Sadly, its children who are affected most when they hear this kind of crap since they generally are much more impressionable than adults, forming them into adults who grew up with crappy principles.
And if ONLY kids are doing it as you claim, then where did they learn to do it from?
an Asian man congratulating an Italian man on his post regarding the opinion of a Black man on Black culture..hilarious..
I always find it funny when a Black celeb criticizes Black people, there's always a lineup of non-Blacks to suck his
Or maybe it's just nice to not see an entire race get blamed for everything that goes wrong for another race, or for an entire race to be labeled as "racist" which is about as racist as it gets. I am not racist, but because of the color of my skin, I am labeled as racist. Great line of reasoning bro
I always find it funny when a Black celeb criticizes Black people, there's always a lineup of non-Blacks to suck his
I always find it funny when anybody criticizes Black people, there's always a lineup of semen shields deflecting everything. A non-black "doesn't know the feels" and a black guy is a self hating coon, etc etc. immune from criticismI always find it funny when a Black celeb criticizes Black people, there's always a lineup of non-Blacks to suck his
Trill was referring to Obama in that regard in defense of the silly argument that "Black people have it good because there's a Black president"..it's one of the most illogical arguments presented in the race war..Obama has White in his gene pool as well, there's no problem in referring to him as White, it's just as accurate as labeling him Black..
Obama's race is irrelevant..he's a typical politician, say whatever you need to say to get hired, but don't fulfill your promises once you're in office..he offered hope because he made different promises and promoted himself in a different way than the prototypical presidential candidate, but like everything else promised to Black people, it was false hope..
Who said you're a racist?Or maybe it's just nice to not see an entire race get blamed for everything that goes wrong for another race, or for an entire race to be labeled as "racist" which is about as racist as it gets. I am not racist, but because of the color of my skin, I am labeled as racist. Great line of reasoning bro
No. It means there is no limit to what they can achieve. And his skin color isn't white.
Most celebrities, especially athletes, have not done the research and don't possess the education to speak on these matters..
Charles Barkley can barely speak English, tbh..he's one of the stupidest men on the planet..if he didn't win the genetic lottery, he would have suffered from the same disadvantages that most young Blacks face, especially in the part of America where he was born(huge poverty rate, high percentage of high school dropouts, poor schooling system)..
Just because he won the genetic lottery, it doesn't give him permission to run his mouth on a topic he can't even relate to..he has been a White man's long-term stock investment for virtually his entire life, he doesn't know anything about being an average Black person in America..
Obama was raised by White people, tbh..White people with money, too..
We're discussing the problems of the average Black person in this thread..not genetic lottery winners that get rich in the NBA, or half-breeds that were raised by upper class White people..
It's very easy for celebrities and rich Black people to criticize the average person..I would never disagree that in America, money > everything, even including race..
From what I have read about Barkley's past he can say whatever the he wants because he lived that life and bettered his situation on his own. Just because he has athleticism doesn't mean otherwise he'd be another statistic after the game. Sounds like a salty ass Trill is the only one bashing another mans success in here and is the only coon I see.
What is his skin tone?
He's tan..so is Hulk Hogan, tbh..
So you agree he is colored, which means he is a Negro? K thanks. And Hulk Hogan spent his life in a tanning bed.
Trill and Harlem weren't exactly raised in the hood doggie. They ain't ever been about dat life IMO so they aren't qualified either then...
basically
here is a journal quote that focuses on the "acting white" phenomenon. its a long read and i doubt anyone is interested but the lank is at the bottom.
... this article shows that black adolescents are generally achievement oriented and that racialized peer pressure against high academic achievement is not prevalent in all schools. The analysis also shows important similarities in the experiences of black and white high-achieving students, indicating that dilemmas of high achievement are generalizable beyond a specific group. Typically, highachieving students, regardless of race, are to some degree stigmatized as “nerds” or “geeks.” The data suggest that school structures, rather than culture, may help explain when this stigma becomes racialized, producing a burden of acting white for black adolescents, and when it becomes class-based, producing a burden of “acting high and mighty” for low-income whites. Recognizing the similarities in these processes can help us refocus and refine understandings of the black-white achievement gap.
