Growing up in my family I came across many different cultures. My mother is Caucasian with German decent and my father is half Italian and African. I look in between then two of them, but lighter skinned. After watching the video in class, I thought that I have experienced some of the things the 9 went through. No one group would consider me with them since I am of mixed race. To them since I am half one they would automatically consider me full that and vis versa. I do not take racial comments to heart and have learned to live with them. Some of my friends now use them all them time and I know they mean not to offend anyone. When I most experience racial threat was when I was stationed in Biloxi, Mississippi with the Navy. There where some parts of town where we would have to be careful about going to and also restaurants where the same. This was the first time I had been kicked out of a bar, since it was me and other guys of color. I thought to myself that maybe times have not changed in the south. Some people are raised that way and it is not their fault for the way they think.