Because they do - I've witnessed it firsthand - but admittedly referring to all blacks as African-Americans is also wrong - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/not-all-black-people-are-african-american-what-is-the-difference/ |
I’m white and I consider that I code switch. When I’m at work, I am professional but get me with my siblings and we’re a bunch of So. Cal valley girls. People are just playing ignorant. Go ahead, vote for Trump. Just don’t storm the capital when he loses |
Meanwhile we have Tariq and others smugly looking down on Caribbean blacks on display, presenting them as elitist phonies just because they came from a different place - it's not as though Caribbean blacks didn't also suffer slavery and racism. And let's be honest here, this is just another example of how blacks pit against other blacks and it's shameful - urban blacks look down on rural southern blacks, the hostility that people try to stir up between darker skinned blacks vs lighter skinned blacks, and it's awful. And here I see Tariq doing exactly that, stirring the pot and driving hostility to drive wedges between blacks. It's awful. |
Europeans look down on white Americans the same way. I also never understood why black or white immigrants do this when they ran to come here and get US citizenship. A Haitian colleague of mine always talked down about how lazy and awful AA were and one day I told her about how Haiti isn’t so marvelous itself. At least black Americans fought for civil rights here without one bullet being used and now we have kids shooting up schools because they didn’t integrate well into high school (this was after Sandy Hook). She shut up after that. |
Yes, she grew up in Montreal. I am a Montrealer. |
Yet you’re mentioning it here for the convenience of suggesting that your supposed “mixed” background somehow gives weight to your comment. |
Didn’t he marry a few? Stop being dumb. |