Friday, March 20, 2009

an example of minority racism

Michelle Obama was taunted for "talking like a white girl" when she was young.

Black schoolchildren frequently taunt one another for "acting white": anytime a black child earns a good grade, his black peers that don't, and are proud that they don't, pick on him* for it.

I've noticed that the nastiest racism today isn't white on black but black on white. Don't believe me? Listen to rap and hip hop.

*I say "him" because various studies I've read--as well as the ratio of black women to black men in college--show that the taunting is predominantly boys taunting boys about acting white.

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