r/Blackpeople

I honestly want to know why some Black men only date White women ? please be honest in your answers is the sex genuinely better for you ? Do you fit in with them better ? Respectful answers no disses towards Black women please

I was speaking with my Jamaican friend & she just couldn’t understand the concept of us being from America and I’m like why is it so hard for ppl to grasp, we were taken against our will and brought here 400 years ago and we have since created a WHOLE culture (that has influenced America and THE WORLD) here. This is our home. What’s even crazier is I told her that her ancestors have only been in Jamaica for the same amount of time, she says that her ancestors weren’t slaves 💀. I just don’t get it???

this term is very harmful in the long run. it not only highlights and condemns bad behavior (which is good), but gives our entire race a bad rep, affecting the people who are not acting this way (which is the bad part). black people are not a monolith. yes meanings change over time, but in this algorithmic culture that encourages binary thinking, i feel like this could be slowly turned against the greater black community by the wrong people and actually be used to put us further back in unity and more into discrimination/power imbalances.

i’m not for this term in the context it’s being used in. it needs to be changed to something else that isn’t so stereotypical and one-sided. an entire race shouldn’t have to be degraded because of behavior that a sub-culture of black people are exhibiting.

Snippet:

• Blood donors of African descent are needed to save the life of a Florida 18-year-old fighting an aggressive form of sickle cell disease, OneBlood announced.
• Gigi Felix, 18, is battling an aggressive form of sickle cell disease and urgently needs rare blood donations to undergo a lifesaving bone marrow transplant.
• Gigi’s survival depends on securing 50 units of very rare blood from very specific donors before they can proceed with the bone marrow transplant.
• For a person to be a match for Gigi, they have to have the same blood type and need to have the same antigen profile. if not, her body will reject the blood. The antigen combination Gigi has can only be found in a certain ethnic group.

Black Woman Shot White Man Who Prowled Threaten And Tried To Attack Her In Florida

https://www.youtube.com/live/H855i6DfgRE?si=8Qys7krQs8I7cxfG 

I've stayed off TikTok on purpose, but I might need an account now.

Because apparently it's where the quiet part gets said loud, proving what Black Americans have been experiencing as "scattered incidents" all along: people arrive in America already not liking us.

Including plenty who look like us.

And I genuinely don't get it.

We're the ones who claimed Kwame Ture and Shirley Chisholm as our own. Marcus Garvey launched his UNIA branch in Harlem, in OUR neighborhood.

That was Harry Belafonte standing at the White House when the Civil Rights Act got signed, and weeping at Dr. King's funeral.

That was our Malcolm X, half-Grenadian through his mother, raised on Garveyism. That was our Rosa Parks protesting South African apartheid in the '80s.

We never bit at Black immigrants. And Black immigrants used to love us back. That changed after 1964-65, when many arrived without the 400-year American baggage we carried and decided that meant they were above the people who carried it.

Nobody thanked us at the front door.

Now, a growing number won't even call Black American culture what it is. Everyone rolls their eyes at Black History Month, conveniently forgetting it sparked every other heritage month trend on the planet. People like Ms. Thang in the video bragged about being educated but then said that WE as Black Americans voted for Trump?!

And to those on Reddit telling me to "stop being divisive"—flip it. Start uniting with foundational Black Americans, Black immigrants of all generations.

Check the 2024 results, because we as FBA did our part, overwhelmingly. I'm just wondering how much of that 15% of "Black men" who broke for Trump was actually FBA.

I always note the beautiful exceptions, comedian Godfrey being one, and y'all see me do it.

But too many distant kindred from the islands and the Motherland stay on that country-music, let-white-people-wear-locs, slavery-was-God's-will, Black-Americans-deserve-less life.

Y'all see it, too, but some wanna act like people like me and Tabitha are just talking out our asses.