A Mad Ass Nigga

5y

I’m probably reaching but it rub me the wrong way when I see whites talk like us because a lot of the time they’re coming off as if they are mocking the way we talk. Then when they steal some more of our language they get bored and say it’s not funny anymore and move on to the next phrase and wear it out. Even with things as little as “sis” it just sound so wrong coming from them.

Then given the history of hbcu’s I get why they don’t want others coming in and taking over. It’s a safe space for black people to get their education and kick it with others that look like them and whatnot.

I feel like as a whole we gotta start gatekeeping our culture heavily. Other cultures around the world do it but we’re so accepting to others that we kinda forget about how we’re treated.

Faygo

5y

honestly i wouldn't have a problem with white kids going if they just thought it was a good school but most of the white kids who go to hbcus be on some weird ¨embracing black culture¨ s***

Mastiff

5y

...China isn't funding Boko Haram...ultimately if people don't like Black gossip pages then stop using them instead of trying to make it some Black American vs Nigerians/Africans thing. Pretty sure there have been Black American owned gossip pages before Shaderoom.

Boko Haram and their ideology/war on the Christian south of Nigeria is another layer to the already fractured relationship between the other national groups in Nigeria.

JaeRell

5y

I went to an HBCU and the white kids in my graduating class chose the college because it was cheaper. No weirdo s***, lol.

A Mad Ass Nigga

5y

I’m probably reaching but it rub me the wrong way when I see whites talk like us because a lot of the time they’re coming off as if they are mocking the way we talk. Then when they steal some more of our language they get bored and say it’s not funny anymore and move on to the next phrase and wear it out. Even with things as little as “sis” it just sound so wrong coming from them.

Then given the history of hbcu’s I get why they don’t want others coming in and taking over. It’s a safe space for black people to get their education and kick it with others that look like them and whatnot.

I feel like as a whole we gotta start gatekeeping our culture heavily. Other cultures around the world do it but we’re so accepting to others that we kinda forget about how we’re treated.

A Mad Ass Nigga

5y

Hey, what are y’all thoughts on this debate about whites over using aave and attending hbcu’s?

I don’t wanna be “that guy” but I see the frustrations.

Babaláwo

5y

I just seen “aave” a few days ago for the first time on Twitter. Is that a “nu black” rephrasal of Ebonics?

Feel like that has always been a thing. Gay white men usually doing a stereotypical black woman imitation. So on and so forth. I don’t think too much of it. You can tell when someone is laying it on thick, I just look at them funny. But for the most part people adapt to how those around them talk.

Like I can vividly remember Quentin Tarantino going on 106 & Park to promote Django Unchained, and he started laying it on thick I felt embarrassed for him more than anything.

Poignant

6y

I probably already responded to this post , but I'm reading the whole thread again, because I lost my account for a while.

But yeah, I'm back baby

RX Nigerian Pastor

5y

Everytime I’m at work and I see a brother with a white whale

Enlighten Brother

5y

They bringing every black person on tv to persuade us to take that vaccine

dadye

5y

take that vaccine my brother

soccerfanj

5y

I don't have a problem with white people joining hbcus or even black fraternity

when we didnt keep the things black after segregation

Also us black folk want to go to PWIs over HBCUs.

why wouldn't becky and tom go to HBCUs. They are usually cheaper, usually have less competition, and getting a scholarship on top of it. If we want to prevent this, we should encourage our children to go to HBCUs.

many HBCUs have already became fully white or close down do to going to PWIs. Why I salute the hooper mikey and the African bro at Howard for setting a standard for high class black athletes

commonwrongdoer

5y

Think I'm going to wait for a while before taking it

dadye

5y

lool yeah good idea

Smacked Voodoo

5y

Has anyone else noticed that there are more interracial relationships being show in commercials/ads lately? And in TV shows/movies? I'm not anti-interracial relationships. But why is it that whenever they have those couples in ads...it's always a black man with a white woman, or a white man with a black woman? No other pairing. Just that specific couple.

I get what it is, but it's disturbing and the s*** is sad. I really hope this isn't going to lead to some brainwashed niggatry down the road.