Debate Flares After Black College Students Seek A Non-White Roommate

[Humanist_Activist]

117. I think you put far too much emphasis on these nebulous "cultures" that aren't monolithic...

aren't even internally consistent, nor are there sharp racial divides within them.

I would say the larger American culture(so called "American identity&quot if you will, has a implicit white bias that leads to white supremacy and privilege. This bias has been eroding far too slowly over the years, but its still there, particularly if you look at the commercial culture. Then you have sub-cultures, some of these purposely emphasize white supremacy, some of these don't, and a lot of them mix things up.

I can only testify to my own personal experience, but I don't understand "anti-black" bias, or at least, I wasn't taught it by my parents. I will be forthright and state this doesn't mean I don't have prejudices, I do, but I try to work on minimizing them as much as possible. Even then, my prejudices are generally against white men, invariably, due to me being one, they think its safe to say something racist, a "harmless" joke or some type of other bigoted remark, and that's usually ends my association with them. I'm very outspoken and have a tendency to call bullshit like that out. But I also recognize, that like me, not every white guy is like that, but what I really hate is the awkwardness it causes, and sometimes I can't call it out when I really, really want to. Try being defensive against other white people for not being racist. As a consequence of this, I actually prefer to be in mixed or majority black company than around white people exclusively.

I'm used to being the token white guy in a group, in middle school I hung out with 2 other boys, my biracial black best friend from when I was really little and our Filipino immigrant friend. Even though we lived in a county that's 99.9% white, seriously, one of the whitest counties in the country, most of the population came here due to white flight from St. Louis city and county.

I digress, I can understand not wanting to be around those who would perpetuate white supremacy, even subconsciously, but I wonder, would those types of white people ever agree to live with a black person? Just having white skin isn't justification enough to reject an applicant as a roommate.