This is exactly what piss me off. When will some black people learn that there are more than one image of black people?
On a personal note, when I was in sixth grade, I was teased in Girl Scouts for "talking too proper" and the troop members were all black. I went to a county school (90% white) that have high achievements while the rest of the members went to city schools that have poor acheviements. Some of my family members said that I talk like I'm from the north, although I have lived in the south all my life. I like the way I talk.
Here's some things that I have done that considers me to be "white":
-Went to a mostly white county school
-Talk Properly
-Made Honor Roll
-Made it into the Honors Program at University of Memphis
-Play softball
Now would I change my race to white? No way.
Am I Republican? Hell no.
I think that black people who tease smart black students are jealous. Jealously never gets anybody anywhere in life. If black people wants to do something that blacks normally don't do, then they should do it. Stand out!
Take a black girl joining a NPC sorority, for example. She joined because she felt what's comfortable for her and HER ONLY, not for anyone else. I don't want this to go haywire about what I said, but it's the truth.
Bottom line, there's no such thing as acting black. It about being YOU and doing things that YOU AND YOU ONLY that you want to do, regardless of your skin color.
Last edited by Rollergirl2001; 11-04-2005 at 01:26 AM.
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