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I grew up in a largely black community and the few black males that wanted to study and get ahead were bullied by the pack of low lifes. I do respect those blacks that 'become white' by studying and taking advantage of life's opportunities but they will take some heat if they are in a poor black community. Uncle Tom's will pay for a price for choosing not to be racist. A little story, one black guy I was friend's with when I was younger had the best speech of anyone I knew (I wish I was able to speak with that level of correctness and authority). How he developed that growing up in a poor southern community was amazing. He went on to Duke University on scholarship. Lost track but I would be very surprised if he's not a President or VP of a major company today.
I grew up in a largely black community and the few black males that wanted to study and get ahead were bullied by the pack of low lifes. I do respect those blacks that 'become white' by studying and taking advantage of life's opportunities but they will take some heat if they are in a poor black community. Uncle Tom's will pay for a price for choosing not to be racist. A little story, one black guy I was friend's with when I was younger had the best speech of anyone I knew (I wish I was able to speak with that level of correctness and authority). How he developed that growing up in a poor southern community was amazing. He went on to Duke University on scholarship. Lost track but I would be very surprised if he's not a President or VP of a major company today.
It's very possible he's high up in a company for sure. I don't want to diminish what black people like this carry because they deserve to be in positions like that no doubt. But sometimes owners or senior management see people like this and REALLY want them because they know that by having black people in high positions they really can stay away from any lawsuits from blacks claiming to be discriminated.
There is a lot of companies out there that deal with agencies claiming that the company does not have enough minorities. Last thing most companies want to deal with is being known as a company that does not promote minorities. Especially with everything going on now.
It's interesting because my sisters got bullied and isolated for talking "white" by other blacks when we were in high school. But I never did. And I talked like them... I mean I would get the usual "your a white girl trapped in a black girl body" or jokes but the same people would be cool as h$ll with me. I was friends with girls straight from the projects and dated guys that were hood and also had no problem continuing to be myself in their presence. No one ever really used it against me. I don't know why this is but it's something that still happens today. I have no problem connecting and being friends with people that live in these disadvantaged communities and also don't have a problem connecting with people that come up from the same upbringing as I do. Still I know it happens...I have a lot of thoughts about this sub culture of black people but dont feel like going into it. I definitely believe though that this is all about the belief systems of the people living in those environments vs the people that are victims of the bullying.
Anyway mediatakeout tho? Lol... You couldn't find another site? lol
It's very possible he's high up in a company for sure. I don't want to diminish what black people like this carry because they deserve to be in positions like that no doubt. But sometimes owners or senior management see people like this and REALLY want them because they know that by having black people in high positions they really can stay away from any lawsuits from blacks claiming to be discriminated.
There is a lot of companies out there that deal with agencies claiming that the company does not have enough minorities. Last thing most companies want to deal with is being known as a company that does not promote minorities. Especially with everything going on now.
At one of my former jobs, one of our vendors mentioned that we had the most racially diverse workforce that he had ever seen, including our black COO. I hadn't noticed it before he said something. We didn't have a diversity program or quotas. Our workforce just reflected the demographics of our community, organically.
We hired the best people we could find for the jobs. No "sensitivity" training needed.
Pretty simple when you do things fairly.
I usually DESPISE Mediatakeout, but this video really hits home for me.
I attended some of the worst public schools in Pennsylvania when I lived in the ghetto as a little kid. Between 2003-2009 (3rd-8th grade), I was bullied in this manner all because I was a black kid who wanted to get out of the ghetto. I "talked white", did my work, made honor roll 7 out of 9 times between 6th (when the program was started)-8th grade, made it into a gifted program, and graduated near the top of my middle school class. I got the hell out of my old school district and attended a private Catholic HS. I graduated in 2013 and am now a rising junior in college.
Why is success equated with "whiteness"? Why is academic passion/prowess looked down upon? Why do the underclass of black people try to drag those black men and women who are trying to succeed down by saying that they are less black? This attitude is why so many black people are where they are today. It has nothing to do with the white man or "oppression", but rather this attitude. When I attended Catholic HS, I was NEVER harassed for trying to succeed by my white peers. They treated me as an equal and I never had any problems.
