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How many people here actually know any African-Americans? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by Cryophilia@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Not like "I went to school with one" but have had an actual friendship?

I've had a couple of conversations recently where people have confidently said things about the Black community that are ridiculously incorrect. The kind of shit where you can tell they grew up in a very white community and learned about Black history as a college freshman.

Disclaimer: I am white, but I grew up in a Black neighborhood. I was one of 3 white kids in my elementary school lol, including my brother.

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[–] Sylaran@lemmy.world 54 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

I'm black 👀 This post kinda acts like there are no black people on lemmy but we here... at least I am lol

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 14 points 5 months ago

Welp, that makes 2 of us!

Guess we have to start our own instance now so we can talk about [redacted]!

[–] moonpiedumplings@programming.dev 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Also Black here!

(My keyboard doesn't have emotes, but pretend this is the black hand waving hi)

Edit: 👋🏾

[–] tiredofsametab@kbin.run 8 points 5 months ago

I think some people grow up in some very ethnically homogeneous places. When I was a kid, I think we had two black families, one that came from Pakistan when we were in elementary school, and a couple of people form Latin America that moved in when we were in middle school. My (rural Ohio) town had a lot of super racist and anti-Semitic people.

[–] TeryVeneno@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 months ago

Also black here 👋🏾

[–] SimplyTadpole@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 5 months ago

I'm also black (but not American) and I felt the same way reading this lol

[–] Dkarma@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Ops is sheltered and white, probably from small town south.