You Know You were Born/Raised "Black" When...

[ladygreek]

Originally Posted by delph998

Anyway, you also know you're black when...there are about thirty Bibles all over the house, with that one REAL BIG ONE with the BIG HANDS on the cover.

And with the "gold" trim on the pages.

I don't know how I missed this before either, but I swear Tony B06 must have been part of my family.

One more to add:
When lard was used for everything from frying chicken and fish to making biscuits and pie crust.

Yanno my grandmother lived to be 102, my grandfather and step grandfather in their 80s, my mother to 84, her sister in her 80s, my Dad at 81, and they all grew up on lard, butter, etc. And none of them died from heart disease. Makes you wonder what else is behind all of these modern day health issues.

[delph998]

Originally Posted by ladygreek

One more to add:
When lard was used for everything from frying chicken and fish to making biscuits and pie crust.

Yanno my grandmother lived to be 102, my grandfather and step grandfather in their 80s, my mother to 84, her sister in her 80s, my Dad at 81, and they all grew up on lard, butter, etc. And none of them died from heart disease. Makes you wonder what else is behind all of these modern day health issues.

So true! I have been researching the foods we eat, Ladygreek and my findings are quite scary.
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Another one:

You know you're black when when at church, the first thing people say is "First giving honor to God who is the head of my life..."

[pinkies up]

^^^LOL!!! What about at the end of church service when everyone joins hands and sings "Reach out and touch somebody's hand"?

[AKA_Monet]

For the food: How come my grandfather mixed his bacon, eggs and grits together in one pile on the plate? Then, how come my dad did it too? It's all goes down in one tube...

For the church service: Aside from the Miss Haynes who's 100, and sings some song no one can hear and rocks the mic for the chorus, how come as a child, you had to kiss all the elderly folks?

For family: How come my mother was the foremost authority on family decisions, caregiving for my grandmother and was the CEO-CFO of the household? Like, my dad had to give her his check and she gave him an allowance...

My dad: "I may the head, but yo mama's da neck, an you cain't do anythang without the neck..."

[delph998]

^^ Hilarious. I think we can go on forever about this topic.

You know You Born/Raised Black when...

1. You've drank out of a jar instead of a cup or glass in your lifetime.

2. Church is jam packed on Easter Sunday.

3. That one deacon prays that same prayer every single Sunday!

[n4sir5]

You know You Born/Raised Black when...


A fathers soothing words would start....

"CUT THAT CRYIN' OUT!" TonyB... you remember the EDGE story....


finding out what the next hottest temperature beyond hell...

the room you had to sleep in while visiting your folks in the south during the summertime THEN finding out that AC meant wave your hand faster....Momma and nem had the Funeral Fans...


ooooooot

[Live_Wire17]

You know you were raised black when...

You give your kids that "look" and they instantly know to DUCK.