@ReallyBars Truer words are rarely spoken aloud. As I've personally seen it, many of them don't have any cultural (nor ethnic) pride-based anchors, so they latch onto ANYTHING and that shows them a smidge of like, love, or mutual interest.
I mostly blame the parents.
Not really surprised to be honest
There’s a growing influx of the “awkward black” girl or boy because they don’t fit in- so they align themselves with other awkward people and those people are predominantly white
I’ve never met someone who’s genuinely happy with their life, comfortable with themselves, and at peace with their surroundings go out of their way to be rude. more often than not, that kind of behaviour comes from people who are deeply unhappy and project their pain onto others. once you realise that, it becomes much easier not to take it personally.
The Black intellectual man is the most misread person in his own community. Too Black for white spaces. Too articulate for street credibility. Too thoughtful for the masculine archetype. He exists in a gap that nobody built infrastructure for and navigates it mostly alone.
I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, “Never play fair in a game where others cheat.” It doesn’t mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they’ll throw dirt. Sometimes wisdom is not revenge. Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.