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Michelle Obama if she said this is indeed very wrong. The polling on this is very clear and concrete.
Black Americans do not think getting an education is acting white. Black children do not think getting an education is acting white. There is no black culture that says getting an education is acting white. There are no black churches, black political organizations, black elected officials, black business people, etc who will say that getting an education is acting white.
It is a fiction and a fantasy, and sadly many black Americans are blind to this racial sickness. This idea that black people are broken are messed up is deeply ingrained in American society.
Race is not real, there is not black culture in America, we are Americans. I have had discussions with people and I have attempted to get them to explain what they mean by black culture and mostly they mention rap music, or R&B or Jazz, which are American forms of music, playing sports which is American culture, wanting to be a singer, which is American culture. Soul food, which is Southern American culture etc and on and on.
So yes M. Obama is saying something dumb and incorrect about black Americans.
So when she said "reject the slander that a black child with a book is trying to act white" she was saying something dump and incorrect about black Americans?
But she is wrong. The vast majority of Black Americans don't aspire to be rappers or athletes. This is a lie. This idea that black children aren't doing well in school because they all want to be rappers or basketball players is a lie.
That's pretty much it. They can only call their own and not be called out.
what I want to know is why non blacks need to call us out. don't white people have any problems? it becomes condescending when white folks come pointing fingers, talking about things they really don't understand, and assuming there aren't blacks who don't fit stereotypes and have already said the same things. and of course it's offensive because it's labeled as a black problem when it is a SES, lack of education, lack of resources problem
Michelle Obama if she said this is indeed very wrong. The polling on this is very clear and concrete.
Black Americans do not think getting an education is acting white. Black children do not think getting an education is acting white. There is no black culture that says getting an education is acting white. There are no black churches, black political organizations, black elected officials, black business people, etc who will say that getting an education is acting white.
It is a fiction and a fantasy, and sadly many black Americans are blind to this racial sickness. This idea that black people are broken are messed up is deeply ingrained in American society.
Race is not real, there is not black culture in America, we are Americans. I have had discussions with people and I have attempted to get them to explain what they mean by black culture and mostly they mention rap music, or R&B or Jazz, which are American forms of music, playing sports which is American culture, wanting to be a singer, which is American culture. Soul food, which is Southern American culture etc and on and on.
So yes M. Obama is saying something dumb and incorrect about black Americans.
No one I know personally took issue with anything Bill Cosby has said and the OP has been told numerous times that there is a difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism. Obama and Cosby are on the constuctive side. The OP and resident City Data haters are on the destructive side.
your tendencies are not helpful, likely hateful thats why
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