Just curious any black folks on here??? I find it interesting to meet folks of all colors, just to see what's up. skin color should not matter but really folks it is the 1st thing one notices . it really don't matter as I decide what a persons like after getting to know them not by how they look.
Met the nicest black fella fishing one day. just went up and said hey. See him lots on the river and always say hello.
One time brought 2 black friends into the local bar/fly shop. Those guys are totally racist. My friends are so beyond that sort of ignorance they laugh at folks like that.
We walked in and it became silent, the looks could kill. my friend asked if this was where the KKK meeting was were here for the lynching, ordered a whiskey and after a few minutes they were all laughing and carrying on.
Yes, there are.
I think I need to go back and read thru this thread!
And the question is asked .......What is it that's so scary/menacing about black people? Why all the fear? Be honest, I really wanna hear from some other races about that. If it's the issue of violence then i believe the pot maybe calling the kettle black! Whites, Orientals, Arabs and Blacks all have good and bad spots, I'm not proud of alot of things associated with my race but I'm willing to guess you guys aren't proud of some things your races do either!
For ME, it's not the color, it's the sex and age. From my (middle-aged female, Hispanic) perspective, young men are dangerous. Their bodies are
raging with testosterone, they pull stupid shit, they have this need to prove themselves, and did I mention all that testosterone raging through their bodies?
When my oldest boy hit high school he became a pretty hard partier. He brought any and everyone home with him, a lot of them
very... unsavory characters. I had some very frightening moments confronting them about the hard alcohol they'd brought onto the property, as well as at least one attempted break-in through my bedroom window. One of his friends came into the house completely piss drunk one night, found his way into my bedroom and proceeded to try to sweet-talk me into 'just' kissing him. <shudder> Still grosses me out thinking about it, a kid my SON's age. Ew.
In any event, I think that from those womens' perspective, this was more about young men than anything else. Men are the most dangerous creatures on the planet.
Edit* I'm going to go on a bit of a ramble about my experiences with blacks in different areas of the country. I still remember very clearly my life as a young child in Shreveport. I was a half-Puerto Rican girl who was often mistaken for... I'll use the term mulatto, but the term used by whites towards me was not nice and used the term "yellow." Those of you who know, know. I was refused entrance to more than a few gas station bathrooms for being a little 'high y____w' until my mother would pull down my shorts or bathing suit to show them my ass was white.
The black children and families down there were
very kind to me, I felt comfortable, safe and at home with them. The white kids (and adults)? Oh my God was I picked on!
Then we moved to southern California. I still remember the moment I saw a group of black kids at a local mall, and I ran to them thinking that they would automatically want to be *my* friend as much as I wanted to be theirs. Oh my God, the way they cursed me! I was shocked, saddened, horrified, and confused. Who would be my friend? Not the white kids, I'd already learned that. And if not the black kids, then who?
The point is that the locale seems to make a huge difference in peoples' reactions. Out here being black is a novelty, the TWO black kids who attended my son's high school practically had superstar status,
everyone wanted to be around them, know what they were doing, all of it. Don't be Mexican around here, though, or you become "one of those people."
Get my drift?
