"acting too white"

[annice22]

Originally posted by Phasad1913


I've said this before on this message board: What you have have in America are two totally different cultures and basically, two different counties functioning simultaneously. Often, the two never even really coincide. It's a result of centuries of abuse and mistreatment from the majority against the minority. That's the truth. The result is, and it was always inevitable, that the minority harbors a lot of resentment, especially when the lasting effects are felt everyday. So, when you hear young people acting out though their musical expressions, speech patterns, and what many whites have expressed to me at times, just plain old meaness toward them, that's a manifestation of the deep-rooted anger that many of us feel. It's just the way it is. I think that a lot of whites simply do not understand this and frankly do not have to try because, as it has always been here in America, they are in the majority, so their ways of life, their ways of looking at things, are always going to permeate throughout the society so those who are not in the majority who do not care to adopt those ways and are tired of being made to feel different throught the lack of attention and awareness based on who THEY are are naturally going to "rebell" in various ways and go against the grain.

I think you are correct in everything in your orignal post and my quote above.