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"If you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough"
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:32 am
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:32 am
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“For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough. If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. It’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community." - Charles Barkley
Sir Charles said this 3 years ago and it's really hard to argue against.
Will black communities ever come to the realization that it's not the Government or society failing them and start a culture shift?
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Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:32 am to stout
But muh uncle toms
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:34 am to stout
This dude will get ostracized beyond belief for saying this.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:35 am to stout
Barkley better be careful or he'll end up the being the next Bill Cosby
Posted on 6/27/17 at 8:43 am to stout
For a majority of poor black people in America, this is absolutely true. And it is incredibly sad.
How does something so absurd become a cultural absolute in the most advanced country in the world?
How does something so absurd become a cultural absolute in the most advanced country in the world?
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:17 am to stout
The entertainment industry created and encourages this, though I'm sure "white people" will somehow get the blame.
It started with "gangsta rap" and evolved into a culture of admiring violence and criminality. The term "street cred" is a real crime against their community, but I guess record producers like money more than they give a shite about the people they claim to love so much.
It started with "gangsta rap" and evolved into a culture of admiring violence and criminality. The term "street cred" is a real crime against their community, but I guess record producers like money more than they give a shite about the people they claim to love so much.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:19 am to Womski
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This dude will get ostracized beyond belief for saying this.
Sir Charles DGAF
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:24 am to stout
While I agree, I could also argue the govt. The Democratic party has done African Americans very few favors if any.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:24 am to Womski
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This dude will get ostracized beyond belief for saying this.
Nah, Charles is Teflon. He's been saying stuff like this for years.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:26 am to stout
he black and speaks for the 93%
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:26 am to stout
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speak intelligent
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:34 am to Evolved Simian
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How does something so absurd become a cultural absolute in the most advanced country in the world?
Obviously, the answer is much more complex, but my parsed down version of it is this:
The Black Community (by which I don't mean a physical community of people, but rather a milieu in which certain social memes are perpetuated) has concocted the idea that our modern society has been built by "the white man." Which is a rather silly assertion. Our modern society is the result of a very long process of social and organizational evolution that has taken the best features of many different societies and cultures. However, it's easy to see how a history of people of your ethnic group being legally enslaved could give certain people a bad impression of the ethnicity of their former owners.
So the notion of assimilating into our society by obeying the law, doing well in school, etc. is perceived as "playing the white man's game." Well, for whatever reason - call it pride, enmity, or whatever - they don't want to play the white man's game. That would be giving up and admitting some sort of inferiority. That's why "rebellion" against the white man's game has been given an almost romantic label.
But again, it all goes back to the false pretense that our society is "the white man's society" which is bullshite.
This post was edited on 6/27/17 at 9:35 am
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:36 am to stout
quote:
It’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community." - Charles Barkley
Sorry Charles but it's not a secret
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:39 am to UGATiger26
There should be statues and streets for Clarence Thomas and Ben Carson in all "the communities."
Instead ... you get this horseshite:
Which ... evidently, someone modified:
Instead ... you get this horseshite:
Which ... evidently, someone modified:
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:40 am to stout
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"If you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough"
Big Mike Brown agreed with this.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 9:41 am to navy
Solid editing
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:15 am to stout
we had an issue at my job a few years ago when a young mixed race lady was actually harassed about not being black enough by 2 of her co workers. HR got involved and one co worker quit and the other was fired.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:19 am to stout
Side question, but did Sir Charles end up finishing his degree from Auburn?
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:24 am to idlewatcher
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Side question, but did Sir Charles end up finishing his degree from Auburn?
No. I think he said in an interview he should, but he was too rich to care.
Posted on 6/27/17 at 10:28 am to stout
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If you go to school, make good grades,
When I worked for EBR school board, I had several kids from several different schools approach me crying because they made good grades and would be made fun of by their own family.
It's a sad sad situation when your own family doesn't want you to be successful because they are trash.
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