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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,A lot of white people have to deal with adversity, but everything is relative. If a guy gets pelted with baseballs, he’s going to feel like the guy getting pelted with tennis balls, has got it made.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,That’s because you just think they’re Asian– they’re actually black.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,White kids with dreadlocks bother me, but not always because of cultural misappropriation; not all white kids with dreads are pretending to be Rastafarians. What bothers me is the hygiene standpoint. Because of the kinky texture of African hair, it’s possible to make dreads out of clean hair. On the other hand, non-kinky hair will not stay in place if twisted together, unless it’s matted together with something sticky. Besides that, it’s typical that white people need to wash their hair daily, or at least several times a week, whereas black people, who have very drier hair which doesn’t accumulate dirt as readily, can get away with washing their hair less frequently.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,I suggest that the problem is not with black drivers, but with your perception. Since I don’t know your ethnic background, I’ll use myself for an example. If I get cut off by somebody who’s a lot like me, I’ll usually just think, “What a jerk.” However, if I see something that helps me to think “this driver is different from me,” I grab onto it. “That nut with the Sarah Palin bumper sticker just cut me off!” “You just cut me off. Go back to Texas, you gun-totin’ yokel!” “He cut me off. Ahhh, figures. He’s a Florida Gators fan. They don’t understand common decency.” You will see what you want to see, and you won’t see what’s not important to you.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,Are we talking about tigers, or something like that?
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,Amber, are you serious? Do you really think that has something to do with them being Mexican? That’s what ALL construction workers DO! They hoot and holler and catcall when a woman walks by.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,Dane R., your information about the Tuskeegee Airmen is completely wrong. The Tuskeegee Airmen flew in WW2 as the 332nd Fighter Group of the US Army Air Corps, escorting bombers. In 1,500 missions, they shot down more than 100 Nazi planes, and won hundreds of medals.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,Tolerance to cold has a lot less to do with skin color than it does with a host of other factors, that I won’t bother to list (tl;dr). For example, a black person who grew up in Minneapolis is likely to laugh at weather that would make a white person from Tampa turn blue and keel over. Also, some of the whitest people I know are anemic, and anemics are typically more sensitive to cold.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,I agree with Jessica J., that you’re projecting your own racial insecurities on minimum wage blacks. You’re not being paid back for slavery, or any perceived privilege. I’m black and the fact is that if I went to that same store, chances are that that black employee who gave you poor service would give me poor service, too. In general, Asians and Latinos are much more familiar than blacks and whites are with the maxim that there is dignity in ALL work.
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,The issue is not the choice between using the term “Blacks” vs. “African-Americans”– it’s your gaffe of using the word “black” as a noun. Personally, I prefer the term “black”; I don’t like “African-American”, because I’m not hyphenated; I’m 100% American. But, that’s just me. There’s nothing inherently wrong with saying “black”, but if you do use “black”, it should be used as a descriptor, not as a noun. Okay: “I don’t know many black people.” Not okay: “I don’t know many blacks.”
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Name : JackWheeler, Gender : Male, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : Black/African American, City : Tampa, State : FL, Country : United States, Education level : 4 Years of College,
