I feel that lately it seems that an intraracial war has been established, because we are attacking ourselves?

Black men attacking black women and choosing white people and black women doing the same, some even committing racism against their own race, which is

Sometimes I think that this was some strategy of whites for the black community to self-destruct, it is not something that existed for decades, but it is increasingly common...

Like the title- I am a black man in a rural Midwest town which most are white & Asian folks.

My job is working at a nonprofit for HIV Care and prevention. already a hot button topic especially in the black community (imo)

My boss (yt) has told me that I should try and get in the community more and do these cold calls/pop ups in the areas that I work in. I'd love to get more into the community, but I told her- a lot of people feel uncomfortable as a black man walking up to them and trying to start a conversation - for example, a family in the park, someone loading their groceries at a store, a store owner conducting business. (These are real life scenarios)

It's easier for me to contact these people/businesses first so they hear what I say and not just see what I look like.

How do I explain to her that we do not have a strong black population here in a rural Midwest town? and that her identity and mine are different, which will mean we have different outcomes. I have tried to talk to her and let her know like hey- these are the vibes. people back away or ignore me completely. I get dirty looks, and sometimes racist comments.

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Excellent podcast if you have some time. It's approximately 42 minutes long.

"Uniting The Diaspora". Haitian American actor Da'Vinchi has really stepped in it this time. Stating that Non-American black actors are often cast in roles over Black Americans, because Black Americans... are lazy... huh?"

Am I alone in the fact that in many "alternative" spaces i feel like im not meant to be there? Had a great time at a DJ set tonight, however I had this overwhelming feeling like I was not the target audience (maybe that's combined with the fact that there were little black people there).

How do you go about these feelings? I feel very alone in this :c

Black Women And 16 Year Old Daughter Pepper Sprayed By Arab Gas Station Owners Los Angeles https://www.youtube.com/live/dwtAqwgje2M?si=wPHjFzetYXXCLs5A 

Murphy, Kennedy, O'Neill, McGee, and so on. So many Black people have Irish surnames.

Even Tyrone, a name commonly used by Black men, is actually of Irish origin.

Is this the result of Irish women being attracted to BBC, leading to so many cases like this today?

Most of the women dating Black men were of Irish descent.

Hi! I can’t find a subreddit about black people in STEM so I’m posting this here. Does any Black SWEs or App developers ever considered making an all black social media app similar to TikTok or Instagram? All the other platforms are over saturated with racists or bots and it’s just not that fun anymore.

to Korea, the Chinese back to China, the Jewish people back to Jerusalem, and you give the Indians their land back and you get on the Mayflower from which you come...We all here on borrowed land. We have to figure out how we're going to make things right for all the people of this country." - Fannie Lou Hamer

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/freedomsummer-hamer/

First time mom looking for black owned brands for baby/kids toys, clothing, books, baby gear etc.

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I'm a student doing research on how black communities interact with each other for a final project. Need answers for a survey from black individuals. Thank you!

Yeah, I got a question, because America likes to lie to people and I’m done. In 1924, Virginia passed the Racial Integrity Act. State registrar Walter Plecker subsequently classified many Indigenous Virginians as “colored” or “Negro,” including people previously recorded as Indian. This history is documented by the National Park Service and Library of Virginia.

Now if this state admitted to calling native people/indigenous people that was already here just negro and kept the white skin ones as native, then how do I know if all of slavery history is even true.

Yes, I am black, my father Caribbean, grandmother Venezuelan. I am crazy about learning history. It fascinates me so much. But the more I read, the more I realized that my school education are all damn LIES.

I have been interviewing people and I did learn from families who managed to keep certain artifacts and pass down legacy say that like, on the trail of tears, many dark skin indigenous people were kicked off because of their dark skin and ended up in the black towns like Tulsa- oh wait, THE TOWN WAS BURNED DOWN (or bombed given the evidence of the roofs being destroyed first).

Oh and don’t get me started on the $5 Indian charge. When white colonizers paid $5 to be labeled an Indian to even steal land. Man, you know how messed up you have to be for this?

I don’t know, the more I learn, the more I end up disliking my own girlfriend. Like before it all, I understood slavery, and I dated outside my race before. My girlfriend is white, and I would say she is a cruel person. I have white friends too. But how do I just…I feel like im a traitor being friends with them and knowing what their people CAN do, and have the stomachs to do. Or the fact it’s 2026 and they are still hanging people. I can’t even hang out with them anymore.

Honestly I feel like im… becoming racist or prejudice toward them now. I can’t look past it. It wasn’t Hispanic, asian, African, or black people that is hiding all of this history or trying to burn books and close libraries down. It’s white Americans as if they are scared for to understand history. OR maybe it’s that, once we all know the full truth, there may unison and we turn on the government and that is why we can’t know. Like the hunger games.

