Yep doing well in school is derided as acting white in ghetto culture.
Unless ghetto cultural attitudes change, black students will continue to drop out and go nowhere in life.
“doing well in school is derided as acting white in ghetto culture.”
Sadly, true. It’s been a long time since I was in high school, but I had a friend back then who went through heck in high school in large part because he was a black kid who got really good grades and was more interested in science than in “keeping it real.” He got called everything, from nerd to oreo to stuff I can’t print here. The girls were the worst. They said stuff that made even me blush.
Said friend is now a engineer in Texas, making a VERY nice living. I often wonder where a lot of the girls who picked on him are doing with *their* lives now. I know at least a couple of them got knocked up by 16 and dropped out.
He who laughs last, I guess...