guest
Agoura Hills, United States
Today, I became the town racist for saying "black" instead of "African-American". I'm black. FML
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Fall
Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
Same thing different taste
Razz
Lilydale, Australia
Today, I got fired, apparently for being racist to black people. When I told my boyfriend, he couldn't stop laughing. He's black. FML
Anonymous
Wokescolds gonna wokescold
Today, I was accused of digital blackface and culturally appropriating my own culture. FML
UFVKNP
Today, my coworker and I were swamped with coffee orders. I told him I would "take care of the blacks", and a customer who only heard that sentence screamed at me for several minutes about racism. FML
AngryBlackMan
United States
This is America
Today, I'm a gay, black man who moved to a racist, mainly white, homophobic town for work. I've already had the cops called on me twice, and a group of teens yelled the f-slur at me unprompted. When I asked my boss if I could swap, he threatened to fire me. This is gonna be a long 6 months. FML
Anonymous
St Louis, United States
Chill out
Today, I found out one of my "friends" is “scared” to talk to me because I’m black. FML
Walmart Associate
Today, I was accused of being a "racist whore" at work. I'd only asked a man if he needed help finding anything, as that is part of my job. FML
whiteycan'tgetitrightey
Norwich, United Kingdom
Today, I apologised to someone for my misuse of the word 'coloured' in a discussion about ethnic minority issues. They then got even more angry and said that to even quote the word in the context of an apology is evidence of my ignorance and inherent racism. FML
mustabeendrugs
Tucson, United States
Today, a customer called me "chink eyes", "dog eater", "bloody Chinese communist" and "ching chong." I'm black. FML
lordoftheweird
Canada
Accidental racist
Today, I was accused of racism for mentioning that an employee can't read. That would've been racist… if she could actually read. FML
No thanks
United States
Today, I was called a bitch and "freaky as hell" because I don't like watermelon. I'm sorry, but just because I'm black doesn't mean I like watermelon. FML
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Marcella1016 32
Where the hell do you live?? It's the same thing...
superjewguy 19
that's just stupid, if you are born here, YOU are not "African-American", you're american. you'd be considered american with african ancestry. people these days want to label everything.
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Comments (135)
1dvs_bstd 41
Oh mai God, OP, you can't just go around calling yourself and people 'black'... seriously tho, not being racist is the new racism.
LowExpectations 30
What's that saying? "Three steps forward, four steps back." (Sigh).
underthesea12 24
you are African American
pdp_fml 21
The thought police are at work here. Black is your color, it is not a racist term.
RockyG92 15
This is political correctness gone mad...
sarafinastar14 8
in all honesty hun, I see it like this. the world is full of ignorant people who really don't care about racism as much as they pretend to. your situation is a perfect example. I doubt those people really cared at all how you said it, only that there was an opportunity to make you look like a jerk. it speaks for their cruel lack of concern that people are racist. my advice to you is to stay away from people like that... they will only drag you down if you let them stick around.
raphanne_fml 33
I don't know if they wanted to make OP look like a jerk so much as they wanted to make themselves look better. I noticed that the people who get all holier than thou on the word "black" often are trying to hide their own racism. It's a cover as in "Oh look at me, I'm getting offended at a racist word, I'm not a racist!" It might be because I'm not American, but the term "African-American" sounds more derogartory to me. It's more exclusive. Besides, not all black people are Americans. There is nothing more ridiculous than to hear an overly PC person call a black English guy "African American" haha.
2i1337i2iscore 13
Honestly, PC is racist. The more emphasis on race leads to more distinctions based on race. Distinctions based on superficial criteria, like race, creates inequality. So unless anyone wants to say your race makes you different (which no one will) then I don't know why ANYTHING to do with race matters. And this whole culture diversification action fad, masquerading as the new affirmative action, is also hugely racist. To make any assumption between culture and race is, by definition, racist. Am I the only one who notices this?.
Dramori 29
Check out the news in Vancouver yesterday where schools can now use 'xe' instead of 'he' or 'she' as it's gender-unbiased....
Mynamewontfi 40
It might be me, but I fail to see how that's relevant to this FML.
Mirorbo 27
Social Justice Warriors in action
Siettadulce 21
I agree with #1, I've never heard of that happening before. They mean the same thing.
daftwench 10
In the UK we say black and white and everyone's fine with that.
oKap1 15
Some people are way to over sensitive! If you have to call black people African American, then you should call white people Caucasian.