kurogane wrote:Aaaah, Sir Charles.............mine faith in the Negro leadership has been restored. I love the way he can be so profanely articulate (always a personal goal) and The He makes a great point about what would happen without all those so-called over armed white bigots prowling the neighbourhoods. I do dislike that tendency to exclude people from membership based on behaviour ('those aren't real black people', etc), but that seems common enough in so much North American social discourse we're probably all guilty of that obsession with authentic representation.
Good find, Choko.
Here's another recent one:
“It’s a dirty dark secret in the black community, one of the reasons we’re never going to be successful as a whole is because of other black people.” ~Charles Barkley
Him and a few others keep going on and on about blacks having shitty role models/ideals thrust at them since childhood. The only thing he's missing is the lack of a legit father to complete the shitty environment picture...but it reeks of being a poor people in shitty places thing than simply just racial.
For some reason we are brainwashed to think, if you’re not a thug or an idiot, you’re not black enough,” Barkley continued Thursday. “If you go to school, make good grades, speak intelligent, and don’t break the law, you’re not a good black person. It’s a dirty, dark secret in the black community.
“There are a lot of black people who are unintelligent, who don’t have success,” he continued. “It’s best to knock a successful black person down because they’re intelligent, they speak well, they do well in school, and they’re successful. It’s just typical BS that goes on when you’re black, man.”
...I guess the point is, don't let your "race" be what defines who you are.
