Comments on: What’s Wrong With A Stereotype?

By: NancyG

NancyG — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 19:59:25 +0000

Thank you all for your kind words for Khadijah and for those who supported her. Khadijah has started her freshman year at Harvard College and has a website that provides updates – http:///www.khadijahwilliams.com.

Khadijah was interviewed this week for an episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show entitled “Don’t Stop Believing.” It is scheduled to air on Friday, October 2. Watch for Oprah’s surprise for Khadijah!

By: Meli

Meli — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:07:42 +0000

In some cases stereotypes to apply to a large amount of the group being stereotyped. When I hear a negative stereotype about black people, I am not upset by the existence of the stereotype but rather at the reason why it exists and the fact that it is partially true. For example, some people stereotype black men as criminals…why? Because many black men are in prison. Now why are many black men in prison? Well because black men are targeted by the police and are 21x more likely to be arrested than a white man for the same crime. No that is what bothers me.

By: D

Sun, 05 Jul 2009 07:43:56 +0000

Wow. I seem to have touched a nerve. I must disagree, Lauren C, real *intelligent* people do not use that word. And, Nadine, to block me is a bit harsh – just because I have a different opinion. Karsha, I couldn’t agree more.

By: Karsha

Karsha — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 19:55:02 +0000

Ladies, is being an angry Black woman a stereotype as well? I love Clutch Magazine too and one of the reasons is that both D, Lauren and Nadine could express their opinions here. I agree with Alex that people create stereotypes.

By: Nadine

Nadine — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:19:07 +0000

Lauren I SO AGREE, it’s a lyric to a song, why water it down. D why don’t u just stop coming to the site. I bet you be hard to find another spot like Clutch.

Clutch, can you block her (D) IP address?

By: Lauren C

Lauren C — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:15:31 +0000

The readers on this site are just too much. Everything this site tries to do – just gets downed. Zettler – that happens to be a quote from my favorite outkast song. I am not that uptight and would laugh if you tried to replace “nigga” with “brotha” – you know what all the readers with a problem with Clutch – just don’t come back to the site! Please just stop coming. This is the most POSITIVE SITE on the fucking web for black women and some of you LOOK for the smallest shit to complain about.

Clutch IS a place for REAL convo – and real people use nigga sometimes – sorry ms. If you have a problem with the lyris call Outkast D. But D – seriously =- don’t come back to this site.

By: Sonya

Sonya — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:12:13 +0000

@D! Whatever ..lol – It’s an Outkast song damn.

By: D

Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:03:54 +0000

Was using the N word really necessary in this article? I expected more at clutchmagonline.com, but I guess this isn’t the place to look for intelligent conversations and articles. There is enough use of the N word in the crappy hip hop of today that I don’t want to be hit over the head with it everywhere I turn. Why not replace that with brotha or Black man?

Challenge yourself Zettler Clay.

By: Miss Andi K

Miss Andi K — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:34:43 +0000

This was a very thought provoking piece. I second what Alex said. I get tired of constantly having to educate ignorant people who make stereotypical statements and try to justify their truthfulness. While there is a sliver of truth in each one, racial stereotypes in my opinion are hurtful and inappropriate.

As a woman of color, it is difficult being a member of an affluent community when you have all of these negative and degrading images of people of color in the media. I think it is up to us to demand change, because otherwise the problem will only continue to grow.

By: alex

alex — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 22:07:45 +0000

I don’t think that the media creates stereotypes, people do. Even if the media created those stereotypes, people are daft to follow them. For the case of Black Americans, I think they enforce many of the stereotypes and justify it by ‘acting black.’ For instance, if I am black and I can’t dance, many black people say I am not truly black, or if I have never eaten collard greens or listen to rock instead of rap/r&b. I think embracing some stereotypes are not bad, but others can be detrimental like all black girls are supposed to have a big butt- this usually leads to sexual objectification/promiscuity and obesity.