cutting in linebroad generalization, also ironically no one's actually put forward these statistics yet, we've just let you go on long enough to convince yourself they support you
Gee, I don't know how you missed this... You read my post right?
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/39993685/ns/health-womens_health/t/blacks-struggle-percent-unwed-mothers-rate/#.VBj6YPldV8E
racism is, technically, any assumption garnered from someone's race. if i look at a mexican guy and say "he's mexican, he must like tacos", that's tribal. if you look at a black kid who's being rowdy and say "since he's black and rowdy, he must be poor", is tribal- maybe not entirely- but basically
Well, here's the definition for racism:
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
Making assumptions based on someone's race alone certainly is tribal, as you pointed out, but that's not the case here. It's their actions + the known statistics + their race that allow one to reach a logical conclusion that the black kid cutting in line is
most likely doing so because he was not firmly taught not to when he was younger.
I don't see how that's tribal though if you don't trust other races based on how they're dressed either?
Unless you're assuming how a person acts based on stereotypes based on more than how they dress.
I attributed the kid cutting in line at the snack shack's poor clothing with a likely economic standing point at home. That was another indicator to me that he probably lived in a low-income home, and, as it would logically follow, probably a home without a strong father figure. But, there's no way to know for sure, you can only predict so far. And, since I know the general area the kid lives in, plus knowing what that area is like, it doesn't take much further thinking to understand why he's dressed that way.
Matthew (my black friend) is actually literally the best-dressed guy I know.
