Was in an anti-racist training event for work and the man running the meeting told us a story about this time his white friend’s son referred to him as “Black” and the white dad gets all embarrassed. He scolds his son and then apologizes to his friend. Dude just goes, “it’s okay. I know I’m Black. There’s no need to try and hide it.”
Coffee…neat.
Frapachino. On the rocks.
https://m.youtube.com/shorts/0BNRZCnU5eM
“Excuse me. Can I get a cup of coffee, black?”
“Can’t you see we talkin’, white‽”
Give me a coffee, as black as your skin, my good man!
Ew no, if I order a black coffee, I’d want my coffee blacker than most black people. Most black people are still brown if we have to talk about literal skin color.
“I want a South Sudan, and by friend here would like a Brazillian blend.”
Once met a dude from Brazil who was the same shade of black as basic electronic stuff. Dude was fucking dark.
Onyx the true opposite of albanism
Race is very nuanced - it’s not bla- er, a very dark color and a much lighter color.
Are you saying it’s non-binary? Are you trying to turn me gay?
There are two wolves inside you — one is black, the other is gay. They are both non-binary.
I take it noir.
With sadness, rain, and a grey city mired in mysteries?
… until she walked in. Then things got interesting.
Your comment is the reason I had to go make another cup
Some dude in the distance playing a trumpet solo
First time i saw the comic i thought it was someone embarassed of asking a black coffee 😭
Or you can call it as we Colombians call it, tinto.
Y’all are strange to see “black” as referring to people first. Everyone in the world has a word for that colour (non-colour) hair and the night sky, and all baristas know what black coffee means.
If saying “black” makes you uncomfortable, maybe get a checkup.
An Americano you mean?
An African-Americano please
I think it’s much more racist to claim someone who has nothing to do with Africa or its politics (although that’s misleading, given how many countries there are in Africa and how politics differ throughout) is African American just based on skin color.
love how you just didn’t even bother addressing the “American” part 🤣
? They are literally in the American continent, so that’s the part that actually checks out. Unless you mean that there are also multiple countries in America, meaning it’s somewhat insulting for the US to appropriate what “being American” means. I didn’t comment about it because the relation is much closer than a continent with an ocean away and with a legacy centuries apart.
Black ppl don’t only live in America tho
And what does that have to do with my comment, Einstein?
Your comment: “I think it’s much more racist to claim someone who has nothing to do with Africa or its politics… is African American just based on skin color.”
Which is perfectly valid btw. African American is an ethnic category, not a skin color. Which is why using that category as a way to describe skin color is inherently racist. Assuming someone is American, based on skin color, is every bit as absurd as assuming they are African.
I literally was just referring to the use of the term African American, Einstein, not your strawman. Reading comprehension, huh. Do I need to specify the obvious context so that you geniuses don’t run with it off with your strawmans now?
Not sure if you’re replying to someone else or just didn’t understand what I wrote.
Edit to respond to your edit: I would guess that your assumed context is black people in the USA, since that’s where the term “African American” is used most commonly. To describe a black person as “African American” assumes two things, neither of which is necessarily true. You wouldn’t describe a white person as “White American” if you didn’t know they were American. Being in the USA doesn’t imply you are American. People travel sometimes, and to assume otherwise when a person is black is of course racist.
The absurdity is more obvious when people use the term in a broader context. I tried to find a video I saw a while ago but alas it seems to have been scrubbed from the internet, of an athlete, Kriss Akabusi perhaps, being interviewed after a race and the interviewer was asking him about being an African American athlete. Akabusi pointed out that he was black and british, but the interviewer kept trying to correct him, referring to him as “British African American” at one point. Sorry I can’t find it, it was really quite funny.
Cool down man. People aren’t arguing against you. They are pointing out another aspect of how the logic you spoke out against is flawed
“Make my coffee look like an egg bagle, and make it taste like you dipped a glazed donut into it, but without actually doing that, I don’t want chunky coffee”
That’s how I used to order my coffee from the donut place at 3 am before my 4 am airport shift. I was young, i’ve grown, but they always got it basically right. I make my own now, much much darker with less sugar. With just as much questionable content. Because I have ONE good coffee and top it off until it sucks and I don’t want more.
Large, black, and hot. Extra sugar.
If you just never look at anyone you interact with, you never feel this awkward for your words because they don’t even register! Autism for the win!
