“When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem.”
I does not change. My daughter’s best friend is black. She’s also a medical student on her last semester before becoming an MD. Her family calls her “white girl”.
“When I was growing up in Florida (in a town that was maybe 40% black) I saw that if a black kid did well in school, the other black kids would attack them for “sucking up to whitey”. To me this seems to be the root of the self perpetuating problem.”
It does not change. My daughter’s best friend is black. She’s also a medical student on her last semester before becoming an MD. Her family calls her “white girl”.
When I was in the Army my promotion from e4 to e5 was delayed a couple of months because the Army came up with some mandate that they had to promote blacks. The CO of our company (who was also black) would pick the worst ones because he know he would have to bust them for something in the next month. He came up through the ranks when blacks had to really be better than everyone else to make rank.