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I was even sad when my friend buzzed their's off, but apparently they got tired of all the conditioning and how expensive a hair conditioner that worked for them was. Still supported their choice anyways
yeah ive been there, its so expensive to have natural hair. all products that actually work are expensive as hell. its a shame because if we in a less capitalist hellhole we would all do each others hair for free, i like looking at precolonial black hair styles so and unique and beautiful and varied. good on you for supporting your friend. you know youre my favorite white south african? (the bar is in hell, but youve cleared it lol)
The bar might as well be on the floor lol. How do you know some others, guessing immigrants to the US? In general the worst of us are among the immigrat/expat community.
ive worked a a cafe in a tourist traps so ive met rich assholes from all over the world. scandanavians (i cant tell them apart) are the fucking worst, they keep saying im "too friendly" and trying to touch my hair and flirt with me. than australians than south africans. rich Chinese people dont make small talk with me almost at all but im gonna chalk that up to a cultural thing. australians suck so hard they always come in and say "i would order a flat white but you couldnt make it right" and im like yes i can ive practiced for you fuckers and they go "no you wouldnt make it right ill take a frap" and than i scream. honestly the south african adults are just awkward its the CHILDREN that are little racist freaks, i have never in my life have seen worse behaved more entitled children. Its the most humiliating thing to be berated by a CHILD and forced to make their drink 3 times while the mother encourages them to call me stupid.
The children probably learn from how our society is structured here. It's common for upper/middle class families to have a maid/domestic worker (who is in 99% of cases a black woman) clean their entire house for minimum wage. And pretty much everyone working in low paid service jobs, from cashiers to petrol pump attendants and waiters/waitresses, are black. So the children learn from that blatant racial inequality and act like that and become spoilt racist brats. I just hope they grow out of it when they get older.
would you say most of the adults are still pretty racist? like is it hard to find non racist white people to be friends with?
Among older people yes most people are still very racist, but the situation is better among younger people. Still a lot of racism though, the amount of young people that have felt comfortable using the k word around me is way too high. But the situation is still much better than before among young folks, though I tend to avoid the crazies so yeah.
well i learned a new slur today. I do love hearing your perspective on things, I feel like ive learned so much from having you on here.
I just hope what I'm saying is helpful and accurate, I just talk about what I see here.
Sorry about that.
no no im never gonna get called that here, dont apologize. its good to know things things too.