Attention white people

[Anonymous]

Not ALL successful black people are first generation successes. People stop assuming all of us fought to get out of the ghetto and had to walk through needled littered streets to our fatherless section 8 apartment every day of our youth. I hate when people want to know "my story." How did I manage to make it against such odds!! I actually grew up upper middle class, as did a lot of other brown people. Rant over.

[maril332]

+1
Money does run in black families.

More stereotypes

[Anonymous]

Yikes. Whitey here. That sounds insufferable. Where do you meet these folks that ask that? My parents were first generation successes. It never would cross my kind to assume black people all grew up in the ghetto. Maybe because I grew up middle class with a lot of middle class blacks, latinos, and Asians?

[Anonymous]

I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.

[Anonymous]

As a white person, my two closest black friends have more "old money" than my family. No illusions.

[Anonymous]

Well, no kidding. Who would think this was true?

[Anonymous]

I hear ya. Hope others takes note.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.

ya dont take it there...dont

[Anonymous]

Being a ("white") Washingtonian, the father of my best friend growing up, was an MD. They're an "AA" family.

You know OP, stuff like this, really has to do with where you come from, not just geographically, but what kind of family.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.

Get off it. Just because black people are raised in a high socioeconomic class doesn't mean that they don't face pernicious racism. I'm white and I can't believe people actually think the playing field is level.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.

Get off it. Just because black people are raised in a high socioeconomic class doesn't mean that they don't face pernicious racism. I'm white and I can't believe people actually think the playing field is level.

Also, you sound like a lazy ass who likes to make excuses for why your privileged white self didn't get into your first choice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I hear ya!! Try telling that to a college admissions board.

It was very frustrating when the black kids (with same privileges and upbringing) were able to get into colleges with only a 3.0 grade pt average and average SATs while those of us with 4.0+ did not.

Get off it. Just because black people are raised in a high socioeconomic class doesn't mean that they don't face pernicious racism. I'm white and I can't believe people actually think the playing field is level.

Really? Sending them to elite universities ends the racism? AA kids that grew up In The richest neighborhoods in the US. No.

[Anonymous]

White person here I have seriously never asked anyone "their story".

I feel like more often than not it's black people telling me about racism than me actually seeing racism in real life. One of my close black friends recently said to me "I think I didn't get the job because I'm black." umm pretty sure he was the only one thinking about the color of his skin in the interview.

[Anonymous]

As a black person, I dream of the day when black people stop making every topic about race, be it good or bad. It's annoying. Every black person feels judged because of their race. Stop bringing it up and it won't be about race.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:White person here I have seriously never asked anyone "their story".

I feel like more often than not it's black people telling me about racism than me actually seeing racism in real life. One of my close black friends recently said to me "I think I didn't get the job because I'm black." umm pretty sure he was the only one thinking about the color of his skin in the interview.

spoken as a white person who really has no fucking clue