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I will try to answer you questions as best as I can. First you must understand that under the circumstances you are only speaking of your experiences so the odds that you state are not as high as you assume. There are people I know who have been robbed, beaten and shot, but never by a black person. Does that mean that their odds mean as more than yours? No. everyones experiences mean what they mean to that person. Second, You should feel nervous when black people walk buy because of what you have gone through. Just don’t paint all of us with so broad a paint brush. The reason we don’t understand is because people are nervous whether we do anything or not. You should be nervous about the man that robbed you not me. I did nothing to you. We want to be held as individuals not as a group just like everyone else. If it had been someone white who had done these things to you would you be saying all white people make you nervous? No, you would hold those individuals responsible. So don’t make me responsible for something someone else did to you. Third, I have good friends who happen to be white and they are not elitist, condesinding snobs who long to hold black people down. But there are those people out there and try as I might, as hard as it may seem sometimes I hold them as individuals and not as a collective.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I agree with Herb that the baggy pants look comes from prison, where the inmates are not given belts and their pants tend to hang down. On the issue of grabbing crotches, I believe that it is a learned behavior dating back to slavery. When whites would lynch a black man, they would cut off his penis and in most cases keep it in a pickle jar as a keepsake or shove it in the lynched man’s mouth after he was dead. Black men came to understand that the only thing they had that the white man wanted was between their legs. So they held onto their crotches in fear that they might be taken away. That fear changed to pride, and our pride caused fear in some white men, and now you have all of the sexual myths of today about black men vs. white men. I won’t mention any, but you know what they are.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,It’s not OK, but as black people we have been able to look beyond the names of these organizations and focus on the good they have and will do in the future. And with all the good they do, there is a sacrifice that we must live with the name. I must say I am not ashamed of the history of my people, or the NAACP or UNCF. Understand that that is what they called black people back then. It was even what we called ourselves. So we will keep the names and remember from whence we came. I didn’t know that white people were so concerned as to what black people call our organizations, although I do appreciate your concern.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I think more than the subjects being off limits, it shows us that in the barber shop (black or white) any subject, no matter how sacred, can be talked about. I go to my barber every week, not just for the haircut, but to hear what is being talked about. I think that scene in the movie was saying more than anything that no subject is off limits here, you can talk about whatever and have your say on anything if you want. But in my barber shop, you better be able to back it up or they will talk you out of there!
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,If it had not been for your comment in quotations, I might have thought you were really asking a good question. Your comment only helps black people see that white people like yourself will never truly even want to understand.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,It was also white Europeans by the thousands who died in the black plague, which was assisted by poor hygiene practices. And a lot of the people who died were quite educated.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,If I saw you I would think you liked to have oral sex. Isn’t that what tongue piercings are for?
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Very simply, yes, it is offensive.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,It is seen as an unnatural thing to see two men or two women being affectionate, whereas it is more natural to see men and women kissing and holding hands.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I am very glad to read your response Jaime. It clearly shows how we as black and white americans should respond to talks of race… with honesty. I should be able to ask questions with out attacking you and you should be able to answer without being offended. Unlike the other responses you really understood what was being ask.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I have always thought it was because of the thickness of black people’s hair and not the oils in it.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I would love to discuss this from a Biblical standpoint, how the Bible says it is wrong and why, but the real question is why as a Christian are you willing to debate what I assume you believe God made you? If you are as devout a Christian as you claim to be, why debate who and what you are? If God made you, why justify who you are? I believe homosexuality is wrong, and I can use the Bible to back it up, but is that what it’s for? Or is it to make all of our lives better? To keep us in peace, to make us peacemakers on the earth? There are things about you I can justify in the Bible are wrong; you could do the same about me, but we as Christians should not fight and debate with each other; it is Satan we must fight. So I hope I could help.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,People will let you control whatever it is you want to control, but asking them to give up their power is another issue. They will let you control yourself as long as they have power over you. They will let you cotrol your job as long as they have power over that job. Power is a precious thing for white people, and they will fight you in the streets not to give up an ounce of it. Look through time and you will see evidence of this: The Civil War, blacks’ and women’s right to vote, civil rights, desegregation, equal rights for women, and on the list goes. So if it’s control you want, you have it already, but if you want power, over your life (and not police power to take your life), over where you want to live (not the power of the person denying you a loan) – the real power given to white people at birth – you have a fight on your hands, my friend.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,In slavery and much after that the only thing a Black man relly owned was his penis. To us it was a prized posession, only because when lynched that was the first organ cut off…along with fingers, toes, teeth and other parts so black men took pride in the fact that white people wanted it soo much that they would cut it off and keep it for themselves.(some people kept them in pickle jars as tokens)(some people still have them) So whenever a Black man would think less of himself he could feel between his legs for something so powerfull that a white person would kill him to get it and put it on his mantle.
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Name : Aaron, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Baptist, Age : 31, City : Palo Alto, State : CA, Country : United States, Occupation : Customer Service Rep, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
