Originally Posted by
Evo1114
Wow. I guess I should stop going out in the sun...get too nice of a tan and people will start discriminating against me. That sucks, man. There's nothing wrong with you. I'm 100% straight, but I'd say you are an attractive dude. That's shitty.
My best friend growing up was born in Madras, India. His mother died when he was very young and his abusive father kicked him out of the house, so at age 5 or so, he had to fend for himself in the streets...living off whatever he could find in the trash. Because his skin is DARK (I mean, REALLY dark), he was not allowed to join an adoption program, but luckily his American parents were in India looking to adopt and just randomly found him on the street. They basically had to kidnap him out of the country...because of his dark skin, he wasn't allowed to be adopted. I guess by law, because his skin is so dark, he was supposed to be left to die in the streets like a rat.
I met him when I was 7 years old, when he walked into our 1st grade class...couldn't speak a word of English, but I'll never forget the huge smile on his face. After hearing his story several years later, it was really touching. He had to deal with the typical ignorant assholes...saying 'Go back to Africa' (even though he was from India, duh), getting the cold shoulder when in a store or restaurant, being called a terrorist, etc. but he graduated salutatorian of our high school class, found an amazing wife, has a great job, and has his second child on his way. To think that all of that could've been wasted just because he had dark skin. Scary.
Furthermore, my sister-in-law is Mexican, which makes my niece and nephew 50% Mexican. The 'in' thing nowadays around here is to discriminate against people from Mexico. It's really hard to take a lot of times. You'd think society would get over this b.s. at some point. It's absurd.