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A call to the Black Guys

Wade, that reminds me of an old Milton Berle story. Something about his buddies telling him never mind pulling the whole thing out,...just enough to win the bet.
 
Skinny jeans...ughhhhhh. I hate those jeans. It's like no one was wearing them,then a few music artists started wearing them,now the whole world is wearing them. 5 yrs ago the same ppl that wears those jeans now would have not been caught dead in them.
 
vetusvates said:
Isn't it interesting how when you get to know the individual you cease to perceive boundaries or distinctions. At least, for me that is true.
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I know, Eric. I had several good friends in HS who were black and then in college had friends of several different ethnic/minority groups, including Asian, Indian (as in Mumbai, India, not American Indian) and black....

I often would forget that they were "different" than me until it was thrown glaringly in my face, as was the case when I was going down town with a group of friends and Yeriden, a black guy stopped us before we walked into a local bar and said "We can't go in here." I said "Why not? They have good dart boards in the back." I had no idea that this particular bar, which local, white townsfolk frequented, was hostile to black people....

It's called the Underground, and was in Blacksburg, VA. This was 2002 mind you. I was disgusted and never again returned to that bar.
 
I used to hang out in bars quite a lot and play pool. I don't know that I was ever in what that was hostile to blacks or anyone else but then I was looking from a white view point that may not have been accurate.
 
Wade, I would have thought it would be a more southern thing, and a "long ago" thing. Like the back of the bus and separate restrooms and water fountains (the latter two of which I remember from some locales in north Louisiana from my childhood). I remembering quizzing my grandfather on those things at some length. I thought all of that was history though. I've been in plenty of bars (in the presence of blacks), surely not as many as you ;) ,...but none that I am aware of that turned away blacks. Hmmm,...I will have to think back...

Wow, Lauren, that is interesting.
 
I don't think it was so much that they turned black away, which, to my knowlege, would be illegal in Virginia, but rather that the clientele at that bar would glare and stare at him and do their best to make him feel uncomfortable. Since I never experienced that with any of my white friends, even though we were far younger than most of the regulars there, I would be inclined to agree with him that it was due to the color of his skin.
 
I'm Mexican and I love reptiles. Now that I think of it though, most white people I know hate my snakes and I've met a lot of black people who are into snakes.
 
Really Yvette, you are the first one to say that. Have you always been into snakes? Do you have friends or relatives how are herpers? What got you started?
 
I have always had lizards and snakes. My family likes them too, but most of them don't have any pets. My dad is the only one who doesn't like them, but he doesn't hate them.
 
I believe it would be proportional to the population in the US as well... I do work at the Snake shop on the weekend.. AND... We do have a good percentage of minority reptile owners.. I would say a very large percentage are not white.. People from all walks of life come in there every weekend that have reptiles or are first time buyers.. And some have pretty nice sized collections... I think this way.. it all depends on what people have been exposed to in their lives... Any person that has been raised to fear snakes usually has an irrational fear of them.. While people who have never really been raised around them but where never taught to fear them have a bit of a curiosity towards them.. Whereas most people who have been around reptiles their whole life usually have them and keep them just like any other pet.. Now we could do a study and see which nationalities have more fear towards reptiles, but i think it would be proportional to nationalities period.
 
wade said:
I know a few Filipinos and my daughter has several Filipino friends. They are all from the Philippines. I don’t think I have ever met one that was a second generation American. The ones I know would never dream of owning a snake.
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Hi! I'm Filipina! (fil-am, born and raised in the US, but my mother didn't become a citizen until I was 5 :))

My mother thought that all snakes would grow to be reticulated pythons (my aunt has eaten one, my mom had retics hiding out in her old house's roof, there was a retic in one of the jeepneys that was part of the wedding transportation that I attended). My mom doesn't mind little cornsnakes anymore, but she was really unhappy with my green tree python and kept asking me if it was venomous, because its big head makes her think it's venomous, I dunno man :nope:
My uncle is okay with reptiles. I don't think he'd own one, but he fed my snakes when I was out of the country. His family on the other hand (married into a Honduran family).... his mother-in-law cringed and screamed when she saw my little pets. :nope:
 
You know... My daughters grandma is philipino.. She freaked out when she found out we had snakes.. She told my daughter that the snake would go up her butt in the middle of the night and that they are the devil... But that was all spurred by her religious beliefs..
 
RavenSpirit360 said:
You know... My daughters grandma is philipino.. She freaked out when she found out we had snakes.. She told my daughter that the snake would go up her butt in the middle of the night and that they are the devil... But that was all spurred by her religious beliefs..
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Oooooohhh.....ouch. LOL. Sorry, Steph, that is too funny. What a nightmarish thing to tell a child.
And I thought my grandmother used scare tactics.
 
RavenSpirit360 said:
You know... My daughters grandma is philipino.. She freaked out when she found out we had snakes.. She told my daughter that the snake would go up her butt in the middle of the night and that they are the devil... But that was all spurred by her religious beliefs..
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Sorry but i too laughed at this for a while! I don't even know if my grandmother was creative enough to come up with something like that, but she sure did try to scare me into not doing things that she didn't like me to do.
 
I think its much more rudimentary than all this. When you think about it, all the large, man eating or at least extremely poisons snakes are indigenous to area's where people of color are also indigenous to. It's just a built in fear/dislike, a survival instinct.

Thats why so many people here are Irish...there are no snakes in Ireland, they have no genetically built in fear.

*the luck of the Irish*
 
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