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Originally posted by inspiration4
Basically.
But take my advice, and just give up the fight. People here do NOT speak from experience when it comes to making these claims. They just repeat what they've been told is happening. If you ask them explicitly where in the US these claims are popular, not a single user will answer you.
I too live in the real world and have used Grindr in all the big US cities (& abroad) and have literally only seen "no blacks" once. ONCE since 2010. Not only that, they'll also tell you that races don't intermingle in the gay scene and that interracial dating doesn't exist. And again, anyone whose experienced the gay nightlife firsthand knows this isn't true, not by a long shot.
The point I'm making? Don't give much attention to people spewing negativity and dark visions of reality that they have no firsthand experience of. It's a wate of energy.
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Originally posted by inspiration4
They might have found him ugly or weird? (Not that I condome scoffing at a person, EVER)
The assumption that it was due to his race IMPLIES that any white person can walk up to another white person and be received warmly with open arms. Stop.
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Love how you, well many of you, continue to undermine and deny a group of peoples shared experiences.
Because you don't see things on some stupid ho app and if racism's not in your face/blatant in the community it doesn't exist?
There's black gay men that feel like they fit in just fine, come from the same class, share the same interests and experiences that everyone in in Gay community faces. Then there's black gay men that don't! They face different issues as gay people than you, feel underrepresented, don't connect, don't feel accepted in many different ways beyond these stupid apps and ya'll don't get it...and ya'll never will. So yeah, give up the fight.