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Originally posted by Steeltrap
Again, you're completely on point. Besides racial segregation, you also see class segregation.
I suspect, and I've said this before, many of the same people who think "ghetto" sendups are OK don't really have any meaningful contact with AfAms who may be affected by inner-city miseries. If they have meaningful contact, it's often with suburban AfAms who sometimes are "go along to get along" types at best or self-hating at worst.
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You just said something that got me thinking. When I lived in Alaska I was one of the only white people in my social group. We had a pretty good represenation of the boxes one could check on a form, and also of those that couldn't pick one box. The people I knew were AfAm and there was a huge difference in the girl that grew up in Anchorage, and the kids that moved from the South. I related better to the kids from the South.
However I am now living among the fields of wheat, and I know one AfAm person locally (because of GC) and every other person is actually FROM Africa. I work with people from Zimbabwe, Zaire, Kenya, and so on, plus we have a South African guy running around town claiming he is the son of the Ambassador to Australia. Changes the whole frame of reference.