Why Do African-American Superstars Like Chris Rock and Bill Cosby Go Out of Their Way to Stigmatize

[JustAnotherGen]

5. What a difference from this discussion a few weeks ago

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025716940




And now the article you linked - re Charles Barkley

1. Because it’s not true. Charles Barkley – like Mike Freeman before him — was not completely wrong when saying that there are some Black people who deride other Blacks for speaking properly or achieving academically. But just because something may technically be right doesn’t mean it’s true. Because the truth is that the majority of Black people are just like any other people: indifferent. Yes, we care about our friends and our families and maybe Beyonce a bit too much, but most of us — even the “bad” Blacks — are too wrapped up in our own lives to really give more than half of a shit about what other people are doing with their’s.

But, according to Barkley and the rest of the people who continue to repeat this falsehood, in every poor Black community exists an amorphous horde of round-the-clock haters whose only purpose is to kill every dream and use every college acceptance letter as rolling paper.

I really like the italicized part. I sometimes get the feeling that there are many DU'ers who have never been in a black person's home/daily lives so they don't understand . . . we don't sit around talking about this shit 24 *7. We also are just as wrapped up as everyone else in our own stuff to go out of our way to 'pick on someone for acting white' - OR - propping up someone for doing what we are ALL supposed to do . . . and that's at least try.

Thanks for this post - very good read!