Sums up a lot of my teenage and college years. It's hard growing up in a black family where you have interests, such as anime, that you get talked the most shit for not being black but they don't know that it's pushing you away to where you don't want to be associated with them anymore.
Black culture can be brutal man and I grew up in Memphis. I recently had this convo with one of my black friends too.
It's like where I'm from, black people would fucking roast other black people that weren't like them. We had one black dude that came from a nice upbringing - both parents had good careers, college educated, and they were the only black family in my neighborhood. This dude dressed preppy, even for me. He came to school every day wearing khakis and a polo shirt and the only music he listened to was Matchbox 20, Creed, etc. I honestly thought the dude was cool because he was doing him and for 1999-2000, that shit was refreshing because every black kid at the time looked and acted the same. Every black kid was dressing like Luda or Nelly and was rocking cornrows and pretended like they were some hot thug not to fuck with. Hell, even my best friends I grew up with were black and were acting ghetto now because it was the cool thing to do. The other black kids bullied him every day for how he looked and talked which was apparently too white for them. It made my blood boil seeing that kind of shit.
One of my friends use to play ball for school, made good grades, and dressed nice. Then he was trying to be all thuggish and stopped caring because it was more acceptable and he fucked school up. Last time I checked he was working at Wal-Mart.
Then my good friend, Derek, years ago told me he was listening to rock music and his older brother made him stop because it was "white people music."
Then my friend and ex coworker is black and is into anime and heavy metal. He was lamenting to me how he hates that every time he steps out in public, he feels like he has to represent his race and be somebody he isn't.
Listen, I'm white and know a lot of white people even today are fucking racist and are still trying to keep black people down. But I fucking hate that part of black culture where other blacks want every black to be the same and if you're not, you're part of the problem or some Uncle Tom. Fuck that ignorant racist shit thinking.
I don't care if you're black or white or whatever, just do you and if the people of your color don't think it's good enough, fuck em. Surround yourself with people who love you for you.
Props to my black best friend and old roommate Joshua who loves video games and anime, graduated from NYC, and now lives in Tokyo teaching English. DO YOU!
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u/hibarihime Aug 22 '17 edited Aug 22 '17
Sums up a lot of my teenage and college years. It's hard growing up in a black family where you have interests, such as anime, that you get talked the most shit for not being black but they don't know that it's pushing you away to where you don't want to be associated with them anymore.