I found this when entering the words "black people fight" in a Google search
Black folks; this one’s for you. White people, Hispanics, Asians and everyone else, this goes out to you as well. It just directly affects Black people a little bit more. Hope that first sentence did not make you feel alienated. If so, here’s a digital hug. Come on…Bring it on in here…
Let's hug it out, America
There you go. Thank you for not doing any unnecessary rubbing, sound effects or lingering during that hug and turning it awkward. Now, back to the business at hand. Black people; Have any of you ever seen fellow Black folks act a country-fried fool in public among people of other races to the point that it makes you feel slightly embarrassed for all Blackpeoplekind? Does it make you think “Man, these fools are messing it up for all of us! I’m gonna get racially profiled one of these days because of your dumb asses!”
I wonder if other races feel the need to separate themselves from the dumber elements within their ranks, or if this is a psychological byproduct of colonialism, slavery, being considered 3/5ths of a man, Jim Crow, the Tuskegee Experiment, Birth of a Nation, Black-face, police brutality, VH1 reality TV and all the other heinous things that have happened over the years. The feeling is an inner urge to stop negative stereotypes from being perpetuated, as if it would bring an end to racism and bigotry.
It’s a silly notion because people who assume entire races are a certain way are going to do so regardless of how you act around them. Some folks are too lazy to think or lack the ability to, so stereotypes save them time and effort.
I had these thoughts today because I was taking Metro around noon, and I witnessed an 18 or 19 year old skinny guy yelling at a woman and her boyfriend and trying to pick a fight with them. It appeared as if he tried to hit on her and took offense to being turned down(despite the fact that her man was right next to her). The mere fact that rejection turned this fool into a raging lunatic leads me to believe that he’s either an actual rapist, or it’s just a matter of time. The situation deteriorated to angry skinny future rapist spitting on the woman, her spitting back on him, and then the couple breaking an umbrella over his head which prompted him to run to the next car, still cursing and yelling.
Now, the fact that I was the only Black male on this train not involved with the foolishness didn’t bother me until I noticed some of the other passengers began looking at me when it was over as if to gauge my reaction. It was almost like they expected me to address them on behalf of Black America and say something like “Ladies and gentlemen, I am Black, therefore I am qualified to speak for all Blacks worldwide. What you just witnessed is not representative of my people on a whole; It was merely a bunch of simpletons. Jackasses come in all shapes, colors, races, creeds and backgrounds. I forgive them, for they know not what they do. Vote Obama. Amen. Good night, and good luck.”
So now, dear readers, I ask you: Have any of you ever felt like this before? I can’t be the only person who has had this thought. Non-Black people, feel free to chime in with your thoughts as well, especially if you have experienced some variation of this feeling I described.
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That’s how I feel about Asian (women) drivers. :)
Yeah, you all get more than your share of bad press too!
:::virtual hug::: and I’m Black! :O)
Yep, I often feel this way when I see my people exhibit behavior in public that make me cringe on behalf of my race. Then I realize that I can’t the perceptions people have of black Americans.
Yes, we conscientious Black people, have all had a moment of just wanting to disappear or at least fade to white in the midst of black foolishness. But most of us are put on blast and shamed publicly for expressing, “Ain like dem,” sentiments. When you become stronger in your blackness and your black pride, you realize that what white people think–and that’s really who we’re talking about here–don’t matter. White people don’t pay your bills, are not God, and as Evelyn Lozada so aptly put it, to a great extent, “Are a non-mother-effin’ factor” in your black life. (No offense white people, but you surely understand. You, afterall, have for centuries set the standard on bad behavior, continue to do so, and should be most embarrassed, i.e. proudly walking around with monkeys on your shoulder during campaigns; the birther issue; wearing socks and sandals in public; putting men dumb as Bush in office; “legitimate rape”; firing beautiful Ann Curry for that lipless lizard; choosing wrinkled old Meredith Viagra, with her gray cobblestone teeth, over Ann Curry; slavery, blackface; George Zimmerman; armed jokers at the theatre; Jeffrey Dahmer; Mormons who once thought that Blacks were devils.) Comparatively? So far so good people of color…carry on!
This is hilarious LOL. You should come to one of my “You Know What Really Grinds My Gears” events and rant with us
I feel like that every time I go to Wal-mart, which is why I shop at Target. Between the ladies who confused their PJs for clothing, the wild children who are always splayed in the middle of the aisle and the general ratchedness of some of the patrons, I feel like I lose some of my purity and cultural dignity every time I step foot in that joint. But then again, that should be a shared shame across races, since People of Wal-mart shows that f#ckery comes in all shades at that store.
That “People of Wal-Mart” site is REAL!
Its rare for me to see them acting foolish. But I do try to pretend hispanics arent all one group when i see little girls in pagent wear at the grocery store and their moms dressed like hookers in the middle of the day. But alas, it is for not, as everywhere i go i am no longer hispanic but mexican. smh
Yeah, that sucks. The pageant gown at Safeway or Murray’s is hilarious though
LOL at “the speech”!
and smh at the crazy youngin, aka future rapist, it’s like get a grip dude not all brawds are going to respond the way you want them to, errybody dont; wnat you slim, Wth is wrong wit some people?!?!?!
Like I said, that guy is probably a future rapist. Normal people do not respond to rejection that way.
I’m constantly embarrassed by my peeps (i even feel weird referring to them as “mine” – that’s the level I try and dis-associate myself).
There’s nothing like traveling in a country when news breaks that the US Government (old white dudes) was infecting local prostitutes and orphans with std’s, you know, just to see what happened when untreated.
Oh yeah, and drunk frat boys in public, fist pumps, and the term “broseph” make the list too.
LMAO @ “Broseph.” I haven’t heard anyone say that in awhile.