On 4/22/2021 9:58 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
> The common misconception that "blacks can't be racist" is bullshit.
> I hate to break it some of you - there ARE plenty of black racists,
> and they are just as much fueling the issue as the worst of the
> Whites. You can't be out calling people racists when you regularly
> practice and advertise the same ideals yourself. It just feeds the
> problem.

I encountered a number of black people who were racists when I lived in
Tennessee (Memphis). In the 1990's there was an older woman named
Pinkie who worked at the breakfast/lunch counter at McLemore's market
who was downright rude to me all the time. Her co-worker Louanne (also
black) was not. One day I made a batch of red beans and rice with
andouille sausage and took a tupperware container of it to Louanne. (I
figured she must get terribly tired of eating the same stuff they cooked
for lunch every day.) She loved it! After I dropped it off, Miss
Pinkie, as she was called, just had to taste it. Louanne told me later
Pinkie exclaimed "Dis shit is GOOD!" After that, Pinkie was nice as can
be to me. Funny how that works.

There was another time, back in the 1980's, I went to Target with
Michelle, who was light-skinned black woman on our lunch break so she
could buy an alarm clock. We stopped at the lunch counter to grab a
bite to eat. The black woman behind the counter took Michelle's order
then literally turned her back and pointedly ignored me. Michelle
looked at me, then she said, "Excuse me! Aren't you going to take my
sisters' order?" LOL Watching that woman stammer and stumble through
an apology was almost comical. Michelle asked me when we sat down to
eat, "Does that happen a lot?" Sadly, yes.

I have yet to encounter any negative or nasty attitudes from black
people in this part of South Carolina. It's quite refreshing! Who
knows, maybe some of them are smiling while thinking to themselves "I
hate white people" but you'd never know it and I don't believe they
actually feel that way. It's a 180° difference.

Jill