re: Watch what happened to a Fox News correspondent when he covered a BLM Protest

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most black males that go against the popular trend of the "thug culture" in inner cities are usually bullied back into joining the cancerous group think that is currently metastasizing at an alarming rate and is termed an "Uncle Tom" and pulled right back down with the rest of them. It's the crab in a barrel mentality.

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That's exactly the situation my dad faced. Pulled himself up by his bootstraps to actually attend A&M instead of just work for the university as a custodian like his parents/cousins and as a result he (and my mom who did the same thing, only going to Michigan) basically got ostracized for it. I'm still not close with my extended family to this day (some of that, to be fair, was due to our moving around with the military, but the lack of connection was never for lack of trying).

Honestly, that's the problem most folks in a lower socioeconomic class face. It's not a uniquely black problem, there's just a higher proportion of black people lower on that ladder and that skews perceptions in a lot of ways.