“Wealthy Black Americans DO NOT like messing with poor Black Folks in general! Classism divides us!”
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A Pound & A Prayer
This brand of “Classism” is rooted in idolization of whiteness (or rooted in anti-blackness, if we really wanna take it there). Any time I hear middle-upper class black people try to separate themselves from working class black people, they always refer to the worst negative stereotypes to justify their outlook.
If people really cared about the betterment of black people, raising the floor would be just as important as raising the ceiling. Instead, a lot of people get to climb a couple story’s and then put the middle finger up at people stuck on the basement whilst sounding exactly like a white person.
If people really cared about the betterment of black people, raising the floor would be just as important as raising the ceiling. Instead, a lot of people get to climb a couple story’s and then put the middle finger up at people stuck on the basement whilst sounding exactly like a white person.
WhenWeWereKings
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I don't believe in looking down on people. My situation does not make me better or worse than anyone. With that being said, I gravitate towards people who think and move like me. The majority of them just so happen to be at my income level.
I do not interact with people I do not have to. Richer or poorer. My circle has pretty much remained unchanged for 20 plus years.
I do not interact with people I do not have to. Richer or poorer. My circle has pretty much remained unchanged for 20 plus years.
SuaveyBoi115
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The irony is the White people they try to appear as the “safe negro” to feels the exact same way about them
Unbothered
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Black people should avoid falling into classism.
Classism is like being conservative. Two things that, more often than not, overlook race in favor of colorblind perspectives about life. I don't care where a Black person is at on the income bracket, I don't discriminate. The divide between the wealthy and working class (or low-income/poor) in the Black community is largely due to misunderstandings and preconceived perceptions between the two groups.
Race, for example, working class, low-income, and poor Black people are more often than not tuned into their Blackness; it's a part of their identity, y'know, character, and for better or worse they don't shy away from that fact, it's apart of them daily and are reminded by society, racism, prejudice, bigotry, etc.
Whereas the wealthy and bourgeois types tend to characterize their wealth and social status economically as their main identity and put race on the back burner while adopting this “if I could do it, you can do it too” aka bootstrap perspective and placing blame on the Black person who isn't in their shoes for not being like them. Hell, the wealthy or well-to-do Black folks will sometimes even blame the working class or low-income/poor Black people for being “too black,” not just in personality/character but culturally as to why they are in certain predicaments.
It's kinda like what Samuel L. Jackson said in Shaft 2000, how he was too Black (attitude/mindset) for the uniform but also too blue for the brothers, and from that point, he realized something had to give.
Classism is like being conservative. Two things that, more often than not, overlook race in favor of colorblind perspectives about life. I don't care where a Black person is at on the income bracket, I don't discriminate. The divide between the wealthy and working class (or low-income/poor) in the Black community is largely due to misunderstandings and preconceived perceptions between the two groups.
Race, for example, working class, low-income, and poor Black people are more often than not tuned into their Blackness; it's a part of their identity, y'know, character, and for better or worse they don't shy away from that fact, it's apart of them daily and are reminded by society, racism, prejudice, bigotry, etc.
Whereas the wealthy and bourgeois types tend to characterize their wealth and social status economically as their main identity and put race on the back burner while adopting this “if I could do it, you can do it too” aka bootstrap perspective and placing blame on the Black person who isn't in their shoes for not being like them. Hell, the wealthy or well-to-do Black folks will sometimes even blame the working class or low-income/poor Black people for being “too black,” not just in personality/character but culturally as to why they are in certain predicaments.
It's kinda like what Samuel L. Jackson said in Shaft 2000, how he was too Black (attitude/mindset) for the uniform but also too blue for the brothers, and from that point, he realized something had to give.
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The issue with this is that class is often associated with behavior. Behavior is usually associated with safety. If people feel you're gonna be a risk to their safety they don't want you around.
It's why WASPs don't fukk with Rednecks. They'll use em but won't associate with em.
It's why WASPs don't fukk with Rednecks. They'll use em but won't associate with em.
It's best to ignore him. The guy is obviously working through some things in regards to his Yoruba heritage, which he will always put on all of Africa. without question, without fail, regardless of the culture in question. We could have a thread about onions and he'll run in here talking about how African onions are the worst of the worst, irredeemable, and damn near deserving of genocide, and how he is a better person for not using them.
shyt reminds of white South Africans and how the mere mention of anything in regards to the Bantu makes them spaz out in similar fashion. shyt is hilarious.
But yes, rich people in general, regardless of background, don't like messing with poor people. A lot of this is based around stereotypes. Funny enough though, some poor people feel the same way about rich people due to stereotypes of their own. It's silly to say one group is worse than others when history has show how other groups get down with their poor across centuries.
That shyt is universal but takes on different forms.
AlbertPullhoez
The Takeover
Damn that tweet brought all the uppity nikkas out the woodwork
Elim Garak
Veteran
I don't even think of that as a black thing tbh lol. That is on most of the planet lol.
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Superstar
BandOfGypsys
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This PG county in a nutshell. I definitely agree if anything it's the opposite for us as black people while other races, mostly white people practice way more classism than we do.
Has nothing to do with class with me, I only avoid black people based on mindset. If your mind is right I can be around any black person no matter class.
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Exactly. White people don't even claim their trailer park brethren until it's election time
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