[ SECRET POST #3170 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3170 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Honest question (please don't just call me racist)

[(Anonymous)]

I don't agree with your premise as a whole, but I think I can explain a small part of the phenomenon you believe you're seeing. See, I ride in elevators a lot. And that means that I am stuck in a confined space with strangers a lot. I am a, say, less than middle-aged but not young, white woman. The chance that I'm alone in an elevator with a white guy and he will strike up a conversation? Maybe about 30%. The chance that I'm alone in an elevator with a black guy and he will strike up a conversation? Approaching 100%. I have a theory about that. These guys go out of their way to appear non-threatening to me, because they believe (and rightly so, at least in the US) that the world sees them as scary people. So they've built up a defensive structure that involves proactively being as nice as possible to strange white ladies in order not to scare us. What you perceive as intrusive or rude may seem, to the other party, as a way to appear friendly and non-scary.

Re: Honest question (please don't just call me racist)

[(Anonymous)]

I wonder if this also explains why, nearly every time I have slipped on an icy sidewalk at my school, or tried to open a door while carrying a ginormous pile of books, or been in a similar situation, it has been a black guy who helped me out. Although it could also be, as another anon has suggested, that many black people are brought up to be community-oriented and to be kind to strangers.