Comments | katieliz: Race and Philadelphia

katieliz

Race and Philadelphia

Sep 15, 2007 12:47

"I hope neither of you are dating him. He's acting like a white boy. You misle just date a white boy if he's gonna act like that." ~ Black man on subway, reacting to my very inebriated black male friend ( Read more... )

philadelphia, race relations, (college) school, friends, gender relations, alcohol

Comments 5

raphsody606 September 15 2007, 17:14:59 UTC

The people I've met on SEPTA have amused me greatly.

zogglet September 15 2007, 17:20:54 UTC

"I hope neither of you are dating him. He's acting like a white boy. You misle just date a white boy if he's gonna act like that."

People have been saying stuff like that to me about James all the time. It's really sad.

katieliz September 15 2007, 17:24:09 UTC

That's terrible. People are really close-minded.

A group of us walked by 15th and Market today where the group of black guys stand and preach about how all races should stick with their own kind, etc. I can't understand how people can think like that.

zogglet September 15 2007, 17:25:41 UTC

Me neither! To me, that's just getting further away from achieving equality.

00slash00 September 15 2007, 20:52:06 UTC

the best subway story iv heard, remains to be a skinny black dude on the subway, wearing a santa outfit in the middle of july, asking random women if they "want to sit on santa's lap"