Many blacks consider it giving up to adopt the white man's culture. Getting a good education, working hard to raise a nice family with a nice house, car and pension is considered selling out. That why they consider blacks that do that to be "uncle toms".
Blacks jive up their language to differentiate themselves from the white culture. They have been told they don't have a chance to win if they buy into it. Oh sure, a few exceptions will make it, but most will remain at the bottom.
That is why they don't want to join us. They are thinking that maybe now that they have Obama they can somehow overcome us.
Well I can tell you that most of the ones they call Uncle Toms are infested with the same disease of hate.
I mention Colon Powell and rest my case.
I mention Allan West and Justice Clarence Thomas as exceptions to the rule.
DAMN!You should post that every day...
Let people catch up!
“Blacks jive up their language to differentiate themselves from the white culture.”
No, that is just poor English; the attempt years ago to have “ebonics” recognized as a dialect was an admission that English was beyond the comprehension of people who were illiterate anyway. When you receive an email from someone that speaks “jive”, you realize this isn’t about speaking - they can’t read, write or spell.
The children of successful black professional parents are reverting to rejection of "the white man's culture." The parents fought their way to success only to have their children reject it.
Ogbu did research in Shaker Heights, Ohio, in the late 90s into why children of these parents were failing school.
One of the reasons, according to researcher John Ogbu, is that successful parents do not teach their children how to be successful. They assumed that since they figured it out, so would their kids. No, you have to pass on the culture of success to your kids.
Ogbu, a Nigerian immigrant, was ripped by blacks as a "Clarence Thomas." Successful blacks from Africa are just too "white" to be able to judge American blacks. In my experience, I've found that African blacks despise the American black culture.