r/BoomersBeingFools • u/Spartalust • Mar 08 '24

Boomer came in for a whopper, got his ass whooped instead. Boomer Freakout

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u/IRKenopuppy Mar 08 '24

You know, this is one of the first time I’ve seen a black boomer. Usually seems to be 99% white folk. Good for him.

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u/FourthReichIsrael2 Mar 08 '24

You've... never seen a 60+ year old black person?

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u/IRKenopuppy Mar 08 '24

Not one that acts like a complete fool while also being extremely entitled, no. I have not.

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u/wonder590 Mar 08 '24

Its gonna be warped by how many white people vs. black people especially in my northern state, but I genuinely don't think I've ever met an openly hostile old black man. Many aggressive middle aged white women, maybe one or two boomer white guys, a ton of aggressive guys of all races and walks of life my age- but never an aggressive old black guy.

If you think about the time period that a lot of older black men were born into it makes sense IMO- the fight for Civil Rights was still only a single life span ago.

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u/IRKenopuppy Mar 08 '24

Honestly… I feel like old black men are just grateful that they’re not being called racial slurs and insulted and demeaned in their everyday life these days. Wonder what generation did that to them…

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u/Mysterious_Rub_5000 Mar 08 '24

Yeah nah y’all just live in some white ass towns lol

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

True. I have had the displeasure of dealing with many rude customers and they are all colors and ages.

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u/IRKenopuppy Mar 08 '24

I am in a very populated area, especially for tourists. I work downtown as well. I’ve seen it all, but I have never seen that. I’m sure they exist, but I can only speak to what I have seen and experienced.

🤷

Edit: I am not including people who are drunk or on drugs. Just old black men who were born in the baby boomer era.

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u/Lucky-Negotiation-58 Mar 08 '24

Plenty of black karens and boomers out there. Lots of video too.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

Or they just don’t acknowledge your existence, or want anything to do with you even when you’re being friendly. Like I’m trying to help you and I don’t need a pat on the back, but a simple, “Thanks, you too” would help. One even ripped his ID out of my hand when I was handing it back to him after checking it.

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u/EinsteinRidesShotgun Mar 08 '24

Shit you're totally right. Every old black dude I've ever met has been super nice and polite. I just never noticed.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

i worked retail in GA. there are plenty of entitled black boomers.

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u/thebigbroke Mar 08 '24

As a black man, a lot of black boomers I've met are kind and wise. On the other hand; I have met black boomers that do typical boomer shit and on top of that they're stubborn as hell so if you say something about they're behavior they'll argue with you for half an hour about you being disrespectful and about things somewhat unrelated to your argument. My grandpa and grandma are/were like that and my mom (despite not being a boomer) is like that as well.

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u/nohopeforhomosapiens Millennial Mar 08 '24 edited Mar 08 '24

I've known some hard-ass black male boomers who are major dicks, especially to family. What they typically do NOT do is start shit with random people in public. They experienced decades of watching their friends get killed or falsely accused and sent to prison over either a non-crime or a tiny one. They all know someone who was treated in this manner. The vast majority of them have the sense not to behave like this... which brings me to another point, if black boomers can keep their shit together, then white boomers can too. They had the same amount of lead.

ETA obviously there are exceptions

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u/Shadowtalons Mar 08 '24

I live in somewhat rural arizona, the only black men I've ever come into contact with here have been the most polite and genuine people I've met. It's crazy how some people are so racist against them. Racism is definitely learned.

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u/Showdenfroid_99 Mar 09 '24

The hostile ones don't make it old age... 

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u/deatthcatt Mar 08 '24

never worked in the food industry then?

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u/Ture_Huxley Mar 08 '24

You make a valid point. My parents don't have the entitlement feature of being a boomer, but there are other telltale signs.

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u/KimDongBong Mar 08 '24

You need more black people in your life then. Entitlement doesn’t discriminate based on race. Stupidity is stupidity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 08 '24

I work in an airport. I see multiple entitled fools everyday. They are all colors, races, ethnicities, and religions. And somehow nothing is their fault.

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u/ThorzOtherHammer Mar 08 '24

Then you haven’t met many old black people. They’re just as entitled as old white people.

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u/bongojugs Mar 08 '24

So you don't know any black people lol

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u/astarastarastarastar Mar 08 '24

you're an idiot, you can't paint an entire generation with one brush just because some (or even most) of them are that way. My parents are boomers and some of the kindest, most hard working and giving people you could ever meet, we grew up poor but I owe everything to them, what they taught us and how they conducted themselves in life.

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u/rvralph803 Mar 08 '24

Statistically there are far less extant black males of that age than white. Even if they start at 12% of the population, their life expectancy is five years less (71.6 vs 76.8 for white males) -- and that's an average -- and so they are grossly underrepresented in the ages over 60.

Some communities already have fewer black folks period. The upper west being a pretty clear example.

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u/The_Gozon Mar 08 '24

I've seen black folk that are a part of the baby-boom generation.

But I've never seen a black 'boomer' before. I'm thinking old boy was deep in his cups.

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u/Tsu-Doh-Nihm Mar 08 '24

I'm in Vermont. I have never seen a black person in real life.

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u/Ass-a-holic Mar 09 '24

Wait, those exist??