Ever experience a racist situation?

It's hard to turn a blind eye to racism when it's right in your face. I've had a quite a few encounters, and I'm pretty young for having as many as I have, in a day and age where a lot of people choose to believe it's pretty much gone. One time, my brothers and I were hanging out at a Burger King after a church meeting. Some Vietnam war veteran came up to us and started yelling at us about how cowardly a people we are...and how he's got children just like us all over Asia. We're not Vietnamese... Another time at the beach, we were ran off by a bunch of Caucasian teenagers throwing sticks at us who wanted us to "Go back to Mexico were you belong." We're not Mexican...nor are we Latino in any way. One time, I went to a Black Student Union meeting as a representative from another cultural club. We wanted to co-sponsor a forum addressing recent verbal attacks from caucasian fraternities to our cultural clubs. I was told that we didn't have it as hard as they did, and we wouldn't understand. Since when has racism and discrimination affected people of color any less, regardless of if they are black or brown? All this in California...touted as one of the most liberal states in the U.S. I haven't figured out my own way to fight racism, but all I know is that we need each other. As people, we need each other. And, we are only hurting ourselves in the long run...and any situation where racism or any other discrimination is a motivating factor is just part of the ugliest part of humanity.

me, my guy, and a couple of friends were at va beach at night. My friend got jumped by 50 black guys, it was some kind of gang thing. They wer kicking him and stomping him and all that, and none of them got arrested, instead two of us did. There was no reason for it, and there has been increasingly that type of behavior there at the beach, but no one says anything and tries to keep it hush hush because the want to tourists to come.