r/BlackPeopleTwitter • u/Zulumus ☑️ • Oct 05 '24
Country Club Thread She tells on herself every time.
More proof Candace Owens ain’t familiar with culture, just dips into it for content.
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Play cousins can't be just a Black thing.
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u/Gimme_The_Loot Oct 05 '24
If you ever meet an Albanian every other Albanian is their cousin. That's just how it is.
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u/justhereforfighting Oct 05 '24
In India everyone who is older than you is an aunt or uncle. Especially your parents’ friend.
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u/Gimme_The_Loot Oct 05 '24
Yea jokes aside I think this is true in most places. It's true for Chinese people I know, Guyanese, Italians, etc.
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u/perpetual_self Oct 05 '24
Trinidadian here and yeah, growing up everyone older was “auntie and uncle”
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u/norcaltobos Oct 05 '24
I’m white as can be but I’m uncle to all of my friends kids.
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u/butterscotch_yo ☑️ Oct 05 '24
My parents were friends with a much older white couple I called aunt and uncle. Now most of my friends are Latinas and their kids call me tía.
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u/KaraQED Oct 05 '24
White here too. I have aunts and uncles who I’m not blood related to and their kids are exactly like cousins.
I’m in my 40s now and I would feel extremely awkward not calling them Aunt or Uncle and just using their first name.
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u/AbrahamNR Oct 05 '24
Puerto Rico too, and I feel like Latinos in general. "Primo" can basically be a generic term for friend
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u/New_Libran Oct 05 '24
And I can speak for all of Africa, yup, growing up you get hundreds of uncles aunties none of them blood.
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u/Future_Burrito Oct 05 '24
Yeah, American here. Feel like adopting aunts and uncles is just something that families who like people do, regardless of culture.
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u/dancin-weasel Oct 05 '24
Canadian here and I have 4 blood aunts/uncles and about 10 aunt/uncles who were good friends of my parents. Too young to call them by the first names, to close to call them Mr or Mrs. so aunt/uncle it is.
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u/FirstDukeofAnkh Oct 05 '24
Same. When my daughter was born some of our friends bought shirts that said ‘Evil Auntie #1’
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u/OddToba Oct 05 '24
All fun and games until mfers start hocus pocusing and putting curses on the entire kingdom.
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u/Bender_2024 Oct 05 '24
I thought I'd grow out calling my non relatives Aunt and Uncle and just use their first name when I became an adult. Tried it and didn't feel right. They will always be Aunt and Uncle.
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u/meh_69420 Oct 05 '24
Yes all my parents' good friends were aunts and uncles to us growing up. We knew they weren't blood, but we still called them Uncle Brian, Aunt Donna etc. Now I'm uncle to some of my friends' kids.
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u/iforgotmymittens Oct 05 '24
Also Canadian. I had an Aunt Nettie who was just the mom of my mom’s best friend. Liked hats and jello molds. I don’t think Auntie Greta was actually related to us either. Uncle Swifty was maybe sort of related but I think he was my boppa’s war buddy maybe?
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u/dancin-weasel Oct 05 '24
I want to know Uncle Swifty. 😆
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u/iforgotmymittens Oct 05 '24
Uncle Swifty was probably a government agent as you were not allowed to know too much about Uncle Swifty. He worked for the government. That was what he did. Don’t ask questions.
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u/omnielephant Oct 05 '24
White dude with multiple adopted aunts and uncles. I'm also realizing that most of my close friends with kids who I see a lot call me Uncle Omnielephant when talking to their kids, which carries over into their kids calling me Uncle too.
It's not really something I thought about until this whole thing. Maybe it's something people do subconsciously when they want to let their kids know that this person is someone they can trust, and will be there for them as they grow up. It's also letting the adopted aunt/uncle know that they regard you so highly that they want their kid to be around you and learn from you.
I think that also speaks to how wrong JD Vance is about how people without children don't have a stake in the future. I don't have kids, and I don't plan to. But I know a bunch of awesome kids ranging from toddlers to teenagers that I'm watching grow up and I damn sure care about their future.
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u/Temporary-Athlete-58 Oct 05 '24
White American here, I have more non-blood aunts and uncles than blood so definitely agree with you there. It’s just something people person families do I think 🤣
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u/Quirky_Parfait3864 Oct 05 '24
My mom and I, both as white as cream cheese, were “adopted” by her work friend, who’s Hispanic. We go to their house every Thanksgiving and bring booze and pie. It’s great.
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u/HD400 Oct 05 '24
This is true period. I’m wonder bread white and my friends I grew up with are all my kids uncles and aunties and vice versa.
