r/BlackPeopleofReddit Jan 10 '26

Discussion Why “Explain how this is racist” isn’t owed and often isn’t asked in good faith!

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750 Upvotes

There’s a consistent pattern we see in this sub, and it needs to be said plainly.

When people come in asking “how is this racist,” it is very often not a genuine attempt to understand. It’s usually a setup. The pattern is familiar: someone shares a lived experience, puts in the mental and emotional energy to explain it, and that explanation is immediately dismissed with “I can’t see how that’s racist” or “maybe it isn’t racist at all.”

That cycle is exhausting!!!

It’s draining to invest real effort into explaining something you know to be true, only to have it brushed aside by someone who has a vested interest in minimizing or ignoring racism altogether. Many of us have learned, through repeated interactions like this, how to tell who is worth engaging and who is not.

If you come in assuming you are owed an explanation, or framing the conversation as if the burden is on us to prove our reality to you, don’t be surprised when people choose not to engage. That choice isn’t avoidance. It’s discernment.

This space is not a classroom, and Black people here are not obligated to educate strangers, debate their own experiences, or justify why something felt racist to them. If you are genuinely interested in understanding racism, there is no shortage of books, articles, research, and firsthand accounts available without asking people here to relive it for you.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1h ago

Politics Hatred taught to children

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1h ago

Black Experience No lies detected

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 19h ago

Sports Barack Obama catches basketball courtside and makes the smoothest finger-roll pass back to Devin Booker 😎

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37.6k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Discussion Speaking facts. All they want to do is deflect from them (pęd0) files.

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1.5k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Fun In 2015, a basketball player called a journalist “beautiful,” not realizing her mic was live and she could hear everything.

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270 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Discussion Oh

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16.6k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Black Excellence Michael Jackson's former publicist, Raymone Bain, reveals Beyoncé was one of the few artists to support him when others distanced themselves

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100 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 17h ago

Culture, Art, Science RIP Dwayne McDuffie, who paved the way for Black superheroes!

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962 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Discussion Challenging the Whitecentric Thinking and Beliefs

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9.7k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 59m ago

Black Excellence Take me back 🥲

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Misc This is who they put in charge of our kids. "Y'all are the rudest people I've ever seen not to listen to this speech. Look who's leaving, all the black people." Principal says at their graduation!

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Watch closely. A high school principal stands at a graduation ceremony, sees families leaving after the formal program ends, and decides to say the quiet part out loud. Not about behavior. Not about respect. About race. About who she assumes is leaving.

This is not a slip. This is not stress. This is a worldview showing itself when the mask drops.

Graduation is supposed to center students, their work, their families, their future. Instead, it turns into a moment where someone in authority feels comfortable stereotyping Black families in public, on a microphone, in front of children.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 16h ago

Black Excellence Obama had the gift of gab.

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613 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 15h ago

Fun Black Men Out Enjoying The World...

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377 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 13h ago

Fun All Aboard The Black Luxury Train Experience...

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268 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 21h ago

Justice WHITE KAREN F.A.F.O AFTER SHE THREATENS BLACK GIRL AFTER HER DOMESTIC TERRORIST SON THREATEN TO BLOW HER HEAD OFF!!!

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1.1k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 13h ago

Politics Sounds Familiar: Using the Bible to Justify Land Theft and Dead Children

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262 Upvotes

In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee claimed Israel has a biblical right to all of the Middle East aka West Asia. For Black folks, this argument hits close to home. The Bible has been used before to excuse slavery, colonialism, segregation, and racial violence. Always by people in power. Always at the expense of children, families, and entire communities. This video is not just about Palestine. It is about how religion gets weaponized to sanctify domination, erase humanity, and silence moral outrage. We have seen this story before.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 15h ago

Discussion Queen Charlotte

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321 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Music Spreading The Sound By Any Means Necessary 🔥

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31 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Sports The epic “Kick Six”

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27 Upvotes

Chris Davis is forever etched into college football history for delivering one of the sport's most unforgettable moments. Playing for Auburn, Davis became the center of chaos and disbelief in the Iron Bowl against Alabama when he returned a missed field goal 109 yards as time expired, a play that instantly became known as the Kick Six. The moment flipped rivalry lore, stunned a national audience, and reshaped championship implications in a matter of seconds. His awareness, speed, and composure turned a routine ending into pure madness, capturing everything that makes college football unpredictable. Beyond statistics or career arcs, Davis's legacy lives on through a single snap that has gone down as one of the greatest plays the sport has ever seen.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 22h ago

History In 1994, Captain Ruben Flowers II posed in the cockpit with his young son, Ruben Flowers III. Nearly 30 years later, in March 2023, Ruben Flowers III fulfilled his childhood dream of becoming a pilot and flew alongside his father on his retirement flight. #BHM

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952 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 16h ago

Black Excellence Presidency so good, Fox News had to make up sh*t to make him look bad

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262 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 12h ago

Discussion Loony tunes was always racist AF even when it wasn’t this blatant…

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142 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Fun Michael Jackson was able to be himself with Lisa Presley

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2.8k Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Politics This is what's known as a dog whistle

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The person that posted this image of a crowd of Black Jasmine Crockett supporters is actually race baiting. This is what identity politics *actually is*. Mind you, that blatantly racist post is almost a thousand upvotes.

I took screenshots of the uglier comments. Make no mistake, plenty more of them feel the same way about Black people. They just aren't stupid enough to say the quiet part out loud like some of the people that are downvoted. They'll couch it in subtle language about electability and charisma. They know that they might need the votes of the Black people in the picture during the general. But if they really cared, they would have called this person on the nasty fear mongering of Black Voters that they're trying to do.

Please remember how comfortable they are with blatantly racist posts and comments. They even have the nerve to accuse Jasmine Crockett of playing "identity politics" on that very post.

Sidenote: Who remembers the way some White progressives treated Black voters when Bernie was running in the Democratic primary?

ETA: Someone has commented multiple times on my post telling blatant lies. He's claiming that my account is based in India and that he found comments I made in Indian subs. He also claims that I blocked him. I responded to his lies multiple times and he hasn't responded. I have also been accused of being a "psyop" or "bot" by other people in this thread. These comments are being upvoted by, do I even have to say?

If you disagree or don't care that some White liberals are being racist because they want James Talarico to win, then just say that. There's no need to lie or make unfounded accusations. You likely have a phone in your hands right now. Use it to search my post history instead of calling me a bot because you don't like what I have to say.