Posted on 01/03/2016 1:07:31 PM PST by EveningStar
I read his book, too. His father had him doing SAT prep and playing chess from the time he was a toddler, practically, and eventually he was (so to speak) just too smart to act stupid.
That's exactly the problem. While racism does exist, black folks have been programmed by the media, and everyone around them, really, to view just about any slight as being racism, when it's just a fact that some people are rude, or situations happen for any number of reasons. However, if your only lens is 'racism', then that's what you see.
Won’t argue with you there!
They have a mob mentality and beyond reason.
He is an interesting person. When my nieces were growing up, my sister and her husband lived in a predominantly middle-class black neighborhood.
People were gainfully employed. Their neighbors were community and family oriented. Their father was a successful small business person and their mother, my sister worked for a non-profit. Both stressed education and hard work as well as responsible behavior. They also enjoyed camping and hiking as well as horseback riding.
Your statement that the author had a slightly easier time with hardcore racism from whites is not clear to me. Kind of dense here. I think a big part is being in an environment that does not promote a victim mentality and does promote personal responsibility.
And I do not see where race has much to do with it.
I guess I’m just speaking in general to some degree. It might be better said (by me) that the writer’s light skinned appearance inoculated him somewhat.
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