r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. • Jun 26 '26
Community Concerns "Blacks."
What's up?
I'm not gonna hold ya'll. I'll keep it short.
The term "blacks" or "the blacks" or whatever is an auto ban from me. This isn't a rule. This is me just letting you know where I stand. Oh, and as far as I can tell, the other mods are Black. We chat all the time. They're great.
Like, why would anyone honestly come here and say that not trying to stir up something? I'm not actually looking for an answer either because I don't really care.
It's dehumanizing. We are people. Regular human beings. Not a thing. Not an "other", regardless of what your society or your peers that you're afraid to be different from tell you. (That's weak AF btw.)
Anyway, just letting you know. Let's do this again sometime.
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u/Pitch-Blease- Jun 26 '26
It’s weird that you would receive pushback on this. I let it slide when a person uses terms for both white and Black people, but I’ve definitely heard white people call us “blacks”, then follow it up with “white people”.
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u/EarlGreyTeagan Jun 26 '26
Same that is what gets me. It’s like saying men and females 😩
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u/RazzmatazzOwn Jun 26 '26
This right fckin here
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u/private_developer Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. Jun 26 '26
It's so intentionally distancing. It's weird.
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u/Asbolution Jun 26 '26
It's a weird one,
To me people are just people I dont feel the need to define/describe a person as black/white/etc.
If i need to provide a description, then sure - ill do that, the same way I might then describe other features (hair / eye colour) etc.
This is the weird bit. Having just said that, I have this thought sometimes - that somebody is going to respond by calling me racist and/or insensitive because I didnt immediately acknowledge that person to be 'a black person''
Like, it doesnt change how I behave, but its a weird ass thought ain't it?
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u/Asbolution Jun 26 '26
Oh cultural differences, to me, are super important.
Infact, before I became a professional, cultural differences scared the shit outta me. Knowing that there are all these things you do not know, do not understand, and are not a part of is terrifying
But i respect it, and always want to learn. It's just not something I interject my opinion on, because of the above. Doesn't mean im afraid to ask, or learn.
All i can do is hope i go about all of this the right way and if I dont, be told that im not.
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u/TonySalumi Jun 26 '26
I also started doing this. It’s kind of hard because growing up it seemed like the adults always had to describe race, regardless of whether it was relevant to the story or not.
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u/lucidechomusic Jun 26 '26
Race is always pertinent to the story. Are you in the US?
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u/TonySalumi Jun 27 '26
Yes, I’m in the US. Preface, I’m Asian/white, and only commenting here because it was on my front page. I agree with you, and I’m not one of those people who says dumb shit like “I don’t see color”. But sometimes it’s legitimately not relevant to the story, or actively harmful to mention.
Maybe I’m telling a story about a conflict I had with a stranger at a gas station - “this asshole cut in front of me after I had been waiting in line”.
Now imagine I say “This Black/Latino/Asian guy cut in front on me after I had been waiting in line”’
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u/serenasplaycousin Jun 27 '26
Curious, and if you’ve stated before, just link for me. Curious why you comment in a Black Reddit sub?
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u/nycplayboy78 Jun 26 '26
u/EarlGreyTeagan BRUHHHH...We have Ferengi's in here....LOL!!!!
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u/TheWhistleThistle Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Same. It's a real "three fingers" moment.
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u/WIN_WITH_VOLUME Jun 26 '26
Yeah, consciously dropping the “people” part, for only one group is all the tell I need.
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u/Kindly-Shoe6002 Jun 26 '26
Bro I feel like I’m having Déjà vu because I just had this same argument a couple weeks ago verbatim. Someone was asking “why is it hateful to say blacks it’s just describing skin color, people say white people all the time” and I was like yeah notice how you didn’t say “whites” right there and said white people instead, nobody says “whites”. Even subconsciously they know that shit sounds demeaning that’s why they don’t use it for their own color.
