Skipper is standing there by his lonesome hanging out and this guy from a table with two couples sees him standing there, grabs his dirty plate and hands it to the skipper and says "I'm done with this."
Talking to him later, he said, "Shit like that happens all the time."
I have a black friend who is pretty high put in management for a major pharmaceutical company.
During my DH tour in JAX, we were neighbors and spent a lot of time together. We’d go to movies, Gator games in Gainesville, etc.
He and I went to Spije Lee’s Malcolm X movie. We walked into the theater and I was the only white guy. I got called every derogatory name for a white person there is. The blavks were pissed that a white guy was going to see a black movie.
Rick was born and raised in Gainesville. After the game, we go to diners in his old neighborhood. Every time I would get called derogatory names.
My ex mother-in-law is Japanese. She lived with us in JAX. Blacks in stores, restaurants, etc would treat her like shit and call her derogatory names.
I also attended a Norfolk, VA intercity high school in the mid to late 1970s that was 85% black. I lived the other side of bad race relations.
Racism is everywhere and happens to everyone by everyone. To say it is limited to non-whites is absolutely false.
Someone within an organization might be discriminated against by someone else within the same organization but that doesn’t mean the organization is racist. The military is not racist.
Your example and mine have nothing to do with the military. I’m not sure way you post yours because it has nothing to do the the question of whether the military as an organization is racist. I post mine to show racism goes both ways.
I get so tired of people claiming it’s always the whites that are racist (not saying you make this claim). My belief that there are just as many blacks who are racist against whites as there are whites who are racist against blacks (by percentage not actual numbers are there are more whites than blacks). But that is not “news worthy” as there once was a very real organizational / institutional racism against blacks. So it’s okay for blacks / non-whites to be racist against whites. This is demonstrated easily by the simple fact a black guy can call a white guy a cracker but heaven help the white guy using the n word.
Articles like this NYT piece play into thus mindset are designed to stir the pot. They do far more far to race relations then they help. They are not news but rather an attempt to make news.