Is it racist when blacks want to live away from blacks?
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"Now we've got a lot of things, a lot of racism in the world right now, Who's more racist? Black people or white people? Black people, you know why? Because we hate black people too! Everything white people don't like about black people, black people REALLY don't like about black people." - Chris Rock
A little story... Years ago, a family member was teaching first grade at a Catholic elementary school. At the beginning of the school year, there was a single black student in the class, a boy I’ll call “William.” Midyear, a 2nd black boy I’ll call “Ike” joined the class after transferring in from public school, I believe. Ike was very disruptive, surly, aggressive, had a bad attitude, etc., and William soon became his sidekick. This turn of evens resulted in William getting into a bit of trouble here and there, and generally worsening as a student. At some point, William’s mother came in for a parent-teacher conference at which she said to my family member something along the lines of this: “I wanted to ask you something, and this is probably going to sound weird, but is Ike black?” My family member indicated that, yes, he was. William’s mother: “I thought so from what I’m hearing about him, but William never actually said so. You know, I have William in this school because there were so few black going here.”
“Is it racist when blacks want to live away from blacks?”
I’ve mentioned this before. The black former air force sergeant who lives across from one of my rentals told me, “When blacks ask me if your house is still for rent, I tell them no.” Looking at my reaction he laughed and said, “at your price point they are either on drugs or selling drugs. I don’t want either across the street from me.”
Having said that, I had to evict two white women in separate incidents from that very house. One went to prison for drugs and the other got the free government covid money and apparently spent it on drugs as she went from making it just fine to no money to spend on rent or the electric. So, it’s not just blacks, but the probabilities are higher with darker skin.
Oh, favorite story. I was working on this property when a nicely dressed black man driving a Cadilac stopped to talk to my neighbor. It seemed to be a friendly conversation except the neighbor’s body language was really tense. When the guy waved goodby and drove off I went over. “Cephus, what was that about?”
Spitting mad he said, “That f@@king n@@@@@r stopped to see if I wanted to buy some cocaine!”
“Uhm, do you know him?”
“NO! I don’t know him!”
Blacks complain they get arrested for drugs more than whites and that’s racist. I’ve known a few whites who were into drugs over the decades and none of them were that bold. At least when I knew these people and to my knowledge they’d never been arrested.
>Is it racist when blacks want to live away from blacks?<
[Chorus]
Well, we’re movin’ on up to the east side
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Movin’ on up to the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie
[Verse]
Fish don’t fry in the kitchen
Beans don’t burn on that grill
Took a whole lot of trying
Just to get up that hill
Now we’re up in the big leagues
Gettin’ our turn at bat
As long as we live, it’s you and me, baby
There ain’t nothing wrong with that
[Chorus]
Well, we’re movin’ on up to the east side
To a deluxe apartment in the sky
Movin’ on up to the east side
We finally got a piece of the pie
[Outro]
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