why is it that black girls are said to have more attitude than white girls?

Question

based on your experience with both groups would you say this is true? how true is it? and what do you think is the cause of it? (education? race? hardships? etc?)

Answer 1

Black women are believed to have more "attitude" because we do not have the same luxury of living in the same world as non-minorities.

Minorities are less likely to get quality health care regardless of the insurance coverage.
http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nhdr03/nhdrsum03.htm

Minorities are less likely to get police protection or assistance or justice in court.
http://www.civilrights.org/publications/reports/cj/

African American women are more likely to be raped, and less likely to have police assistance after the fact.
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/glance/race.htm

Rape victims advocates have their own biases about different races and African American women are often believed to be "over sexed" or "asking for it" even when that is accepted as a myth among rape victims, as a whole.
http://www.d.umn.edu/cla/faculty/jhamlin/3925/myths.html

Minorities are less likely to receive equitable care when seeking mental health services.
http://baywood.metapress.com/(1pvvwj45tkzyilndbh51xn45)/app/home/contribution.asp?referrer=parent&backto=issue,9,13;journal,16,142;linkingpublicationresults,1:300313,1

Media biases and social sterotypes make people believe African American women are the number one users of public aid. In fact, white women in rural areas are at the top of the dole.
http://diversity.monster.com/articles/false/

Minorities Often Pay More for Mortgages
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/09/13/AR2005091302070.html

There was an investigation into sexual misconduct against women by airport security, but African American women were more likely to be disbelieved. http://www.ifeminists.net/introduction/editorials/2006/0201reed.html

Racial discrimination is acceptable when it is directed at blacks. People, for the most part, understand or say it's justifiable. There is not a day that goes by that an African American is not subjected to race jokes, hate comments or some other kind of racial discrimination. It IS an everyday occurence. As women, we are told how ugly, fat and lazy we are all the time. We are told how everyone who is the exact opposite of us are the most beautiful.

We are told to be good girls and we will find a good man. Yet, what do we see when we turn on the television? Almost all successful (or at least famous) black men are married to non-black women or very, clearly bi-racial black women. How are we supposed to cultivate self-esteem when every message around us tells us how awful and horrible we are?

Now, someone is going to come along and say I'm pulling the "race" card. I don't have to pull the race card. Anybody of any race who is paying attention can clearly see the consistent demoralizing and discriminatory behavior leveled against minorities.

I went to college, support myself, have excellent credit, own a home and am doing fine. Regardless, when I step outside my house, I am just another lazy, crazy ***** in the eyes of almost everyone around me and it's tiring.

People say that we feel like they owe up something. Yes, I do. I don't ask for handouts. I want to be able to live in a house I can afford in any neighborhood I want without realtors telling me they are "sold this morning before you arrived." I want to be able to go to the store and pay cash without someone thinking it's "drug money" instead of the real answer, financially responsibility. I want to be able to take a class without professors telling me I won't pass regardless of what I do in his class. I want people to stop asking to touch my hair, my skin or asking me what I eat for dinner as if I am some kind of experiment. I want doctors to stop assuming that I'm on drugs and have fifteen children simply because I'm a black female. I want to be able to have a job without getting all the work other people don't want, expected to do more, have my work stolen when someone else wants credit for it and the first one fired regardless of the circumstances.

Basically, I want the SAME treatment every other free American who is not a minority receives. If that is what classifies me as having an "attitude" then so be it.

Answer 2

I am a black woman. In my opininon, I think black women must deal with more hardships than white women. At times it can be very frustrating. When you walk in a room, people automatically think you are loud, ghetto and have attitudes. I think people get these assumptions from television shows and other medias. I am not quick to anger and to get an attitude because I am black. All women can get attitudes when they are pushed too far. This can also be because you may be around more black women than white, so you notice it more in the black race. I have been around both white and black people, both groups of women appear to have attitudes. I think it depends more on a person's class, morals and values than their actual skin color contributing to their attitude and the way they react to certain things. For instance, if a person is low class than they will be quicker to anger and people of every color come in different class categories!

Answer 3

I don't feel black girls have more attitude.. I feel they are strong and more aggressive with their mentalities and desires. We as black woman have been subjected to a variety of different hardships due to race, education, poverty, lack of desire, drive, will. . . . I cannot put the attitude of black woman solely on the actions of others... however, I can say that as a black woman, I am looked at and perceived differently. Not only by the public of different race... but by my race as well. Dealing and having to put up with the frivolousness of everyday things like ignorant men, workplace racism and lack of opportunity....... I and black woman over the years have become rough around the edges...

