Thanks for posting the stats PP.

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ManHere wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think, generally speaking, more AAs have bad credit reports than whites? It seems that AAs tend to not value their credit ratings as high as white?

Do you have any statistics on that or are you just freestyling?

Yes, the federal reserve published a report on this. Let me find it and post the link.

No need. I don't have an answer.

Anonymous wrote:Why do you think, generally speaking, more AAs have bad credit reports than whites? It seems that AAs tend to not value their credit ratings as high as white?

Do you have any statistics on that or are you just freestyling?

OP here. DW and I also adopted an AA child. I agree with PP. if possible, he should have a connection to a good black man role model. He will see many views of black men in the media so a good role model would be great. I would type more on this but I'm mobile right now.

Anonymous wrote:Once, just to make conversation with a co-worker while waiting for the microwave at lunch, I asked a AA women my age early 20's what she was eating for lunch. She told me to never ask a black person what they are eating. What was that all about?

You should have asked her. Then you could have told us. Never heard that one before.

Anonymous wrote:Why do black people hate dogs so much?

OP here. Where did you hear that?

Anonymous wrote:What does "natural" hair look like? Does any one famous have natural AA hair so I can google a pic?

Angela Davis

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Anonymous wrote:"BTW, in case you didn't know not all white people are ambitious and there are plenty of black people that are more ambitious than whites. "

I think the average middle class white person is more ambitious than the average middle class black person, but I'd like to understand why.

Well, I know a hell of a lot of white women who either are or desperately want to be stay at home moms. I don't know a single black stay at home mom among my middle/upper middle class friends. The black women I know - we work hard.

OP here. Danm. Almost got through a DCUM topic without bringing up the SAHM discussion .

Anonymous wrote:Is there a reason that a lot of black people don't know how to swim or don't want to? Is that a stereotype or true?

For one explanation, see the hair discussions.

Anonymous wrote:I saw a bit on 60 minutes a while ago where they had a panel of AAs and they were talking about being teased in school if they did well as "acting white".

Is that true or have you experienced that?

OP here. You get teased in school for a lot of things. This wasn't one of the things that I stressed about. I'd rather be teased by my schoolmates than punished by my parents for being a knucklehead. I got over it.

Anonymous wrote:I just answered this question the white people thread so I'm curious:

What do you think about HBCUs?

OP here. I have the same opinion about HBCUs that I have on all womens, majority jewish, catholic, etc. colleges. It's a choice. For HBCUs, the H is for historical and most have a approx. 10% white enrollment. The H could also be used for schools like U of Alabama. It was historically white (no blacks allowed). I don't think you need to get rid of HBCUs just because all schools now have open enrollment for all races. My background: I went to a major public university for undergrad and an Ivy League school for my MBA. My brother went to an HBCU and had a great experience. We are both doing well in our careers. I also went to grad school with many HBCU grads and they had no problems. It's just a choice in where to get your education.

Anonymous wrote:Why do so many come across as unpleasant? Yes, we all have bad days but generally speaking, I don't encounter very many pleasant expressions. Conversely, my showing courteousness has been perceived as being phony. What gives?

OP Here

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Anonymous wrote:If you were from Japan, would you say you are African -Japanese?

No, just black. Not all black people are African American.

Agreed
-OP

Anonymous wrote:This is my favorite dcum thread ever. OP, thanks for being so patient and reasonable and even funny. I expected a lot of obnoxious crap and there has been some but not as bad as I thought. Makes me feel a little better about some of the recent offensive threads and helps me realize we do have good people in the area.

Thanks for the kind words. It's been fun but I had to drag myself out of bed this morning.

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ManHere wrote:

ManHere wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP,

Are you married to a white woman? I get the feeling you are. If so, I have follow-up questions.

Nope DW is black.

I'm OP.

Good idea to get a user name, since we black women hijacked your thread.

I'm interested in your answer to the pp's question about the attraction to white women. I posted with possible reasons, but don't know if I'm right.

Everyone has their reasons so it's not as simple as just listing a few things. I know at least 15 AA men married to non-AA women (not all white) They all have their reasons and their marriages and families are great. I'm talking about marriage so "easiness" was not the reason. In my opinion.