Comments | dyvinesweetness: Polliness

dyvinesweetness

Polliness

Jul 28, 2009 11:26

I'm feeling poll-y today.

Poll Random

Edit: sorry to anyone that filled out the first poll. I messed up and had to redo it.

linguistics, race, facebook, aave, polls

Comments 22

imjustice July 28 2009, 18:21:13 UTC

i used to think black people couldn't be racist, like it was a blanket statement because i only meant it to mean that black people couldn't be racist against any other race...however i do believe that black people can be racist in positions of power (like anywhere in the educational or criminal justice system) where they can perpetuate the status quo of higher incarceration rates of black folk or lower academic achievement of black folk, or even other races/ethnicities who exhibit certain manifestations of black culture ( ... )

i_dreamed_i_was July 28 2009, 18:49:35 UTC

I agree that black folks can help perpetuate racism, definitely.

dyvinesweetness July 28 2009, 23:06:15 UTC

Yeah, I hear you saying Black folks can express their internalized racism in a way that perpetuates institutionalized racism. I agree.

imjustice July 29 2009, 07:54:06 UTC

i mean i don't really know if i want to use all those identifiers (internalized, institutionalized)...i think you can get to a point where you escape race ( ... )

forwhataim July 28 2009, 18:27:45 UTC

I have more than one resume. It depends on the the job I'm applying for, so my answers don't really count.

imjustice July 28 2009, 18:46:47 UTC

same

language imjustice July 28 2009, 18:50:52 UTC

this is funny because i consider myself to be a pretty adept code-switcher, but i don't think i could ever take myself seriously and say "NAY-kid"...not in any full out way that is really distinguishable from "NEH-kid"...i just said "nay-kid" aloud and i felt like a whole bunch of "likes" and "OMGs" should precede & follow [like oh my god he was like NAY-kid like ohhhh my god!)...smh.

richirch2 July 28 2009, 22:46:43 UTC

I really appreciate the randomness of this poll.

richirch2 July 28 2009, 22:56:09 UTC

The only nuanced response of mine has to do with whether black people can be racist. It isn't so much that my opinion on whether black people can perform racist actions has changed, but that my definition of racism has changed. In the institutional sense, no black people can't. But neither can a single white person perpetuate racism by themselves either.