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cgod  ·  4482 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Fear of a Black President

    No one judges a black guy poorly--even a young black guy--who is wearing a charcoal suit.
You really think so? I see this all the time at my work. Our most rapidly growing demographic is the local black community that survived gentrification of our neighborhood, it took us about five years to get a consistent group of em to come in on a daily basis. Our best black customer is a young professional guy. He will bring by a dozen of his friends after a party or whatnot dressed in formal wear, every one looking smart and elegant. If they are on the end of the bar that is near the bathrooms I see white people on their way to the bathrooms that decide they really didn't need to go all that bad. I'm sure these white people think that they aren't racist...

Not using a bathroom because there are black people standing by it, even when motivated by fear is just racist. It might just be a matter of definitions here. I don't think they are afraid to walk through a bunch of blacks because they think they are better then blacks which you term as racism, you seem to be saying that it's an instance of racial prejudice rather then racism. I just say haha looks like the goddamn racist is going to have to hold it for a while.





b_b  ·  4482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Admittedly, I don't work in a profession where I do a ton of people watching. Also I live in a neighborhood that is ~80% black, and the whites that move here are inherently unafraid of blacks or else there's no chance they would live here. Perhaps my judgments have been perverted by my environment. I suppose my overall point (which maybe I didn't articulate well) was that using old, loaded language to describe the modern world might be a hindrance to progress toward a more just society.

JakobVirgil  ·  4482 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Some folks are just scared of poor people and black is a heuristic for poverty. I think it is better to be aware of our prejudices and work on improving them than to stay in the dark on our own prejudice.