Truthfully...
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Started by P o e t i q R e i g n
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Mar 2005
P o e t i q R e i g n
Greensboro, NC
....when you see a person...do you see just that person...as in...that individual...or....do you see Black/White/Hispanic/Asian/Native American/etc.etc.etc....?
and if you see their race before actually seeing themselves....do you see their nationality or simply their "blanket" label (i.e. when u see Hispanics...do u just think "Hispanic/Latino" OR "Mexicans"...since many Black people think that's all Hispanics can be :?.....or do you see Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, Salvadorian, etc. etc. etc.???)???
and when it comes to Blacks, if you see us by our color/race before you see who we were behind that...do you see complexion...or simply "Black"?
& also....
one thing two friends (Jackie & Wesley) & i were discussing one day on the phone....
when you enter a classroom (or any other place with some or a lot of people) for the first time....do you automatically scan the room for Black people (or people of your race, whichever race you are)?? if there is, say, a room full of White people and like two specs of Black, lol...do you scurry on over to those two individuals???
if not, what do you do?
i'll address the 1st half of my inquiry later....but for the 2nd half....Jackie says she doesn't do that....she just looks for the person with the friendliest & most "welcoming" face....that race doesn't ever play into that when she does....
Wesley says he does do that....he says if he looks into a classroom and sees one full of all White people, he'll turn around and go to another one, lol....and that he looks for any brothas or sistas in the crowd whenever in that situation....
& as for me....like I told them....i don't necessarily pay attention to the racial makeup of the room as soon as i go in it....but i might get a brief feel for it, partially for the reason of seeing if i actually know anyone in the class....after it appears that i don't, i just find a seat wherever (i usually prefer to sit on the far side and/or back of a classroom...because i like to know ALL of what is going on).....and THEN...once i'm SEATED....THAT'S when i might scan the room to observe the racial makeup.....
but anyway...how does it work with you all.....?
yeah when i see someone walking down the street, i usually see that person as their race..sometimes i stereotype too...right now i'm very paraniod of black males...don't knock me dammit i got robbed a few days ago...yeah i guess sometimes i negatively stereotype my own race just walkiing down the street o in the mall...
well i negativly stareotype other races too...white blacks hispanics...
yeah and where ever i go i scan the room for other black folk and make sure that they are "behaving" properly 
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demmeri wrote:yeah and where ever i go i scan the room for other black folk and make sure that they are "behaving" properly
