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Originally Posted by NinjaPoodle
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Soror, I couldn't agree more.
If I had a dollar for every time some person told me that I sound articulate, sound white, etc..I'd be living in Baldwin Hills (the "black" Beverly Hills)with a butler, 2 maids, and a EASY button.
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LMAO @ the EASY button
It's one thing to speak in standard English and be "articulate". *still
* It's an entirely different thing when you don't recognize our rich Black culture of the past and the present. It does bother me when there's young Black people that don't recognize that you can make all the money in the world, but you can and will still be stereotyped or pulled over "randomly" just for being black.
These are realities for some Black people. Nonetheless, having great grammar and diction is not synonymous with forgetting or not recognizing the struggle of being Black. Just like being a living stereotype does not make you the epitome of Blackness.
HIJACK!
This makes me think of that poor Black man on "Tyra" who was living out his greatest fantasy of being made up as a white man. He might be one of the exceptions on my theory because he just doesn't want to be Black. I hope he got therapy for that.)
/HIJACK!
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