Why Do Some White People Hate Black People?

I first experienced discrimination on the color of my skin at the age of 16. I and a white female friend of mine applied for cashier jobs at our local grocery store. She was hired I was not. We were both in high school, and this would have been the first job for both of us. I was an honors student, she was not. I could tell I was not going to be hired because when I turned in my application, the manager at the customer service desk acted as if he was irritated that I had the audacity to apply for the job. So needless to say, when I found out she was hired and I never heard back, I knew the reason why.

I have had other instances of discrimination, which I will not go into right now. But the instances have stopped, a bit, especially when people find out I am a licensed attorney. I will not lie. It gives me great pleasure to use that when necessary. You know, calling to voice my concerns over piss poor customer service. Otherwise, I keep that bit of information low key. I do not feel that I am any better than anyone else due to my education and they are not better than me due to their education or lack thereof. The only difference between us is that I can handle legal issues a bit better than the average person. But that same average person can probably do something a lot better than me, such as an electrician, optometrist, doctor.

Both of my parents grew up in either the 1930s or 1940s and onward in the deep south, and they experienced brutal, in your face and you cannot do anything about it racism. And as such, both developed a distrust of white people, my mother more so than my father. I only know this because she voiced it more often than my father. And thus, for a while, I thought I hated white people too. As I grew up, I learned that I am an introvert and I simply do not like a lot of people, regardless of race, gender, religion, and so on. But one constant has been some white people’s immediate hatred and/or distrust of people who look like me, myself included.

So, I started doing research into slavery in America and race relations in America. And I found two constant principles. Racist white people fear black people, and that fear comes from them knowing that black people are usually physically stronger and more intelligent than them. The other is that racist white people will always tear down, destroy, steal from, etc., successful black people, even those who live in harmony with other white people. Just look at the history of the Memphis Riots of 1866, the history of Wilmington, N.C., and the Liberty City Riots of 1980, just to name a few historical racial events in America.

I am a public school educated person, and as such, public schools never really taught me about slavery. I mean, the real nitty gritty. The rapes of men and women. The breeding plantations. The physical condition of the kidnapped Africans when they arrived from Africa – sores so deep you could see bone. So I think, deep down inside, racist white people fear black people because as a people, we have rage of over 400 hundred years of mistreatment, abuse, the necessity to be more than 100% better, smarter, and stronger than white counterparts, just to barely eke out a living to support our families. Yet we did. We still do. We always will.

And you know what I often wonder too? Why haven’t all of the minorities – black, Asian, Latino, etc. united as a stronghold against white people? We have the numbers. We have the funds. To be the leaders of America. Yet, we never have; we never do. I guess maybe there is too much in fighting between each race (I know that there is a lot of jealousy and mistrust amongst my people, which is so sad).

I am 55 and will be 56 later this year (2025). I am now finding my voice and speaking my truth. And my truth about racist white people or any racist people of any color -             YOU ARE WEAK. YOU ARE EVIL. AND YOU WILL NEVER SEE THE PEARLY GATES OF HEAVEN DUE TO YOUR CONDUCT HERE ON EARTH. There I said it. And I mean it.

What is your take? Do you agree or disagree with my comments in this blog? And let me know your rationale behind your beliefs. There is no judgment here from me. And I hope any and all comments are kept respectful.

All the Best,

Buffy.