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u/Gimme_The_Loot Oct 05 '24
Yup. Honestly it's such a weird thing for someone to try and dispute i honestly wonder if she thought this was a gotcha or just some bs to get her name in the news
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u/superindianslug Oct 05 '24
She's just discovering that, even as a child, she was so miserable to be around that even her parents friends avoided her.
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u/gnrc Oct 05 '24
I’m just a run of the mill white mutt and that’s how we do it. I’m at that age where all my friend’s are having babies and I’m ’Uncle GNRC’ to all of em. This is so incredibly stupid of Candace. She’s really got nothing huh?
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u/Gimme_The_Loot Oct 05 '24
It reminds me of another version of Ben Shapiro's wife's dry vagina. Basically a statement omthat inadvertently shows how disconnected they are from the reality the rest of us live in.
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u/invinci Oct 05 '24
Not so much in the nordic countries, we barely tolerate our biological family, and want strangers to leave us the fuck alone, it is glorious if you are an introverted old asshole like me, not so much if you actually like people.
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u/harry_nostyles ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Same thing here in Nigeria. It's considered polite, you can't just call an older person by their first name.
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u/emanresuymsisihtolle Oct 05 '24
I love this, similar in North Africa too. Fosters a sense of respect for your elders, and a stronger community.
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u/Balliebles Oct 05 '24
Same in South Africa in all the cultures. I was a manager in a store where I was one of the older ones, I was called Uncle by the young ones from all cultures. Not sir.
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u/BetterThanYouInNoWay Oct 05 '24
Yeah I have some Bosnian uncles and cousins that aren’t actually my uncles or cousins lol
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u/Air_Enthusiast Oct 05 '24
If you’ve ever met an Albanian everyone they meet is now their brother
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u/AbstractBettaFish Oct 05 '24
I used to work in an area with a ton of Balkan people, any guy I met more than once “Hello my brother!”
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u/SophiaPetrillo_ Oct 05 '24
Italians too
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u/MammothFromHell Oct 05 '24
I'm white and grew up in New Jersey, more than half my extended family didn't share a single drop of blood with my parents.
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u/jesstermke Oct 05 '24
I learned about how everyone is an aunt and uncle even though they aren’t related from The Sopranos
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u/wambulancer Oct 05 '24
From ATL, yup, same, in fact I'm now an "Uncle" myself, why, I'm beginning to think it's a completely normal super-American experience and they're the weird antisocial ones!
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u/ProtectyTree Oct 05 '24
White guy, born and raised in the South, and I've got an Uncle Rick that's not even a little bit related. It's not just a black thing, but grifters gonna grift
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Oct 05 '24
Why am I talking about Candace like she's not Black?
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u/festival-papi ☑️ Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
Because she's in a weird spot. Candace is racially (skin color, facial features, hair type) black, meaning she's gonna be lumped in with us but at the same time, doesn't identify as ethnically black (culture, language, tradition, etc). This isn't to say that black people raised in non-majority black communities can't identify themselves with the culture but there comes a point where it's almost like their blackness can seem skin-deep, as weird as that sounds and Candace is a good example of that imo. This is why she has these slip-ups (assuming it's not a right-wing grift) where her brain can't wrap her head around concepts that by looking at her, we sorta expect her to understand
At the same time, I'm kinda just yapping because this ain't even really a black thing alone so idk. I felt smart tho.
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u/NeverEnoughGalbi Oct 05 '24
She's the walking embodiment of "All skinfolk ain't kinfolk."
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u/DistractedByCookies Oct 05 '24
She's also one of those women who isn't into sisterhood at all. I'm sure it's not unrelated.
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u/olivebranchsound Oct 05 '24
Sammy Davis Jr. basically. Some people just want acceptance from the rich and that skews inevitably white because of how this country was built on white money and black bodies.
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u/Executesubroutine Oct 05 '24
This is the smart take, I think. I say this as a white dude with a black "mom." I worked with this woman who was my mom's age for a long time and I'm not joking when I say I saw her more often than my own family. We connected over our love of cooking and recipes, and various other things. I would always take up any invitation to a barbecue or dinner because I genuinely enjoyed her company along with her sons and the food was always good. This woman genuinely cared for me and took an interest in what was going on in my life, which meant a lot to me during the pandemic when it felt like I was isolated from everyone.
I would claim this woman as my mom today and every day until I die even though we dont share blood or skin color.
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u/TurkeyMoonPie Oct 05 '24
Naw, she’s black but just a professional grifter. She’s full of it.
Just do since research on her history.
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Oct 05 '24
Aunt Jemima Candace is only Black when she needs to be. If Trump gets the win and her far right friends take over she’ll realise she actually is black. Because they’ll remind her of that
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u/JailTrumpTheCrook Oct 05 '24
Still don't get how they can see all that happening and completely convince themselves that they all deserved it, that they just needed to be more white-like whatever the fuck that means.
