Is it normal to wonder why people dislike african americans and judge quickly?

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All around me on the internet, people always have something to say about African Americans. They make rude comments about "black behavior" and judge blacks based on the ones they have been around. It makes me sick how people insult black people. If you had a bad experience with a black person don't judge ALL black people because of it. We are all people no matter the skin color.

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  • Short4Words
    8 years ago

    Every place in this world has some sort of petty racial rivalry. Everyone hates someone.

    Until we learn to all play nicely and respect our differences well just burn each other at the stake.

    Some people see a young black kid smack a white lady and go "ohh the blacks are savages." And in the same stroke a white cop shoots a guy in the back and everyone calls him a devil. Are people too thickheaded to realize that people in general are just fucked up no matter where you come from?

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    • NeofelisNebulosa
      8 years ago

      Preach it

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  • wistfulmaiden
    8 years ago

    There are some truth to stereotypes but nothing is 100%. For instance most white people like Starbucks and sushi:) a lot of black people but into the gangsta culture which I think sucks but then my cousin was a drug dealer( all Mexicans sell drugs!!!) but I don't even do pot.
    The truth is yes there a black vegan chick who does Pilates and studies Buddhism so don't think you can always judge based on race.

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  • Couman
    8 years ago

    Unfortunately the controversy around various police shootings and the black lives matter movement appears to have reignited smoldering racial tensions lately. I don't think it will get better any time real soon.

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  • Niggers_on_powertrips
    8 years ago

    Autumn you are a nice person, going off the comments you submit. I appreciate that. I also wish that you keep your idealistic viewpoints for as long as you can.

    Some people go an entire lifetime with their ideals. Those people are rare but they do exist.

    I would want you to see what is happening to your own country, but I think you'd rather have those ideals.

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  • dindu_nuffin
    8 years ago

    Theyre not African Americans. That implies they immigrated here and wish to assimilate. They don't. They are Africans in America. They are a bad, corrupt, violent and unproductive lawless people that do not contribute to society but instead weigh everyone else down and cause many problems for good honest hardworking citizens.

    It is not just us that dislike blacks. Blacks dislike themselves, they have very low self esteem and are always killing each other over nothing

    Throughout all of history, wherever there has been a majority black population anywhere in the world there was widespread poverty, suffering, crime, violence, corruption and disease. The only place in Africa that has ever become even remotely successful is South Africa which has a lot of whites. The rest of Africa has accomplished exactly NOTHING for thousands of years now.

    Agree or disagree all you want, but if you want to be safe and live a prosperous and fun and healthy life, then stay the Fuck away from blacks ! They destroy everything including themselves

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    • dahztoyevskeet
      8 years ago

      Actually, there were plenty of advanced civilizations in Africa until white people showed up and wrecked everything... We could just as easily say that white's are a psychotic cancer that kills everything, due to the fact that they have so frequently practiced slavery, genocide, expropriation, and what else have you.

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      • Captain_Flatulitis
        8 years ago

        Saying white people showed up to Africa and "wrecked everything" is completely ridiculous. You have no verified historical facts to back that assertion up at all.

        According to recent statistics Botswana, a land locked country bordering South Africa is the most prosperous country in Africa. South Africa is a close second. South Africa was founded by Dutch settlers (read white people).

        Much of the rest of the continent is still third world, where a minor scratch may actually kill you because health care is so poor. Right now today in Africa there are more people living under the yoke of slavery than were ever exported to the United States.

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      • dindu_nuffin
        8 years ago

        Nonsense. Thousands of years passed in Africa and virtually nothing was accomplished, well before the "white man" arrived. Even today, after most colonialism has ended, nothing happens in Africa except genocide, Nigerian email scams and Ebola. The truth is wherever the white man has gotten involved those are the ONLY times and places where any kind of improvement has occurred. South Africa is a prime example that illustrates this perfectly.

        Today, well after the white man has ended slavery and left, places like Sudan, Darfur, Congo etc see widespread slavery and genocide, blacks ruthlessly hacking masses of people to death with machetes. The white man has nothing to do with this and in fact tries to help with peacekeeping sometimes but its nearly impossible to do anything so long as the population is entirely black

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    • Captain_Flatulitis
      8 years ago

      I don't understand why so many people refuse to see the vast difference between European civilization and African civilization. And even if you get someone to admit that they will still refuse to accept the racial and cultural reasons behind that difference.

