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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OK, so OP posted this topic, asking for feedback. And then derides all the comments that are posted. Having fun?[/quote]

How do you know which responses are from OP?
Besides that, it was an idiotic and incendiary question.
It did nothing but invite idiots to post dumbass stereotypes and mindless insults.
It most certainly did not invite thoughtful contemplation of better understanding between people with differences.
How helpful is it to tell a whole group of people to tell strangers who happen to look like them to pull up their pants and value education??[/quote]

NP here:

How would you have preferred for the question to have been phrased?[/quote]

Honestly it should not have been asked.  It is a "clown question."  But I will bite.  It was not helpful to ME as an AA because I don't (and no one I know that is AA) displays the behavor that is put forth as examples in this thread.  The question itself implies that all AA's act the same, that all AA's approve of some of the behavior and that, as an AA, I can actually control someone else's behavior.

White people get up in arms when someone say something like "White people are racists."  The standard response is the AA should not generalize and paint all White people with the same brush.  This is what this question is doing to AA's.  IF some White person thinks that "snapping gum in public" or rude behavor is a AA thing, then that is YOUR problem, not mine.  [b]I think that some of the White kids I have encountered are rude, lack home training and would NEVER get away with that crap in an AA family I know.  But I have enough sense and decency to not attribute it to them just being White.[/b] [/quote]Nailed it, pp![/quote]

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