THERE'S NOBODY LIKE MY PEOPLES!
With black people, everything starts late! Everything ends late. Time is just a thang!
Black people's philosophy about time is, "We may not be on time, but we are in time, and we don't want to miss anything."
Black people arrive late for weddings, funerals, and Sunday church
services! And then act like we are on time!
Black people will go to social functions, particularly at church, and not stay for the program, but want to wrap up some food to take home as if the
event is fast food "take out."
When some black preachers can't think of what else to say during a sermon, they'll say, "Look at your neighbor and say, 'God loves you!"
Every black family has a preacher...
When a lead choir member can't reach a high note or has forgotten the words, the choir members will get filled with "a holy ghost," get happy,
shout and not have to finish the song.
A black gospel choir can sing a three word song for twenty minutes.
In the black church, the announcements are longer than the sermon.
Black people cry and pass out at the funeral, but are fine and laughin' at the dinner following the interment.
The black church takes twenty minutes to take up an offering at an
afternoon program and only raise $76.34! (don't forget they take an hour to count it again after church).
Black people will ask grandparents to watch their kids while they run an errand, but don't pick them up until two days later.
Black people eat "fried" bologna.
Black people refer to diabetes as "Sugar."
Don't ask black people for the precise time. They respond, "Almost a quarter after...." or a "little after two."
Black people will eat ferociously at the family dinner, and then have the nerve to start wrappin' stuff up in foil to take home.
And don't Black cashiers always seem to have an attitude?
Black people sell CDs, potato chips, nabs and sodas out the trunk of their cars after church and at the football game.
Black people have at least one person in the family who still wears a Jheri curl.
Black people stay engaged for six years and never get married.
Black people will have the telephone company shut off their house phone, but still have a cell phone on.
And don't we put hot sauce and ketchup on everythang?!
Black people have at least one family member that "almost" made it to the pros. (Yup!)
Black people will owe you and everybody else in the neighborhood money, but can buy a new car.
Black people re-use ZipLoc baggies, paper plates, plastic forks, spoons, and knives.
(Remember? 'Ya'll 'bet not throw out 'dem fawks and knifes cuz I's gon use 'dem a'gin!')
Black people put thin left over bars of soap in jars or plastic containers, run scalding hot water over them to melt them down to use as dishwashing
liquid or home made bubble bath.
Black people won't throw anything away! The rationale is that you never know when you might need it!
IN SPITE OF ALL OF OUR PECULIAR WAYS, I STILL LOVE MY PEEPS! DON'T YOU?? lol
YOU'D BETTER CUZ YOU IS ONE!
Go on and smile...It is not that serious!
"Those who read are those who lead,
Those who don't, are totally deceived.
"How will you grow, if you don't know?"
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Thursday, December 15th 2005 at 9:08PM
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