      South Africa was founded by white people, dutch settlers, its not that the county has a lot of white people, it was founded by white people and as a direct result is an economically prosperous and functioning society.

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    • Tybo626
      8 years ago

      your an idiot if you did some research you'd realize that blacks were incredibly exploited through out africa and the Caribbean which stunted their growth as societies and also i wasnt aware you knew all black people stop pulling bullshit statistics out the side of your neck gullible idiots like you are the reason why people like Hitler gain power so easily

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      • dindu_nuffin
        8 years ago

        Nonsense. Thousands of years passed in Africa and virtually nothing was accomplished, well before the "white man" arrived. Even today, after most colonialism has ended, nothing happens in Africa except genocide, Nigerian email scams and Ebola. The truth is wherever the white man has gotten involved those are the ONLY times and places where any kind of improvement has occurred. South Africa is a prime example that illustrates this perfectly.

        Today, well after the white man has ended slavery and left, places like Sudan, Darfur, Congo etc see widespread slavery and genocide, blacks ruthlessly hacking masses of people to death with machetes. The white man has nothing to do with this and in fact tries to help with peacekeeping sometimes but its nearly impossible to do anything so long as the population is entirely black

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        • Tybo626
          8 years ago

          It understandable that you disagree about reasons why Africa is the way it's but how should I react to your nonsensical opinion of black people .as a black male who is neither a criminal nor unproductive. You seem to refer to all black people like their the devil which is just wrong

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  • mokuton
    8 years ago

    Im no racist, i like Africans very much. Some of my most productive workers in the sweat shops are from Africa.

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    • dindu_nuffin
      8 years ago

      Companies typically avoid Africa for their sweatshops because blacks are too unproductive even for that. Thats why they choose places like China, India, Honduras, Vietnam etc where the people are much more productive than blacks

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      • mokuton
        8 years ago

        I hate Indian and the Chinese, thats why im choosing the alternative.

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  • Holzman_67
    8 years ago

    They've always been cool with me.

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  • Darkoil
    8 years ago

    Only an idiot would judge someone on skin colour. Now that being said I've only known 2 black Americans and both were really nice guys, the rest of them may be cunts for all I know.

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  • nobody13
    8 years ago

    Sorry to break my hiatus so quickly, but I got curious and found your question to be too interesting to pass up. Here goes.

    I'm probably terribly wrong, and this comment may be full of superfluous garbage and obvious observations, but here's one take on it.

    For starters, people usually don't think logically; I know, obvious, but we've got to start somewhere, so bare with me. They think they do, and they think that their reasons for their behaviors and their beliefs are rooted in reason and rationality, but this is often not the case; generally, people do not start from logical premises and reach conclusions from them. Rather, people often start off with subconscious feelings that their experiences and cultures have primed them to feel, and then they employ all their gifts of rationality for the purpose of defending the beliefs they already hold; they start at the gut level, and proceed to use their reasoning skills to build edifices on these grounds.

    The subconscious is a powerful thing. Many of the things that your subconscious is responsible for are things that you are generally not even in control of; breathing, blinking, the roads you take when you're driving to a location you've been to hundreds a times before (until you get lost, and your conscious mind begins to kick in). Most of this is automatic; the subconscious does these sorts of things to make things easier for your conscious brain. Your subconscious is the reason why you don't have to constantly think about the motions you make while you're walking or driving. Many of our ways of thinking are also controlled by certain thoughts and ways of thinking that we've internalized, and our environment can do a great job of priming our subconscious to react in certain ways or influence our thoughts without our realization. Priming is often unconscious, and most people aren't aware of the ways that they've been primed by their environment.

    If a person has been primed to think of a certain group of people as 'dangerous,' whether it be by the news, their family, or some other outlet, it will be incredibly difficult to get them to think otherwise. Take muslims, for example. Though there are roughly six million muslims in the United States (last I checked), the few of these that are terrorists tend to ruin it for the majority of muslims that aren't terrorists. Because muslims are a minority and most people's experience with them and knowledge of them comes directly from the media they consume, plenty of people may feel inclined to engage in bigotry towards them. This usually isn't the case for those that actually know muslims, as the familiarity with actual living, breathing muslims tends to prime people to think differently about them. Though there are plenty of non-muslim terrorists (in fact, the majority of terrorists are non-muslim, if I remember correctly), the media has great power in influencing the way people think about muslims; if they report more muslim acts of terrorism, people will generally tend to assume that muslims are more likely to be terrorists, much like if the news begins to focus more on shark attacks, people will assume that shark attacks are on the rise, even if the actual number of shark attacks hasn't increased (people never consider that maybe the news just likes sensational pieces, and that the news has just decided to report more shark attacks).

