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Originally Posted by jojapeach
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! |
I completely agree with you. It used to bother me when my friends would say "you gettin jus like dem white folks." I used to hate when they would say that and it would make me feel like that I was betraying my blackness somehow. Thank God I quickly got over that and learned that my blackness is NOT defined by how I speak.
Back to the hijack, when was this show? That's just as crazy as the woman who was on the show because she married an asian man because she did not want her children to "look black." How ridiculous
! I hope she got some help too.
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