I'm sorry, you lost me on this one.

Being articulate makes you no less "Black", does it?

-Rudey

Please correct me if I'm wrong, but mulattogyrl, I believe that Rudey is confusing some posters' dislike of the condescending label "articulate" with a general dislike of black people being articulate.

The problem is with a historically loaded label, not with black people speaking academic English.

Being one of the seven who posted (and not with anything of substance, mind you), I viewed this thread as somewhat inappropriate dialogue as the many viewers probably did as well. I have no history to offer any other input and others probably felt the same way and moved on...

DC

^^Thanks for clearing that up IvySpice. I knew I wasn't getting it, lol.

Thanks for saying this, Rudey. (Not to even mention Hasidic Judaism in this country, adherents to which are CLEARLY recognized as Jews.)

IvySpice, which poster called another "Articulate"?

How was it used condescendingly?

-Rudey

I repeat: You are kinda like the weird girl who intrudes a conversation and says something stupid, causing an uncomfortable silence/grimace among the group.

Alum called HUkingPIKE articulate. The problem was that if a white person had said the same the HUkingPIKE said, he wouldn't have been called articulate. I'm sure alum didn't mean it in a condescending manner, but some of us take offense to it.

Just because they aren't my best friends, doesn't make them not my friends. Most of them I met in the music dept. at school. I was studying opera, not many black opera singers (notice I said many not any), just like there aren't many white rappers.

Bubba Sparks is the bomb.

Why do you assume that I'm white? Because I went to a PWI instead of an HBCU? Because I joined an NPC GLO at my school instead of an NPHC GLO? Maybe it's because I am articulate.

Don't make snap judgements on someone and guess their ethnic background.

I didn't say you were white.

As it should be! I believe it was mulattogyrl who had the signature quoted by Shirley Chisolm (and others) which said, "Service to others is the rent you pay for the space you occupy on earth." Treating each other with respect is a main pillar of that service to others, IMHO.

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Originally posted by mulattogyrl
Alum called HUkingPIKE articulate. The problem was that if a white person had said the same the HUkingPIKE said, he wouldn't have been called articulate. I'm sure alum didn't mean it in a condescending manner, but some of us take offense to it.
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So only members of "us" can call one of our own articulate? I think you made some broad-based assumptions because I thought that HUkingPIKE had a strong opinion and voiced it clearly and concisely.