For instance...
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 ...
to blacks: when you condemn all whites as inherent racists, you HAVE condemned us all.
to blacks: when you care as much about a black on black murder as you do about a whjteofficer shooting an actual black criminmal, then we may start to believe your sincerity.
“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.”
Ah - HA, Victor! You assimilated! What a novel idea and unique concept! It is the exact same thing that my grandparents from Germany had to do! Imagine that!
they want to make it illegal / hate crime to call a black criminal a black criminal.
No thug, all though he did get in one little fight, with a couple of guys who were up to no good, who started causin’ trouble in his neighborhood.
For instance...
The culture this race has built has created the Thug Stigma.
There is no need to sympathize with a creed that perpetuates the black race as rapist, killers, and drug addicts, and welfare families that is glamorized in their very music, art (if you can call graffiti art), dress, and over all activities.
I for one have no need of any person of this race and would actually have no compassion for anyone of this race in a time of need. I would feel the same for any race of people excels in crime and theft! There are more in the Country to expound on but this is already a long rant!
“Hey Vic. I’m sure it sucks to be called an Uncle Tom or an Oreo just because you know how to read cursive. But at least you’re educated.
And alive.”
Yeah, let’s not kid ourselves, the author, and the decently-behaved black folks like him, are just as leery as the thugs as the rest of us, no matter what they say. They move away from them at the soonest opportunity and never look back. If their daughter brought one home, they would throw a fit.
I like the gun in the pull downed pants .... not that I am judging or anythng ....
How long will keep this category? 100 generations removed from African ancestry? When will they become Americans? Are we to remain a collection of hyphenated groups with different cultures, languages, objectives, and interests?
Oh, you mean the rap music industry ?
Maybe we’ll get lucky ... maybe he’ll have a negligent discharge with the gun stuck there ...
Only if you believe that all black people are thugs.
And if you do, who’s the racist?
I am very skeptical about a general reference of United States citizens as only Americans. We, the US, are being inundated with ‘Americans’ from outside the borders of the United States.
If I move to France, I will be expected to immerse myself in that culture and adopt it as my own.
If I move to Germany, I will be expected to immerse myself in that culture and adopt it as my own.
If I move to Japan, I will be expected to immerse myself in that culture and adopt it as my own.
...and they won't give me and my family 4-5 generations to do it in.
And another thing ... aren’t “thug” and “gangsta” terms of admiration in black culture?
If the shoe fits, wear it.
I wuz good wif de chickin fry stake, gravy an okra.
Except for Japan.
They won’t let you (or anybody else) move there.
Smart folks.
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