Posted on 05/20/2013 3:26:50 AM PDT by Biggirl
During a commencement address at Bowie State University on Friday, first lady Michelle Obama urged the graduates of the historically black university to "please stand up and reject the slander that says a black child with a book is trying to act white," instructing them to "be an example of excellence for the next generation."
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The problem is that too many have bought in to the notion that hip-hop thugs are the "true" blacks. The entertainment industry contributes to this.
What's needed is for educated, intelligent blacks to call out the idiots as being idiots.
He has a long haunt list.
“What’s needed is for educated, intelligent blacks to call out the idiots as being idiots.”
They do, albeit with accented English. West Africans and those from the West Indies have no patience for them at all.
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