What makes people have such STRONG stereotypes against African Americans?

Question

Dose your hatred steem from lyrics from rap music?
or crime statistics-
***This man assumed that I had a Quest Card (food stamp card for my kids at the store) Im like whaaaa Im not on welfare. It was funny though. I dont take ignorance serious I just wonder where these outrages belifs come from. I dont get mad at **** lie that so BE FREE and Honest with your answers

i meen like that - not lie thay-typo

Answer 1

The overwhelming emphasis of the national Mainstream Media portraying Blacks as "Rapper Thugs" whose vocabulary comprises insults and dehumanizing violent curse words for lyrics, which seems to be the behavior of choice to emulate, for the majority of the young"Hip" Black community maybe thats a reason there?

And how about the simple fact that 76% of all Black children are born out of Wedlock ... and into broken homes ... 76%
with no father present at any time and forced to live
off the public dole. maybe thats another reason?

READ Juan Williams book and give a good long listen to what Bill Cosby been saying these days ... "it ain't no jokes he's talking about now"!

These guys can answer your question perectly! Now go seek out the whole truth !

Answer 2

Learned long ago the stereotyping is the absolute worse way to win friends and influence people -- so I don't, nor do I make solid first impressions. I find foul-mouthed rap offensive, but some rap is enjoyable (I view it more in the poetry than music genre).There are very few blacks living in my community but we have more than our fair share of welfare recipients (awful light skinned ones) so I can definitely empathize with what you have to deal with. This country has made progress in the last 50 years, but from what I've observed, there's a lot of road to be traveled yet.

Answer 3

Seriously, I believe these sterotype problems come from a human condition...not a race problem. There are two such conditions that these problems may come from. One is RAGE and the other is IGNORANCE. I am African American and I've argued forever, that Caucasions aren't the only racists on the planet. I know from experience. My brother looks so Caucasion until we (my family and I) have been able to hear the behind-the-scenes truth for years. Wow! Stereotyping is really alive and well. The only thing is I do not call it racism. First of all, the hate kind I call rage...not racism. The stereotyping, I try to chalk up to temporary ignorance. I am equally afraid of the Afro-American bigot as I am of the Caucasion one. My brother has a psychological problem re. black women, to this day, due to the fact that two young Afro American females tied him up in the woods and promised to kill him because he, they said, "is White". They did not say he was a bad boy (he was a child, at the time)...They did not say that he had ever done anything wrong to them...O no, his only crime was HE WAS WHITE...They knew his parents; both had brown skin and stayed in their brown-skinned communities with their brown and black-skinned folk like they were supposed to...Yet fifty some years later, I must tell you, my heart bleeds for my brother who, as a young boy no older than 11, belonged to the Afro-American community but had white skin and blond hair and blue eyes due to some stuff that had happened to our ancestors... and he was so
terrorized by the sisters in our community. My dear sister, I appreciate your question. I do hope we can have so much more dialogue. I understand your pain...how I hate the stereotyping and continue to see it and experience it everyday.
Yet, I know that Caucasions are not the only ones who do it. We do it to them and we do it to each other. They do it to everybody. The best thing I know to do is not to "answer a fool in his folly"...as The Bible puts it... I think... in that, nothing-but-the- truth, book of Proverbs. Let us, both, watch out for that one who insists on his stereotyping... It is one thing to make a mistake...but watch out for the one who insists and persists in his ignorance even when knowledge comes (See the first chapter of Romans). Just because a person hates someone that we hate does not mean that he will love you...watch out for those who preach such things. My real belief is that the hateful caucasions have a lot in common with the hateful Afro Americans and should just love each other to death...no pun intended. Guess what...you will find that they will get together on an issue like being anti-woman, then...What do you think?

Let us therefore: Love as we would others do.

Thanks

Hope I didn't rant.....

Answer 4

there are exceptions like you, but for the most part from what I see black people are really how the stereotypes make them look. Im not saying white people arent the same way because some of them are. but as a majority black people earn that image.

I dont think hatred is the word you should be using, they just see so much of something that they expect it to be that way with everyone, which is why that happened to you.

And Its not rap, Eminem is white and has some of the most hated music, by the people who say rap is responsible for what kids do these days. Which of coarse isnt true, its the way the idiots fail to raise their damn kids.

Answer 5

don't try to figure out racism

when black people spent major time trying to prove how wonderful we were to other people (the late 1950s) and black people were not major criminals or welfare cases then, people STILL hated our people

it is irrational and unreasonable and it is NOT OUR responsibility to understand it

i have been mistaken for someone on welfare too and i am quite wealthy and usually well dressed

it is just part of evil

don't figure it out

hey girl, you are a Taurus and you all are masters at ignoring ignorance

i am married to one

have a good day

Answer 6

I am truly sorry that you endured that. I am white,but I truly do not ever mean to stereotype anyone and am most likely guilty of it myself. We do need to stop this and be united to God, not be in little groups separated by race,color,social status. If there was a truly huge disaster, we would not have time to do this.

Answer 7

I don't understand it myself.

I'm a 5'4" white woman, living in Detroit for many years, and when my car has broken down in the rough parts of the city, or I've had a problem, ALWAYS an African American came out and helped me, no questions asked and nothing expected.

Answer 8

That kind of hatred is taught. I admire you for "turning the other cheek" so to speak. I hope that I instill in my kids the importance of tolerance for all...one day they may need to be tolerated by others, for their beliefs or for who they love or anything else they may face in their lives. Love is harder than hate. the strong love easier than the weak. when you open your heart to love and tolerance you open your life to true happiness.

Answer 9

I believe it is a controlling method. It puzzles me as to how some people do not know how to properly process a thought on their own, so...they use the television as a guide. Through television they are being brainwashed and there you have it.

If someone is constantly telling you the same thing over and over, what happens? You eventually start to believe what they're saying BUT only if you are weak in knowledge. If you know your facts, then you can't go wrong. You learn through experiences and interactions with people and things...Instead people just sit on their butt all day, watch tv, and listen to rap music to learn about Black people.

Rappers used to often talk about what they see on the streets, but once you start making so much money your lifestyle changes unless you live in that same environment. So why do they continue to rap about certain things? cha*ching....and some people actually fall for it. edit: Then some ask, then why do they play out the stereotypes? Perhaps, they don't care and they want your dough/money (for those who don't know - oooh that rhymed - dough/know - j/k)

I don't think Blacks should start reevaluating themselves because of what others think of us. If we do change ourselves then it should be for US (not united states).

Answer 10

Because some people are ignorant bigots. They need some to make themselves seem important. Because they have such a low opinion of themselves, they find it easier, in their own minds, to tear down others than to become better people themselves. This is the same reason why people attack Mexicans, Jews, and liberals, just to name a few picked on groups. You point out someone who irrationally attacks other groups, and I'll show you someone who knows that they are scum, but won't admit it to themselves.