As I’ve said, even as a white man (and boy) ive experienced racism aimed at me, aimed at me and my mates as a group, or white people in general. And so has my Father who was once pinned up against the wall in the toilets of the Reno and had a knife pulled on him and told to leave or they’d use it on him because my Dad was a white man and was out having a drink with a black girl and these particular black lads didn’t like that.
There’s a hell of a lot more anti-white sentiment in the language and attitudes of some people of different races than you might realise.
I went with my school basketball team (all white lads) to Stretford High for a game back in the mid 90s and their team were nearly all black lads and we were subject to racist comments all through the game and there were lads waiting outside our minibus as we were leaving giving us racist abuse.
I was once called a honky and a cracker by a black school pupil when I was working as a cover teacher in the late 00s at a school in Salford. I don’t find those words racist, but just anti-white in sentiment and just no need for it (especially since they’re both American words). Going off my family tree it’s far more likely my inner-city Manchester ancestors went on strike in support of black American slaves than it is my having any ancestors who were slave owners.
I’ve also been sat on a Met behind two Asian (South Asian, couldn’t pin point exactly where their heritage would be from exactly though) lads who were having a conversation about white people that was as derogatory and racist as it gets.
Granted these are all fairly minor incidents, but incidents all the same. I’Im not saying that’s as bad as you’ve faced in your life, and it’s fucking shit that anyone has to face this sort of shit, but it’s certainly not the case of it being one way.
