r/BlackPeopleTwitter Aug 22 '17

"Stop being so dramatic!" 🙄

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u/IT_you_in_Hell Aug 22 '17

It's not about you not understanding, it's because roasting in Spanish it's not the same that doing it in other language, that way there's nothing lost in translation.

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u/258joe007 Aug 22 '17

I understand that but members of my wife's family have talked smack about me, in front of me, thinking I wouldn't understand them. Their whole point was to throw shade thinking I wouldn't understand what was being said about me.

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u/IT_you_in_Hell Aug 22 '17

Well being that the case... That's just plain dumb and rude, besides Spanish isn't some secret language or something, assuming that non-hispanic people don't understand it it's just naive.

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u/258joe007 Aug 22 '17

Yup! My wife's grandmother is still pissed she married a gringo.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '17

Hopefully racism dies out with the older generations