re: Charles Barkley: ‘Unintelligent’ Blacks ‘Brainwashed’ to reject success

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Why is it that black people are so consumed with someone's blackness?

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All groups do this/have done this. Sons of British coal miners who wanted to go to college got grief from their parents and peers (there is a good Monty Python skit about this).

And I think this phenomenon as a "black" thing is overstated a little. White successful kids are picked on as nerds (though that seems less so now-a-days).

That said, there does seem to be some truth there. As an optimist, I just assume that one day this will be less of an issue.