Posted on 07/15/2021 6:24:58 PM PDT by tbw2
The notion of “acting black” attempts to redefine black reality as being the black prejudgment. We are consistently told that race is a social construct yet simultaneously told to act in a manner that upholds this manufactured social system.
Blacks are told to behave in a manner that appeases others as if blacks are agentless slaves. Even worse, blacks hold each other to this same inadequate standard of thinking.
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The dangerous social pressure around “acting black”
https://www.scoontv.com/the-dangerous-social-pressure-around-acting-black/
acting White doesn’t fare well in the black community either...
I know many wonderful folks of African ancestry who are charming, accomplished, ethical, and exemplary people.
And most of them will freely denounce ghetto behavior.
It is not a “black thing”.
Most of the blacks I know act the same. But then, most of the blacks I know are fellow Christians from church who do things like marry and raise kids in Christian homes.
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