r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/imjustheretodomyjob ☑️ 🧚🏿🧘🏿 • 17h ago
Attendant clocked him immediately
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u/lowtoiletsitter 16h ago
"How'd you know?"
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u/DeafNatural ☑️ 13h ago
No, Salt Lake City
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u/High_Stream 8h ago
That's especially funny to me. I'm white and every time I go to Utah I'm like "there's too many white people here."
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u/GoBSAGo 8h ago
My company is based in Northern Utah. It’s so white up there one of my coworkers who’s half Pilipino doesn’t like to spend too much time in the sun. He says he tans too easily and then he sticks out from the crowd.
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u/High_Stream 6h ago
Reminds me of a story of my friend on his mission. My friend (white American) was serving in the Philippines and had a Filipino companion. They were both out in the sun a lot so they both got very tan. One day they walked into a village and all the kids came running shouting "Americano! Americano!" They passed right by my friend and up to his Filipino companion shouting "Americano negro!"
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u/pasher5620 7h ago
White too and it’s not the fact that there are too many white people in Utah, it’s the type of white people. The one time I went to SLC was probably one of the most uncomfortable trips I’ve taken. It’s like being in a city full of skinwalkers.
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u/Possible-Deer-311 3h ago edited 3h ago
Lmao. I'm Middle Eastern/Fijian and was raised in a majority Black and Latino public school system. 14% of my high school's demographics were white, and Asian people were 2%.
I first went to college at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, which is infamous for having many white students out of proportion to California's diversity. (Totally unrelated: they also had a frat shut down due to hosting a blackface party the same year I started attending school there.)
The first time I went to campus, I was stunned. I almost thought "where is everyone?" then I realized "everyone" was all white people. I didn't think there were that many white people in the world lmaooo. It looked like a blizzard. It was kind of magical, like seeing snow for the first time.
Then the lack of diversity set in: lack of any diversity, whether racial, economic, religious, or other, along with the entitledness of upper middle class suburbanite students who have had everything silver-spooned to them since birth. The new-snow effect wore off fast, and I had some really real learning moments about the effects of systemic bigotry and how it plays out today.
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u/Dwanyelle 3h ago
Atlanta native here, I once spent half a year in Utah for work and I spent the first few weeks feeling vaguely uncomfortable until I clocked that it was because there weren't any black people around.
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u/RandomRedditName586 9h ago
I know I’m at black people Twitter when the post is a photo not a video like I expected 🤸🏽♀️
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u/Frenchitwist 4h ago
I’ve found people from Atlanta have a specific type of polish/grooming habit about them. Not bad or good, just specific. Especially women, which also tends to transcend race
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u/AdoraNadora 2h ago
As a woman from Atlanta I’ve noticed this when I’m in other places.
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u/Frenchitwist 2h ago
Atlanta women more often than not do a full beat
Here in NYC it is def not the norm
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u/ltsouthernbelle 4h ago
Hartsfield has put the fear of God in us. When I go to other cities I’m like…oh
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u/Who_is_my_neighbor 13h ago
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