I don't know what this is, and it doesn't make any sense to me. Every black person I know and work with is so utterly black-centric about everything I can't even process this. I'm not ragging on them or anything, but that's just how it is. They go to black shows, watch black television, listen to black music, and attend black fairs and expos and black job conventions. Hell, they read black literature and only know black poets and playwrights. If this study thing is supposed to mean that black people subconsciously think white people are awesome and black people suck, you could have fooled me.
I've lived in the city my whole life, and I've been in and around ghettos and bad neighborhoods for a long time. The only thing I can think of that makes sense about this is what some kids might see when they're still young and haven't become jaded. Like they see Daddy cussing out his bitch and hitting her, see his couple kids from his other relationships, see him selling dope, whatever, and then they see some white people who look normal in comparison. Or something. But I mean... around here we've got fucked up white people by the dozens, who beat their wives, smoke crack, have lots of child support cases, get drunk constantly and get into fights, whatever, and TV has as many good role models that are white as they do that are black (though really, not enough of either). So I still don't know what to make of this. Maybe I'm just not all that well tuned to it? I mean, I'm straight cracker. I'm pretty much as white as it gets. But like I said, I've grown up with black culture and been in a lot of neighborhoods where that comes with the territory, and a lot of my friends when I was younger were black, Mexican, Korean, whatever. But this still doesn't make sense to me.