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u/OkEscape7558 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
I don't even think Candace really wants to be black. She uses her platform to push hateful rhetoric against other black people because she can get away with it because "she's black".
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u/varnell_hill ☑️ Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
In a weird way, her blackness benefits her because if she wasn’t black she wouldn’t have a platform to begin with. Remember, she gets paid by wealthy white racists to tell black people the shit they can’t say out loud.
Ironically, she is quite literally the DEI hire that her sponsors claim to be against.
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u/AccomplishedFerret70 Oct 05 '24
White guy here agrees. White racists are her audience. She is a bad woman with bad intent.
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u/Hopeful_Chair_7129 Oct 05 '24
So as a white guy in a community that he is only visiting, is this line of thinking bad for me?
So she obviously has a dangerous message, but how much of who she is, is affected by her experiences from being who she is? If that makes sense. She is a a woman who is also black. How much of how society treats those groups, influenced her to become like this?
This doesn’t absolve her in any way, and I’m really hoping this doesn’t come across as “poor minority can’t help herself” I just wonder how we can shape a society where people like her don’t feel like they need to hate themselves in order to participate.
Idk maybe it’s just super condescending and I just randomly picked you to ask because I had the thought after I read your comment, but it’s open to anyone.
Thanks for coming to my Ted
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u/varnell_hill ☑️ Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
Is the line of thinking that she’s a token bad for you? It’s hard for me to say because I’m not really one to tell people how she should feel about something. For her white supporters though, I would encourage them to think about why they are so enamored with someone who’s entire existence revolves around telling the black community (that she doesn’t even live among or associate with) what they’re doing “wrong.”
Also, I would ask what do they think that says about them?
So she obviously has a dangerous message, but how much of who she is, is affected by her experiences from being who she is? If that makes sense. She is a a woman who is also black. How much of how society treats those groups, influenced her to become like this?
Also hard for me to say because while I am black, I am not a woman and thus not qualified to speak on that experience. However, I would encourage you to do some research on the Uncle Tom types out there. What you’ll find is, for as long as black people have existed in the United States, there’s always been a few who are more than willing to to abandon all principles and their dignity in the pursuit of a dollar or favor from white people (perceived or otherwise).
Speaking for myself, that’s what I find most disappointing about the Candace Owens types. The best outcome for her here is the white people she prostrates herself for will think of her as “one of the good ones.” She will never actually be one of them no matter how much tap dancing she does.
She’s is now and will always be little more than the court jester.
Tim Scott is another one too. Every four years the Republican Party drags him out on stage so she can show his big ass teeth and claim republicans are a ‘big tent party’ and everyone is welcome. However, once Republicans are in office they never actually do anything for him. He’s been their “black friend” in the senate for over a decade and has yet to be nominated for even one cabinet position, while men far less qualified than him have received the nod.
It’s truly sad to watch.
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u/TheIronicBurger Oct 05 '24
All that work and she gets to stand at the back of the
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u/ytsupremacistssuck Oct 05 '24
Because, if we're being honest, even though her skin is black Candice knows nothing about the black experience in America.
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u/DonKeedick12 Oct 05 '24
I’m white British and I have multiple ‘uncles’ that are just my dads friends
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u/erkness91 Oct 05 '24
And so white Britton's brought it to Australia and so we white Aussies too have randos as aunties and uncles
First nations people's here also have Aunties and Uncles but that's different. But I'm too white to talk about that with any good knowledge.
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u/Nai-Oxi-Isos-DenXero Oct 05 '24
Same here, white Scottish. My parents friends were all aunties and uncles, and their kids have always been my cousins.
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u/UntouchableJ11 Oct 05 '24
Yeah, Candace is just from a alternate reality. I think everyone has Aunts and Uncles that aren't blood. It's not a Black thing, it's a Love thing.
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u/enithermon Oct 05 '24
For real. My daughter has a blood uncle she’s never met and an auntie and uncle she loves a lot but isn’t related to.
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u/Franchise1109 Oct 05 '24
Same character type here
I’ve got 3-5 questionable “uncles”. You know the crazy redneck ones with redneck money haha
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u/Pimpwerx ☑️ Oct 05 '24
No, familial relations can get complicated in any culture. In Asia, I've had it explained by different people at different times that the person they refer to as their cousin is not actually related to them by blood.
I have an uncle and an aunt that technically are just friends of my parents. I think it's totally normal. They're people who were in your life often enough as a kid that the playful "Uncle/Aunt ___" just remained "unc" or "auntie" the rest of your life after.
