backs & couldn't have been lazy at all. I'm black & not lazy!
2006-10-29 04:55:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
Thaylen M-
Please re-read the above. I answered you're question (before you asked it). I, personally, don't like the term African American for various reasons, which I could explain if you want to email me.
2006-10-29 12:35:38 · update #1
I don't know - but there are lazy people in every society and its not based on skin color
2006-10-29 04:58:07 · answer #1 · answered by akelaamy 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
nicely, the 'top type' abuse of skill white stereotype you admit has some roots if reality be told. only as.... The violent venture with many black 'thugs' won't be able to consistently be blamed on poverty. i've got regularly occurring a minimum of a few who have been only user-friendly d@mned ignorant and stupid and did not CARE. They offered into this photograph a techniques too heavily. And it replace into not even mandatory, as they weren't THAT destructive. ninety 5% of stereotypes have a minimum of a few foundation if reality be told, yet people might desire to be judged as persons, as stereotypes at the instant are not consistently real. i think of maximum races, and social communities have destructive crap. The greater I stand decrease back and seem at humanity as an entire, the fewer i'm partial to people.
2016-10-16 12:46:09 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The stereotype of lazy blacks came from what America caused to happen to the blacks after slavery was abolished. This was done to them in complete ignorance, denying blacks to even be able to get a job because of the predjudice that was attached to blacks. How are you to work if you cannot find a job? This is the stigma that the blacks faced. After the welfare system was formed, this forced the blacks to be on welfare so they could have food on their table to feed their children. Jobs for a black man were hard to come by. The mothers were forced to take menial jobs so that her children could survive. This is why marriage was impossible for the blacks. If the mothers were married, they were denied welfare. Dr. Martin Luther King, bless him, tried to change all that. Blacks were to be allowed to seek the education that they desired by being allowed into all schools and universities that were only for whites. Blacks were able to apply for jobs that were mainly for whites because laws had been passed so this right was protected. Unfortunately there are still uneducated white people who like to continue to hold on to hatred and predjudice. I am middle class hispanic/white. Do not let this type of thinking get you down. You are a beautiful person that GOD loves. The opportunites are out there. Go to church, and you will have a support system of believers. You will need this in your life so that the haters cannot pull you down.
2006-10-29 05:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
History often perverts truth...
The white people of the plantation south were lazy...blacks worked hard.
The white people made treaties with the Native Americans and broke the deals and stole back their "gifts"but the Native Americans are known as "Indian Givers" or someone who makes an offer and then takes it back...In history, who really did that?
I always heard it was the "Mexicans" who were lazy and the "Blacks" stole things...both stereotyes are false but continue...
Sorry about the character assassination done to groups of people outside the white race...its a continueing battle...
To fight we have to find a way to make a river run uphill...Do you think we will?
2006-10-29 05:02:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I think that this notion is passe and a remnant of the antebellum South.
Persons who think they 'own' other people are bound to refer to them as lazy when they're trying to exploit them for all the work that can be beaten out of them.
Though I am sure that there are some lazy blacks -- as well as whites, Hispanics, Asians, and so forth; I am unaware of a bonafide stereotype for lazy blacks. All the blacks I know are hard workers and make good use of their time.
Besides, stereotypes are a figment of a mind which cannot think for itself. Let us all stand on our own motivation or lack thereof... Discernment -- what you are in my eyes cannot be determined for me by someone else.
2006-10-29 05:03:49 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Did you know that the term "blacks" is racist and a color generalization that usually doesn't apply in regards to ethnic group identification? Are you an African American or a color--which is what black is? I am an African American.
2006-10-29 05:04:45 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I imagine the stereotype commenced at the end of slavery when white weren't used to seeing blacks not working.
2006-10-30 11:19:25 · answer #7 · answered by S h ä r k G û m b ò 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most likely from slave owners ,and they didnt care about them breaking their backs as long as they got the work done that they couldnt actually do themselves,and its still people to this day that feel like that welfare is for blacks not realizeing people of every race are on welfare all i can say is keep doing you proving them wrong and not to even worry bout the bull
2006-10-29 05:04:26 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Passive resistance can easily be mistaken for laziness?
2006-10-29 05:13:37 · answer #9 · answered by Terry 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
You got stupid idiots on this forum that already know this.
They want to believe what they want to believe and I guess that a lie would be the best thing for them to soothe thier insecurities.
2006-10-29 04:59:36 · answer #10 · answered by Mary C 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