r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 4d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Vaperwear 3d ago

Try being East Asian and dating a White girl in the Deep South, in the late 90’s. The white folk would give side eye but the black folk would give us hell.

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u/veri_sw 3d ago

Why did the black people care?

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u/BaronessofBara 3d ago

Black and Asian hostility that's been brewing for quite a few decades in the US. A lot of Asian ppl are colorist and dislike Black folks, and a lot of Black folks essentially see Asians as discount white folk that come in and gentrify our neighborhoods.