"You're the whitest black guy I know."

Well said. The people who don't know you are mostly the ones who have those racist perceptions. I'm pleased you rose above it.

 

It bugs me to hear someone saying that a black man acts white. I don't know what that means.

 

I really doesnt bother me. I guess because the people who have said it to me were friends and I have open, honest, and frank conversations with them about pretty much everything. But Ive heard this from white people and black people.

 

I don't see why people want to play dumb when it comes to this. You know exactly what that means.

 

I've heard these views myself, and it comes from all types of people. At first i was offended, but now I consider it a compliment. Why? Because it shows I'm a free thinking person, also I like to always enlighten myself on a variety of things in life.

 

I've gotten it from my friends, and it used to bug me a bit. But now, it's cool. I take it all in stride. I know people don't mean any harm by it. They're just joking. Hell, I joke too

 

Don't really bother me. Especially since it's been a Mexican and a Filipino that has said "You're whitewashed", or "dawg, you aren't black". Then I had to put check their stupid asses. I'm not gonna let a black person say I'm not black, and I'm damn sure not gonna let a non black tell me what is black.

 

Sounds offensive, but my friends and I are politically incorrect around each other so as long as its fomr them its a good time. Note I said politically incorrect not disrespectful

 

theres a bad swedish joke about that.. from the time not too long ago when there werent that many africans living here, and those who did found it quite annoying to use public transport, since everyone would try to pretend they weren't staring (they've never seen a black person before. Off course they were staring)..

Im not gonna translate it completely, but anyway, this guy from nigeria is on the bus, and everyone is looking the other way, so the drunk on the bus gets up before the next stop and walks over to him, since he feels sorry for him and says "Oh, you're not black, not at all. You're even whiter then me, so don't you worry", so that he wouldn't feel so bad about everyone staring. Drunk logic at it's best.

(a friend of my moms actually had the wonderful experience of making an older woman faint. Just because he was black. But thats another story and a looong time ago)

 

I used to hear every now and then high school!!

Is that a bad thing, though? :smt102

I didn't know if I should laugh or be offended? :smt017

Typically, I wouldn't respond to the comment and act like I didn't hear it.

 

I hate that!

There's nothing wrong with white people (otherwise I wouldn't be here lol), but hell, I'd like to think the ability to form coherent sentences using the Queen's English is not something white people have a monopoly on.

 

Co-sign

 

I've never been told that weak-ass shit.

You're on the wrong path for sure if you keep hearing that.

 

This is very TRUE.

Its also amazing how people play dumb until they are constantly passed over for a promotion or NEVER considered for certain positions. Then all of a sudden, these dumb acting folks wants to be represented by the NAACP, CORE, Jesse Jackson, and everyone else involved in civil rights.

Truly amazing.

 

Yea some people have the wrong picture thinking all black people talk slang,are uneducated,all love chicken,watermelon and koolaid and a whole bunch of other things that may apply to some but not all.
Just today when I made a comment on Blackplanet about how I prefer to talk and being talked to in regular English rather than slang some guy responded since I was on the site I must be into slang and was probably some hood rat and therefore he didn't understand my point.
Not all black men are the same. I do believe how you talk,walk,how educated you are,what you like or not is not determined by your race.
Saying "you're the whitest guy I've met" shows a person is at least a little prejudiced.

 

what's wrong with chicken, watermelon, and koolaid

 

Growing up in my house we were forbidden to use slang and my mom would hit us like we cursed anytime she heard us using it. She wanted us to learn how to talk like normal human beings rather than use the kind of language they used in the streets. I actually had to learn slang on my own.

I didn't understand why she raised us that way in the beginning, but as an adult I see her rationale and I'm thankful for it because I was able to get two educations.

 

I have not met many white people that speak "proper" English; even college educated whites from middle and upper class backgrounds. White kids have words too..."like", "ya know", "uh"...our culture has trained us to think that anyone that "sounds black" is uneducated and that anyone that sounds like a cross between a Valley Girl and a Brit must be intelligent. I don't focus on accents. One of the most brilliant people I know (this red-head knows who she is) has a distinct country twang and yet it never distracts from the heart of anything that she is talking about.

 

chicken is not healthy because they use to much antibiotics and hormons to raise them.
Watermelons are to big to eat them in one piece
and coolaid is pure chemistry..... not natural not god.....

 

It was a rhetorical question.*

And yes, chicken can be healthy depending on where you buy it and whether or not it was raised w/ antibiotics/hormones. (e.g. organic/free range farms)

Watermeleons too big to eat them in one piece? MOST fruits are too big to eat in one piece.