http://cds.web.unc.edu/files/2012/12/Tyson_2005.pdf
'Acting White' Myth, The
By PAUL TOUGH
Published: December 12, 2004
hen Bill Cosby spoke out publicly in May against dysfunction and irresponsibility in black families, he identified one pervasive symptom: ''boys attacking other boys because the boys are studying and they say, 'You're acting white.''' This idea isn't new; it was first proposed formally in the mid-80's by John Ogbu, a Nigerian professor of anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley, and it has since become almost a truism: when smart black kids try hard and do well, they are picked on by their less successful peers for ''acting white.''
The only problem with this theory, according to a research paper released in October, is that for the most part, it isn't true. Karolyn Tyson, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and William Darity Jr., an economist at Duke and U.N.C., coordinated an 18-month ethnographic study at 11 schools in North Carolina. What they found was that black students basically have the same at udes about achievement as their white counterparts do: they want to succeed, understand that doing well in school has important consequences in later life and feel better about themselves the better they do.
So where does the idea of the burden of ''acting white'' come from? One explanation the authors offer will make sense to anyone who has ever seen a John Hughes movie: there's an ''oppositional peer culture'' in every high school -- the stoners and the jocks making fun of the nerds and the student-government types. When white burnouts give wedgies to white A students, the authors argue, it is seen as inevitable, but when the same dynamic is observed among black students, it is pathologized as a racial neurosis.
More insidiously, the authors say, the idea that failing black kids pull down successful black kids can be used as an excuse by administrators to conceal or justify discrimination in the public-education system. The one school where the researchers did find anxiety about ''acting white'' was the one in which black students were drastically underrepresented in the gifted-and-talented classes. And significantly, at this particular school, the notion of the burden of ''acting white'' was most pervasive not among the black students interviewed by the researchers, but among their teachers and administrators, who told researchers that blacks are ''averse to success'' and ''don't place a high value on education.
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I guess those who don't try can just use the race card for being stupid.
He is completely right.
Well, in my school, hanging out with too many whites would have brown people (because I don't see race, I see humans of color) get angered and called you a sell out. They've been told all their lives and their history that they've been abused by beige colored people so it leads to that logic.
My cir stance was different, though, as my father is an immigrant that had some money when he came to America, so he was able to get a head start and eventually move us into a better neighborhood, albeit still lower middle-class..I have many, many friends that I grew up with that are in prison or dead because of their cir stances and the endless "cycle", tbh..
I've personally seen the difference between White schools and Black schools, and it's dramatic, from a resources standpoint, for example..
I don't understand how an intelligent person like yourself, one of the great posters in ST history, can say that Barkley has the credentials to speak about this issue and receive so much praise from White people..
'Acting White' Myth, The
By PAUL TOUGH
Published: December 12, 2004
The only problem with this theory, according to a research paper released in October, is that for the most part, it isn't true. Karolyn Tyson, a sociologist at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and William Darity Jr., an economist at Duke and U.N.C., coordinated an 18-month ethnographic study at 11 schools in North Carolina. What they found was that black students basically have the same at udes about achievement as their white counterparts do: they want to succeed, understand that doing well in school has important consequences in later life and feel better about themselves the better they do.
So where does the idea of the burden of ''acting white'' come from? One explanation the authors offer will make sense to anyone who has ever seen a John Hughes movie: there's an ''oppositional peer culture'' in every high school -- the stoners and the jocks making fun of the nerds and the student-government types. When white burnouts give wedgies to white A students, the authors argue, it is seen as inevitable, but when the same dynamic is observed among black students, it is pathologized as a racial neurosis.
More insidiously, the authors say, the idea that failing black kids pull down successful black kids can be used as an excuse by administrators to conceal or justify discrimination in the public-education system. The one school where the researchers did find anxiety about ''acting white'' was the one in which black students were drastically underrepresented in the gifted-and-talented classes. And significantly, at this particular school, the notion of the burden of ''acting white'' was most pervasive not among the black students interviewed by the researchers, but among their teachers and administrators, who told researchers that blacks are ''averse to success'' and ''don't place a high value on education.
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