False Stereotypes about African Americans

[Anonymous]

Introduction;

First let me say i will be going anonymous, not because i am ashamed of my skin, but because i do not appreciate racist messages.

This will be a take on false African American stereotypes. If you have any questions regarding African American culture don't hesitate to ask.

Stereotypical Foods/Beverages;

One of the most annoying things i hear is "All black people like water melon."

That's just about the dumbest thing i've ever heard, i personally hate Watermelon.

I do not eat it and have not in years. Many people have attempted to make me like Watermelon, but it has never succeeded. I have tried it with regular salt, Sea salt, I've tried it with other fruits, dishes, & drinks. I just do not like watermelon, the taste is very bitter & too many seeds for me.

Cantelope on the other hand, YUM!

More stereotypical foods/Beverages i hear about are;

Fried Chicken, Kool aid, etc

Well, regardless of race, that would depend on the persons household. In my house we haven't had neither fried chicken or kool aid in years, We prefer sea food.

Kool Aid is way too sugary for me, & i prefer baked chicken if we're going to have it.

"Monkeys"

First off, monkeys are adorable.

Secondly, making fun of a human being for looking like a monkey, is like making fun of an elephant for looking like a Mammoth, I should not have to explain why.

Most people only say this because of the dark skin complexion, which have nothing to do with facial features.

Whenever I, or someone gets called monkey, it just make's the person insulting us seem very dense.

Thieves/Thugs

Black people are not out to get you okay?

We don't want to steal anything of yours, we don't want to hurt you, we just want to live our lives like everyone else.

Recently me & my mom were racially profiled and watched in Walmart ,where we will not be shopping anymore.

I live in a religious household, all of my family & relatives are religious.

We do not harm, We do not steal, & We do not do any of the things people claim we are doing.

I live a very boring life, i don't go out with friends & do bad things, i stay in the house & mind my own business. When i do go out, its to do family-oriented things such as; Mourn a loss, or to celebrate something.

If i don't have the money to buy something, i'm not going to steal it, i will simply find an alternative to getting what i need. I am not going to harm, & i do not own any firearm.

I only know 2 relatives who own firearms, one being my grandpa who is a veteran.

Penis size;

I'm not saying this is true or false, i do not know, & i do not care.

I do not care what some other man is packing, if you are fixated on something like this, why don't you go find a few black men & ask them to see it, If you do not get slapped

(Which would be an acceptable reaction) & they show you what they're packing, You will have your answer

It should not matter what another man has in his pants, & do not pay attention to other people's

"Personal experiences"

*Off topic, my brother used to tell me going to the dentist sucked, because the shots "hurt".

I listened to him & was afraid to go to the dentist. Eventually i had to end up going to get a "shot", i was afraid for no reason at all, I literally felt nothing.

I fearlessly went back to that dentist & was given multiple shots in my gum, I still do not feel it.

The only time i ever actually "felt" it was when they gave me 4 shots in the same spot, that hurt a bit, but it wasn't anything serious.

Moral of the story is; you can't pay attention to others people's personal experiences or other mens packages.

Different races have different aspects, SAME races have different aspects.

Some races tend to have more hair on their body than other races, but does that mean only that race can be hairy? No, it depends on the person.

Everyone is different.

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I'm going to end it there, i hope you enjoyed this take & it answered any questions you may have had. Please i don't tolerate, or promote racism in any way.

Please realize that everyone is different, not everyone is the same.

Please give this take a like & comment.

[Anonymous]

Every culture has some type of stereotype. Some are rooted in truth. For instance, blacks were forced during slave times to eat the worst cuts of meat thrown out at scraps. Frying the food, i. e., chicken, made it taste better. Watermelon was available and something they tended to eat when the temperature dropped. But then you have some movie execs capitalizing on this and turning it into a stereotype becuase they see blacks on some farm land doing this, and they say, well ALL blacks do this or that, and that information gets spread to the masses who adopt it as canon. It then becomes "a problem" if you like it, because then look, someone can point and say, I told you so, all blacks, this and that, and it's "a problem" if you don't fit the stereotype because then you're constantly battling against it your whole life.

I can't fight all the constant battles with the racists of the world, nor should I have to. I've got better things to do then try and constantly convince people, I'm worthy of being a part of society. I know that already, and I don't need their permission. What you can do is reach that one or two people on occasion who are simply ignorant about such things, and try and educate so that they may pass it on.

[madhatters4]

the stereotype should be that humans love fried chicken

[madhatters4]

thanks for MHO

[hawkeye92]

Hey dummy regarding this quote:

"Well, regardless of race, that would depend on the persons household. In my house we haven't had neither fried chicken or kool aid in years, We prefer sea food."

I'm not defending whatever stereotypes mentioned, but you do the know what trends are right? Just because YOU don't do something doesn't mean it's not a trend among a group of people. Again, I don't think the example you used is a true stereotype. But your argument against it is awful.

