[Mad Dawgg]

"But mainly because in their “culture”, reading is a “white thing”, and isn’t considered “keepin’ it real.”

Oh, please tell me you are kidding because if not that is about the saddest thing I've ever heard. I cannot begin to understand anyone with such a mindset. Please tell me that this is not a popular frame of mind of inner city culture.

[PapaBear3625]

Please tell me that this is not a popular frame of mind of inner city culture.

OK, we won't tell you. But from everything I've been reading, "acting white" academically will not make you popular in the inner city.

[a fool in paradise]

>>"But mainly because in their “culture”, reading is a “white thing”, and isn’t considered “keepin’ it real.”

Oh, please tell me you are kidding because if not that is about the saddest thing I've ever heard. I cannot begin to understand anyone with such a mindset. Please tell me that this is not a popular frame of mind of inner city culture.

I'd say it's more of a classist thing than a skin color thing. White people in America and England do it too. It's like the bucket of crabs pulling each back in to their doom when one tries to escape.

The slacker mentality doesn't like to see neighborhood/classmate chums succeed and leave the old crew behind. So they intimidate, insult, taunt, bull, and shame those who try to better themselves.