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Since this is anon share time, apparently, here goes:

I'm a little racist, I think. I grew up in a mostly poor, ethnic neighborhood (basically the ghetto), and, well, have never really liked black people. There are some really decent ones out there, some who know how to behave and speak properly and who aren't ghetto, but I haven't met many, and that's really saying something considering I live in Brooklyn and went to school in NYC.

Maybe it's not black people I dislike, but just the ghetto ones. I don't like "wiggers", either, though I can tolerate them more because more often than not they seem like posers. The people I grew up with and went to school with were the real fucking deal.

I hate rap, I hate reggae, I hate hip-hop, I hate r&b-- I pretty much hate everything associated. I've been asked by tons of black guys in the past and have turned them all down.

The ironic thing is that I'm not even white. I'm hispanic. =/ (ugh, I hate ghetto hispanics, too).

So there's my big, dark secret, f!s. I'm probably racist.

Fun fact: I used to listen to a ton of audio books and movies read/full of white people when I was a kid to try and emulate their tones/inflections so that I wouldn't sound "Black". I used to read a ton of books, too, because my teacher used to tell us that people who read a lot tended to speak more proper.

Everyone always tells me that I sound like a "white girl" and I love that. The rest of my family turned out a bit like the people in our old neighborhood (loud and ghetto, that is), and I didn't, and I'm really proud of that.

*Sigh* When will we get over this idea that being educated and speaking as if you are equates "sounding white." It totally doesn't.

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DA. So what if they feel like that?

If they have shared that crappy neighborhood with these people, they might have witnessed firsthand that their neighbors made their shitty start even worse with their own stupid behavior. I respect far more someone who has managed to improve their behavior, even if they get holier-than-thou, than someone who didn't even try.

This.

I also grew up in a ghetto and am one of the few people that I know from there that got out. Most are now pushing drugs/in jail/stuck there - and yeah. For some of them it's because they knowingly made bad choices. But...that doesn't have anything to do with their race, and neither does 'acting ghetto'. Referring to it as 'acting black' is honestly pretty racist [imo] and not cool either.

P.S. Wtf does 'sound white' mean? There are just as many ignorant, low class sounding white people as any other race.

Oh, please. She learned it by watching tv and listening to audiobooks, which everyone can do (audiobooks = free at the library and libraries are free too). If they want out of the ghetto, let them learn to not act ghetto, it isn't that hard to do.

What I can't stand is people who insist on being helpless and not learning to help themselves and who insist on pulling others down to their level just to make themselves feel better.

Stella, I get that you don't like this person and their attitude, but... aren't they kinda admitting their racism above? It's not really something they aren't claiming to have.

I only mind the "ghetto"/hip-hoppy/whatever thing as practiced by those hillbilly-dudebro-gangsta types that seem permanently stuck back in '02-'03. Otherwise I just kind of don't care.

(I lived in central Pennsylvania and then in southwest Washington. It's pretty much the dominant type of under-40 person in both areas. Ack.)

One part of what you describe isn't racist. You are prejudiced against a subculture. Which isn't exactly making you humanitarian of the year, but at least you picked a subculture which exemplifies some shitty values at times.

The part where you limit your dating partners sounds less simple then that though, nor does it sound like it's entirely based on aesthetics either. So you aren't wrong that you are a bit racist, most likely.

White people don't have an exclusive hold on being intelligent, successful and well spoken though. "White Trash" is probably a term white people came up with you know.

Your larger problem is that you've assigned the same racial labels that some parts of that subculture you mentioned not liking do just as strongly. Making white have a "sound" puts you closer to people you just told us you want to have nothing in common with.

Edited 2013-05-29 05:39 (UTC)

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