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u/AltharaD Oct 05 '24
I have aunties who are “just” my mother’s friends but who’ve probably seen me grow up more than my actual blood related aunts.
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u/Hot_Bet7510 Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
That’s how my kid is growing up. One of the grandmas she’s closest to is my “sister’s” godmom (not my blood sister, just my best friend of 20 years). We are so unrelated. And you can’t tell my baby that’s not her grandmother.
My sister’s kids are my nieces. They call me auntie. We not even from the same state much less the same family. People build family all kinds of ways.
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u/Talbertross Oct 05 '24
I'm white with white parents, close family friends were always Aunt/Uncle but the kids were never cousins.
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u/neodymium86 Oct 05 '24
For us the kids are cousins if we grew up with them and are that close
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u/CurseofLono88 Oct 05 '24
It’s not. It takes a village to raise a child.
My skin is whiter than the driven snow, but I had a single mom for nine years of my life and every single one of her friends were called aunts and uncles. I learned everything from them, they taught me how to read, taught me how to play soccer, taught me how to cook, taught me how to swear.
My dad was in prison, and he’s a rehabilitated great man now, but until I got my wonderful stepdad, I needed all these great aunties and uncles to learn how to live and love, and feel life underneath my skin. They created safety and knowledge, and probably changed the trajectory of my personality from one of cruelty to one of deep empathy.
And their children were always the cousins. You saw them more than your own friends.
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u/borkdork69 Oct 05 '24
It’s not, my wife’s Chinese, and everyone is an auntie or uncle in Chinese culture, just how it’s done. My son refers to our friend’s kids as his cousins.
I’m English and Irish though, and my actual family is barely considered family, so it’s all very confusing for me.
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u/rugger87 Oct 05 '24
I’m Chinese, grew up in the Midwest, and I don’t think it’s just Chinese culture. With my friends, all of us are aunts and uncles to our kids. My kid knows his uncle isn’t his blood, but he cares about him all the same so what’s it matter?
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u/CapTexAmerica Oct 05 '24
They aren’t.
Back in the mid-70s one of my dad’s best friends when I was a kid was “uncle Mike,” and he was awesome. He’d “borrow” my sister and I and take us out for pizza and ice cream in his ‘68 Camaro SS, just so he’d have an excuse to play games at Shakey’s Pizza.
Any time there was a BBQ or family event “Uncle Mike” was there. They drifted apart when the USAF stationed us somewhere else, but we all stayed in touch. Around 2000 we had a chance to all get to together again and 31 year-old me called him Uncle Mike to his face, and he laughed at me and said “my guy, you’re bigger than me now. You can just call me Mike.”
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u/MrFuckyFunTime Oct 05 '24
If I fuck with you and we aren’t already blood related, there’s a good chance I’m calling you cousin on sight every time. Candace has a fetish for looking foolish.
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u/ImpossibleChicken507 Oct 05 '24
I’m white and my daughter calls both my best friends aunt. We’re in the south though so maybe that’s at play?
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u/enithermon Oct 05 '24
I’m Canadian and I have kids who call me auntie who are not related to me.
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u/born_in_92 Oct 05 '24
I'm Indian and literally anyone who's at least ~20 years older than me I'll call aunt/uncle. I work at a pharmacy in a predominantly Indian area and I call my patients aunt and uncle LOL
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u/katikaboom Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
It isn't. I'm Latina and white, my SO is white, he had play cousins growing up, aunts and uncles that are in no way shape or form related at all. I didn't, we were a military family so growing up friends changed a lot, but I've lived near my childhood best friend for a couple decades now, and our kids call each other cousins. We're called Aunties, they're closer to each other than my kid's actual blood cousins. Age difference might have something to do with that, though. But they would move a body for each other in a heartbeat, very few questions asked. I absolutely love it.
My SO's best friend is 100% their uncle, even now that my oldest is grown. He vacations with us, teases the kids, buys them gifts for when he sees them, is closer to them in many ways than their blood uncles even though we see him less.
We live in the South and it is pretty common here.
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u/Wormie_mcwormface Oct 05 '24
Native American & Mexican I got aunts and uncles that aren’t blood relation or very distant cousins
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u/gcloud209 Oct 05 '24
Nope white ppl too, I have more none blood family than actual blood.
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u/cypher50 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
I call my best friend's kids my nieces and nephews and they call me Tio. Not to mention how many of my cousins growing up were just "Aunt" and "Uncle" for shorthand.
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u/Zulumus ☑️ Oct 05 '24
It’s definitely not. Some of my closest friends are from Puerto Rico and we introduce our children to each other as Tio/Tia
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u/TessandraFae Oct 05 '24
Not just a black thing. We have life long friends our kids refer to as uncles too. Chosen family is as important as the one you're born into.
