It’s a privilege to grow up loving your culture.
Thursday, 13 Mar 2025
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As a black dude from Iowa… This is sadly very very true.
In that same vein:
We need to stop gatekeeping Blackness amongst ourselves. Sure, there’s a shared feeling/bond that comes with being Black. But too many of us jokingly shun those of us who “aren’t Black enough” or do things that put them at risk of “losing their Black card.”
It’s this veiled (albeit friendly/loving) “othering” that sometimes makes people think they’re not accepted by their own people. So, they look for acceptance elsewhere. (Next thing you know, Tim Scott and Candace Owens are telling you why you should ignore your parents and join the tRump train.)
There’s LEVELS to being Black, and we all don’t share the same experiences. But, as a baseline, we should accept that being Black (American) can mean many things to many people … and, although we respect and honor our shared traditions/experiences, we still welcome our sisters and brothers whose experiences don’t fit into the pre-determined Black boxes we expect them to live within.
This is a nice new perspective I hadn’t considered. Especially being privileged enough to have grown up around people who were very proud to be Black. 💛
Being from meth town , midwest this is facts. But glad I woke up and smelled the coffee in my early 20s.
I went to private school with a lot of self hating Black people. I definitely feel fortunate that I had a father that instilled pride in me. Even if I was the odd one out.
You can tell too cause they be on some sitcom black shit when they grow up
As a person who had the total opposite experience growing up I definitely took it for granted until within the last couple years, people with identity issues/self-hate always boggled my mind until I really thought about the extent to which my household was culturally Black growing up.
Like we had Black Christmas angels and listened to Jackson 5 Christmas, Black Jesus pictures on the wall, Black churches every Sunday, a whole shelf of books from Black authors or about great Black people, the music was always Gospel & Jazz & Funk & Soul & R&B & Rap, the TV was Martin & Fresh Prince & Wayans Bros & Girlfriends & Moesha & Sister, Sister etc., my family reunions nothing but Black, etc. etc. etc. Very grateful looking back.
Candace Owens!!! We talking bout you!
As a Ruckus-born from the burbs, I am relegated to getting my culture mostly from BPT
I had a friend who kept making racist and weird comments about black people. We’re both black. I don’t like to talk to him anymore.
Some of them Jack & Jill kids 👀😂
Tbh yea cuz I’m a little ashamed to admit it, but I grew up sheltered af and didn’t give a shit about nothing.
I’m glad I found this sub tho, one of the main things that made me start actually paying attention to the world around me, especially what’s been happening in like the last 8-9 years
It’s our job to bless them with the culture
Black guy that went to elite catholic schools. This one hits home incredibly hard.
Facts. My family celebrated our blackness every time we could. Family truly had me believing I could be whatever I wanted to be.
I JUST WOKE UP AND THIS IS THE FIRST THING I C. TODAY IS A GOOD DAY
This is so true in Latvia where I’m from. 🇱🇻
I grew up in an lily white suburb. My family loved being Black. 1 of my neighbors did not.
Well look if y’all feel that way let’s build our own community today we all family my niggas! 💯✊🏿 No bullshit, I don’t want not one black person to feel left out just move to Atlanta we are everywhere here. If you can’t then visit to get a little blackness in ya veins. ✌🏿🖖🏿✊🏿
Why do folks capitalize every word like that?
[You can always tell who those people are, too](https://imgur.com/jitwGmE)
Not an ounce of melanin in that pic, besides herself, and she’s in the *back* of the photo from ***her own baby shower***
As someone who was raised in SoCal BUT in a suburban white area… hit it on the spot. I’m mixed, my dad is the black parent for me and you just know he doesn’t like being black. It sucks.
Damn. I’ll never understand that shit. Even knowing all the pain, suffering, and atrocities that our people have experienced, if I had a chance to come back as any race in my second life I’d still choose to be Black. I love us and I’m so proud to be a Black woman ✊
My mom lol. If you’re Dominican, yk what I mean
shame that you might never get some real backyard bbq or block parties
Even in majority black areas you have those that don’t *KNOW* who they are let alone love it
On a separate note, it’s a lot of unnecessary work to capitalize the first letter of every word. Who are these psychos and why are they doing this to themselves?
As a Black military brat, this hits. But my folks were Blackity Black so they exposed us the best they could.
We’re not all Candace. It’s a crazy experience living as someone who works to lift up other black women, making an effort to participate in the culture, and still be told you’re not enough.
I got an amazing education at a school where I was one of the few black people (and really the only black person in my year). Hated getting questions about why I don’t straighten my hair or what I eat. During college I tried black orgs where I didn’t fit in. After college to now, I still join groups centered around black women, and still get crap for it, but the thing is I always find my people there. I also use my education to help other black people.
And while we’re here, not “sounding black” doesn’t mean that we “sound white”. Like what is that.
I love being a 🥷🏾
This is truth and it’s very sad for me. I wish I had gotten to be with more of my people. I’m in the whitest state in the country
I learned that it’s important to give grace because everyone wasn’t raised like you were.
I am second-generation mixed race. My mother’s parents divorced when she was a child and so neither she, nor I and my siblings got to grow up around Black people at all.
We have all got to experience all the racism that you get from being Black with none of the positive aspects of growing up with the culture. Add to that, many Black people actively exclude us when we try to engage with and learn about that part of our heritage.
We get all of the bad lived experience and none of the good.
House vs Field…….is a tail since time began.
Hardcore facts! Very fortunate to grow up in such a afrocentric environment
I’m actively living loving black culture because my dad was discouraged from it.
This is why HBCUs are great.
Even if you couldn’t live it as a kid go travel to one and spend your 4 years there living it up.
I saw this on Twitter hours ago and was going to screenshot it and post it here but I got lazy lol
That’s real ish… It shouldn’t be a privilege but a norm. I’ve damn sure encountered my share of self hating black people since I graduated college. They all have a chip in their shoulders from people making them feel that being black made them lesser than. Sadly our own people can be the ones who place that chip there. On the one hand, I can understand some of their frustrations having had that chip on my shoulder up until college. On the other hand, you have to realize that you can’t blame an entire race for the actions of what amounts to a handful of people
And here I am wondering where all these happy ass families are? Thanksgiving and Christmas ads are littered with happy super together families…. looks at mine😮💨
Sadly they raised me this way and THEN started drinking the koolaid now I’m the black sheep.
Or Black people period.
Damn…😑….
It’s never too late to start loving yourself and appreciating us.
You can always come home.
Unless you Byron Donalds or Candace Owens, stay your hateful black asses at the “one of the good ones” table.
Literally this!!! I had like really odd body dysmorphia when it came to my skin color when i was little. Especially growing up in a predominantly white elementary school
My body dysmorphia sorta comes and goes.
but being in a community college where i am around older black women who are hilarious and stylish it just makes me feel so loved and honest. ❤️
So true. The only black folks I saw regularly were my family. They worked a lot so I was alone a lot. Had a bunch of wyt friends though. I get lonely for black folks, it for some reason I don’t fit in.
I feel this post is about growing up around my grandma. White person screws up? Fine. Black person screws up? Coon that is preventing us from waking up!
It’s exhausting
Not sure if such a place exist