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noiretextatique

(27,275 posts)
32. i think most educated or well-spoken black people
Tue May 28, 2013, 07:05 PM
May 2013

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&quot 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.

you talk like an American mitchtv Mar 2013 #1
It's not my video. Jamaal510 Mar 2013 #9
I think the video covers it well ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #2
I think Obama went through some of that. tblue Mar 2013 #5
I wonder, if the question is still being asked, if that is the new response? "Why... Moonwalk Mar 2013 #10
Where? Growing up in Hawaii he would have had other pressures ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #13
I used to get bullied for being tblue Mar 2013 #3
Our problem was that they tried to bully my daughter off campus and lost the fight ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #6
You mean she beat up 3 girls?! tblue Mar 2013 #7
Both my daughters are amazons ProgressiveProfessor Mar 2013 #11
OMG! Not the weave......... TheDebbieDee May 2013 #27
I never thought about that. I talk to people with respect and I don't care how their southernyankeebelle Mar 2013 #4
It's something you wouldn't have noticed JustAnotherGen Apr 2013 #16
Interesting comments. In my experiences of life I always grew up with diversity living on southernyankeebelle Apr 2013 #17
My parents marriage JustAnotherGen Apr 2013 #18
I see what you mean. I guess calling it a bubble is about right. You know I never knew anything southernyankeebelle Apr 2013 #19
Totally Off Topic JustAnotherGen Apr 2013 #20
LOL, I dad met momma after the war. Funny you should mention Mussolini. My grandfather southernyankeebelle Apr 2013 #21
It's a great rant. I have a friend who had the same issue, and I remember some of what he... Moonwalk Mar 2013 #8
I grew up in an all black environment Number23 Mar 2013 #12
me too...straight out of compton noiretextatique May 2013 #30
Heh. I tend to think "hood" folks like us are the smartest ones around. Number23 May 2013 #33
My son hears it all the time. mzteris Mar 2013 #14
It's spot on JustAnotherGen Apr 2013 #15
How I got my education on the subject. kwassa Apr 2013 #22
where i grew up, everyone was from the south noiretextatique May 2013 #31
My girlfriend of the time took me to Compton kwassa May 2013 #34
yeah, I went throught that, too... SemperEadem Apr 2013 #23
Fascinating video! Pterodactyl Apr 2013 #24
Every black person in this country is bilingual: The Street and Job Interview MrScorpio May 2013 #25
I used to hear this alot, its gotten better since BOs been Prez-nt Anansi1171 May 2013 #26
I grew up deep in the heart of West Oakland, going to a Catholic grammer school right across demosincebirth May 2013 #28
I have that problem. bravenak May 2013 #29
i think most educated or well-spoken black people noiretextatique May 2013 #32
Some people have an odd idea that "talking black" means sounding like Honey Boo Boo. MADem Jun 2013 #35
Kick JustAnotherGen Jun 2013 #36
I've been told I sound like a bill collector. onpatrol98 Jun 2013 #37
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