And unfortunately, that is an almost exclusive American black thing, that getting an education is "acting white".
I have been to other countries, and know some of the worse neighborhoods in those countries that have a sizable black population, and you know what they say if someone that lives in their neighborhood does well in school? It's "good for him", "I hope she is successful", "He's learning a trade, great", whatever. It isn't he or she is "acting white".
Somehow the European world learned to respect the benefits of being smarter, and started to encourage it.
We need to add a plank to Common Core to encourage kids to report bullying from classmates, and from families, of being ‘too white’ with the idea of removing them from further class participation; perhaps to be directed into a ‘life skills’ collection of bullies in all grades into a single class. And send social workers to address the families with bullies holding their own kids back.
Wonder how much white elites paid black leaders to put that idea in the black community????