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Actually, very few Black men date outside of their race. It is just a higher number than it has been in the past. Interracial marriage among black men has skyrockeeted to a whopping 2%. đ
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I don’t believe that all people who display the Confederate flag are extreme racists, but merely insensitive and proud of a heritage which is shameful. These people are clinging to a symbol from the past that represents a time in American history of which most Americans are ashamed, but they see it as a symbol of a place and not a time. That doesn’t make them right it simply makes them thoughtless. Once racists began using this symbol as one of hate the people who display it as proud southerners should have been outraged at this misuse rather than the justifiable anger of blacks. Ironically, these same people are often the ones demanding that blacks forget the past so that America can move into the future as they cling to their confederate flag which was created at a time when blacks were still enslaved.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Although part of your argument about disgruntled people overemphasizing race as a factor could possibly be true, I disagree with the rest of what you have said. From what I can tell most of what blacks complain about as far as racism has nothing to do with slavery, which began in 1609 not 1503 as you stated and didn’t end until 1865 which was only a little less than 150 years ago. (Columbus sailed the ocean blue in fourteen hundred and ninty two, so how were there slaves just a few years later. First their had to be colonies in America, which Columbus didn’t sail to, right?) My mother lived through school integration and I have dealt with many huge racial issues during my lifetime as well. These issues are current and relevant and if Americans hope to move into the future without having to be constantly reminded of the past both whites and blacks (especially whites) must give up archaic ideas about the other. I think alot of times whites disregard statements by blacks about the current conditions of race relations as a way of discouraging dialogue about a topic they find uncomfortable. Nobody wants to be called a complainer or a self-proclaimed victim and I think these words are thrown around out of anger over being confronted rather than anger over being inaccurately accussed.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I am a black woman and although you may be correct in what the phrase ‘women and minorities’ means to Asian women I disagree. I identitfy as a black person before identifying as a female. I have always faced my struggles with biggotry as racism and very rarely as sexism.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Don’t forget that Moors dominated Spain for a long time and remnants of this period are still present in the appearance and skin tone of Spaniards. There are also gypsies.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Simply put Affirmative Action does not exist, so stop blaming it for your problems. The government cannot legislate the personal feelings of Americans no matter how hard it tries. If Americans don’t accept the idea of hiring someone simply because they are black or a woman they simply won’t. I am surprised that more Americans do not know that the laws concerning affirmative action have been repealed since the early or mid-1990s because they were deemed unconstitutional and will again be coming up for question sometime this year. The reason you may see a large hike in the number of African Americans in the corporate world is due to a boom in the African American economy which has enabled more African Americans to become college educated. My father owns a company and has always made it clear to me that A college-educated Black person is more qualified than a white one and has made a point to hire them because he sees them as harder working due to the fact that they have had to overcome so many obstacles in order to succeed. Simply put White employees feel entitled to their positions, while Black employees work harder. I have seen it everyday.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,It is absolutey possible that your children could be dark or medium complexion African Americans. At birth they may be extremely light (as was the case with me) and years later become darker. Physical characteristics can carry for up to 14 generations!
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I have been constantly offended by these topics. As a current high school senior other students feel that the discussion of this topic gives them the right to voice their personal opinions about African-Americans. The worst part is that none of my teachers have ever stopped them from doing so. I have sat in many classrooms where students have advocated the present day enslavement of African-Americans with not so much as one word from the teacher. Students have asked offensive questions of me such as Why do ‘you guys’ still care so much about slavery? or Why do we have to study about this, why dont ‘you guys’ just leave it in the past? These questions are not asked in hopes of learning but to be argumentative and offensive and force me into uncomfortable situations. (I am quite often the only African American student in many of my classes despite the fact that my school is 54% Black.) My problem is not studying the topic of slavery in its historical context, but the fact that none of the teachers I have had over the years have known how to properly handle such a discussion or protect the rights of Black students to feel comfortable in their own classrooms.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I think it is still taboo. I am a Black woman and the same is true for Black women and white men. I have dated several white men and not told even my closest friends for fear of a social stigma. You don’t want to be a ‘white boy liker’ even if you are. Its embarrassing. We are all curious, but don’t admit it out of fear and in my case a sense of self-respect and duty to Black men.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Why do you feel that his question was accusing whites of causing all the problems of black people when it quite obviously did not. I am a young black woman and no ones ‘ baby’s mama’ as you so aptly put it, but I have had too many problems with white people to count on top of all of life’s normal problems, simply because of my race. He’s not blaming you for the problems he has had in his life. People like you blaming black people for being angry over white racism shows just how silly white people can be. Nobody said he was blaming you because he was poor or ugly or for the zit he had last week, but misinformed people like you are to blame for racism and have no right to object to black people for being angry over your misbehavior, and in your heart of hearts you know that is true. PS Black people do not equate being educated with being white this is a misstatement that is often made. Black people equate the inappropriate use of knowledge for personal gain with being white as well as an elitist view of the world. Black people respect those who are truly knowledgeable and use this knowledge with restraint, but you wouldn’t know that because you aren’t black. That’s just something you heard on TV, and wanted to believe. These are called stereotypes.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,I agree with all that I have read so far. If a white person uses the word it takes on a different connotation. It has always perplexed me that white people even ask this question. If you don’t plan to use it why does it bother you that you don’t have the right to. When a Black person calls another Black person this word they have a mutual understanding of its meaning based on a connection which comes from culture, and you have no such bond, no matter how much you like Dr. Dre or any other Black men or women. I would also like to ask you what about derogatory terms used by other whites. I have white friends at school who call each other ‘Crackers’ or ‘poor white trash.’ All other cultures that I can think of have derogatory terms for each other which other races can’t use. Why are Black people the only people called into question for doing so.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,Bad neighborhoods what about trailer parks and those drunk, rowdy suburban kids who are worse than gangs and far more self-distructive. The real question was why do white people reverence the ONE Black guy in the room. I think it comes from an inferiority complex.
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Name : Ashley M., Gender : F, Race : Black/African American, Religion : Presbyterian, Age : 20, City : Charlotte, State : NC, Country : United States, Occupation : student, Education level : 2 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class,
