[jayswin]

A little off topic, but I'm currently upgrading at Chinook College right now. That school has a very large ethnic population. Anyways, I went to to take a **** today, and found a huge war of words between "brown" and "white" people all over the stall, some strong words and messages too. It was very disheartening to read, as I consider Calgary a pretty friendly city.

There are a few (not all, I'm one of the last people who would generalize) ethnic groups there that like to stand around and intimidate people. One of those kids was with his buddy in the hall about two weeks ago (his big "gang" of friends was no where to be seen), I was walking by, minding my own business when this little puke gave me a threatening look, so I gave him a "what's that look for" kind of look back, and he said "what the 'f***' are you looking at whiteboy, we outnumber you here, so you best be runnin along". Now I'm not normally confrontational AT ALL, but something about being told to 'run along whiteboy' in my own country set me off. I grabbed him by his shirt and threw him against a locker, and told him if he EVER fu**s around with me again, I'll kick his ass back to wherever he came from, and then threw him to the ground and walked away.

Has anyone else had a simlilar incident, where for one moment you got lost in emotion and did or said something totally out of charachter? The weirdest part for me is that I'm one of the least racist people around, and HATE hearing about racism towards minorities. But for whatever reason, I lost myself and came off as a racist jerk.