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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
and how were you discriminated against? while i agree classism exists (and i think that's probably as much as a problem as racism, and that the two intertwine), i wouldn't call not being able to join the local country club classism. if it's a private club and you can't afford it and they don't like you (reasons don't matter if it's a private club), then find a different club. but then again, i kinda agree with what marx said... 'i don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member.
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As a child, most of the times it was passive. A good example would be when my parents were ready to by a home.
Despite my parents desires to live in a better neighborhood with a better school system, they never seemed to be able to land a house there. We instead settled in a nice home in a predominately minority neighborhood. Why? It wasn;t the money; my father was an established contractor by then. Could it have been the tone of my father's skin? Unlike my Cuban mother, my Mexican dad has fairly dark skin. In other words, we were probably steered.
There's more, but this kind of gives you a good idea what I"m talking about.