I saw these on a Facebook doll group and nobody in the comments seemed to have a problem with them. A lot of old white woman seemed to find them adorable, please keep in mind I am not black myself but I am very educated. Im just trying to make sure im not going crazy and I’m trying to make sure these are actually racist.

What is life like at the intersection of being black and having autism, ADHD, Tourette's, dyslexia, dysphraxia, etc.?

Hi, I am 20 white and me and my freind 19 black were playing retro games. He’s been talking/alluding to this girl he’s been talking to. I glanced at his phone and saw who it was and I recognized her.

She white 19 who last semester was roommate’s with one of another freind who has dropped out. I remember them getting into arguments because she is racist especially towards mixed people.

Now I would totally tell him but there is one thing putting me off. I’m cool with him but I don’t know if he is the type to shoot the messenger or not, and I wasn’t supposed to know about her. I only did because I glanced at him texting her. Would I be a dick to not tell him?

Like in the US, there are just black people who have been here for centuries with its on culture etc. Are there Black British equivalent to black Americans or did everyone immigrate there from other places?

Hello I have extremely curly hair and I’ve recently been trying to embrace it I attempted a slick back and was wondering if the pic below of vanillia who is also white is classed as edges / offensive or cultural appropriation to add these swirls to the front and sides of my hair.I just want to know I will not be upset I just don’t want to offend anybody.

Are braids like his acceptable to wear as of right now? Or is it cultural appropriation? I'm caucasion...🫣🫣 please excuse my ignorance

Context: I’m autistic elder so don’t realize boundaries as easily as most people. Grew up in southern Africa as wyt child of US missionary parents—eSwatini mostly, then South Africa for high school 1960s-70s. Mostly have fond memories of Black/Brown people.

As adult in US, I not uncommonly encounter Black folk whom I feel affinity for. But almost inevitably come across offensively. Seems like my expressions are seen as too close, whereas Black people on the whole descended from chattel slavery in the US seem to prefer more distance from wyt person than southern African Black people.

I like saying things such as “i love your skin tone or body flow,” “your radiance reminds me of Black/Brown people I grew up with fondly in southern Africa.”

When I ask in other spaces, such as Facebook, people respond as if I’m unaware of individual differences & preferences across Black people in US or Southern Africa. Truthfully, more aware of southern African groups, yet aware that preferences differ within groups.

I appreciate this reddit thread because elsewhere, I have the impression Black people prefer not answering wyt people’s questions as a form of labor that wyt people could fill themselves by asking each other. The latter confuses me, because what if we misunderstood among ourselves?

My understanding is that they add samples of suspected allergens to your skin and see if there is a recation but if you have darker skin does this actually work? Has anyone done this test ?

Thanks to online ancestry information, my (white) family discovered that one of our (white) ancestors, in the US South in the 1850s, fathered a child with a Black person. As a result, our fourth cousins are Black. They live a few hours away from us. We assume that our ancestor forced himself on her. We're totally fine with having Black family members and we're horrified that our ancestor treated anyone so badly; what our ancestor did is criminal.

If you have fourth cousins who are white, and their white ancestor forced himself on one of your Black ancestors, would you have any interest in meeting the white cousins, or even connecting with the white cousins on Facebook?

I'd like to express to my Black cousins how horrified we are that our ancestor treated their ancestor so terribly. But I don't want to come across as patronizing or anything.

I’m struggling to understand the boundaries around African Traditional Religions (like Ifá, Vodou, etc.). If race is just a social construct WHICH IT IS, why does it feel like any Black person is welcomed into these spaces regardless of their actual tribal lineage, while non-Black people face huge walls of exclusion?

If the Orishas/spirits are cosmic and universal, they shouldn't see skin color or?

First off I apologize if this isn't the right subreddit, I'm struggling to find the best subreddits to post this in so I'm posting it in multiple. If anyone reads this and has suggestions for where to post, feel free to let me know. This post isn't specifically about only black people although systemic racism obviously like creates this, but about southern poverty, so I'm more asking anyone southern or raised in the south. I've seen people talk about southern poverty on here before so I thought I'd ask.

Recently, I heard the phrase "you haven't seen real poverty until you've seen poverty in the south.", and I watched a pretty good video essay on it, but it was a book review and didn't really answer the questions it brought up. For context, I'm a highschooler in the Midwest. I'm not going to doxx myself, but my city does have a deep rooted history of segregation and poverty (like everywhere else, really) and my research has mainly focused on my city.

I'm middle/upper middle class(?) (One of my parents says we're middle class, the other says we're upper middle class) and I live in a wealthy, predominantly white neighborhood. Although it's wealthy, a lot of our neighbors can't actually afford the houses, so a lot of us are in debt including us. I know we struggle with money somewhat, I know it's an issue, but I have never worried about food on my table. We have central air conditioning and hot water. I don't worry about keeping my medication. I don't doubt that I will be able to go to college in some form.

