# 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:** 8
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/141 "2010-03-11T18:29:26Z")
> [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](#): > > I’m hot and dark. This is why I’m afraid of you. ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/142 "2010-03-11T18:31:39Z")
Who wants to start the “black people who are afraid of brown people” thread? ---
**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/143 "2010-03-11T18:33:05Z")
I’m afraid of everyone who looks different than I do. I live in MN. I spent most of my day hiding. ☹ ---
**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 11, 2010, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/144 "2010-03-11T18:33:28Z")
> [@Muffin](#): > > That colour has already been taken by Catholic hating Protestant Orangemen. No! They can’t have it! The Ukrainians need it, if they’re ever going to elect Yulia Tymoshenko to the Presidency! She’s really pretty. ---
**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 11, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/145 "2010-03-11T18:38:01Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > I’m afraid of everyone who looks different than I do. I live in MN. I spent most of my day hiding. ☹ Poor **MeanOldLady**. Come on out! There’s pie … ---
**Author:** ![Dallas\_Jones](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dallas_jones/32/3277_2.png) [@Dallas\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dallas_Jones)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/146 "2010-03-11T18:41:30Z")
> [@MeanOldLady](#): > > You know who’s bad? Coloreds. I used to have a problem with coloreds until I switched to Tide. Now I no longer have to wash them separatly, and everything comes out so bright and clean. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/147 "2010-03-11T18:45:12Z")
> [@ghardester](#): > > I used to have a problem with coloreds until I switched to Tide. Now I no longer have to wash them separatly, and everything comes out so bright and clean. My MIL, bless her, made this mistake IRL. In the early 60’s, her husband was stationed in Bumblefuck, GA, and she took the laundry to the laundromat to do it. She looked at the ‘Colored’ and ‘White’ signs above the two doors, and _couldn’t believe_ Georgians expected people to _sort their laundry out on the street._ ---
**Author:** ![kingbighair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/13edae/32.png) [@kingbighair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kingbighair)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/148 "2010-03-11T18:48:19Z")
I would like to offer my services of jive translation for any of the culturally deficient. ---
**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 11, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/149 "2010-03-11T19:03:01Z")
> [@](#): > > I’m afraid of everyone who looks different than I do. I live in MN. I spent most of my day hiding. In Minnesota, that makes sense. Who isn’t creeped out by Prince? ---
**Author:** ![Giraffe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/giraffe/32/129_2.png) [@Giraffe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giraffe)\ **Post date:** [March 11, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/150 "2010-03-11T22:04:27Z")
> [@leander](#): > > The mods should move this thread to either MPSIMS or the Giraffe board. > > Seriously. No, that wouldn’t work. We’re in the middle of rebranding ourselves as a hip hop fan board (“yo, that shit is _tight_, yo!”) and a thread like this would make us look like a bunch of mostly-white posers. Word up. ---
**Author:** ![Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b38774/32.png) [@Attack\_from\_the\_3rd\_dimension](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Attack_from_the_3rd_dimension)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/151 "2010-03-12T03:01:38Z")
I thought giraffes were mostly-splotchy. ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/152 "2010-03-12T06:47:43Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > Congratulations, you’re part of the problem. > > Seriously. Wow it feels so neat to be part of something bigger than myself. It’s like being a Saints fan, or voting for president, or joining a gang. It just gives you this sense of power and purpose, you know? ---
**Author:** ![SecretaryofEvil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@SecretaryofEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SecretaryofEvil)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/153 "2010-03-12T06:54:08Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In Soviet Africa, giraffes people you! In Russia, blacks fear 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 12, 2010, 8:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/154 "2010-03-12T08:49:35Z")
Everyone fears me in Russia. I’m like a god over there. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/155 "2010-03-12T09:12:24Z")
> [@SecretaryofEvil](#): > > In Russia, blacks fear you! I had a Black Russian once. It was in a bar in Atlanta. Son of a bitch stole my wallet. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 11:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/156 "2010-03-12T11:17:35Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > Are you a cup of coffee? I think you’re confusing him with **Covered in Bees**. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/157 "2010-03-12T20:41:29Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > 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. Teal? Pink? Wait, I’m pink, & a green, so… yeah, purple works. > [@Morgenstern](#): > > If I start a new race can we engineer it so all women are like 40f + ? Ew, no. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/158 "2010-03-12T22:16:09Z")
Well, all those human “race” colors are really just shades of brown. I’m no more “white” than the average person of African descent is “black”. Although if you’re a WWE fan, you know that Sheamus comes very close to being the whitest person on the planet, and R-Truth is about as close as they come to being black. ---
**Author:** ![MacTech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MacTech](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacTech)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2010, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/159 "2010-03-12T23:56:00Z")
> [@Sampiro](#): > > Being afraid of some black people is just good sense. Like Emmanuel Lewis- black people are historically carriers of dwarfism. Dwarves are also hard to see, being below the eye-line of tall people… …you know what else is hard to see? NINJAS! So, that must mean that all black people are Ninjas! (as are dwarves, except for the Red ones, those are generally spaceships) Personally, I think that Ninjas are cool, and not scary, neither are dwarves, and the red ones are especially funny… ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [March 13, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839/160 "2010-03-13T02:06:09Z")
[QUOTE= Chimera] Although if you’re a WWE fan, you know that Sheamus comes very close to being the whitest person on the planet, and R-Truth is about as close as they come to being black. [/QUOTE] Hell, I’M white, and people as white as Sheamus scare me. Dude is WHITE. [![](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dNeQ8Obr1X0/SudcjlpH1vI/AAAAAAAAA-0/FuxCLIjfDBA/s320/sheamus.JPG) ](http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_dNeQ8Obr1X0/SudcjlpH1vI/AAAAAAAAA-0/FuxCLIjfDBA/s320/sheamus.JPG) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/white-people-who-are-afraid-of-black-people/531839.md?page=9)