How many people here actually know any African-Americans?

Cryophilia@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 13 points –

Not like "I went to school with one" but have had an actual friendship?

I've had a couple of conversations recently where people have confidently said things about the Black community that are ridiculously incorrect. The kind of shit where you can tell they grew up in a very white community and learned about Black history as a college freshman.

Disclaimer: I am white, but I grew up in a Black neighborhood. I was one of 3 white kids in my elementary school lol, including my brother.

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I'm black 👀 This post kinda acts like there are no black people on lemmy but we here... at least I am lol

Welp, that makes 2 of us!

Guess we have to start our own instance now so we can talk about [redacted]!

Also Black here!

(My keyboard doesn't have emotes, but pretend this is the black hand waving hi)

Edit: 👋🏾

I think some people grow up in some very ethnically homogeneous places. When I was a kid, I think we had two black families, one that came from Pakistan when we were in elementary school, and a couple of people form Latin America that moved in when we were in middle school. My (rural Ohio) town had a lot of super racist and anti-Semitic people.

Ops is sheltered and white, probably from small town south.