# White people who are afraid of black people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 9, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839 "2010-03-09T11:31:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/1 "2010-03-09T11:31:44Z")
You are cowards. You are also stupid. Please leave my race and start a new race for stupid cowards. That is all. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 11:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/2 "2010-03-09T11:58:45Z")
Steady on, young warrior. Lay down thy cudgel and pray tell us what besets you? ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/3 "2010-03-09T12:13:43Z")
I admire your courage in taking a strong stand on this controversial subject. You are an inspiration to us all. ---
**Author:** ![msmith537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@msmith537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/msmith537)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/4 "2010-03-09T12:24:08Z")
But they have web toes and lust after white women!:eek: ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/5 "2010-03-09T13:11:18Z")
That’s crazy talk. If they had webbed toes, they could swim. ---
**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/6 "2010-03-09T13:19:08Z")
Ridiculous. They’re pleasant, gentle folk with a great sense of rhythm, and many of them are quite articulate. Like Sinbad. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/7 "2010-03-09T13:26:28Z")
Some of my best friends have webbed toes. And they certainly don’t scare me! ---
**Author:** ![Ichbin\_Dubist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/51bf81/32.png) [@Ichbin\_Dubist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ichbin_Dubist)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/8 "2010-03-09T13:37:34Z")
I remember watching a very interesting documentary on white supremacists in the US called _Blood in the Face_, probably 20 years ago. At some gathering or other, it interviewed a guy who, as an example of how the media is a targeted conspiracy against white people (ahem), pointed to how the TV show _Webster_ portrayed its young black protagonist as smart and the white people around him as his dumb foils. He went on about how he hated _Webster_ at length. And I thought, “Dude, if you’re threatened by Webster, you have a long way to go if you think you’re the Master Race.” ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/9 "2010-03-09T13:43:41Z")
> [@Ichbin\_Dubist](#): > > I remember watching a very interesting documentary on white supremacists in the US called _Blood in the Face_, probably 20 years ago. At some gathering or other, it interviewed a guy who, as an example of how the media is a targeted conspiracy against white people (ahem), pointed to how the TV show _Webster_ portrayed its young black protagonist as smart and the white people around him as his dumb foils. He went on about how he hated _Webster_ at length. And I thought, “Dude, if you’re threatened by Webster, you have a long way to go if you think you’re the Master Race.” The problem I have with Webster isn’t that he is black, it is that he is tiny. Little people make me nervous. I bet you two to one that he can still dunk a basketball and is hung like a mule and that is admirable in my book. ---
**Author:** ![AClockworkMelon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aclockworkmelon/32/10803_2.png) [@AClockworkMelon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AClockworkMelon)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/10 "2010-03-09T13:45:07Z")
This thread made me laugh uncontrollably for about two minutes. Carry on. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/11 "2010-03-09T13:57:26Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > But they have web toes and lust after white women!:eek: That’s Deep Ones, not black folks. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/12 "2010-03-09T14:05:10Z")
> [@](#): > > But they have web toes and lust after white women! No, that’s Dan Aykroyd. See the current thread on him. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/13 "2010-03-09T14:15:37Z")
Dan Aykroyd is black? ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/14 "2010-03-09T14:20:54Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Some of my best friends have webbed toes. And they certainly don’t scare me! And some of my best friends list after white women, and they don’t scare me. ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/15 "2010-03-09T14:25:08Z")
> [@elmwood](#): > > And some of my best friends list after white women, and they don’t scare me. White women scare you? You made a list of white women who scare you?! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/16 "2010-03-09T14:29:21Z")
> [@](#): > > Dan Aykroyd is black? He’s Canadian. In Canada, even the black people are white. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/17 "2010-03-09T14:33:49Z")
But getting back to the OP, if we start a new race for stupid cowards, what color will they be? Black, white, red, and yellow have already been claimed. Blue’s out because of copyright issues with the Smurfs. So I think we’re down to green, orange, or purple. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/18 "2010-03-09T14:35:24Z")
> [@tdn](#): > > Dan Aykroyd is black? Part of a trade for Michael Jackson and a rapper to be named later. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/19 "2010-03-09T14:47:37Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That’s Deep Ones, not black folks. Ia! Ia! Cthulhu ftaghn! Cthulhu ftaghn! ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Excellent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f19dbf/32.png) [@Mr.Excellent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Excellent)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2010, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/20 "2010-03-09T14:53:24Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > That’s Deep Ones, not black folks. Are you suggesting that black folks can’t _become_ Deep Ones? I find that racist! :mad: 😃 [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839.md?page=2)