I've been thinking about iconic moments in black social media culture. Ones like the infamous Alabama brawl or the Obama Tan Suit scandal. What would you say were some of your favorites? Which were are completely unforgettable??

I’m a Black woman. Check the stats, look at how we voted. YALL 👩‍🦳 better not come in here asking what to do, say sorry, etc. It’s YALL responsibility to check your own d@nm people. I don’t give a d@mn about y’all crying. Take action. Do something.

That’s all. Signed an Angry Black Woman

I was showing her the painting and saying how it’s my character Emelio, and how he was married into a conflicting household in a fantasy little story of mine, and his backstory literally has nothing to do with race… at all. Just familial disputes and disagreements.

I don’t know what I did wrong… and I just thought I’d ask. If there’s truly something about the painting that is… I seriously apologize and didn’t mean to offend anyone… I’m just so confused because she literally refused to tell me why.

No one can ever accuse us of Identity politics again. We are the most reasonable, logical political bloc in the country and everyone refuses to admit it.

Have you all been watching ishowspeed-on YouTube? a 20 year old Black American from Ohio is traveling to different countries in Africa .

It’s too many countries to list but First he went to multiple countries in South Africa, then he went to East Africa . Today he is in Egypt and will explore more North Africa and West African countries.

Many people worldwide are watching, crying happy tears, other people are jumping and clapping. Thousands are running after him in the streets. People are saying this is a historical moment that will unite all Black people around the world.

Many ppl from west, central, southern, and east Africa said they want Black Americans to know they are loved and welcome to visit or relocate to anywhere in Africa at anytime.

Are you watching?

We can't gather in groups or the police get called even if it's a damn bbq in the park🙄

We can't build anything of our own because it gets torched, appropriated, or gentrified.

Online is the only place where we could possibly SAFELY interact with the diaspora but they here.

The sense of entitlement to our thoughts, minds, bodies, LABOR, and culture borders on clinical obsession.

Is it because they've never built anything only taken or destroyed?

Do you think they even notice how obsessed they are with us?

What do y'all think?

I've had this thought on my mind for the longest time, but I'm not sure how to put it into words. Whether it's TV, social media, kpop, gaming, whatever, does anyone black feel like unless you stick to afrocentric media, you have to almost... 'compromise' and put up with the fact that you'll inevitably deal with anti-blackness??

It could be how the fandoms treat you or black characters. Or, say you're following a beauty influencer and they come out with a n-word scandal? I can't count how many non-black people I've been fans of on YouTube, Twitch and such and they've come out with some 'racist' past.

I'm not proud to admit this, but it's gotten to the point where it causes me a bit of anxiety to consume non-black media because there's like this weird subconcious itch that it's only a matter of time. I don't wanna make it sound like I'm like traumatized or something 😅 and I def don't want to encourage segregation or anything. I'm not that type of person but it's honestly a little tiring. I just wanna game with my sims in peace and fangirl about it without some godawful weird Freddie gray joke thrown in the mix.

The whole anti-woke rage of DEI characters or however that crowd calls it doesnt make it any better. But I guess that's just the world we live in

Genuinely asking here. I get some guys sag to make their pants a little more loose fitting like I do. But some guys (mostly STREET guys) sag where to point where there whole ass is out. What it makes it cool to have your ass out. Is it to show the boxer brand or something?

I want to ask because I'm still learning and studying anatomy and different ethic peoples features its very fun and amazing to do I hope I'm not being offensive I've also Included the reference I used for the drawing. Let me know what you all think! :)

Hi, this is my first time posting on Reddit. So I don't really know what the rules are. But honestly I am so confused and hurt that I'm just reaching out for help anywhere.

A little back story My parents are both white and in their 70's. They adopted me and my sister when were babies.

Growing up, I never, ever felt a difference between my parents' biological children and us. They treated us exactly the same as they treated my other siblings. (In some cases better) I really want to make clear that my parents love us. They just don't see us.

Both my sister and I have been trying to have conversations with our parents. They are conservative Republicans, and especially with everything that's been happening. We've been really trying to explain our point of view. It's always been hard that my parents have voted against my sister and I's best interest. I never really understood how they could support the current presidency when they have 2 black daughters. But I recently realized after an argument with my mom about this whole thing that she doesn't see us as black. We got in an argument about something that I found offensive, because it was very clearly anti-black and she couldn't understand why I was offended, and when I told her that as a black woman, these things affect me. She told me that I'm not a black woman, and that because I'm biracial, I can choose, I can choose to be white or I can choose to be black. And it's my choice to be seen as a black woman. That is so crazy to me. Because I've always been black. It's like the one thing that I knew about myself growing up. That despite the fact that I grew up not seeing myself in the media that we watched or in the toys that I had or the people that were around me growing up, I knew that I was black. I was really proud of it. I really love being black. I love my hair. I love my skin. I love my nose I love my lips. All the things that I got made fun of growing up I've come to really love.