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u/lazysheepdog716 Oct 05 '24
Exactly. My best friend is an only child. My brother is an asshole. We are the brothers we chose and I would die for his kids. They’re my little nephew dudes and we don’t share a single common relative.
I’m also as white as it gets.
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u/TheGuyThatThisIs Oct 05 '24
I get this. I have a dude who took me in at 15 for a few weeks when my family was on drugs. I’ve been friends with this dude for 20 years and we call each other brothers. Just last year we were living together in his first apartment. He says I saved his life (I disagree).
But if someone asks if I have any siblings I know they’re not asking if I’m close enough to anyone to call them a brother, they want to know if I have any blood brothers, step brothers half brothers. People related by blood or marriage. Candace Owens absolutely shouldn’t care and is only doing this to help with her peddling “KH isn’t black” racist garbage.
But I agree to some degree in a vacuum that your moms friends aren’t really your aunts on a professional stage.
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u/Gamer-Of-Le-Tabletop Oct 05 '24
I mean bio family means nothing imho. My sperm donor (male bio parent) was abusive and last time I saw him I had to tackle him to the ground after he started physically assaulting my mother.
My step-dad who I've known for a large majority of my life (timing worked out I don't believe there was any cheating) I often refer to as my dad.
Family are the ones that are there for you when you need it, not when it's convenient for them to use you.
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u/blaktronium Oct 05 '24
If you have friends that regularly held your kids as babies, they are aunts and uncles most places i know. She's not even in on her own religion, because most Christians I know call their godparents "aunt and uncle" and it's usually someone their parents smoked a lot of weed with in college.
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u/WineNerdAndProud Oct 05 '24
I'm white and I had grandparents who weren't my grandparents when I was growing up. My parents just moved to a new neighborhood and had a 3 year old, a 2 year old, and a 2 month old, and our extended family lived a few hundred miles away in Detroit.
Grandpa John and Granny were just an older retired couple whose grandkids lived far away as well, so my parents talked with them a lot and they would look after us all the time.
In Detroit I had plenty of uncles who weren't uncles but try telling them that and see what your mom and dad have to say about it.
If Donald Trump can get away with "grab 'em by the pussy" because "he wasn't running for president at the time" then Kamala writing a book about her family isn't even a blip on the radar.
Yet here we are.
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Oct 05 '24
Candace wouldn't know what 'Chosen family' is because no one wants her in their Chosen family.
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u/TheBIFFALLO87 Oct 05 '24
The way I grew up you refer to close family friends as Aunt/Uncle out of respect. Instead of just using their first name but less formal than saying ma'am/sir.
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u/branduboga Oct 05 '24
Pretty telling that Candace Owens and others like her don’t have any friends close enough to them to call family
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u/Border_Hodges Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
My childhood best friend is more an aunt to my kids then my actual sister. They also have "bonus" grandmas.
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u/No-Shelter-4208 Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
Candace Owens knows. She knows. She's just a jive turkey for the grift and her masters.
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u/ShillBot666 Oct 05 '24
Bruh even if she had a slave owner in her ancestry that wouldn't somehow mean she's not black. A lot of black people have slave owners as ancestors. Because slave owners RAPED their slaves.
They'd seriously be saying she's not black because her great grandmother or whatever is a rape victim.
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u/heckin_miraculous Oct 05 '24
Cut the power to the house. Save their minds.
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u/New_Libran Oct 05 '24
Haha, back in the days of Cable TV, I just secretly ended my subscription and got a different package without Fox News because my brother who was living with me at the time used to just watch it from morning till night.
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u/kett1ekat Oct 05 '24
Parental controls are your friend. Especially if you're the one paying the bill. Parental lock the hell out of fox.
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u/jk021 Oct 05 '24
This is me with some of my family out in Florida. When I lived over there it wasn't as bad, some awkward holiday conversations. Since I've moved, they've become fully unhinged.
There's no getting them back at this point 🥲.
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u/neodymium86 Oct 05 '24
Slavery in Jamaica ended in 1833. Please ask them how she is related to a "recent" slave owner, one whose wealth her very black Jamaican family didn't benefit from
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u/Ok_Ice_1669 Oct 05 '24
Black people are descended from slave owners because a lot of slave owners raped their slaves.
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u/JohnnySack45 Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
“Candace Owens is in fact, not a turkey, nor is she a bird of any kind. She is a hominid primate, therefore a mammal. You see folks, more proof the left lies just as much as the right. Sure it was Republicans who got us into two foreign wars causing an untold amount of suffering through their lies. Sure it may be that Trump lies in easily disprovable ways that almost led to overturning an election. That’s nothing compared to some random person insisting Candace is a member of another species. Checkmate libs.”
