Racism in SF?

The story I am going to tell you happened last week, on the bus when I was going to school. It was a shinny and peaceful morning and, believe me or not, I was happy to go to school. I was reading my emails when I looked up and saw a black women staring at me, I didn’t know why. I arrived in SF a month ago so I am becoming used to strange people, so I didn’t pay attention to her. When I got off the bus, this women screamed to me « go, you white KKK b**** ». I was so shocked that I didn’t know how to respond. And what should I have done? I kept thinking about this all day because, we always hear about racism: in France it is a huge issue and we do talk a lot about it but now, I think that I can somehow understand how it feels. This is terrible when you’ve done nothing, being attacked like this because of the skin color. This experience was very… strange!! 

Coralie Houssiaux
c.houssiaux@mailistec.fr
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