Why are wealthy / surburban black people seen as LESS black?

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Because we've conflated "poverty culture" and "Black culture" into the same group, and because suburbanites tend to avoid the traits of "poverty culture" they're subsequently seen as less Black.
They also are portrayed as believing they're "too good" or "don't know where they came from" because they refuse to fall into the traps that impoverished Black people tend to fall into.
As if there aren't Black suburbs.
The highest concentration of Black college grads are "upper-middle class" and "suburban."
 

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Because blacks who grew up in the burbs are sheltered from the real reality of being black. My cousins who are from the burbs think police are nice lol. Completely different life from living in Chicago, and people from the burbs always think they know what's good for people from the hood to do. You can't compare at all.
Its only those that are sheltered that are like this, there are plenty of suburban Black people with a firm understanding of systemic racism.
You're right on one hand though, I was talking to a woman a while back who grew up in the suburbs and was the contrarian, irritating kind of Black person who tries to "dispel" all the issues of the Black community. She apparently had "never experienced racism until she got to college."
 

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Because blacks who grew up in the burbs are sheltered from the real reality of being black. My cousins who are from the burbs think police are nice lol. Completely different life from living in Chicago, and people from the burbs always think they know what's good for people from the hood to do. You can't compare at all.
Sounds like you confuse being black with being poor :laugh: Common hood nikka mistake
 

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Because blacks who grew up in the burbs are sheltered from the real reality of being black. My cousins who are from the burbs think police are nice lol. Completely different life from living in Chicago, and people from the burbs always think they know what's good for people from the hood to do. You can't compare at all.
Real reality of being black? Whats the real reality? Youre basing your opinion on your cousin?
 

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Real reality of being black? Whats the real reality? Youre basing your opinion on your cousin?
There are middle class homes in the hood, and if you grew up in the burbs, you probably grew up around white people. You can't compare that life to growing up in a public school system, or living in a Chicago, or a Detroit, new York, LA, where there are gangs, where police intentionally target blacks more, where drugs are pushed. And in the burns its usually a small percentage of blacks, so they definitely dont experience as much racism. Yall get some white friends and think racism dont exist. Or think they are better than other black people not knowing that they are tokens lmao. Perfect example is the boondocks. Compare tom to the freemans.
 

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There are middle class homes in the hood, and if you grew up in the burbs, you probably grew up around white people. You can't compare that life to growing up in a public school system, or living in a Chicago, or a Detroit, new York, LA, where there are gangs, where police intentionally target blacks more, where drugs are pushed. And in the burns its usually a small percentage of blacks, so they definitely dont experience as much racism. Yall get some white friends and think racism dont exist. Or think they are better than other blacks people they are tokens lmao. Perfect example is the boondocks. Compare tom to the freemans.
How would you know wjat they think? You do realise black burbs are an actual thing right? So according to you black reality is hood? Crime? Drugs? Gangs? And you need to be around that to really be black?
 

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How would you know wjat they think? You do realise black burbs are an actual thing right? So according to you black reality is hood? Crime? Drugs? Gangs? And you need to be around that to really be black?
I've worked as a paramedic. In the hoods and burbs, and most of my family are from burbs , so I've seen it first hand, and unfortunately most blacks come from those hood environments, so that's what reality is for a majority of blacks. Most blacks are in big urban cities.
 
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