Dear Buzzfeed,

There has been some uproar about your video "27 Questions Black People Have For Black People." When the video was released and Buzzfeed realized how royally screwed they were, they publically apologized, but it can't just be easily forgotten. These 27 questions crossed so many lines I fail to understand why more people are not upset about this. So many stereotypes were spoken about in this video I had to double check and make sure it wasn't a joke. It is true that Buzzfeed has done many "Questions [Race] Has For [Race]," but this video had gone above and beyond with how offensive it became. My question to Buzzfeed is: what reaction were you really expecting from this video?

These questions were dripping in racist stereotypes for black people conceived by non-black people. Some questions were "why is growing up without a father so common in our race?" "why does watermelon have to be our thing?" and "why do black people look at your shoes before they greet you?" Did you expect the answers to be laughs and a happy sit-down discussion because it was a fellow black person asking the questions? It is quite clear the person who made these questions is very uneducated about the black community as a whole if they really believed these would be legitimate questions to ask without upsetting some one.

So if Buzzfeed expected the entire black community to come together and respond to these racist stereotypical questions I have your answer right here. Yes, there are people who will fit the stereotypes—there are black people who like fried chicken, watermelon and Kool-Aid and grew up without a father. There are black people who will embrace the newest dance trend before they have a political argument and there are black people who will look at your shoes before greeting you, but there are people of other races who do the same. There is no checklist for being black no one is going to welcome you into the black community with open arms just because your "dab" is "on fleek". If you're affluent and black you still know what it's like to be black because being affluent doesn't change the color of your skin it might just change the kinds of adversities you face as a black person. You cannot use the one person who fits the black stereotypes as the ideal black person, it only causes terrible assumptions to be made. As a matter of fact, it would be smart to leave race out of questions if you're just going to refer to the stereotypes of the race.

This video was a tragic experience, and there are people somewhere who honestly believe all black people behave this way. With such a large social media presence, Buzzfeed only got away with this because black people asked these questions. Regardless, it was wrong and as an actual black person who goes against every stereotype they questioned about, I'm ashamed and don't think an apology on Twitter makes it all better.

Sincerely,

The stereotypical angry black woman