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There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 6:14 pm
by BlackCrypt
What would have been the reaction if some cracker would have said this? Or even a half cracker?

Sometimes African Americans, in communities where I’ve worked, there’s been the notion of “acting white” — which sometimes is overstated, but there’s an element of truth to it, where, okay, if boys are reading too much, then, well, why are you doing that? Or why are you speaking so properly? And the notion that there’s some authentic way of being black, that if you’re going to be black you have to act a certain way and wear a certain kind of clothes, that has to go. Because there are a whole bunch of different ways for African American men to be authentic.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2014 11:34 pm
by SebastianLeeDanzig
Yeah, if a white person spoke out against self-deprecating racist stereotypes, I'm sure there would be tremendous outrage.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 8:27 am
by tin00can
Why is there no white history month?

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2014 9:21 pm
by Luminiferous
BlackCrypt wrote:Because there are a whole bunch of different ways for African American men to be authentic.
Yeah... Chuckin spears, pickin cotton, eaten watermelon, fried chicken and washing it down with grape soda and forties, playin' bassetball, football, stealin hubcaps, robbin n' shootin people, rappin.... you know? 'Murrican things.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2014 10:42 am
by TravisBicklesMohawk
Well, we can start by not calling them African American.

Charlize Theron is African American, making the point of how dumb that is.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Tue Jul 29, 2014 3:12 pm
by DSAB
No city, once governed by an overwhelmingly majority Caucasian City Council/Mayoral rule in America is better off than being governed by a now majority African American City Council/Mayoral rule. I'm referring to standards of living, socioeconomic class, school standardization rates, overall employment rates, across-the-board- wages to living ratio......and - no surprise- crime stats. Why is that?

I'm from an unfortunate gypsie type of society and, full disclosure here, they suck. So I'm truly curious (think of the clan that Brad Pitt ran with in the Pikey tribe in Snatch is what I'm referring to). You well-off white guilt asshole saviors of all that's darkie need not respond, I want to hear from some poor white 7/11 workin' MFers whose opinion might actually matter.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:01 pm
by SeminiferousButtNoid
I don't understand the responses in this thread. Do you all think the "acting white" phenomenon in black communities is fiction?

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Thu Sep 04, 2014 8:37 pm
by Inessence
Fucking Oreos :x

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 7:09 am
by SeniorGrande
TravisBicklesMohawk wrote:Charlize Theron is African American, making the point of how dumb that is.
She can stay, the rest can go back :D

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 8:20 am
by Nevoeiro
Reading books is acting white?

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Sep 05, 2014 12:19 pm
by LouDoo

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:11 am
by caroline
DSAB wrote:I'm from an unfortunate gypsie type of society and, full disclosure here, they suck.
I know an oddly high number of Transylvanians, and they have, across the board, a level of vitriolic hate towards "gypsies" that I've never seen in any other group. Tell someone from that area to "stop acting like a gypsy" and it's instant meltdown.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sat Sep 06, 2014 10:47 am
by MurrayFiend
SeminiferousButtNoid wrote:I don't understand the responses in this thread. Do you all think the "acting white" phenomenon in black communities is fiction?
Why are you posting in white? Man up, nigga.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2014 8:13 am
by Bludegeon
tin00can wrote:Why is there no white history month?
There is...

11 months out of the year. It is all white. :wink: :lol:


I am hoping for a WET (White Entertainment Television) tv station to come along soon.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 8:01 am
by Crazy Levi
Why is there no NAAWP?!

Oh there is? Thank god!!!

What do the dues cost Crypt?

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Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2014 11:36 am
by Inessence
Bludegeon wrote: I am hoping for a WET (White Entertainment Television) tv station to come along soon.
That could well become a reality in the coming years after whites become a minority in this country.

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2014 11:25 pm
by tylamonroe
Crazy Levi wrote:Why is there no NAAWP?!

Oh there is? Thank god!!!

What do the dues cost Crypt?

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Check your w2. If you're paying taxes, congrats! You're a fucking member.

If not... You're Welcome!!

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 5:09 am
by Danzig in the Dark
tylamonroe wrote:
Crazy Levi wrote:Why is there no NAAWP?!

Oh there is? Thank god!!!

What do the dues cost Crypt?

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Check your w2. If you're paying taxes, congrats! You're a fucking member.

If not... You're Welcome!!
The US government is whites only? Isn't that what Al and Jesse always say?

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sat Sep 20, 2014 9:21 pm
by Luminiferous
So only white people pay taxes? :lol:

Re: There is nothing wrong with “Acting White”

Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 5:30 pm
by DSAB
Luminiferous wrote:So only white people pay taxes? :lol:
On owning tanning salons, probably.