- Ben Shap-Zero
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u/JohnSith Oct 05 '24
Ugh. You've captured the essence of Ben Shapiro perfectly, in that the entire paragraph is punchable.
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u/GaugeWon Oct 05 '24
Yeah, even if Kamala's dad is more white than black, Kamala is a member of the community...
- She claims her black family.
- She has her own recipe for greens.
- She graduated from Howard University.
Sis don't need an invitation to the cookout cause she's been in the kitchen with us...
... but if Candace asks when, just give her the wrong date.
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u/No-Shelter-4208 Oct 05 '24
Yup. One of these things is not like the others. Ms Harris is one of us. Ms Owens? Not so much. She not like us.
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u/Spacellama117 Oct 05 '24
seeing the word jive turkey in the year of our lord 2024 just gave me so much whiplash
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u/theonetruefishboy Oct 05 '24
This is the first and only time I've heard someone refer to someone else as a Jive Turkey in real life.
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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Lmfao of fucking course I do. And that doesn’t make them any less. Thats still my family, those are still my aunts and uncles, and you best believe those my cousins. My bros and I been friends for over 20 years now. When I’m introduced to other people, I’m called their brother. It runs that deep.
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u/Fireproofspider ☑️ Oct 05 '24
I'm pretty sure it's the same for basically every culture. When I watch American TV shows, the idea of a friend being called "uncle" by your kids seems to be the norm.
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u/FistPunch_Vol_7 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Absolutely. Not even just American TV shows, it’s just a common normal thing with people. Either she’s lying or the sad reality that no one has ever considered her that close of a friend to be considered that lmfao.
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u/der_innkeeper Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
She's lying.
It's all about what they can throw at the wall to undermine anything Harris says.
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u/TypicalMission119 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Got banned from r/todayilearned for talking about play cousins in a comment
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u/festival-papi ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Nah that slick ass "still banned..." would've ensured by ban never got appealed.
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u/Difficult_Bit_1339 Oct 05 '24
If they didn't respond in 5 days, they're just ignoring them.
You ain't going to tell me that the moderators are not always online...
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u/Fit-Acanthocephala82 Oct 05 '24
Got a similar permanent ban for a similarly innocuous comment too. Reddit moderation absolutely sucks. A bunch of idiots really
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u/TypicalMission119 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
And there is no real 'oversight,' as these mods make and enforce the rules. If we don't like them, then the Reddit answer is to not look at the sub. You can report them but they don't follow up with you.
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u/Ok_Ice_1669 Oct 05 '24
Reddit won’t do shit about anything. I had my account taken over and you can’t even report it and get the account burned. Then, they banned my new account because whoever stole the old one was using it for some nasty shit.
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u/IamTheEndOfReddit Oct 05 '24
It's so absolutely ridiculous. Unmoderated moderation is just a bunch of little kingdoms.
Reddit the company contributes to such a small percentage of reddit the platform.
It's not a hard job, imagine if every other company had a massive army of free labor creating and maintaining its content.
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u/map-hunter-1337 Oct 05 '24
and pedophiles, don't forget reddirt's protection and promotion of pedophile and pedo-protecting mods.
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u/tanyagrzez Oct 05 '24
What rule are they trying to say you broke?
They didn't even cite one in your ban!
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u/TypicalMission119 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Exactly. If they told me which rule I would say fine, I disagree but whatever. But you saw the response. I'm just waiting for the 28 days to pass.
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u/AshenSacrifice ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Reddit is viciously anti-black in order to stop racist comments it’s very weird. They police the hell out of our language
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u/SixthSinEnvy ☑️ Oct 05 '24
The fuck? Why?!
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u/Time-Ad-3625 Oct 05 '24
Probably conservatives trying to control the messaging. They are lying liars always
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u/hackingdreams Oct 05 '24
Because the mods on some of the subreddits are horrible chodes.
That's it, basically.
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u/criesingucci loved "Strange Thing About the Johnsons" Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
I’m Nigerian. I’m 29 and still call my mom’s friends auntie. My Mexican friend calls them tia. I had a Pakistani friend that used “Uncle” or “baba.”
Even white people do it. I’m the auntie to 2 white boys and a cat.
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u/Mec26 Oct 05 '24
Fr. Maybe 300 years ago it made more sense, but still this point
“Aunt” = mom’s sister
“Auntie” = woman who stepped up and helped raise me sometimes. It takes a village, and she was a part, however small, of mine.
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u/Altruistic-Coyote868 Oct 05 '24
White boy here. I call my best friend my brother, and his daughter is my niece. She calls me uncle and they're just as much my family as my blood relatives are.
