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Monday, April 16, 2007

NYT: The 'Acting White' Myth

"Boy did I get slammed by the kids for 'talking white' and 'acting white' because I was doing well in school -- they said so. It was made worse by the fact that I didn't have a southern accent.

"The sad truth is, in a school that was at least 75% black, I was pulled over by one of the elderly black teachers one day and she told me that she was so proud of me -- I was the first black student to make the honor roll in that school.

"If that isn't a sad reflection of the state of things in the 70s, I cannot imagine what it is like now growing up, with the saturation of anti-intellectualism and materialism foisted upon and soaked up as "culture" by some in the black community."

Go to http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2004/12/nyt-acting-white-myth.html

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