A lot of black people don’t like non-blacks teaching other non-blacks AND blacks about any particular individual member of their race, and for different reasons. For example, if I were to teach a black person who’s like this something unflattering about … say, Sammy Davis Jr., he/she very well might think that I think that I’m teaching this person about him- or herself and their race as a whole, and not the one single person I’m referring to. One reason some blacks can do without me telling it to a non-black is because for all they know, I would be denigrating their race; either lending credence or straight- up confirming any suspicions or definite beliefs the non-black already might have about the black race.
Right below are some bullet points I copied and pasted from something else I wrote: Given certain situations, they think of Black and White as two different teams in a bunch of contests to not merely just beat the other side, but to win big; and it’s not something along the lines of a little basketball game in a middle school gym class (the Shirts vs. the Skins lol)--the two teams have a heated longstanding Yankees-vs.- Red Sox/Michigan-vs.-Ohio-State type of rivalry going here) Some black people try to prevent other black people from being taught even one single semi-unflattering thing about particular black individuals they barely know and never met or even saw before and thus they wouldn’t give a flying leap if he or she gets run over by a Mack truck when it’s a white person who’s professing it Because black people feel like the minority they are, they think that if you say something bad about any one of them, that you’re accusing their whole race (or close to it) of whatever it is your saying They’re outnumbered, so they sort of like think of each other as distant relatives, and blood is thicker than water. They also think of each other as tribal and clan members. As a minority, they feel under-represented. In their minds, there’s not enough accomplished and affluent ones that it takes to represent, nor are there enough of them to go around, so they don’t know how if you’re not black, you have met tons of them in your life and you see that they don’t say or do any more stupid things than everybody else does on average --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "AlexBennettProgram" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/alexbennettprogram?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
