The Streets

[lexodyssey]

I absolutely hate when white guys say "you're pretty for a black girl". It's such a backhanded insult and they truly think they're saying it as a compliment. I think it's statements like this that can cause young black girls to feel like they aren't beautiful because of their skin tone. I know black men must hear a version of the same thing too. Have you ever dealt with this? How did you respond?

 

[RichAfricanUncle]

Oh you speak to white men that frivolously? lol kidding. naah but uh, they know what they're doing with that. it's meant to make you yearn for their approval.

You should retort with your pretty well spoken for a neanderthal. :)

 

[Jay]

I absolutely hate when white guys say "you're pretty for a black girl". It's such a backhanded insult and they truly think they're saying it as a compliment. I think it's statements like this that can cause young black girls to feel like they aren't beautiful because of their skin tone. I know black men must hear a version of the same thing too. Have you ever dealt with this? How did you respond?

Those are compliments only a coon could love.




I've never had something said specifically but I've had white people treat me like I was an aberration and some different type of negro which I don't like.

I'm dope but I don't like to look at myself as some super special dude. If we didnt have our resources plundered every time we built there would be a millions me's in the USA.

 

[Real One]

It's a dumb thing to say, because it implies that black women are ugly otherwise. Why even include that. Simply saying "You're Pretty" is enough. What a big ol dummy!

Oh you speak to white men that frivolously? lol kidding. naah but uh, they know what they're doing with that. it's meant to make you yearn for their approval.

You should retort with your pretty well spoken for a neanderthal. :)

I don't see how anyone would yearn for their approval after saying that though haha! But I get your point. It just makes that person look like an idiot, because any black woman would see that and think the same we're all thinking.

 

[Jay]

It's a dumb thing to say, because it implies that black women are ugly otherwise. Why even include that. Simply saying "You're Pretty" is enough. What a big ol dummy!

I don't see how anyone would yearn for their approval after saying that though haha! But I get your point. It just makes that person look like an idiot, because any black woman would see that and think the same we're all thinking.

You're thinking of how a person with self-esteem and respect would respond. If you're insecure about your race and venerate Whiteness, that "compliment" would make your day. Then you'll start developing your "I'm better than the other negroes" complex.

 

[Invincible1914]

I absolutely hate when white guys say "you're pretty for a black girl". It's such a backhanded insult and they truly think they're saying it as a compliment. I think it's statements like this that can cause young black girls to feel like they aren't beautiful because of their skin tone. I know black men must hear a version of the same thing too. Have you ever dealt with this? How did you respond?

I always that that was code for you have those ”European” qualities that they like.


Btw, Is that you in your avatar?

 

[Red Velvet]

I always that that was code for you have those ”European” qualities that they like.


Btw, Is that you in your avatar?

It's code for "Negro women are ugly but you are the exception". So if you sleep or date him you know that he thinks your family and friends are all ugly.

 

[lexodyssey]

Oh you speak to white men that frivolously? lol kidding. naah

Too much hahaha

I always that that was code for you have those ”European” qualities that they like.


Btw, Is that you in your avatar?

Exactly! and yes it is.

It's code for "Negro women are ugly but you are the exception". So if you sleep or date him you know that he thinks your family and friends are all ugly.

Yup! Like he just awarded you with the compliment of the year because he deems you attractive.

 

[eclipsed]

I see this kind of crap with all races though, not just white dudes. I mean if you find someone attractive, just let it be known. Don't need to drag race into it. When someone does that, to me it just shows they are not confident in themselves to handle being with someone who doesn't look like them.

 

[Invincible1914]

How come nobody ever called me “pretty for a black guy” That might actually make my day.

 

[Red Velvet]

How come nobody ever called me “pretty for a black guy” That might actually make my day.

Well you have to start by being pretty tracymorganlol

 

[Invincible1914]

Well you have to start by being pretty tracymorganlol

My momma say I’m pretty

 

[Lamont]

You're thinking of how a person with self-esteem and respect would respond. If you're insecure about your race and venerate Whiteness, that "compliment" would make your day. Then you'll start developing your "I'm better than the other negroes" complex.

It appears as if one of the wenches came across my timeline. 27 year old Black woman clamoring over a 47 year old White man. I present, Exhibit A:

“Todd said my nails looked nice, so I knew there was something there,” she laughs, and Todd admits he was trying to signal that he was single. That night, he sent her a message to ask her out.

How we met: ‘He said my nails looked nice, and I knew there was something there’

Todd, 47, and India, 27, met when she walked into his office on her police duties. They now live together in St Augustine, Florida

www.theguardian.com

 

[RichAfricanUncle]

My momma say I’m pretty

she gotta say that so you don't commit that over your looks broadie.

 

[Red Velvet]

she gotta say that so you don't commit that over your looks broadie.

 

[Bruh Man]

I absolutely hate when white guys say "you're pretty for a black girl". It's such a backhanded insult and they truly think they're saying it as a compliment. I think it's statements like this that can cause young black girls to feel like they aren't beautiful because of their skin tone. I know black men must hear a version of the same thing too. Have you ever dealt with this? How did you respond?

what you say when brad said that to you?

 

[Invincible1914]

she gotta say that so you don't commit that over your looks broadie.

Y’all stupid

 

[Sovereign]

I absolutely hate when white guys say "you're pretty for a black girl". It's such a backhanded insult and they truly think they're saying it as a compliment. I think it's statements like this that can cause young black girls to feel like they aren't beautiful because of their skin tone. I know black men must hear a version of the same thing too. Have you ever dealt with this? How did you respond?

Has someone ever said that to you?

 

[Nesut]

what you say when brad said that to you?

She hasn’t answered so they probably still dating.

 

[Sovereign]

She hasn’t answered so they probably still dating.

with kids.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

People need to keep their backhanded compliments.

 

[Deleted member 1946]

with kids.

quite possibly