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Sorry but this reeks of utter horseshit. This is the narrative of a male Karen.

Red flags:

1. An OP with zero social media presence beyond the past 30 days, with no verifiable info, presenting an individual anecdotal experience from which we are to infer the "white oppressor" narrative is flawed

2. Black kids in the 90s in Connecticut calling someone "cracker"

3. Describing Black people as a "pack of feral dogs"

4. Calling classes in a US school "lessons"... is the real writer even American?

5. The writer goes completely mute in high school and somehow the Black students... of which there are "many" but unlikely they are a majority at his school (if you check CT demographics), somehow think he's a safe victim to gang assault because he's white?

6. Describing Black people as "a pack of furious animals rudely deprived of their prey"

7. Link to Bret Weinstein lol

8. Modeling a Magical Negro with Model Minority behavior that bridges the gap... oh if only Black people were Nice, and not taught by their parents to be racist (as opposed to reacting and evolving to survive the systemic oppression they grow up in)

Even if this suspect narrative were true, as JeffRosenberg points out, racism in America is about structural bias, not individual experiences like this. OP and commenters like rendall, no matter how "unracist" you think you are, are supporting white supremacy with these "we're all the same, and I'm not racist" false narratives.

We're not all the same. If you think it's bad to make grand assertions about groups of people, wait until you hear about the Chinese Exclusion act, or redlining, or different credit ratings and property assessments, or, heck, relevant to the original post... the disparities in the Connecticut educational system.

https://ctvoices.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/New-Edits-NG...

1. I post anonymously. You're right that there's no verifiable information. It could be a completely fake story--like everything on the internet. However, I assure you, there are others that will report similar experiences--as we've seen in this thread. I'm certain this is not uncommon. The principles of human nature should also tell you that this story is entirely plausible. Is it really shocking that someone would be bullied because of their race? I'm sure a white, black, brown, etc, person has a story like this about another race.

2. Yes, they called me cracker. You've never heard people say that, even today? It is a common racial slur.

3. I was not describing black people as a "pack of feral dogs," but vicious kids. That's how they were acting, that's how I've described them. These kids were vicious. It's not a racial dig.

4. That's a good point. I suppose what I'm currently reading influenced my word choice there. I've been reading Joyce's "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man." In that book there's a lot of stuff about his schooling and the book was published in 1916.

5. Not sure what your point is here. I just didn't want to draw any attention to myself, at all, because the bullying was so severe. It really happened.

6. Again, it's a description of how they were acting. It's not a racial dig. They were literally acting like vicious animals towards me. I would say the same thing if they were white.

7. That documentary shocked me. It seemed to prove that some higher education institutions are being used to indoctrinate people into becoming race warriors. It's clear from that documentary that the students are under some kind of cult like "spell," which is why I linked it.

8. Robert was actually a real friend of mine. Believe it or not, this actually happened. I know maybe it sounds too fantastic or something, but it really went down like this. Robert knew I wasn't to blame for his problems. I was in a working class family just like him.

The reason why I've shared my experience is that the "white oppressor" rhetoric, although it may be designed to shed light on systematic inequalities, gets interpreted at the street level as "that white boy over there is the source of all my problems." I've seen firsthand how bad race relations makes working class communities completely dysfunctional and violent. Cui bono? Does it benefit the poor when they fight among themselves?

#5 - Don't check the demographics of the whole state. Schools only draw from the local area and CT, like most states is pretty segregated. I don't know where the author is from but for example, most schools in Hartford have a white minority.

https://www.greatschools.org/connecticut/hartford/hartford-s...

Yeah, I knew that about CT but he mentioned there were "many" Black students. I don't know why exactly but from his phrasing it doesn't sound like he was at a white minority school.

It was like 40% white, 30% black, 30% other.

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