N-words don’t even sing the National Anthem.”

    The other aggressors as well as my friends burst into laughter at how ridiculously stupid his statement sounded. Even his buddy was like, “Hawaii is a state you fucking idiot.”

    The encounter ended and we all moved on but I still laugh when it pops into my head