many white males and white females are looking forward to the christmas and thanksgiving holidays.these holidays are designed for white americans to be thankful for what we have.i myself am a white male and i will buy my friends and family many presents on christmas this year,but many minorities in america are not looking forward to the holiday season.in fact,many african americans are actually dreading the coming of christmas.i recently spoke to a homeless black male about the holidays,the black homeless man said this:christmas is a joke to the black man,on christmas a bunch of white people open up all their christmas presents,and i gotta sleep my black *** in a card board box!?you white people are bunch a damn foools!white man dont give me no money so i gotta rob a liquor store to buy me some turkey for thanksgiving!?white man dont give me no money,so now i gotta sit my black *** in a prison cell!?you people are nuthin but a bunch of smelly ole dogs,white man wont give me no money,i
2007-10-20 10:23:34 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
He said that because of the poverty that many African-Americans face. At Christmas time, people are expected to give and recieve gifts. If you don't have any money, though, you don't focus on the joy of the season, you are self concious of what you don't have. Christmas for young, African American children can be difficult. Seeing all of your friends happy and getting lots of expensive gifts can be hard for someone that is barely getting enough food on the table.
2007-10-20 10:29:29 · answer #1 · answered by Amanda M 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
maybe it was more because he was homeless than because he's Black. Christmas must be the most depressing time of the year for someone who has no money and no family to spend it on. For other Blacks, it could be because they're on welfare and can't afford gifts, but there's also White people on welfare or on the streets with no family, just as there are a lot of Blacks who have money and families and look forward to the Holidays. So it's more an issue of having money and family to spend it on than an issue of race.
2007-10-20 10:43:52 · answer #2 · answered by Miss Understood 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
White human beings are not stressful of African individuals as much as they're repelled via a small minority's functionality in making the full community seem regressed and asocial. To destructive devil that asked for $a hundred is obviously mentally ill. ingesting at a Burger King is questionable.
2016-10-04 06:00:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This guy has access to Y/A but sleeps in his car...? Library lets him on I suppose, but if he can use a computer,why exactly is he homeless? Is this man yet another black man that finds it's easier to whine how "whitey" holds him down rather than take the positive path of attaining what he wants by working for it? There are plenty of Black Americans far richer than I'll ever be...did they steal their way to it? Did they sell drugs? I don't know...I do know that I'm tired of whiny,pissy,blacks blaming white people for their own shortcomings...been hearing that same old crap since 1964.
Enough already
2007-10-21 15:52:18 · answer #4 · answered by NONAME 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Being African American myself, I love the holiday times and so do my family and friends. You happened to be talking to 1 bitter soul out of a million that has not had a happy life! This year my 1 yr old grandson will get to experience the joys of christmas for the very !st time! How joyful and memorable will that be, of course I'm not dreading that!
2007-10-20 10:31:13 · answer #5 · answered by mscooke34 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why do you say the holiday was designed for white americans to be thankful for what we have? Christmas was designated as a religious holy day long before Europeans discovered America. And it was "designed" for people to commerorate the birth of Christ. You don't have to be white or american to do that.....Christians thoughout europe, northern africa, and the middle east were doing it for centuries before Columbus.
Historically, the holiday has its roots in the pre-Christian solstice festival, which was adapted by the Church.
2007-10-20 10:40:57 · answer #6 · answered by Michael M 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A homeless man is hardly representative of all men of his race. He is bitter because of his circumstances. It's got nothing to do with race. I'm sure I wouldn't be ecited about Christmas either if i was homeless. It must serve only to emphasise his despair, to think of families gathered eating and celebrating together. Poor man.
2007-10-20 11:31:21 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assuming that African Americans don't like Christmas based on the rantings of one homeless person is ridiculous.
2007-10-20 10:27:25 · answer #8 · answered by The Pirate Queen 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Umm...I'm African American and many of us are NOT afraid of Christmas. We celebrate it and for many it's the favorite holiday of the year.
There are people of all races who don't like Christmas for various reasons...loss of a loved one, not of the Christian religion, associate depressing feelings with the holiday (season.)
Not sure who you're coming into contact with but they don't represent our feelings about Christmas. That is an individual opinion.
2007-10-20 10:30:25 · answer #9 · answered by rlm 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I don't think this guy was talking like that because he's black, but rather because he's homeless. I've never known a black person to be "afraid" of the holidays.
2007-10-20 10:26:59 · answer #10 · answered by I love my baby boy! 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