Quote (Thor123422 @ May 21 2020 09:27pm)
The real reason people get testy when you say that kind of thing is because it ignores a couple things. One being that weird and violent rituals and religious traditions have been common in any group of people at different times. Two being that "the black dudes" aren't one group of people at one level of development, Africa is an entire continent after all. Three being that when you ignore those things you get dangerously close to the arguments that racists used to use to support their racism, even if that isn't your intention. There's more, and I can't speak to what everybody feels, but you should see pretty clearly why the kind of statement you made isn't only factually incorrect, it shows willful ignorance.
The comment was not racist it's meant to point out the blacks have their quirky stories just like the whites.
Note that we are speaking about "the whites" so we can just as well speak about "the blacks". We are not treating any group different than the other in that regard.
As far as I know the Tarzan story was never meant to be racist either, I remember Tarzan getting along with the black villagers perfectly well. It's just some kind of early super hero told from a white perspective.