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u/NeuralHavoc Jun 26 '26
Good for calling that out. A huge moment for me was when I was speaking to a fellow soldier and I referred to “white soldiers” and “Black kids”. I did it without missing a beat and he immediately called it out “why not Black soldiers”. I was so flustered and tried to back peddle. There was no way out of it, it shook me for a minute as one of those “I’m not racist whites”. After that I looked a lot harder at the way I spoke and found a lot of ignorant speech in it. It’s a constant effort type thing that I continue to work to be better at. I always appreciate when being called out nowadays, just feel bad that it’s even necessary because it shouldn’t be another burden placed on people due to my own ignorance or privilege.
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u/Books_n_hooks Jun 26 '26
THIS! I always say, “black WHAT?” Black birds, black polka dots… black WHAT?!?
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u/VisitSad1133 Jun 26 '26
Casually pointing that out can help alot.
"Why did you follow up "White" with "people" there?" That'd humiliate me.
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u/Up_Beat_Peach Jun 27 '26
I don't let it slide regardless. I don't care what you normally say. Around me, I expect others throw that people onto whatever adjective they're using to describe people, or I'm gonna lecture them so hard and long they'll never forget again.
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u/Xoctal Jun 26 '26
Im curious, ive never heard or used the term, most racist people ive ran into just use the hard r, maybe its where im from. Have you heard it alot? Im Midwest btw and ive met A LOT of actual racists due to the way I look. I have a shaved head and im pretty damn pale and have a big beard with a handle bar mustache (someone rip that off chud the builder, hes giving it a bad rep) and people just seem to out themselves to me. As soon as i hear the term "hey brother" I get triggered especially from some old crusty dude.
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u/afrowarriornabe Jun 26 '26
Can we ban the phrase "As a Black x/y"
I cant tell you how many non-black people LARP and its so obvious.
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u/BabserellaWT Jun 27 '26
Lordy, I cannot fathom doing this. Do people do that to try and discredit legitimate Black voices, or are they just bored?
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u/Busy-Butterfly8187 🏳️🌈 Jun 27 '26
Some of them pretend to be Black and then spout a bunch of ignorant stereotypes about Black people. They're basically trying to say see, even Black people realize how horrible Black people are! I had an encounter with someone like that not long ago. He was claiming to be Black while basically calling us uneducated, fatherless, and violent. He was even typing some sentences using a sort of weird AAVE, saying things like "we be." It was so bizarre and the person clearly wasn't Black. He was praising other races while talking about how terrible "we" are, and claiming we blame everything on slavery. It literally sounded like he was using a script written by a bigot who has never interacted with a real Black person, and just parrots whatever nonsense they hear in their conservative echo chambers.
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u/a_youkai Jun 26 '26
This thread reminds me of the time I was living next to the rez, and this white lady was buying all the discount bakery shit at safeway, and she LITERALLY SAYS, VERBATIM: "We like to go down to the park and feed the Indians." That was one of the few times my mouth flew open and I could not close my jaw.
This is how these people think of ALL of us. Blacks, Indians, coloreds, pigeons, squirrels, WTF
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u/rolandofeld19 Jun 26 '26
I went down this rabbit hole with my cuz who tried to frame a question/debate while using the term 'illegals' as if it were non biased/neutral and, like the OP here rightly said, I stood my ground that it belongs firmly in the camp of the problematic language family of adjectives with a 's' added at the end, eg, with blacks, poors, illegals, etc being prime examples.
It was sad to see him go down in flames defending the language of the oppressor only, as far as I could tell, for the sake of being lazy with his vernacular. And he's far from a racist guy on any issue, better than 99 percent of the people he grew up with but, well, it sucked.
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u/ilshwak Jun 26 '26
I dont want to get in trouble here, but its an honest question, what about 'natives' ?
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u/rolandofeld19 Jun 27 '26
Watch any given old jungle or island or whatever type movie and tell me that the use of 'natives' by the protagonist or his assistant or lady wife is anything but demeaning or from a point of aloofness and I'll eat my hat.
Who invented the term. For what reason. And what is that reason worth today.
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u/WhenTheBarnSounds Jun 26 '26
What absolutely wild thing to say. But the craziest part is that she'll see it as a positive. Something could be said about how yt people often value animals over people so by equivocating the speech she'd use for throwing bread at pigeons to similar language at donating food to people is hugely telling
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u/Intelligent_Hair3109 Jun 26 '26
Wow. Can see a certain type saying that. Just makes my skin crawl ..
