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Black people that grew up in the suburbs...Please enter this thread.
- Thread starter *L*E*G*A*C*Y*
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I'm extremely self hating. Was when I was an adolescent. Still am now. Since I didnt mesh well with the other black kids I came up with, my experiences with other black people has been largely negative. Feel like my entire perspective would be different if I came up somewhere that was at least 50-60 percent black.
Dak Pickscott
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15-20? there was hardly 5-10 at mine #NOCACEDUCATION #DISDlower middle class black neighborhood
after reading how some of you grew up and people in college im gonna try my hardest to have a family around black people
I feel sorry for all yall that was a minority where you grew up it really does affect you. there was only like 15-20 white kids in my high school
Amerikan Melanin
Veteran
My parents moved me from the hood to the burbs. We went from attached row houses with crack viles on the corners and taking city buses to school, to 2 car garage with a basketball hoop and fireplaces and shyt. I had culture shock.
It hurt me cause I got lazy and forgot that hustle spirit for a while. It helped me cause I didnt go to jail or get shot like a lot of the kids I went to school with.Or have babies in my teenage yrs.
Nah never ever been ridiculed. I know how to walk in both areas without sticking out.
White people have told me I was different. I press them on that till they are uncomfortable.
Absolutely I want my kids raised in the suburbs. No need to raise them in the hood just bring them there to visit family and show them how to move.
1) better schools, saw different races etc.
2)all the time, being called Oreo, oh you think your better than us, do you even have a black friend type ish
3. Yup, shocked I didn't listen to rap, or talked the way I did. Girls on their I'd never date a black guy but your different...
4. Yup
Larry Lobster
/-_-\
Growing up in the suburbs studiyng in a white school is complex. The thing is you get better "education" but at the same time it costs your mental health.
I'd definitely not raise a kid in an enviroment like that.
I'd definitely not raise a kid in an enviroment like that.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
I feel your last statement. I did as well...but that disappeared around the time I was 20. The older I got I embraced my blackness. I've never been more content with who I am now.
I can't even relate to the white people I came up with in high school. Tried hanging out with them...we just went different paths. I agree raising ethnic kids in the burbs has the potential to harm them. Not physically or by exposing them to crime and drugs and unsavory conditions as a whole like in the hood but mentally where they have issues with their identity.
I've always identified with black people and black Americans. I actually resent where I grew up at now.
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
Well I can respect your honesty. Most people on this board would probably call you names...but given your situation and where you came up from it takes honesty and courage to say the things you did in this thread.
To be honest I made this thread cause I wanted to share perspective on the black experience. That's why I wanted people that grew up in the hood to comment. They like to act like our type doesn't know struggle but our struggle is different...but still the same struggle that encompasses black people in a white society.
I think there are a good amount of black people that grew up in the burbs that wish they were white. That see themselves in a white lens. They see how easy it is to get ahead being white, how easy it is to have relationships with the opposite sex being white, and it cripples them emotionally cause they want these things but are aware of the stigma that presents itself trying to do these or pursue these while black.
Honestly it was learning about black history from early African civilization to the civil rights movement that gave me a sense of pride about my blackness. And learning about white supremacy. It made me love and appreciate black people...and to be honest...hate white society in the same breath. I can't love a society or people that hates my existence.
The things about white supremacy is that in order to prosper/survive in it as a minority, you have to ascribe to the belief that somehow we are...inferior as black people to..whites lol.
White people stole whole countries, enslaved people to build a society that gives them unearned privileges. White people stole the accomplishments of people of color and claimed them as their own. White society is based on controlling the hearts and minds of the masses. People don't get this.
So as a black man, whenever I see white people, with their genetic inferiority, that burn and peel in the sun, subconsciously try to tell us...The original people...that they are better...I have to laugh.
wet landscapes
ghost
1) how did growing up in the burbs help you or hurt you?
I don't really know because I don't exactly know what would have happened with my life, had I grown up somewhere else. I do know I don't have any issues with self hate, though
2) have you ever been chastised or ridiculed by other black people because of your background?
people repeat the things I say in a really mocking way because I sound "different". I was alone a lot when I was young so I never picked up a local accent
3) have you ever been patronized by white people because of your background? (Ie...saying stuff like "you're different", "you're not like the others")
fukk no, that would piss me off
4) would you raise your own family in the suburbs?
if the house was pretty, yes
I don't really know because I don't exactly know what would have happened with my life, had I grown up somewhere else. I do know I don't have any issues with self hate, though
2) have you ever been chastised or ridiculed by other black people because of your background?
people repeat the things I say in a really mocking way because I sound "different". I was alone a lot when I was young so I never picked up a local accent
3) have you ever been patronized by white people because of your background? (Ie...saying stuff like "you're different", "you're not like the others")
fukk no, that would piss me off
4) would you raise your own family in the suburbs?
if the house was pretty, yes
Rocket Scientist
Superstar
I grew up in suburbs but it was among hispanic/black and whites (mainly Italians).Funny thing is the school near me was majority black,but I was accepted into the other school,which was 35% black 65% white.So I was cool with mainly black and white.I never had issues with other kids (cause neighbor was the bully of school) 
only issue I faced was from the sistas that made dumb assumptions (are you mixed?You speak well)etc about me 
only issue I faced was from the sistas that made dumb assumptions (are you mixed?You speak well)etc about me Rocket Scientist
Superstar
Be proud of how you were raised,I tell y'all this more hood behavior happens in the suburbs then actual hood.Suburbia isn't perfect
*L*E*G*A*C*Y*
Done.
From grade school to high school I went to schools that had less than 20 black people in them.
I grew up in a wealthy neighborhood that had 3 black families in it total.
Part of me resents this cause I was the odd man out dawn near everywhere. But I can't change the past so :kanyeshrug:
At least I didn't grow up to be a c00n.
I grew up in a wealthy neighborhood that had 3 black families in it total.
Part of me resents this cause I was the odd man out dawn near everywhere. But I can't change the past so :kanyeshrug:
At least I didn't grow up to be a c00n.
Hybrinetics
Banned
1) Pros: good education Cons: not real diverse, lot of racism, mentally detrimental imo
2) No
3) Yea, "you're not really black, I can't stand the way black people talk"
"Wow you're goodlooking" (for a black guy)4) Would have to be majority black like baldwin hills or some ish