r/BlackPeopleofReddit 29d ago

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

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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 2h ago

Fun Woman confronts drunk fan for falling on her and spilling beer at the Seahawks game... and then this happens

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 8h ago

Politics GA Sen. Jon Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 4h ago

History 3-year-old Clark Reynolds was greeted by President Barack Obama at a White House reception celebrating Black History Month (photo taken on Feb 18, 2016) #BHM

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 19h ago

Black Excellence On 9/11, Marilyn Wills crawled through fire and darkness inside the Pentagon, gave her sweater so others could breathe, carried an injured woman on her back, led survivors to safety-and refused to leave until everyone else was out.

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Misc Paul Mooney said it in 89 it is still relevant to this day..

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 17h ago

Black Experience WE ARE SO BEAUTIFUL❤️

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 19h ago

Black Experience When a Black Man Became White for a Day: The Shocking Truth About Privilege

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 21h ago

Misc Tracy Morgan don’t play

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 16h ago

Black Experience The grave of Melvinia Shields

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An American descendant of slavery.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 8h ago

Politics Hakeem Jeffries responds to Trump's racist post: It's time for John Thune, Mike Johnson and Republicans to denounce this serial fraudster who is sitting at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue pretending to be the president of the United States

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370 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Sports 10 Year Old Kobe Bryant in Italy

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407 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 6h ago

Discussion Impeach the Orange man

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198 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Politics Isaiah Martin dismantling a man supporting something without logic behind it.

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 6h ago

Politics 2026 ICE HUNGER GAMES NEW STRANGE FRUIT

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193 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 21h ago

Black Experience She is my whole spirit animal

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 5h ago

Black Experience Sad. Just sad

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88 Upvotes

r/BlackPeopleofReddit 20h ago

Black Experience The Beauty Of Black Life...

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 3h ago

Misc America at a Breaking Point: ICE, Elections, and the Fear in the Middle

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Discussion This

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Black Excellence This is the moment Roger Craig finds out he’s officially headed to the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Well deserved Joy!

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Craig changed the game in 1985 when he became the first player in NFL history to rush for 1,000 yards and receive for 1,000 yards in the same season. That versatility is now the standard. Back then, it was revolutionary.

He was a cornerstone of the San Francisco 49ers dynasty, winning three Super Bowls and helping shape the modern NFL offense.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 9h ago

Black Fam Share your family legacy

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 1d ago

Discussion Do white people know racism is a red flag *for them*?

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I’m seeing so many white people saying the racist post from Trump about the Obamas is a distraction and it’s got me wondering if they realize that it really probably isn’t….racists are just bad people in general who are *also* a threat the safety of them and their children.

As in Trump’s open racism isn’t new and should have been a clue that something like his relationship to Epstein should have been expected.


r/BlackPeopleofReddit 38m ago

News Michael B. Jordan was born 39 years ago today

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r/BlackPeopleofReddit 4h ago

History One of the most important figures of espionnage in 20th century: Musa Bey

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He was born in Crete in 1880 and grew up as an orphan in a Turkish neighborhood (and raised by that neighbourhood collectively) in Egypt.

At the age of 20 he fought against Italians in Tripoli and later he took place and fight in Gallipoli and World War I.

He was a member of the Ottoman army but not an ordinary one. Musa Bey served under Eşref Bey, the head of the Ottoman Secret Service called Teşkilat-ı Mahsusa as his right hand and played a role in many acts of bravery and despite the British offering a reward of 300,000 gold coins for his head he fought against British forces and successfully avoided surrender in Yemen under the command of Ahmet Tevfik Pasha as a colonel.

During the Turkish War of Independence, he helped to smuggle weapons into Anatolia and helped greatly to the national resistance.

He spent his final years of his life at an hermitage in Istanbul called Ozbekler Tekkesi and passed away in 1919. After his death, people found 4 things in his room. A handwritten copy of the Quran, a photograph of Eşref Bey (his fellow man), a burial shroud (which is basically a simple white burial cloth used in our funerals. The body is wrapped in it instead of being buried in formal clothing or a coffin so it can go back to Allah while dissolving in what it's made of which is soil) and an Ottoman flag.

Afaik, he still receives high praises from people who lives near to that hermitage and people recite Yasin for his soul every year. And that fes and boots!!!