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I think people are misreading what I'm saying about "White Black" people. (That is my fault, I should not have used the word act in my second post) I can understand why. I study anthropology in school and a lot of what I learn is basically about valuing all cultures and finding the order and "logic" of some aspects of peoples lives that can be seen as deinquent or disfunctional. In American society White people and the way they live has become the norm. So when White people deem the two parent family as the norm, that's how everyone should be and you're damned if you're not from a two parent household. I have a huge problem with that. I become irrate when the single parent household becomes pathological and disfunctional, which is how it is seen by the dominant group. There is nothing wrong with being from a two parent household. But when this becomes the standard (which it is), and anything else is disfunctional then I have a problem. I guess "White Black" people would come in when other Black people side with the structure and condemn the single parent family as well. I use the single parent family as an example. There are plenty of other aspects that go along with the middle class existence.
I think it's good to be critical of many of the aspects i our society. Nothing is really wrong or right. I'm not trying to say everyone should dance with a plate of food in their hand in the kitchen, I myself find the value in it (I don't dance with a plat of food eithr). I'm sorry if the term White Black people offended people, but I'm glad it stirred a little controvercy and people were critical of it. I should probably stick to my academic circles at school when using it though.
I think that the Black middle class also have a responseability to the Black "lower class, working class" (I don't know what's PC). Again, that does not involve condemning them for their "pathological" life style, but rather aiding them through programs, monetary donations, etc. They're our people too.
One last thing. I don't like the term "Black way of living" or "ghetto" and any of those other terms that seem to define and quantify the way one segment of the population live. However, there are general traits that can be found in the Black middle class, upper class, and lower class. So there is no Black way of life but you have to look at class and region when assessing such things. Like Salience, I don't like the "keepin it real" idea either. That implies one way to "be Black" and there is no one way.
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