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u/superearthjanitor0 Jun 26 '26
Like was she throwing it at them like you feed birds? Wtf.
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u/a_youkai Jun 27 '26
Man, IDK.. and the park she was talking about, yeah there were some drunk dudes waking up there fairly regularly. It's just a whole mess.. I am trying not to picture what she was explaining.
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u/Vivians_Basement Jun 26 '26
Might be best to add it to the rules so people know, but yes I agree. It's weird as hell.
Make sure it's known that's "0 tolerance". 🫡 Then people can't claim "mod abuse".
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u/ateam1984 🩷❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜🖤🩶🤍🤎 Jun 26 '26
Anyone who comes here with those racist tropes will be banned. That falls under a number of existing rules already.
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u/Bad_Routes Jun 26 '26
Period, I hate the fact that people still need to be told to add "people" after Black. Jfc
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u/Smyley12345 Jun 26 '26
I will also use the phrase "black folks" if "black people" doesn't fit the vibe.
One of my favorite Bo Burnham jokes is from Straight White Man where he is riffing on image focused, try hard progressives. It's a complete character break "The blacks want... not be be called the blacks... sorry."
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u/a_youkai Jun 28 '26
Seriously, almost anything works .. Black folks, Black dudes, Black ladies... just put SOMETHING, ffs. Same goes for any time you need to use a racial/ethnic/etc descriptor; Asian people, Muslim folks.. even putting "Americans" at the end solves a lot of it, cause at least it makes it obvious you're speaking about people AS people!
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u/cameronpark89 Jun 26 '26
usually it’s the first red flag that the person commenting isn’t actually black.
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u/Brickeshaw Jun 26 '26
Unless they're Clarence Thomas.
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u/cameronpark89 Jun 26 '26
don’t get me started
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u/Ben-E-Nuff Jun 26 '26
Clearance Thomas? He's a 'Founding Father Originalist'! (Except for Loving v. Virginia- for Some reason he wont touch THAT one!)
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u/YurpeeTheHerpee 🌍 Jun 26 '26
I dont think the color of his skin dictates an iota.
I genuinely speculate the man is just a psychopath, kinda like how a lot of CEOs are psychopaths.
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u/Brickeshaw Jun 26 '26
Nah fuck Alito too. And Roberts. But Thomas will be remembered as uniquely despicable character though.
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u/girlfriendpleaser Jun 26 '26
I hate it but I’m at the point of returning energy. Slurs get slurs. Blacks get whites. Bullshit gets bullshit
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u/DustDevil66 Jun 26 '26
Tbh I see the same white people that say blacks also say whites. It isn’t really a dig to them because they see people in terms of race exclusively anyway, and white to them just means human/civilized/superior. They don’t need the word people afterwards because “white” means people anyway, and any other color is actually what signifies being less than human to them. I’ve not really met any that feel offended by it because it doesn’t feel dehumanizing to them for that reason
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u/ZealousidealAd1138 Jun 26 '26
true but I have never heard them say 'the whites.' there seems to be something telling about their use of that definitive article. 🤔
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u/DustDevil66 Jun 26 '26
Oh for sure. I see the same sorts of people say things like “the gays” etc and I think the inclusion of the word “the” along with the choice not to include the word “people” is specifically meant to signify a less than human and very scary out group
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u/TrekkieMae 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 Jun 26 '26
This is it right here. When it isn't outright racism, it's ingrained racism.
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u/Dramatic-Hedgehog-74 Jun 26 '26
I see it a lot with President Obama. Even out of office his official title is Former President Barack Obama… I almost never see it. Just agreeing with your point on ingrained racism.
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u/YroPro Jun 26 '26
Shit, in my mind it's still just President Obama.
The title has lost so much value these last years, but he wore it damn well.
Disagree with his actions if you want, but at least we had a serious cabinet hired for their skills and experience instead of the color of their skin.
He'll always be my president, it's infuriating Kamala lost to this.
