Once again adding fuel to the fire but I think that part of the reason you hear blacks saying don't you hate it when whites..., but we don't "like" it when white s say don't you hate it when blacks...." Is because we without even realizing it assume that we are aware of "what it means to be white. Living in America most of everything we are exposed to is from the general "white" perspective. Also most white people will never fully understand what it means to be discriminated agains for something that you can not control, like skin color. Whereas, we (blacks) often feel that black America is still treated like a subculture so wehn white people speak of the black experience we feel that they don't know enough about it so how can they speak on it.
I AM NOT SAYING THAT THAT IS ALWAYS RIGHT BUT THAT IS SOME OF THE REASON THAT THAT OPINION IS AROUND.
Personally I would rather be with people that want to be with me. Im most cases that is African-American. So, if a white person is all for helping the world but the black community specifically then I say welcome to the sisterhood. If they are not interested in helping our community them I would question their desire to be in a HBGLO because it is about sisterhood but it is also about work, the work of helping the black community.
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