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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, I will make sure I tell my husband that.  The last time we were at Politics and Prose, the white woman next to us grabbed her purse when she saw my husband.  He looks as innocent and suburban as they come.  I guess that was our "victimhood" and we imagined it.[/quote]

There are plenty of neurotic and anxious people out there who will clutch their purses to themselves whenever ANYONE is near, regardless of color. [/quote]

Exactly, and some people, accustomed to or expecting discrimination, will perceive every purse-clutching as another example of it.

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Right...  And, we've all seen things like the little AA grannies who pull their purses tight to themselves when there's rowdy young AA males around.  Following the logic presented, that would make those AA grannies racist.[/quote]

I would not call her racist, but I do believe this and think that it is sad that the perception of our boys goes beyond white people to all people.  It's the images that we all see.  I know that it is a reality b/c I have 2 black sons.  I too have to stop myself from the perception.  I am very aware of the stereotype that I myself sometimes fall into.[/quote]

The AA community has not done itself many favors where it comes to what it promotes as "AA culture" - when you have AA youth emulating along the lines of many popular icons, getting tatted up and dressing gangsta, talking ghetto, acting hard, and along with it, propagating the ideas in the music and elsewhere, of glorified violence, crime, misogyny and promiscuity, and self-indulgence in all things material.   If a youth acts, talks, dresses like that, the perception is *never* going to be positive, regardless of whether that youth is actually from a low-SES background, or if he's upper-middle class from suburbia (and they do it) and it ultimately ends up at best perpetuating and at worst worsening the perceptions, thereby collectively dragging all AA youth down.

Perceptions aren't always reality but perceptions often end up being what the battles are won and lost on. [/quote]

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