kitler53 said:
on topic white men can't jump. i'm lead to believe black men are capabile of such a feat. |
And it equates "white" to the "standard". You speak a language how it's supposed to be spoken, you take care of your responsibilities, you wear clothes that fit you, and that's "acting white". I thought it was called "being normal". d21lewis may not find anything wrong with it, but I at least find it irritating.
"Acting white" tries to cheapen me, as a person, because my "blackhood", I guess, was supposed to be an "inhibitor", but because I'm college educated, have a decent job, pay my bills, and don't butcher the English language, that's not a "black thing". In that sense, "acting white" is actually a racist term, because it means that you're implying black people are incapable of doing the above things (as well as making behaving like a normal human being a "white thing"). So if you do do them, you're "trying to be white"...because apparently black people don't "try" to be regular, upstanding people.
Sorry, my last couple of posts have been more race issues type things and not addressing the OP, but I've seen a couple posts that got my jimmies rustled and I wanted to say something about it.
