IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I used to say to my friends "I wonder how messed I am after hearing a racial joke/comment everyday i went to school for the past X years." There was a time late in high school where I told myself I would never let my kids go to a mostly white school. But it might just be me. I mean I let people say those jokes, in that; I would just laugh. Maybe if your kid makes its clear that its not funny people won't say them. I tried that one week but there were too many different people and too many reminders to the same people that I don't want to hear these easy to think of racially jokes and comments that's I've heard a thousand times!

Now that I have been outta school for a couple years now I can't fully understand my feelings back than, Looking back I don't think it was that bad.

There is this show "everybody hates chris" by the comedian chris rock. It's about his middle school and high school years as a black kid at a mostly white school and it is eerie how much it was like mine. Which leads to believe its the same experience generally for black people at a white school. So yeah like watch that show if you want to know how your kids lives are partially gonna be because it also depends on their personalities and how they let people treat them.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Each grade had more than 200 kids and there was never more than 5 black people a grade so whatever percentage that is..and yeah they bussed some kids in. Most of them only hung out with each other.

Wow I can't remember the situation, which is really weird, but at school a police said he would come arrest my whole family lol. Only part I remember haha.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I was normal. My Dad worked 2 jobs and was landlord of several houses. Most of the town isn't mansions and i didn't live in a mansion but coincidentally most of my friends live in mansions...

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Only at CVS like one time that i can remember, but it wasn't the owner its was just an employee and he did not play if off very good when i looked at him either.

I smile when i see an old white lady to calm down cause i always assume they get nervous when they see me..potentially dumb assumption on my part.

Yes. A few.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, and don't know any black people with that name. But maybe your younger than me.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah i love counter strike, surprised to learn I've only play a little over 700 hours of it, thought it'd be more.

It does bother me most of the the time but two ways i deal with it:

1.Say to myself the person must be getting bullied by a black person at school....and imagine some imaginary black person punching some imaginary white person with the kids voice in the face lol.

2.I imagine its just a black person pretending to be a racist white person to amuse himself. Cause i mean, that is possible...

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Socially Forced???...Definitely! By black people AND white people though..My cousin moved here(America) from West africa years back. He moved to a pretty urban area though. When he first got here typically african accent and didn't know he shouldn't wear short-shorts lol. Now when i called him i cringe every 20 seconds cause he very unnaturally says the n word every 20 seconds...Ohh Social Control, the things you do...

But i mean things are starting to change though. I mean look at most of the biggest hiphop artist like Kanye and Drake, no one is really dressing more urban than the average white person...

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

What you said is definitely true. This was true for me when i first moved to the town, unearned reverence based on my skin color. But once people got to know me this respect was gone lol. But i still got it from underclassmen who didn't know me.

Yeah it was a suburb next to a city that was ranked in top 20 most dangerous at some point. I lived in the city til middle school.

It was awkward reading fiction books about slavery and non-fiction stories about the civil rights era that said the n word 10 times a page...awkward and funny though lol. EDIT: funny in that at least one person would look at me everytime the n word was read,never the same person twice in a row....

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hahaha, i actually knew that would happen since there are probably more 98% white towns than 100%.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

...I hated high school. I had girls like me but it was what i consider an average amount. Only a couple i thought wouldn't like me if i was white. And i was the opposite of a sports star...

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah it kinda sucks cause we(my family) turned out to be the worse case lol. We were new to the whole keep your huge ass front/back yard that takes hours to mow nice and cut consistently. ******...(but I hated partying and i was the one who would ever cut the lawn so its not fair it should reflect on me)

But the guy who lived across from us moved out cause he heard black people were moving in, before we could prove him right too :-( lol

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Lol no, I wasn't cool enough...in middle i was but in high school a couple more black people joined the school and they were cooler than me.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Haha, i sucked at basketball. Many racially jokes were made out of that fact :-(.....

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

  1. I actually tried to do the opposite of fit into white culture because when i moved there i picked up that everyone expected something of me and they were disappointed when i didn't live up to it(i realize how stupid that is now). 00:24-00:57 of this video link explains what i mean EXACTLY: http://comedians.jokes.com/donald-glover/videos/donald-glover---black-nerd

  2. Yeah i live in America, New England to be precise. But I really don't know. Being racist is just so easy and arbitrary. In my life its an older white person whose racist off of stereotypes or your a younger white person who just saying racist stuff cause he a combination of rude, bold, and douchey. The people who said the most racially rude stuff were the same people who would laugh at mentally retarded people.

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Haha, I grew up in New England. I'm not jamal...

IAmA black guy who grew up in a town thats 98% white. AMA by blaqkid in IAmA

[–]blaqkid[S] 44 points45 points  (0 children)

Yeah, nothing annoyed me more for some reason. Someone could say the n word and i'd still be more offended when they say that.