huh

[maevele]

so, like a year ago I posted some dumb shit in debunking white, noticing that at the store or whatever, I was much more likely to nod and say hi to POC than to white people, and trying to analyze why this would be. well, last night at the store I was in a good enough mood to find myself acknowledging a wider cross section of the public, and I think I figured it out. Some white people will straight up ignore me. not all of them, but enough that I felt slighted for having tried to say hi, or just make eye contact and nod.

so, that's it. I acknowledge more poc that whites out in public because they reject/ignore me less. I'm sure there is some more complicated sit going on with it, and some class stuff with which white people ignored me, but yeah.



eta; it's not like I'm running around the store being exceptionally social and trying to talk to strangers, I'm just talking the basic hey, or eye contact and nod, basic acknowledgement. I'm not chatty.

Comments

[dharma_slut]

Maybe middle class whites are just less inclined to interact with strangers at all, or with freakish looking strangers like myself?

very much so. I get many more positive responses nowadays-- now that I dress in clean button-down shirts and jeans and loafers instead of wild and wacky costmy things all the time.

[maevele]

I just find it weird that it still breaks down with race though, because even very conservative looking POC still hey back at my blue haired leather clad self.