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- The fact that your friends make these jokes around you suggests to me that they like and trust you as a human being. I think you should tell them about your background and your uneasiness, and then take your cue from their responses. It's quite likely they will help you feel more comfortable about racial conversations in general. Humor is tricky, though - you might want to 'work your way up' to racial jokes. I have had co-workers or neighbors tell me, 'I've never known any Black people' or 'My father was in the K.K.K.'. It meant a lot to me that they were willing to tell me, rather than pretend that race didn't exist for them.
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Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,Womankind is not of one mind about how much size matters. There are pleasant sensations that a large penis can provide, but to me, size is not the significant difference between one man and another. It's important that a man be uninhibited, generous and knowledgeable about female sexuality. Consider the automobile: the difference between a Porsche 911 and a Dodge Neon is not size.User Detail :
Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,For a general overview, try Lerone Bennett Jr.'s Before the Mayflower: a history of Black America. For contemporary issues, try Ellis Cose' Rage of a Privileged Class and Shelby Steele's Content of our Character. The authors come from two completely different political perspectives on things like affirmative action and job discrimination. If you have some hobby or special interest, you could find some biographies of black people involved with those areas (actors if you like movies, historical figures from a time period that interests you). For general biographies, try The Autobiography of Malcolm X and Yes, I Can by Sammy Davis Jr. These should get you started.User Detail :
Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,I would need to write an encyclopedia to properly respond to your question. There are so many different hair textures in the black population, and so many different styles! Many black women straighten their hair, either with a hot comb (similar to the curling iron) or with chemicals. These two methods produce different looks. Ladies who wear their hair natural (unstraightened) may cut it very short, or let it grow long and gather it into braids or buns. You still see the occasional giant Afro, like Angela Davis used to wear. Now she has dreadlocks, another popular natural style, where the hair is washed and conditioned, but never combed, so over time the natural spirals tighten into long ropes. Some of the very elaborate braided styles that you see have extra hair added in to provide length. I find all hair interesting - it fascinates me that there are so many different colors and textures.User Detail :
Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,In my experience, this is not true. I have known black and white men with large penises, and in fact the largest I ever encountered belonged to an Asian. There have been studies showing correlations between race and penis size, but I think these tell us what is average for large population samples, not individuals. For example, statistics show that men are taller than women, but every man is not taller than every woman. I think the same applies to race and penis size. So the black man with a small organ or the white or Asian with a large one is perhaps not an exception, but someone at one end of a very broad range.User Detail :
Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,In my youth, calling someone Black was considered an insult. Back then we were Negro or Colored. Only very radical people (like my parents) called themselves 'Black'. Because of that upbringing, I prefer 'Black' to 'African-American'. Don't think it's a question of one being more correct (politically or otherwise)than the other. Certainly don't get upset if someone calls me one instead of the other.User Detail :
Name : Fuzzy, Gender : F, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Los Angeles, State : CA Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College, Social class : Middle class,
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