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This also require someone to understand that Black American culture does not automatically equate to ghetto culture. I went to jazz concert one night. Majority Black audience. No ghetto behavior from anyone. Just good music and good vibes. Contrast this to my side gig that I do in addition to my regular job. Driving for Door Dash has exposed me to places where there is ghetto behavior and a ghetto underclass culture. It's easy for me to tell the difference. However, some people won't understand that. It's not hard to differentiate between Black middle class professionals vs those individuals immersed in ghetto "hood rat" culture. I can see it, you can see it. However, some people don't seem to know the difference.
Or they don't want to acknowledge the difference, even if they're aware of it.
Which "culture?" The black people who live in my neighborhood and with whom I've worked are responsible, hardworking, educated people who eschew "hood rats" and other troublemakers. All black culture isn't ghetto, any more than all white culture is trashy redneck.
Same here. I know hundreds of black engineers, business owners, financial types. I have neighbors who are retired mail carriers and office workers. I know very few ghetto rats. It makes me question what type of people are the ones who only know black hood people. What type of person are you if in this day and age in America you don't know normal middle-and-upper class black people? Or think the hood rats are the rule and not the exception? That tells a lot about the person who thinks that way.
Same here. I know hundreds of black engineers, business owners, financial types. I know very few ghetto rats. It makes me question what type of people are the ones who only know black hood people. What type of person are you if in this day and age in America you don't know normal middle-and-upper class black people? Or think the hood rats are the rule and not the exception?
A very good question indeed. I have to wonder where some people go in order to meet alood-rat type Black people.
I used to work in the city of Atlanta. While I ran into some hood rats, most of the Black people I ran into were regular, working people. No shortage of middle class professionals. One a per capita level, I personally knew far more middle class, college educated professionals than I did hood rat types. This was my experience in my late 20s/early 30s holding jobs in the city of Atlanta (I live in a different city now, and I'm in my mid 30s). Places I have worked and people I have worked with. Plenty of professional types.
I never saw hood rats as the rule. I have run into hood rat, underclass types on multiple occasions (even being the victim of violent crimes). However, finding regular Black people, finding middle-class Black Americans, educated professionals, I could always find those types of Black Americans. In my field, I don't see that many, but I have seen them represented in other fields.
For individuals who speak so badly about Black and, I have to wonder where they go to run into the ghetto archetypes. Or, if some people are just prejudice, period.
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For individuals who speak so badly about Black and, I have to wonder where they go to run into the ghetto archetypes. Or, if some people are just prejudice, period.
It's an issue that becomes more important when you start having children and have to think about what school district to put them into.
However, I was once a kid. My parents had to think about plenty of things while raising their children. Being Black parents with Black children, they had to think about....
1) Keeping their children away from bad influences.
2) Making sure their children did well in school and got a good education.
3) How to deal with situations where their children dealt with racism (and I grew up dealing with alot of racism. All the more reason I don't respect anyone who can't differentiate between regular Black people and hood rats).
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