As hard as it might be to imagine, Black Planet.com - a place you'd think would be quite appealing to blacks, is actually a hotbed of racist attacks on blacks unlike anything I've ever seen elsewhere on the internet. Black users routinely are sent private messages from whites full of profanity and every racial epithet on the market.
One message from a white female to a black female said: "I searched google for n1gger and your pic was there". There were also other even more wicked racist comments.
Being a public forum, it is frequented by all races but, it is the largest black forum on earth. As such, the subjects tend to be focused on black issues and society. Sounds like a good idea until you see the discussions high-jacked by whites that laugh at black issues and insult the participants.
Black Planet does nothing to regulate this or, to ban the whites that send private racist messages. That has the black contingent pretty upset and the site has become a cyber-racewar everyday. It's as if the **** has invaded the site. Black Planet refuses to do anything about it and when the members get together to do something on their own, those discussions are arbitrarily deleted, time and time again
So, that gives rise to discussion about why only the discussions about the white problem on Black Planet are deleted and there is never a good answer or, none at all. If you're are looking to right a wrong, stop racism or just need a juicy story, I implore you to check it out.
There have been discussions there where everyone posted the various frightful letters they've received and nothing was done except to delete that discussion as if it had never existed.
And, worst, it's done with impunity
Members are told it is a private site and basically, if they didn't like it, there are other sites to go to. You would be trully horrified to read some of the private messages I've seen.
The site really is not for blacks, it's a site for whites to have blacks at their disposal, to stalk, ridicule and ****. The Asians that own it are making a millions off blacks and they show pretty blatantly that they are there for the money and they don't care what these white people do to blacks.
The rest of the time, they're just disrupting the flow of any serious discussion - deliberately. It turns into a big fight and people lose track of the topic and we don't work anything out. Worst part is the black sell-outs who support the white people disrupt our black oriented conversations.
The administration deletes our threads at will. Many are about science or black ancient history. They end up hidden very quickly, leaving only the really ignorant topics readily available. It's quite deliberate.
We're hoping to collect black planet horror stories and put the word out that we should simply stop making them rich. Let them go out of business. Seems no one respects us until we hurt their pockets.
If you have a story or can cut and paste any actual instances of white-on-black racism, we would love to hear from you. Please pass this around.
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Seems to be their biggest contributor. They would pull out if they heard bad press or got alot of emails about this.
I haven't had that experience with receiving racist notes on bp... the biggest headache I've found there is lots of spammers and **** links. If anything, that's what would stop me from using the site.Also, there's a lot of Black racist commentary on bp also, sometimes just as bad as anything I've heard from bigoted Whites. I do suspect, however, that there are poseurs passing themselves off as Black and making ridiculous comments. I figure that's something you'll find at any website.
Worst part is the black sell-outs who support the white people disrupt our black oriented conversations.
hmmm....black sell-outs?? what do you mean by that? I hope you don't mean black people whose ideas are outside the norm or who agreee with whites on certain political issues..that wouldn't be cool...
But I've never been on this site so I'll check it out...If it is what you say it is then I really hope we can come together and get something done about it....sigh....thank God for hbcuconnect..
