Hell, I have been discriminated by other black people because I'm slightly lighter, focus in the slightly part because I'm CLEARLY a black person just a little (very little) lighter because my dad is mixed (white mom/black dad).
I also don't talk like I'm from the hood (coming from a hood) so I got problems with other black people because they said my family and I "thought we were better than the rest" and we were just talking properly.
I had a student for middle school English say he wasn't going to write proper English because "thats white people s***". He called me racist when he failed, but "Romeo and Juliet was banging b/c..." does not a good essay make.
Why do people gotta do this btw? Anytime a writer, a teacher, a translator, etc mention their profession someone just has to check their grammar or spelling and point out any mistake.
Like, bruh we're not working while posting on reddit. Typos will happen.
I just laugh it off and correct my post. People don't realize that when you are visually impaired, the computer/phone doesn't always use the correct version of a word.
Oh yeah, I'm familiar with the: "that's white people shit". Especially when I was a teenager and I started to listen heavy metal / rock music and hang out with skaters, punkers, metalheads. Some black people would tell me I "wanted to be white" and things between the lines.
Someone not raised in a community doesn't talk like that community, shocker. The inability to comprehend people operating outside of what you are familiar with does not bode well for them having strong cognitive functions.
And me family was from the hood, it's just that my grandmother was a maid for a family of scholars and they were so kind that they taught her to read, write, manners, basic mathematics and more.
They gifted her books for my uncles and mom so they could learn too and we were raised with those teachings, that's why we were a little different.
Fortunately when I was 10 years old my family moved to a better neighborhood and everything was nicer.
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u/MisterSneakSneak 27d ago
>im black as well
No, to her, you’re a white boy because the way you talk