# Why are black people so LOUD? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 25, 2007, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625 "2007-04-25T18:06:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 18
**Author:** ![Darth\_Panda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee7513/32.png) [@Darth\_Panda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Panda)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 9:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/341 "2013-04-18T09:26:19Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > To the dumbfuck OP who was banned 5 years ago, but probably still follows this thread… ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/342 "2013-04-18T10:00:47Z")
BRAINS!.. BRAINS!.. Nom, nom, nom… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 11:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/343 "2013-04-18T11:04:01Z")
Let’s not complain too much, though. It has a few bons mots from Askia (RIP). ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/344 "2013-04-18T12:25:49Z")
> [@Shakes](#): > > BRAINS!.. BRAINS!.. Nom, nom, nom… Black zombies are so loud. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/345 "2013-04-18T12:45:03Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > To the dumbfuck OP and the fuckwad pmitch, do you think loud people are loud all the time?? Like they sing lullabies like, “LULLABY!!! AND GOODNIGHT!!!”??? I always imagined that Dick Vitale talked like “DICK VITALE!!!” all the time, like at the dinner table: “HONEY, COULD YOU PASS THE SALT, PLEASE? IT’S AWESOME, BABY!” ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/346 "2013-04-18T13:26:41Z")
> [@pmitch](#): > > pok This is the most intelligent thing you’ve said so far. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 18, 2013, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/347 "2013-04-18T13:33:43Z")
Man. I sure was a snide, confrontational asshole back in 2007. \ ---
**Author:** ![HedyLamarr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/dbc845/32.png) [@HedyLamarr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HedyLamarr)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/348 "2013-05-10T21:10:47Z")
1. Economically and socially depressed persons feel powerless, and unheard or unseen. 2. People who do not have a lot of personal space creates boundaries with their behavior. 3. Shouting is in the heritage of the African ritualistic lifestyle, and it has remained. (Gospel choirs belt. Classical choral music in sung in the head voice, in traditional European style.) These conditions are learned and then taught. All of this is both a symptom of and in spite of the systematic dehumanization that was perpetrated on a entire race of people once brought to America. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2013, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/349 "2013-05-10T23:37:32Z")
Plus they live outside, and thus never develop inside voices. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2013, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/350 "2013-05-11T00:35:10Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > :rolleyes: What is it about April? It bleeds into May too. ---
**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/351 "2013-05-11T00:50:11Z")
Wether white or black if an individual female or male finds themselves in an enviroment where they perceive the crowd to be looking down on them in some way their voices will often get louder as some kind of internal defense mechanism. It is very possible that more blacks than whites would find themselves in this type of situation. I see similar behavior where whites from a lower social class are in the company of whites from what they perceive as a higher social class and they tend to be louder and more defensive. ---
**Author:** ![Tequila\_Party](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a6a055/32.png) [@Tequila\_Party](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tequila_Party)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/352 "2013-05-11T01:35:38Z")
> [@HedyLamarr](#): > > 1. Economically and socially depressed persons feel powerless, and unheard or unseen. > > 2. People who do not have a lot of personal space creates boundaries with their behavior. > > 3. Shouting is in the heritage of the African ritualistic lifestyle, and it has remained. (Gospel choirs belt. Classical choral music in sung in the head voice, in traditional European style.) > These conditions are learned and then taught. > All of this is both a symptom of and in spite of the systematic dehumanization that was perpetrated on a entire race of people once brought to America. This is an amazing post. Excellent summation. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/353 "2013-05-11T02:06:42Z")
That’s just a stereotype, man. We’re not that loud. Maybe the rest of y’all are too soft! RIP **Askia**. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/354 "2013-05-11T02:09:39Z")
R.I.P Askia. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/355 "2013-05-11T03:09:15Z")
> [@Locrian](#): > > Fucking April. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/356 "2013-05-11T05:25:10Z")
One good thing has come about from this resurrection. I had recently tried to remember the OP’s name, and could not. I remember him changing it fairly often, and had just filed all of them under the name “turkeyfucker” in my head. There may have been a reason for that, I can’t remember. Now I can access all of his wisdom about race relations. Yay. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/357 "2013-05-11T14:02:59Z")
> [@HedyLamarr](#): > > 1. Economically and socially depressed persons feel powerless, and unheard or unseen. > > 2. People who do not have a lot of personal space creates boundaries with their behavior. > > 3. Shouting is in the heritage of the African ritualistic lifestyle, and it has remained. (Gospel choirs belt. Classical choral music in sung in the head voice, in traditional European style.) > These conditions are learned and then taught. > All of this is both a symptom of and in spite of the systematic dehumanization that was perpetrated on a entire race of people once brought to America. It’s not “Hedy” it’s “Hedley”. ---
**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:** [May 11, 2013, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/358 "2013-05-11T14:27:39Z")
> [@April\_R](#): > > ☹ You mean you’re sad when you do that activity? Maybe you’re doing it wrong. Or with the wrong people. ---
**Author:** ![April\_R](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@April\_R](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/April_R)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/359 "2013-05-11T14:30:58Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > You mean you’re sad when you do that activity? > > Maybe you’re doing it wrong. Or with the wrong people. I took it as people being mad at April. It isn’t all bad. And as for your question, ;):D:p:eek: ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2013, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625/360 "2013-05-11T14:49:05Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > Black zombies are so loud. It’s like Michael Jackson’s Thriller video. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625.md?page=17) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-are-black-people-so-loud/401625.md?page=19)