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re: If you are white, how much experience do you have actually dealing with black people?
Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:11 am to baybeefeetz
Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:11 am to baybeefeetz
Grew up in Louisiana and now live in Seattle. I can tell you that people up here have no idea about black culture, which is why its extra condescending when they think they have this great perspective on race relations. Average person up here probably 4/1 ratio of BLM signs to black friends.
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Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:14 am to PNW_TigerSaint
Yeah and the Black people they know are more like the black people you see in commercials on TV. Not the black experience I saw.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:31 am to PNW_TigerSaint
Yep. I've seen this with a lot of Europeans also. They equate 'black' with their experience with African immigrants in Europe and are usually shocked when they encounter black culture in the US.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 6:42 am to PNW_TigerSaint
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Those of us who were fortunate to grow up where it was 50-50 white to black have that perspective
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Grew up in Louisiana and now live in Seattle.
Northerners lecturing Southerners on race is one of my favorite things about race relations. Quickest way to offend a bunch of white people from up north is suggest there are any differences between races, cultural or otherwise. They know this because every time they have to drive through a black neighborhood, they lock their doors and don't stop anywhere.
Southerners live side by side with each other. They face real race issues every day and have to learn to tolerate each other or kill each other. Being from rural Ohio, I never had to deal with that stuff until I came south. You learn a lot.
Having then moved back up north to the whitest state in the union, it was really funny watching how educated white people keep all the blacks cordoned off in government housing and pretend like they were enlightened because their kids go to school with two blacks.
Posted on 4/22/21 at 12:20 pm to PNW_TigerSaint
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I can tell you that people up here have no idea about black culture, which is why its extra condescending when they think they have this great perspective on race relations. Average person up here probably 4/1 ratio of BLM signs to black friends.
Before COVID, I was there every week for a year. Never occurred to me then, but when all the CHOP / CHAZ crap started, it hit me that I don't remember seeing all that many black people in all the time I was there. A few coworkers here and there, but very few encountered when I'd be out and about. One thing that did strike me was the overall population being generally unattractive as a whole. A lot of really unattractive people are drawn to Seattle.
This included both in the city as well as in the suburbs around Lynnwood and Bothell, plus the little bit of time I spent in Everett. The PNW is about as bereft of black people as you can get, they really have no clue about anything re: black culture.
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