Racism

16 Jul 2024

Dream

I had a dream that i picked up a substitute teaching job at a provate school near my house. When i accepted the job i lesrned that i had to be there by 8am for community breakfast. Also the school was located next to a set of food stands that give donation based meals. It could be free it I didn’t have the money or a small donation of whatever i had it was a lot of good food so i was excited to get lunch. I was notified that one thing i had to be comfortable with was that at some point we take the kids on a horse and buggy ride in carriages that say “whites only”- the carriages were old and didnt want to destroy the buggies for that alone. I said i was comfortable just so i could get the job and take pictures and expose the school. When i got to the school it was a really easy schedule. Lunch was in a dinning room. I have been to this school in my previous dreams. Its 6 mins from my house on the otherside of a park. This geography only exists in my dreams. I do take the buggy ride and its so fast and ichave to secure the children i dont have the opportunity to take a picture of the “whites only” sign. I get to the school and i find we are going to have a short day because there is a meeting fornthe teachers then a dinner party at a nice restaurant. When we arrive at the buggy rides i find out we are having a private meet and greet with Taylor swift. The studnets are super excited snd we escort them in groups to meet her. She looks very tired. However she keeps a good sport smile on and meets everyone with enthusiasm even tho shes very tired. I cheer her up. We make small talk and i even make her laugh. When she had a break me and a supervisor wanted to make sure she remembered us. He had me place his name stitched to a hat he would give her. I rhinestoned my name into a book she was reading with the school group. She leaves before we can give her the hat or the book. My day is from 8am to 1:30. I want to work here again. But they dont have any jobs to pick up the next day

10 Jul 2024

Dream

It was a few days before Christmas. An African-American teen got out of jail. He went to live with his aunt in her apartment. When he got there, she was asleep but told him to go on in with a spare key. Shortly after he got inside, a group of white church members walked inside like it was a tourist attraction. He hid in the bathroom shower because he was scared that they would treat him badly. A woman came into the bathroom and he stopped her before she shut the door and said “wait, I’m in here” She freaked out and went back to the group. He came out with his hands up and they treated him like he was a demon. It woke his aunt up and she ushered the group outside and made them leave. The teen got ready for school the next morning, and stopped by a small store with the money that his aunt gave him to get what he needed. A white teen in his class came up and started being a really racist jerk to him, so he managed to buy a large, loose diamond for his aunt with some money that he saved up from his time in jail as a Christmas present. He went to school after he left the shop, and he was in an ROTC class. The white teen from earlier was in the same class, and started being a jerk again to show off for his girlfriend. When the teen asked him to stop and just let him do the stuff he needed to do, the white teen got in his face and asked him, “are you really gonna talk to an upperclassman like that?” After school, the white teen’s girlfriend came up to him and was nice to him. She walked him home to make sure he’d be okay, and he showed her the diamond he got for his aunt and talked about how grateful he was for her. Other townspeople saw him with the diamond and called him a thief and called the police. The police officer was racist just like the rest of the town and treated him like he was harassing the white girl that was walking with him. The white teen came up to him and was trying to start a fight and accused him of trying to propose for his girlfriend.