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Ever hear of "code switching"? That's something people of color are very used to doing in various situations. It sounds like a lot of white people, regardless of political ideology (though not all) are just not used to doing because they're used to be in culturally dominant situations, so they have less need to do that.
Problem is, code switching is something that has to be developed or practiced so it looks natural. Most white people aren't adept at that, and if they're trying to use, say, black vernacular, to a group of African Americans, if they're not practiced in it, it looks awkward or even patronizing.
One of the few Caucasians who can pull that off is Father Michael Pfleger of St. Sabina's in Chicago, a Catholic priest who serves a predominantly African American parish, and is well known for his social and community activism. And that's because he's authentic and shows it with his actions.
I've heard of code switching. I have some familiarity with it. However, I don't use it. I didn't grow up using it. I've gotten some interesting comments regarding this. Being Black, I've been expected to speak English. I've gotten comments like "you sound White" or "you're the whitest Black guy I've ever seen"(and this has nothing to do with my skin tone as I'm kind of dark in hue). Having grown up in predominantly White areas much of my life, I never grew up using code switching. I actually tried it once and I felt very weird doing it.
I've known about Fr. Michael Pfleger for years. I am familiar with his work and it is something I like.
Or they will just ignore you because they weren't talking to you in the first place.
I think we can assume for the sake of this thread that they WERE talking to you. If they were not, there is nothing to discuss. One simply keeps his/her mouth shut.
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How cute to see the righties getting all gushy over a study from one of those schools they constantly deride as bastions of loony lefty values & indoctrination.
They'd cheer the words of Satan himself if he said what they want to hear, facts being irrelevant.
African Americans are politically on the left and will continue to vote for Democrats. Accept this fact and move on. Stop acting as if this is a fact that you can’t live with because you can and will live with it no matter how much it displeases you personally.
Pretending to care about liberal communication styles appertaining to African Americans and low key belittling black folks for being Democrats (what this thread is ACTUALLY about) isn’t gonna move the black vote over to the Republican column. What will help is ending the overt hostility to black folks. But Republicans would lose their base if they did that, so I guess they'll have to stick to the status quo.
I think we can assume for the sake of this thread that they WERE talking to you. If they were not, there is nothing to discuss. One simply keeps his/her mouth shut.
We can assume that if you want, and that's fine. The poster was talking about what people are posting on Facebook and hearing some guy at the store.
African Americans are politically on the left and will continue to vote for Democrats. Accept this fact and move on. Stop acting as if this is a fact that you can’t live with because you can and will live with it no matter how much it displeases you personally.
Pretending to care about liberal communication styles appertaining to African Americans and low key belittling black folks for being Democrats (what this thread is ACTUALLY about) isn’t gonna move the black vote over to the Republican column. What will help is ending the overt hostility to black folks. But Republicans would lose their base if they did that, so I guess they'll have to stick to the status quo.
The Unz Review also contains articles featuring KevinMcDonald, the editor of Occidental Observer, a white nationalist and anti-Semitic publication. I ran across that name when I used to be on cultural anthropology forums calling out the (a-HEM!) "racially aware" types. A respectable publication would be professional enough to fact-check the background of any of its contributors - namely by selecting against alt-right type or black bloq anarchists types from making sure their stories don't get published on their sites.
Kevin MacDonald is a serious scholar with some interesting, well-supported ideas about what motivates Jewish communities and how they influence the societies they inhabit. The fact that the SPLC and the ADL don't like him is not a good reason to ban him from the internet. God help us if the net overlords ever manage to shut down places like Unz out of deference to people like yourself and your warped notions of respectability.
Wait.
We can't listen to studies from liberal indoctrination centers like universities!!
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