Posted on 12/05/2014 12:38:08 PM PST by Citizen Zed
A divergence in African American culture has made it easy for people to categorize "good" and "bad" blacks separately—and that's a huge problem
My parents sent me to an all-white elementary school when I was 4. I speak and think differently than them because of it. This is a small, common tragedy of black life that we don’t talk about: the best way for me to find success in my own country was to be immersed in a culture entirely different from my parents’ and adopt it as my own. But that experience taught me lessons that I now find intuitive–how to find common ground with different people, how to come off as non-threatening to others, how to chalk up racist statements to a misunderstanding. You could probably label me clean and articulate, like my President.
There are a lot of black people like me now who grew up straddling two different racial worlds. Blackish, the only comedy on broadcast TV featuring a prominent African American cast, is centered on this increasingly prevalent concept of black identity. I don’t want to paint my experience as some painful upbringing. I had a big, loving family and, eventually, great friends of all races. But I fear some people are learning the wrong lessons when they meet black people like me–that I am somehow more acceptable or less problematic than other black folks. That Mike Brown, Eric Garner and Trayvon Martin should have behaved exactly like me to avoid being killed.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
A thug by any other name is still a thug.
What if we call a white guy a “thug” because his behavior deserves it.
If the shoe fits...
When you condemn one white man as a racist, you condemn them all. But I guess that’s what this guy intends.
Sorry, again no sale.
Me: Nope.
The author is an idiot.
He does refer to the path to prosperity - adopt the Western Cultural values that this country is founded on.
That adoption is not successful because the society is based on it,
but our society is prosperous because of the adherence to that which works.
If it were true that a culture other than our Western Culture would be successful if it were in the majority,
one just has to look at where it’s been tried, and failed every time.
Get used the suck or the hypocrisy. take your pick. It ain't going away.
So, you should NOT judge a person by the content of their character? I’m confused.
When I call someone - of any race, creed, or color - a “thug”, it’s because they are or act like a thug. Don’t be or act like a thug, and I won’t call you one.
How hard is this to understand?
If anyone ‘condemned’ all black people it was the ferals among them. Not us.
People know THUG when they see it. We don’t need a manual.
Thank you.
Idiot, just because I’m Italian I haven’t lost my culture because I’m not in the mafia.
... but they resist, manipulated by their plantation masters of the liberal left who lock them in government dependency, and define deviancy (character) down ...
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