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Why do black people scare me so much?

i live in the city and every time a teenaged black person comes over to me i get really nervous, i dont know how to change my ways but i want to im tired of being scared! it might be there baggy clothes, or because both my parents were killed in a drive by shooting

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it is quite true actually. those thugs are not people who you can trust and just shrug your worry off your shoulder. although i think it is not good to always follow a stereotype. i have few black friends who actually dress in that manner but they have respect and manners. there are some of them though that are obviously disrespectful and do not care about the law. but your judgement should be more open and not very narrow about anyone. don't worry too much just be yourself. i am sure you don't mean anything bad or racist.

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I think you are reading to much into this. Not all black people are the same, I think you are just stereotyping all of us into one category. I mean, both of my parents are black and went to college. I on the other hand am in a culinary school and graduated from high school when I was 16 years old. My brother or father do not wear baggy clothes, nor do we talk like how you guys expect us to talk, as well as speaking loudly.

I think you need to overcome this fear, because we are not all this way, you may even find one nice black people who live in the city, I go to school with adults that come from the city and they are friends of mine.

Also, I am getting the feeling you are making this up. I mean, you are afraid of baggy clothes? Why? Why would you be afraid of baggy clothes? The drive by shooting thing also seems a bit made up as well, it seems like you just got together a whole bunch of stereotypical things together and made up a question.

I mean:

The City

Teenage Black kid

Baggy clothes

Drive by shootings

I mean come on.

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the media stereotypes black people, especially gangstas, pretty negatively.....so you are pretty much just thriving off of that.

if your parents were killed in a drive by shooting, its more understandable to be untrusting of people.....but you shouldnt oust the whole race......but it is understanding nonetheless.

what you can do, is see black people for the different types they are. you got your gangstas, your clean cuts, your emos and etc.

im not going to lie...sometimes, i get a little weary around the gangsta types myself...its not like they are doing good with the image they give off.

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hmmm....are you religious? There is this religion called 5 percenters. You can look it up, but anyway, they consider black men and women to be Gods. The original Gods of the earth & world. What does the bible say you should do to God? Fear him. The fact that you are scared, or fear them so muc, that falls right into their ideology. That's what you're supposed to do.

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Person,don't say that ... that's racist i mean how would you feel if i said i was scared of white bald people? :T would not feel so good right? and to just answer your question its probably something from your childhood i don't know only person that would really know is you. but don't be so harsh i mean come on....

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Because you are stupid. I live near a neighborhood with black people and Latinos and gang problems, but I know not all black people are like that. White people are the worst because they slip below the radar and do terrible things.

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Probably because of the combination stereotypes you have heard and the black people you see around you. Or maybe your fear came from your parent's death. Not all of them are bad.

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you watch to much TV/Movies, you probly watch the news alot also which portray black people as criminal ALOT, try not to automatically judge them when you see them

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They can be intimidating (they scare me too) but dont post this ever again its kind of rude considering black people come here

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it could be why, but if you dint know who did the dry by shooting then its just stereo types, idk i don't live in the city, not a city person

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It's because you stereotype black people as gangsters. "it might be the baggy clothing"??? I mean, maybe in general......atleast one black kid at my school......hmmm..... Nevermind.

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Hmm that could be it. You shouldnt be scared..all black people aren't the same and try not to judge a book by its cover.

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everyone stereotypes...everyone is in denial

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Because you're a wimp, scary, and have no backbone

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wimp? Racist? Close minded that there are good blacks out there regardless to what they wear?

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You know not to mess with an OG lol

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I think you are lying.

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cause you're a p****

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ur such an ignorant subspecies that doesn't belong on the earth

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because of the stereotypes

and how the media present us

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[wgaede 10+ year member]

I love how they keep posting pics and not letting mature adults discuss a topic. Guess thats what happens when you carry around a lot of guilt and dont want the truth out.

Someone is seriously deprived of attention. Why is it that black people constantly need drama in their life? ALWAYS *****ing, ALWAYS complaining, ALWAYS something right?

This guy is just trying to bring you all down his racist path, and for most of you (including me) it worked. For some reason, instead of trying to find good, the only thing he's capable of is pointing out isolated incidents of "racism" and running his mouth like he's right. Get off your high horse brO, come back to reality.

 

[Enellz 10+ year member]

Lol its like chris rock said if your white and under 21 Im running for the hills. I'm scared of little white boys...lol

 

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yeah^? Chris Rock is more white than I am.

