Black Men Who Don't Nod Back

[8WON6]

It’s not checking in.







It’s an acknowledgement of brotherhood. Some of y’all nikkas grew up in front of a tv and didn’t go outside or around other black people unless you were at school.

again, do yall realize there are Black men out here with ADHD, Autism, Neurodivergence? Or simply just introverted. Many of our brothers and sisters are not extroverted or driven by "checking in" with every other person on the street. Why did you completely skip over this? There are Black people that are literally wired different than you, and that doesn't mean anything negative.

but yeah, it's checking in. yall literally asking why somebody didn't participate in your little social checking in process. You just realize how ridiculous it is when you simply reword it.

 

[Justin Nitsuj]

We all we got.

I be in Orange County, Bay Area, other countries, etc. and go out of my way.

If a dude doesn’t not back or respond, I just say, "oh, you one of those negroes" and keep moving.

This fool literally said he wouldn’t send his kids to an HBCU and got the audacity to utter the words “we all we got”

FOH

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

again, do yall realize there are Black men out here with ADHD, Autism, Neurodivergence? Or simply just introverted. Many of our brothers and sisters are not extroverted or driven by "checking in" with every other person on the street. Why did you completely skip over this? There are Black people that are literally wired different than you, and that doesn't mean anything negative.

but yeah, it's checking in. yall literally asking why somebody didn't participate in your little social checking in process. You just realize how ridiculous it is when you simply reword it.

Is saying “good morning” checking in?
Is saying “bless you” after a sneeze checking in?

Same negros will kiss white people’s asses on both sides and show all 32 teeth at work, but have no feeling of solidarity with black men.

 

[The God Poster]

again, do yall realize there are Black men out here with ADHD, Autism, Neurodivergence? Or simply just introverted. Many of our brothers and sisters are not extroverted or driven by "checking in" with every other person on the street. Why did you completely skip over this? There are Black people that are literally wired different than you, and that doesn't mean anything negative.

but yeah, it's checking in. yall literally asking why somebody didn't participate in your little social checking in process. You just realize how ridiculous it is when you simply reword it.

Is this why you don’t nod

 

[Sbp]

Aye man. Yall gotta stop speaking on that kinda stuff on this site. There's way too many non blacks and black man haters here, for us to be discussing our secrets like that.

 

[RhodyRum]

I have no problem initiating or responding to another Brotha's nod, especially when I'm in Minnesota, but taking to social media to complain that someone who doesn't know you from a can of paint didn't acknowledge you is the essence of "Pick me" shıt.

I'll nod if we make eye contact. If you don't nod back, my day and life simply goes on. The fukk I look like getting in any type of feelings, forming judgments, or getting moist over that???

 

[8WON6]

Is saying “good morning” checking in?
Is saying “bless you” after a sneeze checking in?

Same negros will kiss white people’s asses on both sides and show all 32 teeth at work, but have no feeling of solidarity with black men.

This is different than a head nod. And yes, it's a form of checking in. But anyways I can't believe nikkas actually using a headnod as some kind of barometer of Blackness. So not headnodding means that random Black man on the street kisses white people ass. How did you make that leap there?

This shyt so stupid the more questions you ask about it the dumber the "logic" gets. I feel kind of silly even responding to this shyt with serious actual reasons that our Black brothers and sisters who might be different like that shouldn't have their Blackness challenge over some small ass social cue bullshyt.

This random man i don't know who I have no information on MUST be a c00n because he didn't headnod. LMAO

 

[Wargames]

When a black person does this It’s a sign they don’t fukk with you, you cornball….

 

[desjardins]

I live around black people so I only nod in areas where it's barely any of us at
If its in the states, I assume it's some c00n who doesn't want to recognize "identity politics" and the type to say they don't see color
If it's in another country I assume they Nigerians or some other african and acknowledging other black people is not a thing they do for whatever reason

In the early 2010s I remember I was buying bottles in Mama Shelter in Paris (for 20 euros). There were some black people next to me also buying bottles, sounded nigerian. only black ppl in there and doing our thing. I tried to build with these nikkas and they gave me the cold shoulder like shyt
I get that the head nod and building with someone JUST because they're black might be an American thing but damn

 

[8WON6]

Is this why you don’t nod

I'm very introverted. I just don't think the people that live and die with this headnod type shyt realize that not everybody is playing the same social game with them. Some people can't even think beyond "how come they not trying to fit in with me?"

I was gonna type out a whole thing, but i think these sentences kind of cover it.

 

[DaRealness]

Obviously, if you live in a mostly black inner city area like I do, then of course you not gonna nod at every breh who walks past. There was another thread on this topic a while back and I mentioned how when I was in Ireland some years ago on a week long training course, ALL the brothas out there were surprisingly on code and gave the nod. One of the non black dudes on my course even asked me if I knew the people out there lol. I also had a job out in the sticks somewhere and a black man who was out there saw me and we both nodded.

I use to feel some type of way when I'd be in remote places and you'd have brehs who wouldn't nod back, but now it's meh, whatever. If it happens cool, if not, it's not the end of the world. I got bigger things to be concerned with as does he. As I've gotten older, I realise no stranger owes me any type of acknowledgement. I'm not about to get on a soapbox and sound like those passport chicks who follow black men to Asia and South America and then complain about brehs who don't check for them or say hello (even though they don't speak to those same black men in their home country) lol.

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

This is different than a head nod. And yes, it's a form of checking in. But anywats I can't believe nikkas actually using a headnod as some kind of barometer of Blackness. So not headnodding means that random Black man on the street kisses white people ass. How did you make that leap there?

This shyt so stupid the more questions you ask about it the dumber the "logic" gets. I feel kind of silly even responding to this shyt with serious actual reasons that our Black brothers and sisters who might be different like that shouldn't have their Blackness challenge over some small ass social cue bullshyt.

This random man i don't know who I have no information on MUST be a c00n because he didn't headnod. LMAO

816 is Kansas City… is that where you grew up?

 

[RhodyRum]

This is different than a head nod. And yes, it's a form of checking in. But anyways I can't believe nikkas actually using a headnod as some kind of barometer of Blackness. So not headnodding means that random Black man on the street kisses white people ass. How did you make that leap there?

This shyt so stupid the more questions you ask about it the dumber the "logic" gets. I feel kind of silly even responding to this shyt with serious actual reasons that our Black brothers and sisters who might be different like that shouldn't have their Blackness challenge over some small ass social cue bullshyt.

This random man i don't know who I have no information on MUST be a c00n because he didn't headnod. LMAO

Exactly. The fact that about 70% of the first 20 responses in here are condoning being a judgmental bıtch over some dumb shıt like this shows you how immature, hoemotional, attention starved, feminine, and generally stupid that the average poster on this forum really is.

 

[Phitz]

Head nod up = what good with you fam?
Head nod down = respect.
No head nod = fukk you.

yeah I nod down to everybody(within reason, not in a crowded place)

but yeah its more annoying when another blk person who conciously KNOWS your acknowledging them says nothing and keeps going when they have had no other interaction with you to know if you're a good or bad person.

 

[Wig Twistin Season]

I'm very introverted. I just don't think the people that live and die with this headnod type shyt realize that not everybody is playing the same social game with them. Some people can't even think beyond "how come they not trying to fit in with me?"

I was gonna type out a whole thing, but i think these sentences kind of cover it.

Acknowledging =/= fitting in. It’s a greeting weirdo.

Obviously after a head nod, a conversation would reveal you’re a weirdo and I’d keep it moving.