BCP1928
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So what is "acting white" anyway? You had a successful military career, I gather, was it because you acted white? Or because you acted military?They must want it. When academia declares that the subject itself is racist against their students, how are we going to believe that they're then going to teach it as accurately and completely as they can?
My black teachers didn't...and we were 'way ahead of most of today's black children in the same grade levels.
Sowell and I came to similar conclusions from slightly different directions, however we both agree that "acting white" in this case is acting like whites of the "cracker" social class. And I'd point out something Sowell doesn't in that there had been up to three different ways black people "acted white" depending on the social classes of the whites they were mimicking.
There was a now-defunct black culture of freedmen in the Northeast that lasted until the late 1800s/early 1900s. There has also been a black slave culture derived from aristocratic slave owners (to the extent that the US had an aristocracy) from Maryland to South Carolina. Then there was the black slave culture derived from the low-class ("cracker") slave owners of the deep South, from Georgia and around the Gulf Coast states. Most blacks today in the urban centers are from that third class, migrating out of the rural south during the Great Northern Migration of the early 20th century.
I was a good white boy, went to college and learned how to act white but I never liked it. Fortunately, I had picked up a skilled trade and didn't have to act any more. Now that I am too old and stupid to work as a machinist I have trained legions of men and women of color and that's the attitude I bring to it: you master this trade and those white guys in suits will have to kiss your you-know-what no matter what color it is.
Or they can play the "victim" card like the left is trying to get minorities to do. They've even got their own political party now and a bizarre apparition of a presidential candidate. I wonder how that will work out for them?However, when "acting white" means acting like "cracker" whites, it's certainly not going to help their situation. Even low-class whites have to learn how to act like a higher class in order to get much ahead.
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