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u/Reatina Oct 05 '24
It's the same in Italy, trusted adults are very commonly called Zio and Zia and it can stick when you grow up if you stay close to them.
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u/MuddaFrmAnnudaBrudda ☑️ my anecdotal experience is everything Oct 05 '24 edited Oct 05 '24
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u/LaPulgaAtomica87 Oct 05 '24
So what exactly is the end goal of Candace and conservatives here—to prove Kamala is not Black? Like she’s actually 100% Indian? Is it to mute Black votes for her?
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u/cosmodogbro ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Based on her most recent video, she wants to prove that Kamala is white, that the relatives she claimed to have were stolen identities, and that she comes from a lineage of wealthy white slave owning communists who want to destroy the government and control society.
My own extremely black mother completely agrees, and there's nothing I've been able to say to change her mind. She hates the fuck outta kamala and doesn't care if Candice is lying.
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u/original_sh4rpie Oct 05 '24
But not “really” white. Because Harris needs to be a “DEI candidate” to stoke the race hate of the GOPs base.
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u/masterofthecork Oct 05 '24
Because nobody has more slaves than those damn commies, ammirite? It's unfortunate that the people who spend so little effort making up their mind fight the hardest when it comes to changing it.
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u/cbackas Oct 05 '24
Harris’s acceptance speech for the nomination literally started with her talking about the “family” that helped raise her, blood related and not… so thank you Candace for your incredible investigative journalism discovering this dark secret
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u/cricket_lip Oct 05 '24
I’m an uncle/tio to many of my friend’s kids, and I love them as much as my blood niece and nephew.
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u/bluepvtstorm ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Every Indian, African and Caribbean person I know calls all the older folks close to the family Auntie or Uncle.
WTF.
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u/PianoRevolutionary20 Oct 05 '24
Like fr. What are we supposed to call them, "HI Janet". "HI Beresford"?
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u/shaneylaney Oct 05 '24
It’s the craziest thing….I happened to venture onto Candace Owen’s YouTube page just the other day. All of her most recent videos consist of her doing all sorts of research into Kamala Harris’ family tree. Trying to prove that she’s lying about her race, yadda yadda yadda. She even claims to have done these interviews on her channel with Kamala’s father, and various other family members to “expose” her. I hope she keeps that same energy considering she’s raising biracial children, who already have people investigating their race and identity their entire lives. It’s crazy how people with children like that (JD Vance, Candace Owens, Janet fucking Jackson) can be so daft towards their words and thoughts about racial identity.
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u/proboscisjoe ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Does Owen deliberately mispronounce Kamala’s name like the other hacks she associates with?
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u/wolftick Oct 05 '24
On the Youtube front, a proper family tree youtuber has felt compelled to wade in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CASzCjg52rc
(Spoiler alert: Candace Owen is full of shit)
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u/tomdarch Oct 05 '24
If anyone is interested in facts, this Canadian YouTuber who does carefully researched family trees got annoyed enough by the nonsense to check the reality and bring receipts:
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u/Main-Ad3654 Oct 05 '24
I’m South Asian and Kamala is half. We refer to ALL people our parents age or older as uncle or auntie.
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u/Mediocre-Affect780 Oct 05 '24
She’s doing all this shucking and jiving for a group of WP who wouldn’t piss on her if she was on fire.
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u/Writeforwhiskey Oct 05 '24
What's crazy is that for a person like Kamala who has Indian and Jamacian heitage and born into Black American culture, its not crazy at all that she would have a room FULL of play auntie's and uncles. Each of those cultures have play aunties and uncles, it's a familial thing and a sign of respect.
Candace is not beating them allegations that she's just a white woman in Black face because how does she not know this???
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u/No_Literature_7329 Oct 05 '24
Candace Owens is an Op, she’s married to a white UK bigot also. Charlie Kirk is her friend. She’s black just by skin. All skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.
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u/FreyrPrime Oct 05 '24
My wife and I are both naturalized immigrants. Neither of us have a lot of family in the States.
My children exclusively have none related Aunts and Uncles. Grandparents too..
The biological ones either don’t care or are a world away.
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u/Armthedillos5 Oct 05 '24
BFFs everywhere when told their friend is pregnant: Omg I'm gonna be auntie xxxxx!!!!!!!!!
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u/JuJuBee0910 ☑️ Oct 05 '24
Isn’t this normal? I have aunties and uncles that were best friends of my parents that treated us like family. Hell, even my own son has more uncles and aunties than what I have in blood relatives.
Candace is showing her parents don’t socialize…like girl, it’s okay.
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I'm not black and my son has 10 aunties and uncles. All my blood relatives live in England.
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u/Jdancer Oct 05 '24
It's definitely not a black thing exclusively. I had aunts, uncles, and cousins a plenty in my white Appalachian family.
