Had some Somali students while I was doing my teacher training. Nice kids, actually.
Met a black exchange student from Washington DC while I was in Ireland. Never really talked to him because he hanged in a different crowd. When I did chat with him in the international students' New Year's Party, he told some kind of a joke, and for some strange reason I laughed and said "Oh snap!". He looked at me like I had just asked if I could measure his skull for Negroid traits and never spoke to me again.
Also, I have this fantasy... which I will not tell here.
I always find it strange to see Europeans post stuff like this. Nothing against you guys, it's just so unusual for me. I grew up in South Carolina, which is like 30% black, and probably greater than that in my home town.[/QUOTE]
How do you mean, "stuff like this"? :suspicious:[/QUOTE]
Right, what Gruebeard said. Just that that's your full experience with black people (if that's what you meant) is hard to imagine. Nothing bad.[/QUOTE]
I've thought that I would be labeled a racist if I ever said something like what North Ranger said since I saw a stand up comedian that said that "It's obvious you are racist if you can tell how many black people you know" or something to that effect...
But I have to admit I've met very few black people in my life:
When I was little (3 years old), my father introduced me to a colleague of his, wich is a black man. After a while, they discovered I was avoiding to touch him because I thought he was terribly dirty! (I can't imagine my father's embarassment... this sounds TERRIBLY racist, but I simply didn't know somebody's skin could be that dark!)
There was a black girl in my class at school. We were relatively friendly at each other, but we didn't hang out with the same groups. There was also one black girl in a reduced group class at my university.
A black woman cleaned my house for some time, but she preferred to sleep and destroy everything in sight than to actually work or shower, so she quickly lost this job.
Her aunt works at my Grandparent's house, and she is very much like the woman that owns Tom in several cartoons!
And that's pretty much my experience with black people.
Well, I've seen some in the street too. Never talked to them, though.