Search Results: thinking about past

As a child, 10 years seems so long. Now at age 30, it seems like 10 years ago was like yesterday.

I just learned 3 people I used to volunteer with at the rescue squad are dead. 2 out of 3 of those people were key people/high-ranking officers at the organization. They all died within less than a year apart and all three were in their 50s! Some of them had kids around my age that used to volunteer too.

Then I was reflecting on how my hometown in Tennessee has changed so drastically in just this past decade. This place is not recognizable anymore! All these damn northerners and Californians are flooding in and warping the culture of the area and driving the cost of living up astronomically. The people that did grow up here are dispersing and leaving. I am thinking about leaving with my fiance when I have the money and means to do so. We'll of course be married by then.

I have a theory that very few white people across all history literally think black people attach the ape like comparison in simple ways that is assumed. it’s more an symbolic association with what white people think of their energy, things like the way they vibe and their intelligence, but not that they are ape like in that way. When it happens it’s more like they can see certain facial features that remind them of it
(When certain skull features are present, not just skin color or hair) but since they look too human (upright, human amount of body hair) the brain shifts it’s perspective of them being ape like to humans, and they attach things like being hypersexual, not as intelligently inclined in certain areas, and an assumption that they are or may be aggressive in situations. But thinking they are ape like simply from looks alone is not such a simple one to one connection. It’s more their perceived energy from what I just described.

I believe black people actually are more likely to think this of themselves and they project it onto white people, both today and their perception of the past, when in reality the animalistic association was about black peoples perceived energy and connection to nature which they thought was different, looks may have played a major role but not not in such a simple ape like connection, they saw them as human but with different energy based on looks, not that they were more ape like because of their looks in such a way that is assumed.

And some white people may imagine other white people think this since they can conjure up that thought in their head but they don’t actually think that when seeing black people, their thought process is what I described.


*disclaimer, this isn’t meant to put black people down, I am describing real dynamics that are helpful to address both for the black community to understand these dynamics so they know how they are seen by white people and society as well.