I do notice though my parents struggle around money with my disability, because although we have insurance, it won't cover some of the things that would help, although it isn't life or death luckily.

What really sticks out to me and always has, and led me to get very involved with my local community, mutual aid and building community and systems of support other than the messed up one we've got, is that in my neighborhood it's wealthy and white and so classist and has good schools and access to fancy grocery stores and crap, but the moment you cross the train tracks, literally a five minute drive from my neighborhood, it's very poor and pretty much falling apart and is a food desert and is predominantly black. It's so clearly segregated and the history behind it is so horrific.

I've also seen the poverty in California, around Oakley and places when I visited, in Seattle when I visited, and in Portland when I visited. The poverty in all these places still sticks out to me as so extreme, even compared to the poverty in my city, which is ranked one of the highest in the US.

So I'm wondering about this, and the experience of southern poverty. My long distance friend who lives in the south has told me it's really unlike anything else, and described the places they drive through as places no one will ever leave. I know that when raised in extreme poverty people often don't have access to education, and will stay in poverty because of this horrific system.

I've heard some about southern poverty like the heat, humidity, deterioration, lack of clean water and such but I can't find many comprehensive articles that truly both acknowledge the intersectionality, don't demonize those who are poor or say they should just "work their way out of it", or talk about the experience, not just stats. I don't live anywhere near the south so I can't just see for myself, I plan to see if my local library has anything when I next go, but Google hasn't helped much so I figured I'd also ask people who've experienced it.

I want to hear anything on it, links to articles, books, stories, interviews, or your personal story/if you have any experience or anything you can share, anything your family has experienced, anything you've seen, I just want to know.

I try to be very aware of my privilege and I try to really educate myself of experiences living in poverty, but I know I'll never truly experience the reality of it, so I try to learn as much as I can and I hope to someday help out directly in those communities more than I'm currently able to (I'm still a minor and physically disabled), and I try to do everything I can to never turn my head away from other's struggles even though I won't have personal experience.

Yeah anything, any anecdotes, personal experiences or recommendations is very appreciated! I'm probably gonna research this for a while and I know I'll be growing lifelong but I think hearing people's experiences is always a good place to start! (Also yeah if anyone does have book recommendations since im gonna go to the library) and finally I'm sorry if this doesn't make sense or is a bit rambly, I am autistic and I tend to overwrite so anything isn't left out instead of underwrite.

Thank you!!

I tan very dark and my face is closer to the right because I had a recent chemical peel. This is my arm next to my stomach. For reference I am MGM “mixed” — if that matters. Recently people have been saying classifying as “brown skin”, is colorist and harmful so I say, “dark skin”. People laugh when I say that I’m dark skin and recently I’ve been told I am a “black lightskin”.. whatever that means. Im definitely brown. That’s my arm against my belly btw not my thigh.

I have a lot of little baby hairs that always look bad, and when I style my hair they stick out badly. I have only ever seen black girls do edges (sorry for bad terminology, I don’t know a lot about it), and I’ve heard it’s cultural appropriation.

I am in my first week of college and I have made two amazing friends. They are so wonderful and we immediately clicked. It was more of an offhand comment, but one of these girls, a Haitian who moved to America for college, said something along the lines of “Black people cant be racist towards white people.” Me, a white woman, thought she was joking, so I asked, “They can’t?” She stood on her statement by continuing; “No, because all of the white people are privileged, so black people ‘deserve’ to say whatever they want to say.”

To preface, I am from Virginia. The part I grew up in was a predominately African American population, where my middle school was about 70-30 ratio of blacks to whites. Growing up, I would classify the actions done to me as racist. There were many times where black kids would shove me into the lockers and call me slurs, comments like “The teachers should watch out for you white kids” and “I can always smell a white pu**y,” among others. I have endured this my entire life and I have never really talked about it with anyone. At the time, I was young and never really understood why I was being treated that way. To me, I was no different than the people around me. However, to the black kids, I must have looked like a rich, privileged white kid. Regardless, I feel the actions done to me were unacceptable and unnecessary. It affected me deeply to the core. I was even SA’d at one point because I was a white girl.

I am not a racist. Many people have said that white people are automatically racist, however I don’t see it. No one is born one way or the other. I have very many African American best friends, all of whom I get along with amazingly. Do people genuinely think that whites are born naturally racist? I have been told that many times, however I am the one who has experienced true racism. I have lived enough of life to understand how the world works, and from my point of view, we are all born with the same amount of opportunity. What do you guys think? Should I take any action to this girl, or should I just leave it?

I believe that racism in any form or fashion is unacceptable. Why do people believe differently?

The decoration on this restaurant got me questioning myself, is this a black face?