The Internet is not really for black people

[eric]

[spacemonkey]

Education is not that big a deal anymore. Learn to throw a ball through a hoop or hit one with a stick, or some other trick with a ball. Problem solved.

[eric]

[nordictruce]

I mean you can't go anywhere on the internet without black people being the butt of a joke or hated on or running into racist

http://www.buzzfeed.com/michaelrusch/th ... made-a-hug


i mean, imagine you're a black guy. You're at work and you don't have anything to do and you are checking your twitter feed being a pats fan and you notice that people are sending out congrats to emails with people that have handles for Ihaten!ggers lol and everyone thinks it's cute and a funny story


I mean in real life I'm a pretty normal guy. I love my job, I like to go to the gym just about everyday, I love listening to jazz, I like college football, I'm passionate about horse racing, I'm a big tom clancy fan, my fav movie of all time is probably Casablanca with V for Vendetta being a pretty close 2nd. My fav TV show is the west wing. Right now I'm eating dinner and watching how to get away with murder. I'll read a chapter of this book I'm reading right now, consent to kill, drink my protein shake then go to bed. I'm an extremely light cig smoker, maybe a pack a month. Okay maybe a pack every 2 weeks lol. Basically 1-2 a day.


No one IRL really hates me. In fact I'm a pretty admired person, I'm very good at my job, I'm very professional, I'm a pretty intense, serious person IRL. Yet everyone on the internet, hates black people. Maybe these people IRL hate me but are just too scared to say so to my face. But everywhere you go on the internet, it's a war against black people. Then even when you are not shaming them, black people are just pawns in the political landscape.


It's like, everywhere on the internet, I have to be reminded that I'm a black male in a white society. If it's not being joked about it's reading some article about how blacks suck or have it bad or need our help or this or that.


I mean, I'm just a pretty normal dude. Why can't the internet treat black people like normal people? how come everytime I go to a forum I have to read about how my race is lazy or not as smart as other races, and there are times I really do not feel like having to debate some 24 year old suburban white kid about why he's dumb as f**k for thinking that black people are by nature more violent than white people


See, white people can cut race off. That's what white people don't understand. You can either talk about it or you can not talk about it. Even people who try to be cute "hey all you black people can I ask you question, why come blan blank blank" shit dude I don't know lol.


Even worse, it makes me feel bad for liking some sterotypical black things, I LOVE neck bones and corn bread. I could live off that for the rest of my life. I'd never let a white person catch me eating it though, because then I'm just "one of them"


One of my best friends is getting married. I'm so happy for her. She is happy. She emails me and i can tell she's in a bad mood. We're like best friends. That girl is like my little sister. Her fiancee's parents don't' want me to come. I'd be the only black guy there. They don't' like the visual of a black guy at the wedding. how the f**k am i supposed to feel about that. I built their website for their wedding free of charge cause she's my homegirl. Who was the guy that talked her out of doing something really stupid when she got mad that her BF hadn't proposed to her and it had been 3 years? me of course. But I can't come to the wedding lol. She feels like shit but she loves the guy. I'll just bow out. I can't get mad at her she did nothing wrong. But I still have to stick my head up and pay my taxes and not be "one of them". for what? What incentive do I have for being a good moral human being when people are going to hate me for no other reason than I don't look like them?


the internet is not for black people. In some was I think Obama winning the election was the worst thing that could have happened for black people. The world was not this racist 10 years ago.

[The Dharma Bum]

well, for what its worth you seem like a pretty normal dude to me

people are f**k, what can you do?

[gla22]

[nordictruce]

I live in the south with a bunch of ignorant rednecks but I don't get to nor would I ever cast every white person in america as a racist redneck because that's stupid.

[Philly]

A brutal truth: the Internet is no less for black people than America is. People just say things on the Internet they never would in real life. Of course, the Internet allows racists to gather and bond in concentrations they can't really find in real life so the good news is that the real life picture isn't QUITE as bleak as the picture painted online. But nonetheless, mouth breathers feel free to say things online they would know to hold their tongues on in real life. What's funny is that you see this stuff in news comment sections even when people are posting from their totally public Facebook pages. Well, no surprise that unevolved mouth breathers are too dumb to get how traceable their publicly attributed online comments are.

[Saz]

I'm black and I love the internet.

[nordictruce]

when planning a wedding you pick and choose your battles i kniwwhat she has to deal with. I'm not going to get mad at herfor not fighting that battle