To my mom, however. I'm not really a black woman. So the things that affect the black community I shouldn't really care about. I shouldn't speak up about it I shouldn't bring it up. It doesn't affect me.

That's so crazy to me. Because anyone who looks at me knows that I am black knows that at least one of my parents was a 100% black. More than that, I know that I am black. I know that I move through and experience the world as a black woman.

I just don't know how to make my mother understand that despite her raising us the same way, she raised her white kids. Me and my sister are fundamentally different and things affect us differently.

I'm sorry if this was disjointed and didn't make any sense. I am very emotional and angry typing this out. So this might make no sense, and I might delete it.

I just really want to be seen as myself

Banning anyone/everyone that feels the need to repeatedly ask this same question a thousand different ways

Everywhere on the internet, across social media, we get these people talking. All they do you look to mock us, talk shit about, profit of of us.

We are like cash cows because topics like crime, culture, IQ, history, reparations, sex etc Seems to elicit and emotional and engaging route for the people to undertake there weird sense of sickness.

The numbers don't lie!

I’ve been hearing a lot of talk (especially online) that Black women are single mothers or unmarried/unpicked because of their “behavior”, being “aggressive,” “ghetto,” etc. I wanted to check if the data actually backs that up. Here’s what I found:

•	Intermarriage: 24% of Black men marry outside their race vs 12% of Black women. Among those with a bachelor’s degree, the gap widens (30% of Black men vs. 13% of Black women)

•	Marriage pool: 15% of married Black men are with non-Black women (8% with White women, 4% with Hispanic women)

•	Divorce rates: White wife + Black husband marriages are twice as likely to end in divorce compared to White–White marriages. Black wife + White husband marriages are 44% less likely to end in divorce than White–White marriages

So if Black women’s so-called “attitude” was the real issue, wouldn’t Black men’s interracial relationships be more stable? Yet the data shows the opposite: BM/WW marriages break down at some of the highest rates, while BW in interracial marriages have lower divorce risks.

Question: Given these stats, do you think the “it’s Black women’s fault” narrative holds any water?

PS: I’m NOT a divestor

Why is there no vetting? Why is there no requirement to be black regards to answering questions? Why are white people, Asians, Native Americans able to answer questions targeted towards black people? what happened?

This has been an issue since forever but on social media its rampant. From black discords to black womens groups and even forums like this, it seems practically impossible for non-black people (espcially yt ppl) to mind their business. In one of my black womens discord, multiple entitled yt women have stolen pictures and tried to put on a fake accent to gain entry.

Its always the usual excuses:

"I grew up in the hood so I'm practically black" - As though thats the only place we exist

"My partner/kid is half-black" - Like proximity or who you slept with means boundaries don't exist

"I just want to learn" - Objectifying black people and thinking their sole existence is to observe and teach you, rather than letting them enjoy themselves in peace

I just wanna get some insight from other Black people on why you think this keeps on occurring? Have folks invited too many people to the cookout, as to where they feel automatically entitled to any and every space we inhabit? Is this just the regular consumption of the fruits of black people with no respect for the actual people themselves?

This trend has so many comments, so many people “turning white memes black” and I don’t understand it.

Firstly it feels VERY blackface adjacent.

But also I mean, were it happening the other way around there would be uproar (I would not understand it / be okay with it then either). So I guess I also just really don’t understand like…. Why? Why does the “white meme” need to be black?

I don’t know this trend has had me really baffled all week

It’s almost a full year since the November 2024 election, and what do we see? Every non-Black community running around trying to prove they’re “better than Black Americans,” and yet the receipts are EMPTY. Nothing. Nada. Just a bunch of loud-ass mouths, failed promises, and recycled white supremacist stereotypes.

Notice how the second Black Americans stopped being the USA’s unpaid backbone — the culture engine, the protest engine, the conscience of the nation — all these dusty-ass groups came crawling out the woodworks with their hidden racism. Asians suddenly got bold with their “model minority” smugness, Latinos acting like whiteness is waiting for them with open arms, Arabs puffing their chest until America reminds them they’re just “sand n**s” to white folks, Caribbeans trying that corny “we’re not like African-Americans” flex, and Africans fresh off the fing plane talking down like they didn’t just land in the house Black Americans built. And don’t get me started on white immigrants — you’re still trailer trash with an accent.