 

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All valid concerns. A group of darkies will ruin any occasion.

 

[hornedfrog1985 5,000+ posts]

black people are scary, and science proves it... Hell, even black people are afraid of black people.

Blacks, Whites Have Same Fear Reaction When Seeing a Black Face

African Americans and Caucasians viewing African American faces display extremely similar changes in the activity of brain structures that respond to emotional events, a new UCLA study finds.

The changes occur in the amygdala, a region of the brain that serves as an "alarm" to activate a cascade of other biological systems to protect the body in times of danger, said Matthew D. Lieberman, assistant professor of psychology at UCLA and lead author of the study.

The findings will be published May 8 in the online version of Nature Neuroscience, and later in the print version.

Five out of eight African Americans (63 percent) responded with significantly more amygdala activity when presented with expressionless photographs of African Americans than when they were shown expressionless photographs of Caucasians, Lieberman and his colleagues found. Seven of 11 Caucasians (64 percent) in the study also responded with greater activity in the amygdala when viewing the African American photographs.

Although a third of participants in each race did not show this effect, no participant in the study responded with greater amygdala activity to the Caucasian photographs than to the African American photographs, Lieberman said.

"We didn't see any differences in amygdala activity between the racial groups," Lieberman said. "From looking at the amygdala, you couldn't tell if the scans were from African American or Caucasian participants.

"Many people of either race may not be happy to find out that a part of their brain involved in responding to potential threats responds more to African Americans than Caucasians," Lieberman said. "Even people who believe to their core that they do not have prejudices may still have negative associations that are not conscious."

Why do African Americans have this amygdala response?

"One theory," Lieberman said, "is that people are likely to pick up the stereotypes prevalent in a society regardless of whether their family or community agrees with those stereotypes. Several social psychologists have found evidence for this view. From an early age, cultural views, media portrayals and even the body language of authority figures may train our brains, whether we consciously agree or not."

Previous research has shown that Caucasians show an increased amygdala response to African American photos to the extent that they hold nonconscious negative attitudes towards African Americans, Lieberman said.

Co-authors on the study are Johanna Jarcho, a UCLA graduate student in Lieberman's laboratory; UCLA graduate student Naomi Eisenberger; Susan Bookheimer, professor of psychiatry and biobehavioral sciences at UCLA's David Geffen School of Medicine; and Ahmad Hariri, assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and a former UCLA graduate student.

The researchers also studied whether adding a verbal label (such as "African American") when viewing African American photos changes the amygdala response, and found it does.

"When people look at an African American and think of the word 'African American,' we no longer see the amygdala response," Lieberman said. Instead, the researchers found changes in a second region of the brain: the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex. This region of the brain is located behind the forehead and eyes, and has been associated with thinking in words about emotional experiences; it also is associated with inhibiting behavior, impulses and emotions.

"This region is especially active when you add the verbal label to the face," Lieberman said. "The people who show the most activity in the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex show the least activity in the amygdala.

"We found that when the right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex gets turned on, the amygdala does not," he added. "When you engage in verbal labeling, that partially turns off or disrupts the amygdala response. The right ventrolateral prefrontal cortex was significantly active only when people were looking at African Americans and choosing the word 'African American.'"

These results suggest that "thinking about the race of others in words may regulate some of the threat experienced when confronting unfamiliar or feared others," Lieberman said. "It is possible this emotional 'benefit' of using race-related words may have inadvertently contributed to the widespread use of race-related words and stereotypes."

Lieberman and his colleagues used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain activity for this study, conducted at UCLA's Ahmanson-Lovelace Brain Mapping Center.

The research was supported by the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Mental Health.

From UCLA

 

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All White is All Right with me...

 

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All White is All Right with me...

Same here.....just the women though.

 

[PollyCranopolis 10+ year member]

It's a private club, they should be able to do what they want. Go swim somewhere else of you don't like it. You don't have a right to not be offended. It is pretty shitty though.

 

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I once pondered what it would be like to have thoughts.

 

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lol i live in philly and havent even heard about this.

 

[IamDeMan 5,000+ posts]

It's a private club, they should be able to do what they want. Go swim somewhere else of you don't like it. You don't have a right to not be offended. It is pretty shitty though.

Civil rights acts have been extended to private clubs. With good reason too. Many business network ties happen behind closed doors of private clubs. So denying entry to private clubs based on race creates De Facto segregation of economic opportunity.

You fail.