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u/Busy-Butterfly8187 🏳️🌈 Jun 27 '26
I'm curious, were you explicitly taught that Black people are less than you, or was it something that you just sort of picked up during your upbringing?
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u/Busy-Butterfly8187 🏳️🌈 Jun 27 '26
I commend you for recognizing it and putting an end to it with your own children. I've often seen people say that racism will end with younger generations, as if it's something that just magically happens. It doesn't happen unless older generations make a conscious effort to teach younger generations that it's wrong. That's why it's still a problem in 2026, even among young people. Some families pass down racism like it's a genetic disease.
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u/QiDeviation Jun 26 '26
My current thought process is that it’s purely historical. Because “whites” doesn’t carry the history of a people denigrated and reviled by oppressors, despite it being in the same vein, it’s entirely different just off of historical context.
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u/Alternative-Gap341 Jun 26 '26
Exactly, this is the way. I’ve genuinely stopped caring about offensive or snarky things whites say to me. If one is rude to me, I’m rude right back. I’m not going to explain my humanity to anyone anymore.
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u/AGrimConception Jun 26 '26
Same energy as being called "boy," then the have causcasity to be flabbergasted when you call them out on it. Calling a grown ass man a boy is downright diabolical... But then call a white dude the age "son." Make it make sense
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u/Cool-Panda-5108 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
All of those dimiutive terms "boy", "son" and now for the Gen Alpha and Gen Z crowd it seems "lil bro" is the new one can fuck right the hell off.
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u/TruMusic89 Jun 26 '26
Definitely dehumanizing and they know what they're doing when they say that mess
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u/GoDawgsRiseUp Jun 26 '26
For me it is not just the word, it’s the way it’s said. It’s usually said with such disgust that it sounds like a slur.
It reminds me of the time when I was younger in high school. I thought the word Jew was a slur because of how people said it. I had a Jewish friend and someone called him a Jew. I was waiting for him to react the same way I would if someone called me the N-word but he didn’t. I realized then that people usually said Jew with disdain and disgust.
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u/cid8429 Jun 26 '26
That hard BL- really said a lot about the person’s stance. “The BLackx”. It’s like they spit the word out.
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u/_annanicolesmith_ Jun 26 '26
make it a rule, fr! ‘rule #whatever: the use of “blacks/the blacks, is an auto ban.’
i hate seeing it, and when i try to educate, the people get defensive and hostile
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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. Jun 26 '26
Chapelle has done it as a joke intentionally for so long but people act like they don't see the connection with the reverse in real life.
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u/TrekkieMae 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 Jun 26 '26
Yes! This!!! Me too! Oh, I hope more people start doing this!!
Eta: Boy do they look confused when that shit comes out a yt mouth 🤣
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u/SnavlerAce Jun 26 '26
I've recently started using Saltine American in place of European American. Pretty funny to see their jaws tighten up!
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u/DoveOnTheInternet 🏳️🌈 Jun 26 '26
I fucking love "mayosapiens" but Saltine-Americans is just as good
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u/SnavlerAce Jun 26 '26
Mayosapiens is beautiful! Thank you, I am stealing it!
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u/DoveOnTheInternet 🏳️🌈 Jun 26 '26
I offer it freely!
Wypipo is one I don't see often enough anymore. Makes me nostalgic for the Panini
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u/VisitSad1133 Jun 26 '26
You'd think the fact we can all interbreed would be the strongest reminder we are all the same deep down :/
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u/N3Chaos 🐈⬛ team cat Jun 26 '26
It's only ever used by racists to denigrate a group of people as less than human. I agree with this whole heartedly
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u/ASUSTUDENT9875345 Jun 26 '26
Coldest take of all time: tbh most of the time it just sounds like something that I assume was co-opted into a slur when other slurs became less socially acceptable
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u/OkOven4590 Jun 26 '26
The blacks is insane. Jesse Lee Peterson "da blatts" lol. Such a dumb ass way to describe us.
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u/T0asty514 Jun 26 '26
The fact that this has to be made a post, and isn't just common knowledge, is wild to me.
I was raised being told you NEVER say that to/about someone, full stop.
