Wait Til You Get Home: 6 Things You Don’t Do in Front of White Folks

September 4th, 2012 - By Renay Alize

Source: smong.net

Talk about politics

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been surprised to learn that one of my white friends or associates was a Republican. Ugh. It’s a troubling realization. Not only because of the political ideologies; (I don’t understand why folk can’t see the Republicans are just about money.), but also because the Republican party has been known to associate and or attract the type of folk who cling to racist, sexist and classist thoughts and even behaviors. There’s the tea party folk, the Todd Akin type dudes and most recently people who can’t act like they have a modicum of sense or even humanity, at a convention where the party is supposed to be putting their best foot forward. Why didn’t they get the memo that it’s not ok to throw peanuts at a black woman?!

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  • http://twitter.com/Reverend_Rae Raechele WilsonDoran

    Why would you say that a white person is disrespectful when they say they don’t see color? I’m just curious. I am Jewish (a minority where I live), and I have friends. I don’t choose them for race, color, sexuality, gender, age, religion. I choose based on brains, personality, and common interests. I’ve never said that I don’t see color, because to be honest, I don’t like to be in a neighborhood that has predominant anything or send my kids to a school that has a predominant anything — older, younger, gay, straight, black, white, Latino, Asian, Jewish, Catholic,pagan, atheist et. al. I like to be where people mix without thinking about it. I want to understand why it’s offensive. I’ve heard it said before and never thought twice. Please explain.

    Oh, and my family/friends and I break out into song and dance all the time. Only freakishly boring people (sheep) don’t get it. They can’t even think for themselves, so who cares if they get it or not!

  • Constance

    Why?! Black people are victims…..of articles like this! Please Ms. Author, don’t act as if you have the right to speak for every person of color. I don’t understand why we keep segregating ourselves and all the while attacking each other. We AMERICANS are not all that different from one another, I mean who doesn’t like chicken and watermelon! lol Please get over your own insecurities and stop spreading them to other people of color. Unlike me, some poor soul will fall for your nonsense and continue the cycle of self oppression. WHO CARES! Do you as long as it isn’t destructive!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1026240671 Matthew Jeffers

    Let me see if I understand the contents of the article…don’t talk about anything of relevance to your life or to the lives of the whites around you. AND don’t express yourself meaningfully with the white folk. Ok. Wow!

    #6 kills me, because how the hell do you talk about ‘your experience’ if you can’t talk about it? Do you care about my experience? Or are all whites just the same, with the same racist reactions to everything?

  • Ddelina

    When I came America I noticed this type of thing. I’m african, and I do get the dynamic but for me i just see it as just cultures not clashing not color.

  • Richard

    I happen to be both white (not an actual ethnicity, but I digress) and republican(ish). I find this list both humorous and somewhat sad, since it appears to negatively stereotype both whites and blacks. If you’re at all interested in making further progress in bringing us all together, might I suggest the following: Be yourself, and don’t hide. Like what you like, do what you do, and dance to the rhythm that moves you. If those around you choose to remain ignorant, that’s too bad. Personally, I have good friends from around the globe, and we have fun learning about life in our respective home towns, and how our experiences differ, and yet parallel. We’re all human, and the decent among us will take the time to listen, learn, empathize, grow, and enjoy life’s journey with the friends God brings to our lives. All the best, Richard.

  • educated

    That was the most ignorant racist piece I have ever read. Its people like you who are keeping segregation and racism alive. Shame on you preaching against it when you are just feeding the fire.

  • KC

    Thanks for stereotyping me as unable to accept other people/cultures/enjoyments etc simply because of my skin color. Perhaps the problem is that rather than giving people a chance and accepting or discarding them on their individual actions and reactions, you simply discard us as “white.” You wouldn’t want me to do that to you, would you?

  • Frekki

    I am ending this thread. I will not look further. I am a republican. A Lincoln republican. I grew up with black folks as my models, and my mentors. You are racist in your hatred of republicans. The democrats want to keep you down, the republicans want to lift you up. You either see it or you don’t.

  • Jacob

    Wow. Thank you for dropping this wealth or knowledge on this ignorant white person. Way to fuel racial stereotypes that everyone is working to overcome. This obsession with race is becoming a tired topic, and frankly this article seems as racist as anything you will see on mainstream media. Her insecurities sure show in her writing.

  • docwhocuts

    indoctrinated hate.

  • Common_Sense96

    Very sad and divisive – I am sad for the author because it sounds like she and others that hold these same opinions have stereotypes about THEMSELVES. It will probably still be the same five hundred years from now. I so wish all the people that focus so much energy on this – the Al Sharptons, the liberals (who by the way – only care about the money they can take from other people!), the feminists – - would use all their anger, energy, protests, blogs, etc…. to be angry about the people in this world today that REALLY ARE SLAVES RIGHT NOW…..and being abused and tortured – men, women, and children – of many different races and colors. They are not just having their feelings hurt by what someone else might think or say……those people truly in need will probably forever go without help…..because someone living here who is worried about eating chicken in front of other people – thinks that is a bigger problem. Did the author ever try to think from the other person’s perspective?…..that maybe some people, upon meeting a black person – might be defensive only because they assume (correctly or incorrectly) – at first meeting that that person does automatically and secretly (or not-so-secretly) hate them because of THEIR race/ethinic background?

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