Why are black people in the south so racist to whites?

Question

I am a eastern European white guy who moved from the north to the south. Up north, half of my friends are black. They all act cool. We are all equals. I listen mostly to Rap music.
When I moved to the south, I noticed blacks acting completely racist to me (staring me down in public places; if I am in a restaurant they say "here" when they hand you the food instead of "have a nice day;" and I know this because a lot of my other white friends said the same thing. This is why most of my friends from up north say the same old saying "I like black people, but I hate n****s." I agree. There is no excuse as to why they should be acting this way. They are simply acting out of ignorance. Any black person in America has more opportunities and a better life than most white people in the rest of the world yet they act like they got shorted on something. Stop being racist and get over it.

Answer 1

You are right. ****** can come in any race: It's all how you act. As a black person, I will venture to say that the blacks in the south probably act that way because they are harboring anger for whatever racism their parents and grandparents and probably they themselves have encountered in the past. I do not agree with this at all. They should not be trying to punish whites today to get some kind of revenge for yesterday. As far as your comment about blacks in America having more opportunities than most whites in the rest of the world, unless you've done extensive research on that, I won't necessarily agree with you there. Yes, true, blacks do have freedoms and plenty of opportunities today in this country and some of us are glad about that and do take advantage of those opportunities. It's good that you enjoy Rap music. Some of it I love and some of it I hate. But unfortunately, all blacks who discover your taste in music won't necessarily rush to make friends with you just because of that. All I can say is, I'm sorry that you've experienced such behavior. Unfortunately, some of us wear the once derrogatory name like a badge of honor in a very negative way.

Answer 2

umm...

i can appreciate you being upset... it must suck coming from a place where there was less of this type of racism to this kind of environment.

you are in the south. it is well known that the south tends to be quite hostile to blacks. you're probably getting a lot of people who just assume you are racist.

while it is true that many blacks have more opportunities than whites in other countries, it's not fair to make that kind of comparison. i would want to have the same rights as people in my own country. forget what is happening overseas.

now, i am not saying that the racism is okay. i do feel badly for you. i just think it is a little harsh to simply say 'get over it' when the racism is still very in-our-faces, and you don't know which white person is safe (put it this way -- i have seen enough documentaries about racism in the south that makes me terrified to live there). if it is possible, try talking to a few blacks in your area to get their perspectives on what their experiences are like down there. it may give you some more insights into what is going on--not so that you can excuse their behaviour, but it may help with understanding why it's happening.

i wish you well

Answer 3

I would say race relations in the South have historically been more intimate and thus more emotionally charged than that of the North, only because fundamentally rural people recognize rural people. In the North race relations have always been more polarizing and the fact that black people are leaving the NE entirely for the South right now speaks to this, but the metropolitan/cosmopolitan nature of these places offsets it.

Even at the height of the Civil War white youth in the South considered it an honor to go to the black quarters and listen to the griots and Blues singers but economic distress and dramatic social engineering exasperated existing problems and has gone on to define this country. Antebellum America is a technologically ancient memory that hardly explains our present society outside of the economy. The Jim Crow/Reconstruction period has shaped America as we know it and the abnormal hostility toward blacks, especially in the South and Midwest, in that period, has been arrested in the psyche of many, many Americans, black and white.

My boy from Jersey, who is a white guy I grew up with, moved to Alabama for his wife's job and has yet to relay ANYTHING pleasant about his stay there. The de facto segregation we see all over the country is most intense in the South so you should be mindful of that in your approach to Southern blacks.

Answer 4

You say" europeans cross to any individual else's land and faux that they've been there at all times, fail to remember the regional customs and cultures, make no attempt to assimilate, and take and take the riches of the land, and whinge whilst their privileges are denied" What approximately blacks killing farmers for his or her land (Zimbabwe???) after which burning down the farmhouse and destroying their vegetation. Another factor, in our possess small method, whites have contributed to the monetary development and growth of South Africa - I feel you would not see it as a lot of a contribution, however I suppose it's ample to make a change. Make no attempt to assimilate ???- we have now welcomed black individuals into our neighbourhood with open fingers, I have 4 black neighbours in our side of the intricate and we're regularly preventing to have a talk with each and every different and talk about paintings, kids and so forth. Can you assume if a white loved ones needed to transfer into the township... they would not final 2 days. To end up my factor in this, comply with the scoop at the xenophobic assaults within the townships.

Answer 5

I live in the south-south Texas to be in-fact. I was born in east Texas where honestly I would not want to go back for anything. There is so many racist people in that area. For the most part the black society thinks of white people as racist due to what happened to their ancestors. My ancestors came from Ireland on my dad's side and well they where slaves to they helped build the railroad but I don't look at other people like it was there fault. It is sad that in this day and age people see color and not what the person is on the inside. I tell my kids to get to know the person first no matter what the color of skin before you make any judgment on that person. I wish that everyone would do that and honestly the world would be a greater place.

Answer 6

The South is a different country. I moved from the West Coast about 10 years ago and quickly stopped saying I was from California. Most Southerners of either race really don't like people from California.
The races don't mix much down here.
What you are experiencing with the Black communities is the remnants of "Jim Crowe" cuiture. The Blacks survived by keeping the southern whites out of their business. It is slowly changing but will take many more years to straighten out.

Answer 7

It is too bad that you were treated like this. Nobody deserves to be treated like third class passengers in this world.

The reasonin behind this is only because they were brainwashed by their family. Just like white trash that look down upon blacks, they are no better. It seems that parents and grandparents refuse to adapt to the new world of diversity and social intermingling. They live off of the short sighted values of their ancestors of the 1800's who live off the values of the 1700's, when slaves were a objects, instead of people.

Despite how the world has changed, some people in the South insist on breeding hatred, bigotry and contempt for anyone that is different than themselves. How ridiculous is that? And so, the Black community in the South was brainwashed into hating Whites for treating their ancestors like animals.

It's a double edged sword, you are damned if you do and damned if you don't. You can't be nice to the other group, because then you will risk hatred from your own group. If you hate the other group, you look like a fool for living like an uneducated landowner of the 1700's that treated people like dirt. Neither group will give in together, so hatred remains.

Only the educated will make decisions of their own and realize that the slaves and the plantation owners are all deceased and that there is no real reason to hate anyone anymore.

Answer 8

pls don't generalize them though, i think you just ran into some people who still feel oppressed or may have been offended by racism directly....

i have lived in the south all of my life and i hear it's better up north as far as brotherly love is concerned....

some people just can't get over how they are being treated or have been...when i come across those kind of people i just move to the next...

so i hope you do the same....don't say that all southern blacks are the same and don't act like the people you are talking about...

turn it around and spread the love brother! peace!!

advice....don't use the n word - ever - just don't

Answer 9

I think that any blacks doing that to you are entirely wrong. But you have to understand where it coming from.

They've grown up with families that have experienced horrible acts of racism. Remember, it was only 40 years ago that beatings and worse still happened, just for the color of your skin.

Additionally, racism is still alive and well in the south. I live in Texas and feel very awkward going to small towns (I'm half white, half Asian). I had people react very strangely to me in convenience stores the other day...maybe because of their attitudes towards Asians, maybe not, but either way, I felt more uncomfortable than I have in months.

Its definitely worse the further southeast you get and the more poor the area is.

Answer 10

It's supposed to be the cool thing to do. Seriously, that's all it is. It's kinda sad, though, as they're hurting themselves more than anything. Let's face it, you really can't get a decent job outside of McDonald's coping an attitude with everybody.