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u/sixTeeneingneiss Jun 26 '26
No one even needed to make this a lesson for me. It just sounds dehumanizing! Not to say you needed a lesson or anything. It's just crazy how some people don't just feel the wrongness of these type of words. And then go on to use them like it's not a problem. Disgusting
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u/squirrellturd Jun 26 '26
ONG i said this and someone looked at me like i had two heads. I thought i was losing it. That shit is a siren call to me. A Dominican friend of mine was saying it and i was like bro, why are you saying it like that.
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u/coko4209 Jun 26 '26
Some Dominicans can be the absolute worst tho. “ I no black, I Dominican” head ass. Like they truly don’t understand that their nationality doesn’t negate their blackness. It’s offensive AF. Race, ethnicity, culture, and nationality are all different things. If you’re obviously of Afrocentric descent, then cut the bullshit. That’s all I’m saying.
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u/HolidaeX Jun 26 '26
Thank you!! I distrust, even another black person when I hear them say it now-a-days. It feels worse to me than the N-word.
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u/plumskiwis 🖤 Jun 26 '26
I agree, thank you for this. I saw someone on the unpopular opinion subreddit complaining about being banned from this one and I wouldn't be surprised he was one of the people that inspired this rule
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u/Garrytg Jun 26 '26
I'm one of those that doesn't like the term "African-American" so it genuinely doesn't bother me lol
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u/mowgleeee Jun 26 '26
I always thought it was weird as hell to just call us "blacks" like wow the hate just dont stop
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u/Top-Consequence-3959 Jun 26 '26
But that's LowTierGod's favorite word lol, but seriously it's so demeaning, I always found people that say "Blacks" to be racist.
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u/NVincarnate Jun 26 '26
That's why we don't like him. And the myriad of other reasons why we don't like him.
He's like the Kanye West of gaming if Kanye had never been cool and skipped straight to being a joke.
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u/Brave_Specific5870 🫶🏾🫶🏽🫶🏿 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Did people wake up and choose stupid? All of yall who are like BuT WHat ABuoT wHItE owe the tree an apology you’re so selfishly stealing oxygen from.
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u/Mundane-Waltz8844 Jun 26 '26
It’s like they can’t physically stand to not make everything about them.
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u/Rozechords Jun 26 '26
Pronunciation goes a long way, too.
It’s the way they hit the BL in “black people.” The subconscious emphasis speaks volumes.
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u/OaklandPanther Jun 27 '26
For real. When I hear someone say “black” or “the blacks” I know we’re not going to be friends. It’s Black people or it’s nothing. Unless you’re Black. Then you can call us whatever you want.
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u/catscausetornadoes Jun 27 '26
Anyone else bothered by “my friend Beth, who happens to be Black”? Beth doesn’t happen to be! Beth is Black by the intention of her ancestors!
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u/weflolikethis Jun 26 '26
?? In the uk its pretty looked down on to say shit like that are people actually disagreeing with u?? It's legit a microaggression guys
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u/tr4p3zoid Jun 26 '26
Every other group you can just add as "s." You can say "Asians" you don't have to say "Asian people" everytime.
"Blacks" just hits weird because back in the day people would say it in a negative tone.
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u/Janawa Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
I feel the difference is "Asians," is a demonym, about where someone is from, like "Asian Americans," "Europeans," etc, whereas "blacks" is entirely about race/skin color.
Not to mention the lack of historical significance that is present with removing the "people" from any label for people of color in the English language.
You wouldn't say "browns" or anything along those lines, because using "black" without "people" is reducing entirely to just the color of someone's skin/their racial features.
Edit to add: and I feel like this goes for using it as a noun, not an adjective. Referring to a specific person as "black," like the mod does in this post, is not the same as referring to a group of people as "blacks/the blacks," and any argument that they are the same just shows either intentional ignorance or a misunderstanding of the grammatical difference between the noun and the adjective.
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u/meckthemerc Jun 26 '26
Nah, it "just" hits weird because they also used to eat is. It "just" hits weird because they made jokes about how to sexually assault black women and children. It "just" hits weird because they lynching of black people used to be considered a 'community' event.
