When I was growing up, my white friends would call me: 'Hey, Chief!' Even when I go to work now, people call me 'Chief.'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My mother still calls me Jim and that is about it. Everyone else calls me Lee. My wife calls me whatever.
But you know, my dad called me the laziest white kid he ever met. When I screamed back at him that he was putting down a race of people to call me lazy, his answer was that's not what he was doing, and that I was also the dumbest white kid he ever met.
And I used to say, 'I'm black, too.' In other words, I - my whole life I've been called a half-breed, a convict, king of the trailer trash, this and that. I take that and stand.
Often people would mistake me for white when I was younger, and I didn't correct them; there would be a period of time that they just thought I was.
I've been called 'Bruce Lee.' I've been called other less offensive, but equally stupid and racist kind of terms.
I lived in an all-black neighborhood, followed by an all-white one, and other kids in the always called me Mexican in both neighborhoods.
I grew up in an all-white community.
My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.
I had a white senator call me a rag head, and I had an African-American legislator call me a conservative with a tan.
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.