Not like “I went to school with one” but have had an actual friendship?

I’ve had a couple of conversations recently where people have confidently said things about the Black community that are ridiculously incorrect. The kind of shit where you can tell they grew up in a very white community and learned about Black history as a college freshman.

Disclaimer: I am white, but I grew up in a Black neighborhood. I was one of 3 white kids in my elementary school lol, including my brother.

  • Sylaran@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    5 months ago

    I’m black 👀 This post kinda acts like there are no black people on lemmy but we here… at least I am lol

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      15·
      5 months ago

      Welp, that makes 2 of us!

      Guess we have to start our own instance now so we can talk about [redacted]!

    • moonpiedumplings
      10·
      5 months ago

      Also Black here!

      (My keyboard doesn’t have emotes, but pretend this is the black hand waving hi)

      Edit: 👋🏾

    • tiredofsametab@kbin.run
      8·
      5 months ago

      I think some people grow up in some very ethnically homogeneous places. When I was a kid, I think we had two black families, one that came from Pakistan when we were in elementary school, and a couple of people form Latin America that moved in when we were in middle school. My (rural Ohio) town had a lot of super racist and anti-Semitic people.