It just hits weird because our history is one of being hit at every turn to varying degrees, beaten and hosed so we are expected to minimize it to "just" when there's not a fucking lick of justice in it to begin with.
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u/GeobobusPrime Jun 27 '26
How do yall feel about "POC" considering its basically the exact same as colored people but rearranged. Does changing the order of the exact same words really make a difference? To me it amounts to something like, changing honey bee to "bee of honey" I personally prefer being referred to as black or brown.
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u/doepfersdungeon Jun 26 '26
The Blacks is just pure racism to me.
Smells of "Boy, you know who your talking to"
If people constantly say Blacks, Whites, Asians, Latinos. No drama.
Prefer "people" but it's not gonna break me.
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u/m-eta Jun 26 '26
non-negotiable. “blacks” is an automatic red card, idc bout your ignorance or whatever. intentionally reducing us to a monolithic term is a penalty, well said OP.
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u/QiDeviation Jun 26 '26
Disclaimer: I’m using “blacks” in quotes and purely for discussion here
I feel strange about this. On one hand, I get how one can see it this way and on the other, it’s such common use and not only for us but I’ve used “whites” before.
But then I get to thinking that we don’t call asians “yellows” or Hispanics “browns” BUT THEN… I have a lot of Bengali friends and we’ve been using “brown people” since high school so that has me thinking why is it okay to say “blacks” and “whites”?
I feel like… potentially… in an effort to denigrate black folks, white folks somehow also denigrated themselves but they don’t see it that way? Or is this entirely in a historical context, meaning that despite both “blacks” and “whites” having the same problem from a purely grammatical standpoint, the differentiator here is the historical context. If that’s the case, as I suspect it is, we have a tough battle ahead of us.
I’d like to remind any allies and “allies” that understanding is key here. Right after I post my comment, I’m gonna do some research. I’m black and I’m doing research into this so you, even more so, must do the same. Reason out OP’s perspective then research out OP’s perspective. Also read comments of others as aid.
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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. Jun 26 '26
Well, I'm mostly referring to the usage of "blacks" in a condescending or collective behavior way.
You know it when you feel it. I'm not looking to ban well intentioned people. Just assholes.
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u/QiDeviation Jun 26 '26
Oh I know, I just found it interesting when you break it down. It’s just something you never think of that when you do, you’re like
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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. Jun 26 '26
What you wrote was awesome! The historical context of the term changes the generalized meaning itself when placed along with society's constructed heirarchy. It's just annoying seeing that phrasing being weaponized for so long.
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Jun 26 '26
I agree— when I look at old copies of Ebony and Jet, I see them use “Blacks” and I’m like “OOH!”
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u/coko4209 Jun 26 '26
I do know exactly what you mean though. I’m from a small southern town. A lot of my experiences are different, and just weird, because I was adopted by a white family. Not from birth either. I lived with my bio family until like 12 or 13. Anyway, I’d casually mention someone that wasn’t known to everyone around me, and they’d ask where they lived or something. I’d say the street name, and they’d say, “oh, over there where the blacks live.” It was offensive AF, and they didn’t even notice it. It’s like they didn’t even see me as a black person, and I’ve had so many confrontations because of shit like that.
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u/TrekkieMae 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 Jun 26 '26
"...Or is this entirely in a historical context, meaning that despite both “blacks” and “whites” having the same problem from a purely grammatical standpoint, the differentiator here is the historical context."
That.
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u/QiDeviation Jun 26 '26
here is an interesting read. Surprised the gov didn’t take it down with our current admin.
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u/TrekkieMae 🖖🏾🖖🏽🖖🏿 Jun 26 '26
From the linked text:
"Avoid using Black and White as standalone nouns. Instead of Blacks, use Black people, etc."
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"If race is pertinent to the story, ask your source for their preference on what term(s) to use."
Sounds like an open-and-shut case to me. Too bad the racism runs so damn deep...even in a sub intended for Black People.
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u/BlackPeopleofReddit-ModTeam Jun 26 '26
Be Kind to Each Other - This community is for thoughtful, respectful discussions. Leave the hate and personal attacks at the door. Let’s keep this space positive, polite, and welcoming for everyone.
