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[MarAzul]

You truly don't have many if ANY black friends.

Aw now you can't really know this! You must know the "us" can't really cover all, as you suggest.

 

[Cippy91]

You should look into your posts and really determine who's acting like the child. And you don't know us bro.. You really don't. You truly don't have many if ANY black friends. Don't lie. There aren't many of us out in Damascus if any.

I don't think you hang around us, nor know us intimately.

Never claimed to have black friends, I keep my damn circle small as it is. I have my girlfriend and two friends I have been friends with for 10 years. That’s my little circle. I play video games with this black dude I met years ago. Also know some from playing ball. All friendly. Not gonna sit here and act like I’m friends with everybody. These are associates. People I say what up to and talk to.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Never claimed to have black friends, I keep my damn circle small as it is. I have my girlfriend and two friends I have been friends with for 10 years. That’s my little circle. I play video games with this black dude I met years ago. Also know some from playing ball. All friendly. Not gonna sit here and act like I’m friends with everybody. These are associates. People I say what up to and talk to.

I don't really have any friends anymore.

Can't accuse a guy with no friends of not having any black friends and have it hold any weight.

The wife and I have people we hang out with occasionally but they're all work related.

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

Just realized my favorite one is one of my wife's employees named Asia. She's a black girl and she's fucking hilarious.

 

[Cippy91]

I don't really have any friends anymore.

Can't accuse a guy with no friends of not having any black friends and have it hold any weight.

The wife and I have people we hang out with occasionally but they're all work related.

That’s what I mean like shit i only consider my girlfriend of 6 years and two friends of 10 years to be actual friends. I mean yeah I see the same people sometimes at the gym or wherever who I’m friendly to and we know each other but a friend and that is so different. It’s like who gives a shit what color your friends are. I’m not that white dude who is gonna be like “hey I have a black friend!!”. That doesn’t mean shit

 

[bodyman5000 and 1]

If you try to tell me I shouldn’t be emotional about a racial justice issue, then I already know you don’t understand that issue.

Because emotion is a natural response to oppression – and having someone judge how I feel about it just makes me feel worse.

For example, take micgroaggressions– small, subtle incidents of racism often done by people who don’t know they’re being racist. An example is someone telling me, "you're so well spoken".

It’s not the most egregious expression of racism, so you may wonder, “What’s the big deal?”

I’m upset, you’re confused, and the difference between our reactions isn’t just a matter of my being “oversensitive.” It’s a matter of privilege: You can learn about racism through secondhand sources, while I’ve directly experienced racism my entire life.

So it’s not up to you to decide what I should be offended by. Save your whitesplanation if you want to explain why I’m overreacting to a well-meaning compliment (which isn't a compliment at all) by cringing at "you're so well spoken".

After I’ve dealt with microagressions on a daily basis for so long, it’s just cruel to expect me to minimize my feelings about racism.

But wait – do my feelings make me biased? Maybe YOU want to have an “objective conversation,” a “rational debate,” without emotions getting in the way.

Like so many whitesplainers, you believe what you say is important because you think you have have logic on your side. Objectivity is an understandable goal, but think about what it means to believe you’re the only one who can bring “reason” into the conversation.

It's not up to you to tell us what we should care about, save your blacksplanation for someone else.