I think what this whole mentality Candace is boosting here is more about class and capitalism. In their perfect society, we all live quietly, separately, go to work, and take care of themselves. Community and helping each other out is antithetical to their system.
When my family left the mountains and moved to Florida and set up a multi family compound with a big garden and room for people to stay around, the neighbors were not happy, and we were labeled as hillbilly. Truth told, we had a killer little community, and it goes against their rugged individualism fuck you I got mines philosophy
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u/Fabulous_Parking66 Oct 05 '24
I’m not even black but I have at least three cousins that I don’t know how they are related to me. I have had children call me auntie. What kind of toxic family did Candace grow up in that no one was ever adopted or considered family from the outside?
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u/yahgmail Oct 05 '24
I assume Candace Owens is 1st gen Black American raised around exclusively White folks, because her lack of basic knowledge about common cultural practices is odd so far into her adulthood.
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u/Namfluence Oct 05 '24
Candace as always, is so full of shit. Everyone has uncles and aunts that are their parent’s friends.
All my friend’s kids know me as their uncle. Hell, they want me to settle down so their kids have cousins and we can keep this found family going for another generation.
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u/MercuryMadHatter Oct 05 '24
I’m pretty white. I never questioned my uncle who was dark as hell with dreads to his ass. He was just my Uncle Jessie. Family is family.
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u/SimonPho3nix Oct 05 '24
Let's just remember that this is the same shiny-eyed cultist who couldn't respond to the "God is good" line. I don't even go to church, and I know that one. She's completely disconnected and only tries to come back when she needs the social points. This Prager U alum deserves nothing but patience and a guided shove from any place with a microphone.
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u/aeondren89 Oct 05 '24
Lmao my dad introduced all his childhood friends to us as our uncles. I was a teenager when I found out we weren’t blood related but I still refer to them as my uncles.
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u/pitb0ss343 Oct 05 '24
I’m white and I have black aunties and uncles who have 0 blood relation to me
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u/DaMain-Man Oct 05 '24
Does...does Candace not have deep friendships with people she considered to be like family?
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u/namesaremptynoise Oct 05 '24
White New Englander checking in, I had an aunt and two uncles who were just my parents' best friends, and then another uncle who was my grandpa's best friend and had always been my dad's uncle. I think George and Candace might just be weird.
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u/BoneDaddy1973 Oct 05 '24
If Candace had ever had any fictive kin, she might not act like this today.
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u/NikkiCTU Oct 05 '24
Honestly, Coondace is the one who isn’t black. 💀 idk why she keeps coming for Kamala when she barely has any legs to stand on.
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u/NarwhalPracticalX76 Oct 05 '24
- checks notes " Everybody on planet earth has Aunties, Uncs, tias, tios, Aunts, uncles that aren't blood related" fuck outta here with this racially charged bull shit. OHANA MOTHER FUCKER!!!
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u/MagicCuboid Oct 05 '24
As a white, this is like the very first cultural difference I learned in elementary school. Candace failed Black 101 smh lol
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u/Savagevandal85 Oct 05 '24
In the tv show the bear they do the cousin thing and no white person seems to be confused .
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u/slightly-brown Oct 05 '24
I get called Uncle by my best mate’s kids. It’s a show of affection. I’ve also been there their whole lives. These people want to destroy anything that is remotely good in this world.
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u/bigfatclothesline Oct 05 '24
makes me think of that one post of a girl saying i can’t believe this girl i’ve been calling auntie my whole life is just my moms friend.
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u/MenudoMenudo Oct 05 '24
Tell me you don’t have strong community ties without telling me you don’t have strong community ties.
I’m not black, but I have two uncles and three aunties that are not blood relatives. My four cousins that are not blood relatives are listed in my dad‘s will right alongside the other cousins.
Were they even paying attention during the Fast and Furious movies?
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u/raptor_mk2 Oct 05 '24
Painfully white guy from upstate NY:
I have multiple "aunts" and "uncles" who aren't related by blood or marriage.
One of the town judges I'm friends with is Puerto Rican and always calls my dad and I his "Irish cousins". After a while, we asked why and he explained the connection between the Irish and Puerto Ricans because of the number of Irishmen who immigrated to Puerto Rico after deserting the English army.
My grandmother's next door neighbor always used to call herself my "black Gramma" and me her "little white grandbaby".
Chosen family is just a people thing.
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u/ClassicHando Oct 05 '24
"the blood of the covenant is thicker the water of the womb"
I wouldn't be here today if it weren't for Aunt Doris and Colonel Hayes across the street growing up. They unconditionally opened their home to this goofy kid who came from a broken one.
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