Ok, I don't exactly know what I'll be trying to talk about here, so don't take everything I say to the extreme. Just as "white America" stereotypes blacks, doesn't anyone find it to be that that is a stereotype of "whites" in America?? Just because whites don't understand everything about black culture, doesn't mean they're rascist or anything. Obviously if someone isn't black, they won't understand everything fully. Just as if you aren't white, how can blacks understand everything fully about being "white"? You can't help where you grow up. If someone lives in the "bad" side of town, and gets on RW and talks about their life and stuff they're "keepin' it real", but if a white person who grew up in the spiffy part of town or the suburbs comes on the show and talk about his/her way of life, they are then labeled as the "typical" sheltered, wealthy, dockers type. Maybe someone could enlighten me more on this issue, maybe I'm just ignorant as Coral would put it.
I think Coral is a major b*tch. She's picking on Mike in a manipulative sort of way. How does she know what Mike should know? She didn't grow up where he did. Now, I'm gonna be honest. I don't know much about black history or what not, but considering how much I've been taught about our "white" history, I don't know much about that either. I know when black history month is, and I know who Rosa Parks is. But, I don't know who the guy is that she told him to write a report on. I wasn't taught any black history in school!! Does that mean I wouldn't be willing to learn about it????? NO, it does not. She needs to either drop it(b/c he's apologized), or teach him. If she's not willing to teach him, she needs to quit critisizing(sp) him. I honestly think I could write a 8 pg. essay on this mess, but I think I'll quit for now. Feel free to enlighten me if I'm way off base. Or just express your opinions of my post.
