Posted on 07/21/2013 7:03:16 AM PDT by T-Bird45
I took a philosophy class once, only once. The instructor got to talking about religion and referred to Jesus Christ as some sort of normal human prophet. I dropped the class.
There are either two options if you discuss this in philosophy. The man claiming to be the Son of God was either a fullblown nutcase or he actually was/is the Son of God. There is no in between, no middle ground. What that had to teach me was useless.
Maybe they should try American culture on for size and drop their separatist attitudes.
any college student from a family without college grads goes through the same thing. There are many similar stories from Appalachia, people that go back and never mention that they are just back from China or India, so these poor boo hoo black people that are realizing their culture is keeping them down better figure out how to deal. Many people speak one language at home and a different language at work, it is not that uncommon
You do .. all the "producers" do. Our tax dollars fund the loan subsidies and grants that Fedzilla doles out to those it deems worthy. Folks like George Lee in the article ... who is setting himself up for a future of asking would you like fries with that by being a "African Studies major" on our dime.
Next question ..
What, they feel themselves "turning white" by simply getting an education and participating in the economy?
Geeeeeez...
The problem is a black culture which disdains education. So when black people get educated, the blacks no longer fully accept them, and neither do the whites in a meaningful way.
Makes for a lonely life.
In fact, this principle is true for poor people of any race.
yep, that happened with me, and I am a better person and my family is better off because of it. It doesn’t mean I don’t love farming and country life. Hopefully, it does mean that I won’t ever have my picture show up in “the people of Wal*Mart” or a Honey boo boo type reality show.
Likewise, white college students at predominantly Black campuses probably feel internal cultural tension too.
How is this news? This article might as well have been written in 1965.
People have different heights, weights, hair colors, eye colors, voices, nose sizes, etc. Get over it !
Drop their separatist attitudes and pull up their pants.
Unfortunately, that view turns a lot of the educated blacks into angry, bitter and more racist/bigoted people. Fortunately, there are some that stand up for what is right. People like Allen West.
Well said. OU did not become "integrated" until 1948 with the admission of a black woman to the law school. It was still some years before a black undergrad would be admitted. Oklahoma still has a HBCU, Langston University.
No ebonics,no standing around with the bros sounding like somebody auctioning off a MF’er,must be tough....
Where is that tiny violin?
Don't bother (with starting...not the pancakes)
I'll summarize it in 2 words.... 'he felt'.
People with this worldview suffer from their own, low self-esteem, and trying to make everyone else responsible because they 'feel' a certain way is just how they deflect the blame.
There are a lot of old jokes about people worrying what others think of the way they are dressed when in fact hardly anyone is concerned with what others look like - they are all actually concentrating on their own appearance.
Advice to blacks -
Most whites today don’t care what color you are - race is way down on their list of what is important. Blacks are more race conscious than whites.
Serious people, white or black, concentrate on their own studies and getting the most they can from their own college years.
Just forget about race, concentrate on your studies and advancing your own life and you won’t end up a whining racist crybaby or a racist witch who blames all of their failures on whites - like Barack and Michelle Obama.
Lee, an African American Studies major at OU, said he notices that difference when he returns to Texas and talks to family and neighbors in the neighborhood where he grew up. Family and friends treat him with greater privilege, he said. He's also more aware of the poverty and drug use in the neighborhood than he was while he was growing up, he said.
And this is negative? Sounds like exactly what Rev. MLK was striving to achieve. Black students who step away from the racial stereotypes and are successful in their studies and careers are threats to the liberal status quo that maintains that blacks are unable to be successful because of racism.
I experienced the same sort of conflict when I went to college, where my fellow students made regular use of profanity, smoked marijuana, drank booze, listened to contemporary rock music and protested the Vietnam War.
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