so, everyone knows how i feel about some of the black communities here in atlanta. i've spoken to a few people, mainly older, (60+) black people from the north. and they have seen the same thing, but since they feel that they have earned their keeps on this planet, they're not worried about being pc the way i am. sometimes it's hard to talk about a certain demographic without seeming racist. but in this case, it's definitely the truth.
it's not a black thing, it's a black thing, for a very certain few, here in atlanta. i heard a girl calling her 5 month old 'nigger' like a million times...i was saddened. maybe it's not such a big deal, but i see that it is. this is paired up with a million mates of thinking white people are the ones with money, or just jewish people are good with it. stuff like that. basically, this select people have the ongoing trait that thinks, 'that can never be me'. except for being a rapper...or the 'pretty' girl, which equals to like 15lbs of remy brazilian sewed into her head, with a TON of 'mac' makeup and clothes like destiny's child when b's mom was still making the clothes. and along with alllll that, being VERY bitchy to other women. i think it's some competition thing.
anyways. i was thinking. ok, slavery. i think about it any time i see black people in desolation here in the atl. but think about the lonnnnng time that black/brown/colored...basically non-white people were treated here in the deep south. segregation just happened 1 generation ago. there are people you'll meet still who's immediate family were slaves.
and slaves were treated like shit. don't wanna cuss, but this case calls for it. they were ragged and beaten, told they were good for nothing, and told they were ugly. while getting raped and abused by everyone around them, except for in a few small, select cases where the plantation owner was a 'good guy' and didn't beat (as badly?) as his neighbors.
things here in atlanta are still very segregated, to me. sometimes you see a black person who's not been removed from their environment very much in a totally new situation, and it's like a fish out of water. like they're in shock.
that could be me! i could TOTALLY see myself saying, 'F that! i'm NOT going over to ANYONE who doesn't look like me'...if i was treated like crap for generationsssssss, like a LONG time. like 200 years of crap.
and, it's not so far removed. remember that. i went to school in the DEEP south...at ga southern. in statesboro. the last place in georgia (or was it the south?) to segregate. i graduated in 2003. there are still TONS (believe me, TONS) of confederate flags....everywhere! shoot, right by my house NOW in atalanta, the main street that the GSP and another cop entity is on is CONFEDERATE AVE. hmm. not a coincidence. but back to my school. i was working, at autozone, and an olllld white man, like 80 came to the register i was checking people out at and he said to me, 'you're just the prettiest colored girl i've ever seen' i didn't even get offended.
in highschool...in a very suburbia part of the outskirts of atlanta, one of my teammates said something similar...'you're the prettiest black girl i've seen.' kinda over being called black when i'm not full black, that one drop shit needs to go...but whateves. i got it. i was still 'them'
i get it. i'll always be them. but them are also the native americans. my mothers father was part native american, and my fathers grandmother was 100%. which leads me into why i was thinking about things like this one. a big slap in the face. an intentional slap. native american heritage month is the same month that this 'let's celebrate genocide day' is on. and people still don't recognize that.
it all leads me to say eff it. i'm not here to educate people, but yet i still want to. go fig.
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