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    • nobody13
      8 years ago

      (cont).

      Anyways, certain habits of thinking can pretty much become ingrained in a person due to their experiences and the media (I know, obvious), but the problem is that it can be incredibly hard to get rid of it by reasoning alone, for at least two reasons (though there are probably many more that I'm not aware of):

      1. You're asking them to use the newer parts of their brains (the parts responsible for conscious thinking and logical thought processes), to override much older parts of the brain, those being the reptilian parts of the brain that govern the subconscious.

      2. As it was said previously, people don't actually base most of their beliefs or behaviors on the rational thought processes of their conscious brains; they mostly only use the reasoning parts of their brains to defend beliefs they've come to for largely emotional or subconscious reasons.

      And the real clencher? People don't pay attention to information which contradicts their beliefs either; though they think that they've come to their beliefs based on reason and evidence, they mostly only pay attention to evidence which appears to confirm their beliefs, while finding reasons to ignore any information which contradicts their deeply held beliefs (this is known as "confirmation bias"). Add all of this together, and it's gonna be a real bitch to try and convince people to drop their beliefs on reason alone.

      The media representations and cultural depictions of black people probably contribute to people's bigotry towards them; even though the majority of blacks aren't criminals, because a lot of criminals happen to be black, people will probably be primed to associate blacks with crime and certain undesirable behaviors if they are repeatedly subjected to this sort of information about blacks via the media, word-of-mouth, or some other source. The fastest and most effective way to eviscerate these preconceptions would be for people to reprise themselves and have more positive experiences with black people, but because the United States (I'm just assuming you're American, sorry if that's not the case) is actually still segregated to a great degree via the intersections of class and race, it's highly unlikely that many whites are ever going to build these positive experiences with blacks. The stereotypes about blacks don't help; because of the things that are often said about blacks, whites are often too afraid to consider ever actually living amongst them to any great degree, and because there's a huge intersection of class and race in this country, with blacks generally being of lower socio-economic standing than whites, whites will generally tend to buy nicer houses in classier neighborhoods, further segregating the two.

      The intersection of race and class is important for another reason; because blacks are often of lower socio-economic standing compared to whites, blacks are often affected by the elements of their class, and this is often seen as something intrinsic to their race. People who are of lower classes tend to be less educated, more belligerent, and more prone to crime than those of higher classes, including white people of lower classes; ever seen the way rednecks and white trash behave? The reason why we don't assume that all whites are like this, however, is because whites are generally found in all socio-economic levels of America, including the middle and upper classes. Blacks, however, because they are generally prone to being working-class or lower on the socio-economic ladder, are more likely to have elements of their class attributed to their race.

      Sorry, but I'm kind of blanking out now. I hope this comment wasn't too stupid or too long.

      And now I'll disappear.

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      • dindu_nuffin
        8 years ago

        yes it was too stupid and too long. I only had to skim a few lines to see what an enormous pile of bullshit you shat out there, and what a complete and total moron you revealed yourself to be

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      • dahztoyevskeet
        8 years ago

        Uh oh. Looks like someone can't stay out of hiatus long enough to keep his feewingz from getting hurt and down voting people. Loser.

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      • dahztoyevskeet
        8 years ago

        Hiatus? If it means I won't have to sit through anymore tedious posts like that for a while, I'm all for it.

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  • TightCancerKidsAssholes
    8 years ago

    Perhaps you should fuck the tight little asshole of a cute innocent cancer kid with some African Americans. Could be fun!

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  • thegypsysailor
    8 years ago

    There are very few African Americans. There are plenty of blacks or Negroes in the US, but comparatively very few Africans with dual citizenship with the US and their country of origin.

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  • bannedtrollaccount
    8 years ago

    Love you sweet-heart beautiful fox fluffy tail frolicking.

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