THis was an interesting thread.
All these black women talking about how they have been ostracized by other black folks. I am absolutely boggled.
I attended a predominately white school all my life
I like rock, and classical, and roots, as well as r&b and rap
I have never been a "typical" anything, and don't believe such things exist. All of that stuff is the outer shell of the person that you are.
So here is my belief, and I won't bother apologising for it because no one ever really means it when they do: If you as a black person don't have ANY black friends, you have a problem.
Forget about the school you go to, the region you live in, or where you grow up. Excuses are tools of the incompetent, and they build monuments of NOTHINGNESS. I find it impossible to believe that you're not doing it to yourself. THere are black people who like opera, who attend majority white schools, who don't speak slang and have never eaten a collard green (that would be me, ick) and we still know and love who we are. Part of loving me is loving my people. Loving them is knowing them. Doesn't mean I have to participate in all the cultural traditions, but I can appreciate them. How can you say that you do not even appreciate that, and then avow that you don't have a problem with yourself?
I think that these individuals are kidding themselves. Wake up! You don't have to love ALL black folks. You don't have to actively seek us out. But stop segregating yourself from your own, because the only person you hurt is yourself!
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