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Originally Posted by ThatOnegirl
i am a black student who plans on going through with Pan Rec next year at UAB, OU(ohio u), JU(jacksonville), JSU(Jacksonville State), SU(stetson), or even Auburn. Still deciding witch school is for me but either way im going through with pan rec. I am also a transfer from an HBCU.
Any thoughts?
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It's not that simple of an error.
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Originally Posted by rhoyaltempest
Yes, but I'm sure you knew what they meant. Although things are changing because diversity is becoming more widely accepted and people now have more friends of different ethnicities and are therefore broadening their horizons, in predominantly Black communities, not a lot of folks do the "outdoorsy" thing and in predominantly white communities, not a lot of folks are doing some of the things that Black folks commonly do in predominantly Black communities. So we all know exactly what is meant by this although I'm not saying it's fair to accuse someone of "acting white" because of it.
Then again, maybe you've never lived in a predominantly Black community? You still should know what they meant though.
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Nope, didn't grow up in a predominantly Black community.
Yes, I understand what they meant
now, when I was 17 not so much, because the things I grew up doing, most of the Black people I knew did as well. It wasn't so weird that my father golfed because most of the men in our family and most of his friends did. We camped with other families. Again--nothing that didn't seem "Black" to me. But, for those people, it was like I had three heads.
I see now, 12 years later, that it was more a reflection on them and a limited scope of what it meant to "be Black." As a high school senior, however, it was a different experience.
Hybrid Mode
