RCNAL I tried to respond to you directly, but the comment button won't allow for further replies. Please use the reply button (the one that looks like a speech bubble)
RCNAL That's what he ate at home. There are plenty of black neighborhoods with people who ate Oha soup (Nigerian) at home, Akee and Saltfish (Jamaican) at home, Roti (Trinidad) at home, grits (FBA) at home and all them went to school together, played together and experienced systemic racism together. Just like I did. Some of them had parents that said whatever but their life experiences made them look at their parents who said that as uninformed or whatever. Just like maybe FBA coon parents did.
Your life experiences trumps EVERYTHING. You can't ignore white cops pulling you over and effing with you for no reason no matter what your parents tell you. You can't ignore that non Black (take your pick, Korean, Arab, etc) store owner following you around the store no matter what your parents tell you.
You brought up a great point about life experiences, and I've witnessed it on more than one occasion. A lot of immigrants don't rock with us, but then once they get a n-word wake up call, they want to jump on the pro-Black bandwagon. They go from "I'm not Black, I'm Panamanian" to "Yo, yo, yo, what's good, Bro!"
Just because you got pulled over, or followed by a store owner, that still doesn't put you in league with us. We don't need to trauma bond with you just because some white cop treated you poorly.