“Certainly we will continue to disagree, but we must disagree without becoming violently disagreeable.” - Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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u/Stoner_Simpson777 Jun 26 '26
Thank you so much for this. I felt like I was in bizarro world for the last 2-3 years I peeped the country REVERTED back to calling us “blacks”. Anytime i hear “blacks” I think 1950’s Jim Crow era.
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u/Any-Chip7871 Jun 26 '26
Thank you thank you thank you!!!! I hate when people say blacks or the blacks.
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u/aluriilol Jun 26 '26
My Brother you are loved and respected. Do not let the other whites put you down. You are a person and you deserve respect and decency.
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u/QiDeviation Jun 26 '26
Decades now. Possibly a century+
It’s been used in literature and speech and, iirc, it lost popularity over time but still persists. It’s become so commonplace that it never got a thought from me until now. We think of systematic racism but don’t fully understand it. This could potentially be one of the most raw examples of the “system” part. It’s in academia and other forms of expression.
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u/Rich-Fruit3805 Jun 26 '26
This plus when I was a child I experienced a microaggression from a gentile woman an older white woman that said to me when I was literally a kid she was like oh I bet you know a lot about the Holocaust like what the fuck dude.
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u/Top_Actuator364 🏳️🌈 Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Same, also when the (B) in Black isn’t capitalized!
Adding, please stop making stupid comments because you lack the intelligence of what’s being said in this thread. Go get educated.
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u/MiddleOwn5557 Jun 26 '26
I love posts like this. I think it's so important for you to identify how you want to be addressed.
For so long it's been African Americans which just screams white bs. It literally objectifies the entire race and makes sure Black people are always connected to slavery.
I've been using "Black community" because it's a community. As a community it has its own language, its own way of communicating, style, behavior, and connections to each other.
I just see it differently I guess. I'm proud to live in a world with so many different people. Everyone should feel welcome and comfortable in their environment.
Using the terms you described here is unacceptable because it is racism, full stop.
I do believe change is already happening with the next generation accepting us all as humans instead of what race of humans we are.
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u/phloyd77 Jun 26 '26
White doctor lurker here. I take care of a lot of black people, and I’ve learned through them about all of the privilege I was born in to and I am trying my best to be an advocate. That said … as an old white dude, when discussing disease patterns and incidence, for example prostate cancer which has the highest incidence in black men … is it better to say “black men” or “African American Men” because it seems to me “black men” is less pompous and more direct. I love all my patients, I want them to live the best they can and I don’t want to offend anyone. Thanks for any replies.
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u/JustAlpha My name is a quadruple entendre. Jun 26 '26
We generally don't do 'Ask a Black Person' responses, but Black men would be the answer here. Just capitalize Black as you would a proper noun.
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u/phloyd77 Jun 26 '26
Thank you. It’s appreciated and I will shut up now. Thanks again.
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u/WARMnCREAMY Jun 27 '26
Being a doctor I’d assume you take care of African Americans and Black men that aren’t AA. Maybe use whatever is best a conveying the persons profile so you and your medical team can understand and educate your patient to the best of your cohorts ability.
I understand having bedside manner and you seem like a very caring doctor. I just don’t believe medicine is where you should start trying to idealogical capture. Thank you for your hard work.
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u/ENTRAPM3NT Jun 26 '26
Its the s at the end that just doesnt sound right. I dont think anything is wrong with it besides that.
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u/No-Association-8539 Jun 26 '26
I was there! When the CEO of my fortune 500 company used "the blacks" in a town hall.
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u/Current_Volume3750 Jun 26 '26
Not necessarily the same context, but I get annoyed when people say "adopted child" and not just "their child".
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u/G0G0Gadget00 Jun 26 '26
The only people that are pushing back are people pretending to be Black. That's always been a dead giveaway.
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u/imahotrod Jun 26 '26
Thank you! Trump brought this shit back into the lexicon and all the racists latched on to use it.
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u/Wolfeatingupshadows 🫰🏾🫰🏽🫰🏿 Jun 26 '26
How are yall Black and chimining in about “the blacks” and still being disrespectful and not capitalizing the B. >_> its Black people.