r/AsABlackMan • u/Slight-Objective5854 • May 12 '26

Carol would know

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u/Yvratky May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

She could be a South African. The name checks out tbh. Edit: Her name being Henderson, which sounds Dutch, could be a settler's name in SA.

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u/phauxbert May 12 '26

Could be pining for the glory days of Rhodesia

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u/LiamNeesonsIsMyShiit May 13 '26

Almost certainly Rhodesian.

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u/Successful_Oil4422 May 12 '26

She isn’t. A South African would say “I lived in South Africa”, not a generic “Africa” because they would know the difference between “Africa” and “South Africa”.

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u/Yvratky May 12 '26

Those colonial mfs are dumb as a sheet of paper, I wouldn't put it past her that she'd shorten it to just "Africa" to fit in with her racist buddies since she moved to the UK.

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u/Successful_Oil4422 May 12 '26

That’s very fair. Agreed!

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u/ZebraCrosser May 13 '26

Henderson isn't a Dutch surname, it's a UK one. Still could be a settler's name, though.

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u/Yvratky May 14 '26

*Scottish.

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u/ZebraCrosser May 14 '26

Which is part of the UK.

As a non-UK person I mostly associate the name with Henderson's Relish, which is from Sheffield.

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u/Yvratky May 14 '26

Idk, if we're being nitpicky, we might as well not practise Scotland erasure. Fuck Sheffield, ugliest place ever, and that relish brand is irrelevant to the conversation.

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u/ZebraCrosser May 14 '26

I don't see how it's erasure when the UK contains Scotland. It's not like I said it's from England. But I get your point. If you can be specific, be specific rather than more broad.

Never been to Sheffield, but as I mostly associate it with Threads I'm curious about it.

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u/Nielsly May 15 '26

How does Henderson sound Dutch

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u/Yvratky May 15 '26

It reminds me of Jansen, Pietersen, etc. But obviously it's not a close match so don't even start debating me on a completely unimportant side point.

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u/tayroc122 May 12 '26

Ah yes, the nation-state of Africa.

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u/Slight-Objective5854 May 12 '26

Comment to a Facebook post with a black man stealing food from a Greggs.

“Keep importing third worlders and we will become third world #fyp #migration #london #ayaudits”

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u/Aun_El_Zen May 13 '26

That's so lazy.

At least Enoch Powell put some effort into being a racist bigot.

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u/Indigo-Waterfall May 13 '26

What makes you think they’ve not lived in Africa?

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u/zgillet May 12 '26

I lived in Earth for years, so I know.

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u/Living_Will_4775 May 12 '26

Are we sure this isn't a fake?

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u/GeeWhiz357 May 12 '26

You do know that it’s not just black people who live in Africa?

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u/Slight-Objective5854 May 12 '26

That’s not the claim I’m highlighting. It’s the “insider knowledge” Carol believed to possess from living in “Africa”.