I CANNOT.


WOW!! LOL

A parent of a student of mine was complaining to me about one of the other teachers in my building. She looks at me with a serious face and says, I'm glad you're one of those good blacks, then proceeds to hug me.

Due to the smackdown she received, I am currently on house arrest and looking for another job. (ok, this part isn't true, but I was really close to smacking her @$$)

IT.WOULD'VE.TAKEN.EVERYTHING.IN.ME.TO.NOT.CUSS.HER .OUT.

I would've given her a "talking to," though. She needs to be set straight as to not get her ass handed to her by someone else in the future.

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I would've told her, "I'm definitely a good PERSON because any other one would tear your behind up. But it's people like you who make me want to act like one of "the others." :mad:

well this statement might not be ignant per se and of course is based off opinion, but i gotta say the reasoning behind it, to me, is just stupid

friend: aww look, there's a couple in the park getting married!!! oh wait, its a black man and a white woman. nevermind, that sh*t aint cute!!!

30 mins later...

friend: aww look, a black woman and a white man. now see, i dont have a problem with that. you GO girl!!!

me: :confused:

now i dont care if u dont like interracial relationships, but this whole "only when its a black woman/white man is it okay but not the other way around" exception is kinder dumb!

You're way too gracious. Her statements were ignorant as hell.

oh...and people who get all riled up about being called "fat" and "big" but are so quick to throw the "girl, eww u so skinny. u needa eat something"

Humble: I noticed that, too. My cousin has a HUGE problem with black men/white women, but is open to marrying a white man. I don't get it either, but I have my theories. That would make a great thread if there's not one already.

Guilty as charged. I've had it thrown in my face too many times by white women about the fact they got one of mine to feel any differently. Not to mention the black men who act like I am not in the room while parading around with a white woman on his arm. On the other hand a white man has never thrown it up in my face that he got one of us. In fact what they have shown is that Black women are beautiful.

Not to mention how a lot of black men have lowered their physical standards to obtain a nonblack woman (i.e. the ignorant phrase "she's pretty for a white woman"), chased after nonblack women because they thought they had "better personalities," and/or have been quick to abandon black women for nonblack women who have traits that have been celebrated in black women for generations (i.e. black men marveling over nonblack women with round butts, even if the butts are silicone).

At the same time, white men in general have a history of oversexualizing black women and acting like black women are their tour guides through the lustful jungles of Africa or a nonstop Soul Train. But that goes for how a lot of white people act when they befriend black people.

Her friend's comments were still ignorant to me. LOL

yikes

LOL!
:rolleyes:

Okay, okay. I just had a vision and the people concur. :p

AMEN!!!!!

Believe you me, I did go off on her but in a way that she needed a dictionary to understand the words coming out of my mouth. Needless to say, I don't meet with her anymore and she avoids me at all costs.:cool:

I took a Black psychology (yes there is such a thing) course one summer and I loved it. The class was very diverse and it made for interesting, sometimes heated conversation. So......once we were talking about stereotypes and a white student made the statement, " my granddaddy told me the reason Black people are so good in sports is because they have an extra muscle in their leg." I'm like oh snap our secret is out!!!:eek: A part of me felt that she still believes this is true. idiot.:rolleyes:

LMAO!!! I'm sitting here dying!! On a serious note I'd love to take a Black Psychology class.

There are so many ignorant statements I could think of right now, but they all come from rap songs. :rolleyes:

I mean we do tend to dominate in sports. GO GO Gadget legs!:D

My best friend text messaged me right before Thanksgiving break and said that her teacher was reading his lecture notes off of a napkin. WOW.

U shoulda told her "no hun, it's cuz we are way more primitive than our Caucasoid brethren and it just so happens to show best when we leave you eating our dust on the field" :rolleyes:

Harriet Tubman???
 

Background Info: Non-tradional student in her 50's. Always kissing up to the professor and trying to answer questions...one of those who will make class stay longer for a professor to answer questions and for her to make comments when everyone is ready to go.

While in Sociology on the topic of Race and Ethnicity after the professer called out other random things for us to answer about black history and she wasn't able to answer one...

Professor: There was also a lady that was significant, who didn't want to give up her seat on a bus

Ms. Know it all: Oo...oo.. I know Harriet Tubman:eek:

The class laughed so hard, that he had to dismiss us. I wouldn't have laughed so hard if it was from anyone else, but she just knew that she was right.

I felt bad afterwards, because she looked like this :(.

A couple nights ago, a (very pale) girl said "I was telling my roommate about how you know how just when to use your pretty white girl talk!"




My eternal soul prevents me from saying the words I wanted, so this had to suffice.

Pathetic

Sounds like a high school.

Nope very small university in the boonies.

Well I take plenty of classes at Auburn University with nothing but white people. So last semester in my History class we of course had to discuss slavery and the Civil Rights Movement. My friend and I (the only black people) would hear countless of ignorant stuff when we discussed stuff like this. We talked about the past elecetion and one white guy asks, "How can Obama become President when he's not Christian, but Muslim....he's not even from the US but he's from Africa." Imagine the look on my face lol!!