Example. The most likely indicator of child abuse (sexual of physical) is if that child has a step-parent (this is true). If you say, "now hold on I have a step-father and he was loving and never did anything to hurt me!"... then you are an idiot. YOU are not special to the described data from your individual experience and YOU cannot disprove things yourself from your experience. But congrats on having a good family.

Having said all that, don't stereotype people, especially black people. They go through enough shit.

[ObscuredBeyond]

The problem with stereotypes is that no matter how badly they need to die, there is always someone out there who perfectly resembles them that keeps them alive.

Be it a boy making purple drank out of watermelon tea, a trashy couple beating a food vendor and her daughter to a pulp over cold chicken, or a guy stealing from a store and then attacking a cop in a mad frenzy while on a weed high, only to get shot and have special interest groups blame the cop and turn it into a media circus, there is always someone out there doing something that ensures the stereotype will never die.

[MementoMori_]

I have no problem with your disdain for "stereotypes." What I have a problem with is this movement that wants to police thoughts and outlaw beliefs. If someone believes that black people like watermelon, act like thugs, look like monkeys and have big penises, that's their business. You don't have to like them. But they also don't have to like you. That's the beauty of America. You are entitled to your own thoughts and beliefs and also entitled to express them. The only way that right works is if it applies to everyone because no person is the absolute authority on truth.

[Unit1]

I do not believe in bullsh stereotypes. With that being said I couldn't care less about skin color. I only care how the person is, not it's biological properties.
I too hate racism!
You happen to have met some racist assfaces but so have many of us also in one way or another.

Furthermore what bugs me is how African americans are being discriminated by the white (by those stereotypes you have listed and more) and in reverse it would be slavery in the past. This is the past and today we can do much better than that, which is to get along with each other.

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

I saw a documentary about the USA 2 or 3 nights ago, first the Ku Klux Klan were burning swastikas and preparing for a race war, then a bunch of blacks, I forget the name of their militia, were shooting guns and preparing for a race war, looks to me like Yankee Doodle Land is full of trigger happy creationist bigots who believe Adam and Eve and Jesus were white, a few of Adams grandchildren pissed God off so he sent them to The Land Of Nod and forced them to have sex with gorrilas, thus creating negros. Black people all believe the Ancient Egyptians were black an Napoleon Bonaparte knocked the nose off The Sphinks to hide the truth.

[Machiavelli]

Yeah some guy called me baboon looking and then blocked me. I know I look nothing like a baboon and his eagerness to be racist and hateful at the age of 17 really made me feel sorry for him. All because I told him people won't find us all attractive and we are all ugly to someone. Some stereotypes really are true though, but I do agree there are some dumb ones about blacks, I laugh at them as long as no one gets hurt.

[myTake Owner]

Which stereotypes do you agree with

[RJGraveyTrain]

A baboon? Not even close. You're a beautiful woman. Lol. Some people are so fucking stupid.

[Machiavelli]

@RJGraveyTrain Thank you baby, you're very pretty too, seen you around.

[RJGraveyTrain]

Thank you much and you're welcome.

[Jaquav]

I'm white and personally I find non-white women to be just a little bit extra sexy because it's different and exotic. It doesn't decide who I date though and I'm attracted to white women to no end as well. It's just one thing of thousands that might attract me to someone.

[Phoenix98]

Cantaloupe is still a kind of melon same as watermelon so your not really disproving that wrong.

It's true that not all blacks are thugs and thieves but despite only making up 13% of the US population blacks statistically are reasonable for well over 50% of violent crimes in the US and crime in general.

As for the other two I couldn't say.

[myTake Owner]

Cantaloupe is not water melon though.
& I'll tell you just like I told everyone else, skin is skin

Taking a certain skin color off of someone is not going to change them, it's the person who's doing these things, not their skin...
skin is just skin.

[Phoenix98]

Well I personally know a lot of black people who love watermelon and chicken and I don't see anything wrong with that *shrugs*

Well obviously there's some kind of underlying factor otherwise the statistics wouldn't be so dis proportionate

[Starrk]

"13% of the US population blacks statistically are reasonable for well over 50% of violent crimes in the US and crime in general."

This is half wrong. Blacks account for about 52% of murders, but they do not account for over 50% of crime in general. When you combine the stats from all crimes such as murders, rape, arson, robbery, theft, white collar crimes, manslaughter, child abuse, animal abuse, property crimes and etc, then white people become the main perpetrator, which isn't a surprise since crime stats tend to mirror the majority.

[Phoenix98]

@Starrk Fair enough points.

Still doesn't change overall what I said there must be an underlying factor contributing to why blacks are engaged in so much violent crime.

[Starrk]

Poverty + Gangs + Urban living + Hyper masculinity + Guns = Areas of high murder rate.

The high homicide rate that you see isn't because of race or any type of innate behavior like many racist people will assume. It's the result of the environment that these individuals live in. Poverty is the result of a lack of resources. Gangs creates and reinforces a "them vs us" mentality and Urban living is known for being highly dense where people are clustered together in small finite areas. When you combine those three shitty recipes together with access to guns and hyper masculinity (which comes with living in the ghetto) you get yourself a war zone.