The best revenge is success. Sure, the victim did give the thug bully a good a** kicking, but his future success will be the salt in the thug's wound. I love driving around the area I grew up in (I return because some family still lives there) and seeing those who bullied me either in jail or on the streets with nothing going for them. In the end, I won and they lost. While I am set towards becoming an actuary or financial analyst, all some of those former bullies will ever be are small-time drug dealers.
You shouldn't have thought of it as "talking white." Have you heard not some but a lot of white kids talking these days?
Better to think of it as sounding educated. And everyone can aspire to that.
I earned straight A's in school but was rarely teased for "acting white." I suspect this was a function of being able to code-switch at will; speaking 'hood' in some situations but having the ability to project my true intellect when needed.
Young black kids need thick skin. If you're too tall, too short, too ghetto, too "white," etc., you'll have someone that makes fun of you. The best remedy is a snappy comeback and the ability to re-focus on your work. Honestly, if some D+ student made fun of me for sounding white, I'd remind him that I can actually read....and he can't.
Why is success equated with "whiteness"? Why is academic passion/prowess looked down upon? Why do the underclass of black people try to drag those black men and women who are trying to succeed down by saying that they are less black? This attitude is why so many black people are where they are today. It has nothing to do with the white man or "oppression", but rather this attitude. When I attended Catholic HS, I was NEVER harassed for trying to succeed by my white peers. They treated me as an equal and I never had any problems.
I fully and totally agree with you. The obtaining by blacks of equal rights unfortunately coincided with the political fashionability of both socialism and identity politics. Before those became popular, ethnic groups such as mine, the Jews, did not really latch onto group politics. Most early immigrant groups such as the Jews did not look to government for succor, aid or assistance. Your relative success undermines the very intellectual argument and raison d'etre for these groups. The worst among the leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton thrive only while the ethnic post is boiling. They don't want "justice for Michael Brown;" they want more Michael Browns. People that "act white" wind up with an honors diploma, which sometimes comes in a box, not with their body in a box.
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The best revenge is success. Sure, the victim did give the thug bully a good a** kicking, but his future success will be the salt in the thug's wound. I love driving around the area I grew up in (I return because some family still lives there) and seeing those who bullied me either in jail or on the streets with nothing going for them. In the end, I won and they lost. While I am set towards becoming an actuary or financial analyst, all some of those former bullies will ever be are small-time drug dealers.
As I said above it is the other black kids would probably care little that this particular person will succeed. Anyone who succeeds is a "house Negro," or "Uncle Tom."
Our country's motto is "e pluribus unum" (sp) or "out of many, one." I despise divisive politics.
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This hits home for me somewhat. My mother has 2 degrees, I made good grades, was in the Beta Club, etc. Personally, I was never teased because I still "fitted in" enough. I was good at basketball, I didnt talk overly in ebonics but I still had a typical southern black drawl (so, I didn't "talk white"), I still had some buddies who were "hood" but I didnt run with people who were stealing and things like that. I was still "cool," I just didnt smoke and drink like them, but I still hung out and played ball with some of the hood guys. I lived in a good neighborhood, but there is only 1 high school on the Eastside of Macon, GA so I went to school with a lot of hood dudes from other neighborhoods, that's how I became cool with them.
My younger brothers are a different story. They went to the same elementary school as me, but my mom put them in a better and more diverse (less hood, more accelerated programs, different races, etc.) middle and high school. They're gamers and most of their friends are white. They're 2 years apart in age and attend the same college now. They've never had any huge problem that I know about with bullying, but I believe some of thugs may have came at them at times. The kid in this video reminds me of my oldest little brother. He kinda has "fits" sometimes when mad and I believe it may have stemmed from bullying he's kept in or because he's a bit antisocial.
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According to one of the comments in the video, this kid ended up killing himself. They said it was on the news and he was adopted. That's terrible if true. I googled but didnt see anything about it.
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