Being black on the internet makes me feel like garbage.

Every time I go on this site, I see racist comments. Whenever there is a news article about a criminal doing something terrible, the comments are what you'd expect, people calling the person whatever insult they can think of. But when a black person commits a crime there are hundreds of comments not attacking the criminal, but black people as a whole. Go on youtube and it is 20x worse. I live in a middle class neighborhood which has pretty much been the complete opposite of most black stereotypes, hundreds of black families with both parents in the picture, living in nice homes and working hard at their jobs, sending their kids to nice colleges and contributing to society. According to the internet my life doesn't exist, all black people are subhuman criminals and there are always 5 or 6 people with the "statistics" to prove that my life is worthless because I was born with the disease of being black. For a long time I've ignored these things, but I just can't anymore, there is too much racism on the internet and it's making it hard for me to even use it without losing my mind at how insane people can get. I find myself trying to casually browse websites online and then out of nowhere another comment telling me that black people are the scum of the earth. I feel like what kills me inside is that I KNOW this isn't the truth, my entire life so far has been the opposite of stereotypes and I just wish that so many of these racists can see this. I wish they can see that there are thousands of black people in this country that act no different from white people or any other race. But no matter what I'm powerless, no amount of comments or posts I make will change anything. I just can't take it anymore.

Posted Jul 21, 2017, 10:22 PM UTC

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