But like I said, these factors are purely environmental. Walk through a predominately black suburb like Friendly, Maryland or Ladera Heights and it's a whole different story.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

Everyone's right in this case. I mean everyone should know the underlying factor. It's not a secret. The issue is that no one is doing anything about it. People in inner cities don't have the funds to change the infrastructure of the community combined with the corrupted gangs that further prevent change from happening, and people outside the system (not directly affected daily) and politicians who can impose acts to actually fix aid problems wanna pay for it. It's a stupid cycle. I call it pothole syndrome

[Phoenix98]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau I know a couple of the factors anyway there's always there's always that 1 or 2 that get away.

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

I believe you. I whole heartedly do. But hell, I can legit make a case on how coca cola is making Alabama and Mississippi even more dirt poor and preventing economic growth in the states. Point being there are endless factors that contribute to this, and anything. I just focus on my term/model for stuff like this cause it's stupid easy to follow. I just hate how some people end up talking about how the supercollider or game theory to explain abortion or some shit like I've seen in other conversations (both on here, the internet in general and tv... Also, I kinda maybe did it with the coke thing) 😂

[Phoenix98]

@Other_Tommy_Wiseau Lol I'm sure you could.

Yeah just a tad lol.

[BrittBratt2416]

It irritates the hell out of me that people believe black people are evolutionary ancestors of monkeys. First off I am not a damn monkey, secondly God says He created Animals and then humans.. not animals turn into humans.

[metalsucks2]

We all evolved from an ape like species not monkeys. You are free to disbelieve evolution but it is a fact. There is no god and creationism is a myth.

[myTake Owner]

@metalsucks2
I believe in god, but the fact about apes has been proven with science for a long time.
There is no proof that god is fake, you've gotta have faith. Nobody knows what happens after death till you die.

[BrittBratt2416]

I'm gonna need source that proves there is no God since the Bible isn't enough for you.

[metalsucks2]

@BrittBratt2416
The burden of proof is on the one making the claim and you are claiming that god exists. Also what makes you so sure that the Judeo Christian god exists? There are so many religions that claim to believe in the "true god". Also the bible is nothing but a work of fiction unless you think a man can separate water and a stick a changing into a snake is scientifically possible?

[Bvroon]

This was a nice take, I have always believed if you treat people like people first rather than like a race, you will always start of much better in the long run. Yes I'm white, and my ancestry, goes back to Russia, though it is my understanding that I'm a Russian, German, and Italian. Which in the end only makes for some interesting facts, but that is about it.

[Arabian911]

Africans generally in the middle east are considered equals to any human being in the middle east,, seeing a guy with a black or dark skin is something normal and doesn't even matter, perhaps Asians are some kind of racially profiled in the streets but other than that,, it's a very weird thing to judge a human being based on his skin color,, that's primitive in so many ways

[The_Underground_Man]

In regards to foods and beverages, how would you respond to the assumption that black people like cognac? Is it racist even though there is actually a historically sound reason why it is so popular in the black community? Namely, from black veterans of the Second World War who associated it with equality because the French treated them better than our own country did at the time.

[jacquesvol]

http://i.imgur.com/PCVJ8rX.jpg?1

www.americananthro.org/.../Content.aspx

[Jackblue]

I am not usually a fan of modern art, but that painting at the opening was lovely, as for what you said I hear you, but racism is a lot harder to get over than most people think. It is a like a child getting over his/her fear of the dark, fear is a very powerful emotion and isn't easy to brush aside.

[DizzyAster]

American racism is psychotic.
I say if Australia is England's prison, than America is England's Arkham Asylam. lol.
The fuckers here are crazy.
The media is sick.
How bad do you feel that you have to make a movie where Tom Cruise saves Japan, or Mel Gibson saves the Native Americans? lol.

[Anonymous]

There are stereotypes for every race not just for Black people. The thing that annoys me though is when people don't like to get stereotyped/racially discriminated but they do the exact same thing to other races. so thats why i personally don't care anymore...

[Lopezz1999]

Yep, yep, yep, and yep. I may be mixed, but sometimes I hear some of these stereotypes. Good take.. though I do like watermelon and other juicy fruits lol

[myTake Owner]

IT just tastes awkward to me, I don't know

[Other_Tommy_Wiseau]

all black people do love chicken, though... not because of skin, but because everyone love fucking chicken :D

[Cosytoasty]

Thought everyone loves chicken skin... ? 👍

[Bezbozhnikustanka]

Not me, I've never fucked a chicken.

[Anonymous]

Never heard about the watermelons, kool aid, or monkeys part. But I see the violence part on the news everyday. And the size thing in porn whenever I watch it. Gets passed on from one generation to the next.

[myTake Owner]

That's their job, on the news they report everything bad that happens, mostly..
skin has nothing to do with someone, it's just skin, if they had a different color skin it would not change anything about them internally

If you find a violent black man then he's violent, his skin is not

[Hispanic-Cool-Guy]

"That's just about the dumbest thing i've ever heard, i personally hate Watermelon."

What's wrong with you? 🙄