I am a tell-it-like-it-iz type girl.. no holds bards... and no beating around the bush. My straight forwardness and aggression is looked at the wrong way.... and can be intimidating to others because they don't understand the hardships and struggles that black woman have had to face and endure.

Answer 4

I have to say being white, I do find some of them with a very bad attitude.. not sure why, some just hate us white women........
I think the ones we have the problems with have lack of education, or hardship in life but don't take it out on the world or white people ...

Answer 5

I would have to say it's true. But I am a young white female and i am happily dating an older black male. Black women see me as a threat because they think i'm taking "their men" from them. It's just like in the movie Save the Last Dance. When they confronted the white girl becaue the black women see there are only a few good blk men left and when they see one of those good men with a white women that just pisses them off.

Answer 6

well before i answer your question, i just reported you and your racist answerers, its tto bad that we are here at yahoo to solve questions but some of you are too determined to create differences btwn us, why? ignorance.
As a black living in Spain, i will tell you white pple are the ones with attitude, they hate and are racists, why? coz they were raised that way, and were told they are better than any other race in this world. i use the bus to go to work and in most cases i face too much racism even in the bus, there is a book of complain but when i tried to ask for it i wasnt given it, why? im black.
blacks go through so much on a single day. if what happens to a black woman was turned the other way round to a white woman, they will not survive, most of them would have commited suicide.
so dont go around stereotyping, and generalising when you know very well if you are white how you whote devils treat white.

Answer 7

there's a lot blacks that like to bully whites and that's universal with the help of colleges and in no way considered as hate crimes. for this reason whites who try so troublesome now to not be racist grow to be racist because that's not proper and also you know rattling nicely that if it were a collection of white females doing this similar element to a black female, it will be all around the data and the blacks should be rioting in the streets in the experience that they did not arrest the white females for doing it. grab your cellular telephone and video tape it being executed. Then deliver the images to a information station- distinct information stations and word what occurs. Please do. i'd extremely like for people to work out how they get away with this habit. My sisters were continually being beaten up with the help of black females, being crammed into lockers and having their hair set on fireplace yet not some thing replaced into executed. It extremely ticks me off that it is proper in the black community for them to act this way in the route of whites and do not get any repercussions yet in common words praise and help for it. Video tape it, as a lot as you could. deliver it to the data stations and plaster the internet with it-youtube, etc...

Answer 8

well, i think i understand what you are trying to say, but you must know, there are two ways one can view your question, racist or correct. if they think you are correct, they will only elaborate further, promoting ignorance and hatred. if they think you are racist, they will report you. i believe your question falls outside of guidelines.
but i also understand it in a sense as black and whites have differences. one of which may be a sense of strength.
i am married to a black man, i am white. i notice differences in our families all the time, one of which is NOT attitude.
i have however experienced almost paranoia like attitudes from certain black ppl. in my life, where it has seemed they have a preconcieved notion, im predjudiced or racist, without knowing me, and i just think you really dont know me.?
example, i had someone tell me as a manager i repremanded an innapropiate behavior of hers at work, that i just didnt like her because she was black.
i think when ANYONE blames something on someone else, they wont end up having a truly happy life.
i know this from experience, as i know i can't contribute a dirty look from someone as racist if they dont like the fact that im with a black man. If i speculated about whats going on in others minds, negatively from time to time, i take away from my own level of hapiness.

whether i personally believe black women have more attitude? i must say though i believe its a generalization to say that, that i do understand what you mean because if there is a personality difference, i believe it stems from ignorance on both sides, what you may see as attitude is simply a defense or coping mechanism needed for living in an unfair and at times hostile enviroment. we all have ethnic and cultural differences that can lead to personality differences. ignorance needs to be alleviated.( i like the last answerer a lot, they make somer really valid points.) for instance some asians believe eye contact is rude, etc.
if black women seem to have strong attitudes, it may stem from years of repression, and that is a valid reactionary behavior. i think ide be a bit more boisterous myself

Answer 9

Since you've never met all the black girls your statement is false and based on sterotypes such as the one that says white girls let men walk all over them. Men like misterpoopoo.

Answer 10

Apparently none of you have ran into any member of my Dads side of the family they are all loud, rude, obnoxious, DEFINITELY temperamental, Crazy, and just flat out psychotic. I am glad I take after my mom. But of course my Mom really isn't so nice when you push her buttons and I do have to admit I am worse. I don't let people walk all over me. If you try you are going to think I am an angry Hispanic woman. Watch out.