[Whit]

     Heh, actually, I've been the only white guy in a crowd a few times in my life.
     When I was a small kid (age 6-7) I lived in a suburb of Jackson Mississippi. The town was unofficially segregated. This was done by having all the white kids go to fairly low-cost private schools, while the black kids went to public schools. My mother, of course, was a forward thinking liberal type, who would have none of this and sent us to public schools.
     I believe the ethnic breakdown of the school was 95% black, 2% white and 3%other. Many of the black students made sport of beating up the white kids. In groups of course, no silly one-on-one business. Running to the teachers, also mostly black, didn't help either. They would turn around and ignore our screaming while a group of kids two or three grades ahead of us literally carried us of to a corner of the playground.
     One result of this was leaving a racist streak in my brother that the military mostly broke him of many, many years later. It didn't affect me like that. I suppose this was because I had black friends and recognized that I hated people that were assholes, and that such people aren't color coded. Before anyone asks, no my black friends did not try to help me. This was an understood and accepted thing. No one at the school did anything to help and our Mom's (speaking collectively for all us white kids) never believed how bad it was. Even the mom who had to get the police to physically pry her son from the bed he was hanging on to, carry him to the car and take him to school.

     Decades later, living in near Dallas I had a job where I was the only white guy not in management in my area. Heck, I think I was the only white guy under thirty in the entire facility. The area I worked in was a black/hispanic mix. I worked in the storeroom under a black guy and had a hispanic dude working with me. No problem until my boss quit and either me or the hispanic guy had to take his place. The manager called us both up to his office and asked us both if we were interested. I said "Yes" and the other guy said he wasn't going to do alot of paper work. Since the job was mostly paperwork I got it. The hispanic guy transferred out saying it was bullshit that I got promoted over him. I also caught flack from the black people there until I explained what happened to a couple of the older people, who must've straightened out the others.
     I thought things were cool for a while then I noticed that the black guy that had been hired to work under me go from cool to bitchy. I asked him why and with a little goading he told me the other guys were making fun of him for having to do the "nigger jobs" like mopping the floor in our area and such. I said fine the next two days we would do all of the work together, I'd mop when he did and he'd help me with the paper work. The second day I'm settling into paperwork and I see him grabbing a mop. I called out to him to say it could wait we had to get this done and he said, "Fuck that, you do it. I'm gonna go clean some stuff up." Much politer than his response to the guys that started to bug him with the same bull as before when he came back by them later.
     So, again, things are good, I think. Then the entire staff starts treating me like shit for days. Won't even talk to me. Again I go to one of the older folks, she assures me that I know. I promise that I don't. Well, a white lady had recently been hired into a position of some authority. The weekend before she had accused the guy under me of being illiterate. He wasn't. I got pissed but neither she nor the guy under me worked that day. I come in on my day off to try to talk sensibly to her. Silly of me, she was a grade A bitch. We got in a rather loud argument and agree to take it before management Monday. Turns out she didn't work Monday. Anyway, within a few days she's fired. More from some of the other shit she started than the deal with me. Talk about a turn around, since my issue with her had been the most visible the entire staff thought I'd gotten her fired. One guy that hadn't said three words to me in the two years we worked together came to me for advice. I asked some of the people I did talk to regularly about it and they said, "You got that bitch fired so they think you're one of us." Friggin' weird...
     I have a lot more stories, including a discussion about "The Race War" I walked in on and joined and taking an unofficial poll to ascertain the validity of the statement, "The brother don't eat the pussy,"