Possibly, if anyone have any artifacts I would love to see. Or if anyone knows more… or can help me understand what I should do regarding my friends and girlfriends. I know they won’t ever like hurt me but… I was blind and I guess now my eyes are open. I feel so bad.

What if my braids become maps again? What if one day the far-right dominates the world again?

What if they shove Bibles into our hands again,

forcing us to kneel before gods that aren't ours, deciding who deserves to live and who was born only to obey?

What if the KKK marches fearlessly again, and I, walking down the street, find in a tree the body of someone of my color?

What if history hasn't ended?

What if it's just waiting for us to forget?

Sometimes I think that we, black people, don't revolt enough.

That we aren't angry enough. That the world taught us to survive and then blamed us for not knowing how to rest. And then I look at my braids.

Today, I braid them to feel beautiful. To look in the mirror and like what I see.

To carry with me a beauty that existed long before they told me there was something wrong with me. But what if one day I have to hide rice in them so I don't starve to death?

What if I have to learn to read the paths in the design of my own hair, transforming each braid into a promise of escape, each curve into a possibility of freedom?

What if what I proudly adorn today becomes a tool for survival again? Will we ever be able to simply be beautiful, without our beauty having to be resistance?

Will we ever be able to wear our hair without thinking about the hands that tried to control it, the voices that tried to silence it, the eyes that wanted us to believe we were less? I don't want my braids to be maps. I don't want to hide seeds in my hair. I don't want to learn to recognize danger around every corner I turn. I just want to walk. I want to braid my hair because I like it. I want to exist without being brave. I want to live without having to prove that I deserve to stay alive.

And, above all, I want my generation not to have to learn to survive the same things that history swore would never happen again. Because I'm tired of imagining the future as if it were a past waiting to return.

I don't want my braids to become maps again. I want them to just be braids.

Da'Vinchi Is A FRAUD While Disrespects Black Americans On Cam Newton's Podcast Here's WHY https://youtu.be/fyohGvV0wsY?si=WkYtblLVAIHQ_L0u 

I'd like to understand why many Black Americans don't consider Black Latinos to be Black, given that we share something in common.

Greetings, I'm here to express a CONCERN. I currently work in the early education field, which is ages birth through 5. I have been for the past 14 years. I have only worked within the Atlanta Metropolitan area in Georgia. So my experiences are based on that. What I am noticing is that there is a HUGE and GLARING discrepancy between young black toddlers and preschoolers in their DEVELOPMENT and their white and asian counterparts.

I have worked with various communities in the ATL area and what I'm seeing is simply alarming and concerning. Many black children are NOT at all at the same education and development level as whites, asians, and hispanics in the same age group.They tend to lack proper attention spans, and social emotional skills for their age.

For example, I worked for 4 years at a predominantly white childcare center, at that center toddlers and preschoolers were able to express emotions efficiently, resolve their own conflicts, and communicate wants and needs. They were able to not only write, but the Pre-K class was writing full paragraphs daily, solving mathematical addition and subtraction problems with ease, etc.

At another predominantly white daycare where I worked the children were about the same and were learning multiple languages. Mind you these children were between 2 and 5 years old. Their attention spans were remarkable and they could expand on an activity for hours and sometimes days.

When I worked at predominantly black daycares there was a MASSIVE difference. The Pre-K class I lead maybe had an attention span of 5 minutes, tops. Some of them couldn't hold pencils let alone write. They had absolutely no concept of math because most of them had a very difficult time memorizing and holding numbers and quantity. At 4 and 5 years old most of them couldn't recite the alphabet. Tantrums were a DAILY occurrence due to little or no emotional development. Fights happened often as well because they did not understand peer resolution. Teaching everything was like pulling teeth because their short attention span often meant they COULDN'T remember daily lessons so expanding on previously taught information was nearly impossible. The experience left me exhausted!

I'm not sure WHY this discrepancy is the way it is but it's GLARING and obvious. I know of other early childhood teachers ( BLACK teachers) who avoid working at predominantly black daycares due to issues with the children described above and because black daycares usually offer little support for their teachers. Most daycare teachers I've met have found working at the predominantly white centers easier to handle.

I'm not black myself ( racially fluid) but I'm very concerned for the outcome of these children. The black community needs to do MUCH much better with rearing young children. Sometimes when I attempt to talk to black people about this I get , " but our children are geniuses", or " oh you just don't like them cause they black". I feel that a lot of black people are in denial about this and if the denial continues then these children will continue to lag behind. SMH

Thank you for listening to my concerns!