Chittlin' Talk: When black isn't black enough

Thursday, March 15, 2007

When black isn't black enough

Is you is or is you ain’t black.

"Lungrin and her friends feel that it is often hard to connect mentally with an educated black person. She says she sees these types of people as sellouts to the black community."

Therefore they are saying: "Getting A's and B's is for White folks and Uncle Toms. Real Black folks 'pose to get D's and F's and flunk out. That is being true to your Black race. Everybody knows real Black people ain't educated! We need to march and protest Black folks being educated. "Down with Education! Keep Ignorance Alive! Stay on the plantation where you belong!"

(I bet if you needed a Black doctor, lawyer, or a dentist, you would appreciate an educated one.)

"With more opportunities now available for black people, it is a shame that instead of taking advantage of them, we shun them because of our own narrow-mindedness."

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Booker T. Washington said:

"There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs -- partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs....There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public."