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In reply to the discussion: Black people who talk white--What does talking white mean? [View all]noiretextatique
(27,275 posts)have heard this bs. my most unpleasant experience with this nonsense was in college. i took a year off from my home college and went to uc santa cruz. i enrolled in cowell college, for no particular reason. most of the black people went to oakes college, but i chose cowell fairly randomly for its central location. there was one other balck person in my dorm, a younger guy, and we became friends. there were two other black women at the neighboring college, stevenson, and we also became friends. however, when me and one of my black female friends went to a BSU meeting at oakes, we were accused of all kind of stupid shit (like trying to "act white" because we weren't oakes students. i never tried to deal with those idiots again, and i was quite content with my three blacks friends at our "white" colleges...and my other white, asian and latino friends. since then, i have no time for ignorant people who think being black limits how you speak or what you can do. i took archery, fencing, and went to all the classical concerts...and i am still black enough to get pulled over by the cops when they decided to profile me.