Carol K
2007-09-18 01:45:48
Someone made a comment about black folks not wanting to “act white”. A racist attitude in itself.
In some public schools in NYC today, minority kids who get good grades are chastised by their peers for “acting white”. I know this from my nieces’ experiences (we’re Puerto Rican).
Seems to me these kids are truly screwed up in the head if they feel they are “selling out” their culture by being successful, i.e. “acting white”. This attitude did not exist among the minority kids when I went to grade school in the late 60s/early 70s.
Great legacy for the Civil Rights movement. For many of today’s youths, being black or minority means acting like a failure. This is what the culture of victimization has engendered.
