Bern
You are spot on!
keep going
Ellie
On Aug 25, 6:05 am, "Bern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> It's mighty white of you to "teach" all those dark skinned people people
> denigrating things about others with their skin tone. Is this a hobby with
> you?
>
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> From: "Chris Tsao" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 5:31 AM
> To: "AlexBennettProgram" <[email protected]>
> Subject: Here are some other reasons a lot of black people can do without
> Alex and Lynn critiquing Barack Obama
>
>
>
> > 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
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