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.

  • @CryophiliaOP
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    -42 months ago

    Right, I know we have a lot of international users here on lemmy, so I wanted to specify Black Americans, the descendents of slaves. For instance, one of my friends and coworkers is a very dark skinned Tunisian, but that’s a very different culture than the one I was asking about.

              • @CryophiliaOP
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                -72 months ago

                Americans are also internationals

                Correct.

                the word no longer has meaning

                Incorrect.

                  • @CryophiliaOP
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                    -72 months ago

                    “international users” means “users from all around the globe”. The whole murica thing was just your own biases you inserted into it.

                    But that’s okay, I understand everyone on lemmy has a daily quota of “murica bad” comments they need to shoehorn into unrelated things, so I won’t downvote you.

          • @CryophiliaOP
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            12 months ago

            Did you just praise yourself for doing a thing you hadn’t seen in a long time?

            • @[email protected]
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              12 months ago

              No value judgement, just noting the change of fashion. We’re clearly better off without it, but it’s a bit nostalgic.

            • @jimmydoreisalefty
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              -22 months ago

              Based move on their part, even if I do not agree on the ‘whoosh’, hahahah