I'm doing a project on a book about the post-slavery era, and my group members are constantly walking on egg shells around me. They seriously expect me to to freak out at every turn.

Newsflash: It offends me even MORE when you assume that I am the type of black person that is going to start screaming and pulling the race card. I am not, and you should know this by now. I'm a pretty quiet person.

A guy in my group suggested we do something about black culture, and I was like "Well, yeah, that is a part of black culture. But we can't base black culture off of the slave era. It has some similarities, but it has since evolved from that". And he was like "Oh, okay."

Then, some girl goes "Yeah, let's do the Soulja Boy".

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I was rendered speechless. I cannot even tell you how many times an ignorant comment like that has been thrown at me. A person said the same thing to me, when I mentioned that we had a cook out at my church. She asked "So, what do you guys do? Like, the Soulja Boy all day?"

It just bothers me that say, if I asked about Asian or Hispanic culture, people might be able to name a few things. Maybe they are correct, maybe they aren't, but at least they aren't negative.

Whereas if I were to ask someone about Black culture, they'd mumble about Martin Luther King, Soulja Boy, hip hop, and crime.

lol just kidding, I totally know what you mean! It pisses me the FUCK off too ..  

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Most of the black kids I went to school with DID use the race card, ALL THE TIME.

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Yep, this.

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This has been a complete intelligence failure of massive proportions.

Has the Large Hadron Collider destroyed the earth yet?

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Most of the black kids I went to school with DID use the race card, ALL THE TIME.

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I'm not going to deny that there are plenty of ignorant black people.

But if I don't act like them on a regular basis, why do people feel the need to lump me in with them?

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you mean you guys don't soulja boy all day?

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That shit wasn't even funny....gtfo

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Most of the black kids I went to school with DID use the race card, ALL THE TIME.

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Same here. Which is probably why your friends are treading on egg shells. Don't be offended by it.

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Quote: from 2kewl4u2know at 2:34 pm on Sep. 12, 2008

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Most of the black kids I went to school with DID use the race card, ALL THE TIME.

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Same here. Which is probably why your friends are treading on egg shells. Don't be offended by it.

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But I am offended, because I know these people, and have known them for a while. It's not like we just met yesterday. I have never, ever tried to "beat someone's ass", raised my voice, or even looked like I was going to get violent.

I make black jokes all the time, because frankly, I find stereotypes hilarious.

Would it kill them to ask me, if I had anything in particular to share/contribute to this project without just assuming?

edit: Many white people I know are clones of Paris Hilton. I guess they call them "preps". Their sentences are sprinkled with "omg", and "like".

So, I should just avoid them, and think of them as bimbos? They shouldn't be offended by that?

Post edited at 2:41 pm on Sep. 12, 2008 by Anonymous