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I hung out with black kids and still got accused acting white because I did my work. Difference was I was big enough to fight back.
It was either listen to them, or listen to my parents - my dad being in the military for 30 years.
The saying fits, misery loves company. Kids who goofed off, got poor grades, and played the school clown needed as many other people to sink to their level as possible. Anyone who stood out and got good grades, participated in class, they had to beat into submission, if they refuse to join the ranks of the tough guys who were too cool for school.
I suspect a great majority of multi-cultural, multi-racial kids go through the same nightmare. To me, this is not and never has been a skin tone issue, but an identification question.
I grew up in Germany and Japan, I've always been treated differently but in a good positive way.
A 16-year-old high school girl in Rock Hill, S.C. told police that another high school girl taunted her on a school bus and then beat her up after she got off the bus. The assailant allegedly was angry at the victim because she was behaving “too much like a white person.”
Must be nice where a bully incident in a small town can make the national news. They should feel honored. Unfortunately kids get beat up everyday in school for one reason or another.
Must be nice where a bully incident in a small town can make the national news. They should feel honored. Unfortunately kids get beat up everyday in school for one reason or another.
I was thinking the same thing. Bully girl, if it wasn't "acting too white" it would have been "don't like your shoes" or "stop looking at me funny". There doesn't HAVE to be a reason and there usually isn't. But if I had to guess, some guy liked one more than the other at some point in the past.
I was thinking the same thing. Bully girl, if it wasn't "acting too white" it would have been "don't like your shoes" or "stop looking at me funny". There doesn't HAVE to be a reason and there usually isn't. But if I had to guess, some guy liked one more than the other at some point in the past.
Earlier this year 2 teen middle school girls got into a FB war about some boy. Uncle gave a gun to his niece to settle the matter and she did. And yeah, it was Chicago. The gun was hot and the uncle was a convicted felon with gang affiliations.
There's a video that I can't find right now (it's explicit in language, but gets the point across) that explains who dumb it is to have this mentality. When someone tells me "I act or sound white" it sounds dumb to me and gets dumber every time I hear it.
Anytime a black person calls another black person "white", I always want to ask them... do you know what that even means? Seriously, you have to ask that question.
I'm black but by these dumbass kids standards, I "act white", whatever that means. It's more a sad commentary on what's going on with our community that any one who speaks "proper" English, doesn't go to prison, goes to class and work are only traits of a white person.
No, but if you do those things and speak proper English instead of ghetto gibberish, blacks will say you're acting white.
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