Race & Sex - Emmit Till Murder

How has your race affected your lifestyle? Have you ever been racially profiled? Has someone you know or are related to, experienced this?

Race has never really affected my lifestyle but i have been made fun of by people of my own race because of my skin tone. But other then that i haven't really experienced anything major with Race. I have never been racially profile by anyone probably because i don't make my self out to be the rude, nasty, ignorant African American that others picture us to be. I feel that we can avoid being racially profiled by others if we carry ourselves as sophisticated human beings and are not rowdy all the time. We can all make a better name for ourselves just by holding our composure and not getting out of control. I know a few people who have been racially profiled but it was only because they were playing around and made the other person mad enough to say something disrespectful towards their race. I have only had one member of my family who has been racially profiled but it wasn't really in a bad way because the other person was complimenting my relative in a way. my cousin was in a clothes store with her mom and a caucasian girl looked at my cousin's rear end and told her mom, " See mom i want a butt like that." I don't find that disrespectful but the fact that she said it loud enough for her to hear was a kind of rude. She could have at least waited until she left the store to say that to her mother. Overall i have never experienced any kind of Racial profiling or any type of disrespect towards my race. Hopefully i wont ever have to experience such a thing in my life. I feel rasism is immature and if people still practice it then they can't accept the fact that there are people that are different from them living.