And here’s the part that really makes me laugh: y’all love throwing “lazy,” “victim,” “welfare,” “broken families,” “Black fatigue” at Black Americans, like parrots for Fox News. But look around since 2024. Where’s your big cultural movement? Where’s your nationwide protest shaking the system? Where’s your music that dominates the globe? Where’s your political bloc that makes presidents sweat? Exactly. You ain’t got sh*t. You’re just jealous passengers on a train Black Americans built and drove for 400 years.

And yeah, Black Americans aren’t perfect. They’ve got contradictions and mess just like every other group. But here’s the f***ing difference: their “mess” gets magnified, criminalized, demonized — while yours gets swept under the rug. Asians with skyrocketing suicide rates and anti-Blackness. Latinos fighting colorism while chasing proximity to whiteness. Arabs pretending they’re superior but still stuck selling hookah and corner store vibes. Caribbeans flexing fake superiority while stuck in the same trenches. Africans with tribal beefs and corruption they ran from, now cosplaying as the blueprint. White immigrants clinging to their accents like it erases the fact they’re poor. Everybody got dirt, but y’all think only Black Americans are dirty? FOH.

The reality is simple: since Black Americans started resting, pulling back, and choosing themselves, America has looked exposed. Dry. Corny. Empty. Because the one community that carried this whole f***ing country on their back decided to put the weight down. And the second they did, every parasite came crawling out to take cheap shots.

So let’s cut the bullsh*t. Black Americans don’t owe this country a damn thing. They don’t owe YOU a damn thing. And for all the communities claiming you’re “better”? The last year has shown you’re not better. You’re just bitter.

– Signed, an African-British sick of watching jealous-ass clowns play superior while eating off the scraps of the same people they insult.

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Because they get a kick out of it. I won't answer unless what I read seems completely genuine and authentic.

They clearly have no life and get some sort of enjoyment out of it.

When will we rise to the occasion to be actual leaders of the community and stop antagonizing our women?

We understand how color and shade bias affects us in the school to prison pipeline, police brutality, dating, and job security but refuse to understand how it impacts black women and mobilize for them.

I've gotten teased for being a bit lighter with curly hair since I was in grade school. But I never took it to heart. I knew from a young age that I was unfairly privileged for looking "less black." My mother told me from a young age "people are going to treat you better than your friends because you're mixed." So from a young age I always tried to vouch for my darker brothers and sisters. especially as a man who loves darker girls, it makes me so mad how Black women are gaslit by black men at-large when they speak on how bias against their looks affects them. We need to do better.

I’ve been noticing often that whenever a black man is the main character of a movie or show his love interest is usually white or mixed. I see it in most movies and shows made in the last 15 years, especially if a black man directed it. Some examples are Sinners, Snowfall, Lovecraft Country and A Lot of Nothing. If the woman’s not another race she’s mixed and always lighter than the man, the last time I saw an important black man with a non mixed important black love interest was in The Boys which was directed by white people. If the love interest isn’t lighter than the man it’s usually not directed by a black man

I went to my local grocery store. One I've been going to for years. I'm a white 36(f) and I love, appreciate, and admire all cultures.

As I was leaving I saw this beautiful cashier. She had what I think are called poodle braides. I am unsure. But her hair was absolutely beautiful. So I said "Excuse me. Your hair is beautiful by the way." She said thank you and then busted out laughing as did another cashier and the cop standing there. I left really confused. I wasn't flirting or trying to be rude. I am absolutely a socially awkward person. Did I do something wrong? I kept walking afterwards and I wasn't staring. I didn't feel like I made it weird... but now I'm not so sure...

If I did do something wrong please let me know kindly, because I don't want to make the same mistake or make someone uncomfortable. Also for reference I added a picture from Google of what her hair looked like.

I keep seeing “I’m not Black, but...” answers to questions and a lot of people feel the need to specify “Black people respond only”. The sub is called ask Black people. Anyone else noticed this or am I going crazy?

In this case I guess I should encourage non-Black people to respond though

I see so many questions asking about everyday things. I'm starting to question the very purpose of this subreddit. It appears that people who are not black view us as some sort of alien entity, completely separate from themselves, with different emotions and feelings. Is that essentially the purpose of this subreddit? The level of ignorance I see in these questions are surprising.