Most ignant thing that one guy told me was that I wasn't "black enough." This was from h.s. in the tiny, little, itty, bitty town that I live in. We were having a dicusson on Black History Month or something. But he proceeded to tell me that I "wasn't black enough," because of my position on something. My response, "Do I have to be black as tar on the ground to be considered black?" He proceeded to leave me alone.
Second most ignant thing, secretary where I was working continued to question my race/ethnicity. She: "You don't look black." Me: "Excuse me?" Her: "Well your last name isn't black." Me: "Yes I know it isn't." Her: "Well how did you get that last name?" Me: "My parents were married and that's how I got it, or did you think that Black folks didn't get married?" Her: "Ummmm, well, yes, but you just don't 'look' Black." Me: Same response as I said to homeboy from years ago. Her: In a huff "Well!" Me: I left the office buildling and the office to return the next day.

Why did this man not more than 30 minutes ago try to compliment me on my GOOD HAIR???? He for real sounded like he was trying to give me a genuine compliment. I went completely and totally silent and then...the lecture. We covered everything from "any healthy hair is good hair" to "devisiveness in the community" all the way up to "perpetuating the stereotype." Almost 3 straight minutes without even taking a breath. There will be no ignorance on my watch! Talkin' 'bout "good hair" in 2009, you musta lost your mind...

I have identified ignorance my nemisis. Being the superhero that I am I try mightily to combat it.
The scene:
There are five of us. All black women. 2 Nigerians, 1 Nigerian-American/ African American Alabamian, 1 Ghanain American, and Me (African American).
The set-up:
We see the EBT (BET) cheesey commercial with the Dr. King cartoon picking up the little girl. We then begin to discuss Dr. King and Malcolm X. One of the nigerians asks who died first.
The ignorance:
The Alabaman says that Dr. King died first. I look up from my ipod like WTF?? I look it up on google to find the exact date Malcolm died (I knew the year only) and we establish that Malcolm died first. The Alabaman then says:
"its kinda like Tupac and Biggie"
The Nigerian who asked the question then says "so which one is which? Malcolm X is Tupac or is it Martin"
It is then established that Malcolm=Pac and Martin=Biggie.
Sad!

The weight of my cranium smashing into the laptop almost cracked it. My head dropped with that much purpose. I'm putting the Geek Squad on speed dial as a back up for furture posts.

OMG!:eek:
I think I woulda died practically right there from the ignorance of it ALL!
This is BEYOND sad--this is...well...enough to make you jump up and hurt somebody bad!

LOL! I just got up and walked away. The 2nd part (about malcolm/tupac=martin/biggie) was a joke, but the "its kinda like" was not a joke. She was serious.

I can understand a "joke" but some folks just take it TOOOO far.
You are better than me. I think the look from my face woulda made them be like, "er...um...I think it's time for us to...go?"
I can understand if you DIDN'T KNOW (as IF that's possible) but some of these young kids today, it's like, Black History Month--wow, whatever, seen it, heard it, know it. They just don't have any perspective or for some, just any Respect. I dunno, maybe it's just me.:(

Tell me why I had this experience recently with a White woman? Somehow we got on the subject of my students' braids, and she says something like "You don't wear those because you have the good hair." When me and my co-worker looked at her like she had lost her ever-loving mind, she says "That's what they call your kind of hair right? 'Good hair,'" all pleased with herself like she had the inside scoop. I tell ya...:cool:

The Nigerian girl who asked the question didn't have as much perspective as American educated young people do. She didnt go to school in America so she learned as much about Black history as African Americans learn about Indian history (ie: one paragraph on Ghandi).
The comment was ignorant, but the idea behind it was understood. She was well aware that the comment was ignorant, but she said it. We are all aware of black history (though some of us more new to it than others) so it was just funny as heck. Ignorant, but still funny. This is what happens when you mix BET with Black history.

This scenario is a classic argument for a) not restricting Black history to one month and b) ensuring that all BLACK folks learn BLACK history, not just African-American history (vice versa for Black folks from other countries). Sadly, we are all still colonized to an extent so we must proactively teach ourselves and our children because the schools don't :mad:

Lord, this is a big fat FAIL if I ever saw one--presenting "Oreo Barbie" :mad:: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiKPZRFnIIM

yeah....i was just in the leprechaun posting...all the ignorance is over there.

that whole thing was sick!!

I need to learn to not click on links that are provided on greekchat.

My class was discussing race/parents pushing their kids to succeed and this 55-60-year old white woman decides that she's gonna put her two cents in on the subject and use her daughter as an example. This lady had the nerve to say:


The professor turned RED and the three white students kinda shifted in their seats with uncomfortable looks on their faces. The black boy that sat next to her gave turned in his seat and gave her the "O RLY?" face.

HS Biology:

A very sweet but very ditzy white girl:

^^^:mad: and :eek: and vice versa