I see a lot of black folks getting easily offended about certain things, although what happened in this thread is an extreme case.
Anything that ever challenges their "blackness" or hurts their pride in some way is immediately a volatile situation. I think they fail to realize that the longer they let these things bother them, and get all puffed up, the longer the people doing the things have the power.
It's ok for the Wayans Brothers to dress up as white women, its ok for Chapelle to dress as a KKK member. The moment a white man says something folks are in an uproar.
Imus's infamous "nappy headed hoes" was blown way out of proportion. I do not think that the guy really meant anything buy it, but certain black folks and patronizing white people started a barrage of shit.
Let me explain to you a story about growing up.
I was in the 6th grade and there was one black girl in my school who resembled Aunt Jemima, she really did. Not even knowing, really, what racism was I called her that. It wasn't a rip at her ethnic background, but the teaching staff and administration took it as so. I got suspended for 10 days as a result of that. I'm not trying to say that I'm a victim, but here is the point that I am trying to make-if you saw a bald white man and referred to him as Mr Clean would it be able to be twisted into a racial comment?
People are too sensitive to a subject which doesn't really even matter anyways. Patronizng white people add to this also.
I can undestand if you were enslaved, or if every day you had to deal with people literally tormenting the shit out of you. We all have to deal with fleeting comments from people, usually things that are the most obvious to those around us. It's what we do with these situations that make us who we are. Nobody wants to hear people whine about trivial shit.
There hasn't been slavery for 150 years. No black slave is alive anymore, so none of them were ever enslaved. I don't have things handed to me just because I'm white, I have to get up in the morning and take my *** to work for everything I have. I grew up in what would be considered poverty and I still don't have a lot, but I don't expect any handouts or free rides. Slavery is over, it's been over, move on.
Sometimes black folks will say some ignorant comment like "My people were enslaved by your people."
Guess whos people fought and died in order for slaves to have freedom.
Mine.
/story.
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