In clubhouse (a voice-only app), I've had the chance to listen to lots of rooms of entirely black people talk, which I rarely get to hear in my daily life. It turns out black people on clubhouse talk about being black a *lot*. They reference blackness in relation to everything.
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my guess is that it’s likely specific to those rooms. I don’t think much of my own ethnicity day-to-day as I go about my life but when I’m in spaces like that it becomes the dominant facet. Which can be both comforting and/or stifling depending on the context
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If you had a room of people whose only commonality was that they played dungeons & dragons, you can bet that that's probably what the topic of conversation will be. Conversation converges to common denominators.
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I echo your sentiment about CH. I believe it’s common outside as well, but prior to this I’ve only gotten bits of such conversation when sitting in an Uber as the only non-black person. The difference is that CH feels like a black space, while most places are white spaces
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There could be a distinction between black people generally, and "the type of black people likely to be on clubhouse" that needs to be explored. I'd never heard of clubhouse before today, so I'm not sure what kind of crowd it draws.
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But being black in America is rarely a colorblind experience.
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I think that people who spend their days code switching for white people tend to snap back harder when in a deliberately black space.
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Sampling bias? The average Clubhouse user is a very particular subset, and is not representative of the population at large. You're extrapolating your own context without realizing the atypicality of your experience.
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It could also be true that, while not necessarily representative of black Americans generally, our friend just encountered a very real and substantial segment of US Black culture for the first time.
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There is a significant portion of the IS black community of the last generation+ that has been trained to think of everything in racial terms. I do not believe it is as widespread as it may seem, and certainly many American blacks do not think this way. It sounds like you ...
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Happened across a particularly concentrated version of this. I would hazard a guess that these same people would likely be college educated, and largely left leaning politically. From what you heard does that seem to fit?
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