Ok -- let's talk "racial tension"

Lmao at the Carlton reference! Nerdy black guys don't get chicks any easier out here than nerdy white guys. Consider yourself lucky to have been an East coast nerd cause that shit just wouldn't fly on the best coast :smt043

As for the bolded, you're absolutely right. Which is why things probably feel so much worse to me, yet in the bigger picture like Samson was saying, they're actually improved. It's nauseating regardless. I've cut more people off these last two years or so than ever before. If we dont believe similarly about even basic human rights issues, there's no need for the façade of a friendship. I tend to cut people with a quickness anyways but it comes even easier lately lol

 

Yeah a lot more women would have been in healthier relationships if they tried a nerd just saying lol.
And lol@ the "best" coast knock it off you know trends start here and flow out that way lol.

Same here with cutting people off. Makes me have a new appreciation for black people who had to grow in the south during Jim crow. You have to be around people who hate you for absolutely no reason and grin and bare it. Smh

 

My pre-teen years were spent trying to adjust to living in the South. It was neither liberal or conservative.

Being a nerdy black kid back then made a kid an anomaly that was subjected to ridicule. But back then kids didn't understand because their view of the world was limited and they were following the patterns of adult family members and friends.

Honestly, if I lived in a more liberal place, I would've been free to be myself. But because I was a kid living with my mother, sister and younger brother, I had to play a role and conform for the sake of my mother, whom was afraid enough as it was.

When hip-hop music came out, it was like a new language and attitude that said, "I'm black and there's not a damned thing anybody can do about it."


Because of my mother's fears due in part to where we lived, I couldn't be whom I wanted to be.

I felt like Caesar in Conquest of the Planet of the Apes. I was always told, "NO!" Or, " DO!"

If I wanted to survive I had to obey. My mother had to be both parents since my father wasn't around.

For years I had often wondered what things would've been like if I grew up in the North. I guess I would be absolutely, positively, unquestionably, completely and utterly alone.

 

Judging from your photos, you've caused your fair share of "tension".

 

Hahaha. Okkkkkk

 

Don't be bashful. You know it's true.

 

Absolutely! I was born in the 60s, so I not old enough to remember when MLK was alive, but it's never gone away. It simply was quiet but racism continued to be alive and well. I think it got really ugly (and coming out of hiding) when President Obama emerged as a frontrunner for the Democratic nomination. I think it intensified at several points once he was elected especially when he'd broach the seemingly forbidden topic of racism on the US, questionable police actions toward minorities and so on. Fast-forward to the current POTUS race... Trump and his followers have taken it to new heights.

 

My hero! Apparently, I can't rep you now, but.... I agree, I agree, I agree!