Do you feel safe? WOC in the US

[salejolie]

Checking in.

[bugandbibs]

I don't think any woman is safe in this country. The difference for me is that I would be less likely to be believed or be treated more harshly by authorities than a white woman.

[vinoveritas]

I thank the Lord I live in the NYC area. There's a ton of people that look like me. However, at work, I am the only POC on my level. I've had coworkers make very ignorant and racist remarks about my ethnic group. I feel like ignorant whites have been given the green light.

[redwino]

I grew up in Kansas and live in Oklahoma. I have never felt really safe. Sometimes i think KS was better but I probably was just too young to see reality. I came to OK for undergrad so I have been here all of adulthood. Racism is more overt in OK but i think I've had better opportunities here than at home simply because the number of POC is higher. I often freak out and think I cant raise my daughter here, but i cant imagine being farther than a tank of gas from family.

[raangoli]

Yes and no. I live in a decently liberal area, but then one town over is notoriously racist and I hate driving through. Just being brown/black gets you pulled over.

I was shaking last night after my SIL sent me a post from FB where an Indian woman had feces spread all over her car door and a note left saying that she (the Indian woman) should die.

The last time I was this afraid to be brown was in the days and weeks after 9/11.

[busybodyk]

Relatively safe since I live and work with mostly black people. Stories like the one above have me on guard though because you never know.

[DesertMoon]

Well when I go to the US I go to Michigan only in the metro Detroit a area which has and has had for 35 years a high Assyrian/ME population so they're everywhere and the white people there are so so used to us and I've never had a problem or known anyone who had a problem with the white peoples there. The white people in the metro Detroit area seem more concerned with the black population right now. totally fucked up.

However they tried to build a mosque next to my parents house and the people of my parents suburban city fought hard to get that scrapped, for "traffic" reasons.

[sunshine608]

As long as I don't pass this one stop sign on the road I live on. I made that mistake once and the southern part of this county racist and full of confederate flags. We did turn blue this election but still many parts of this area I have never felt safe in. But honestly as they are open with it and I know where not to go. These people were the same before trump vs this closet racists who were emboldened by him. That's who I worry and am on the lookout for. Ow.

[andwhat]

In my personal life, I feel extremely safe. In my professional life, I feel a lot more unsafe.

[kicks]

I feel about the same as always. I typically never feel in immediate harm, but my guard is up in my subconscious, especially around the police.

I'm so glad I live in a black neighborhood so at least I don't have to side eye everyone as soon as I walk out my door.

In S Philly someone painted swastikas on a building and at Univ of Penn a bunch of black students got racist, threatening messages. So as we all know, racism is alive and well even in diverse cities with large minority populations like here.