I was fortunate to not experience this myself, but my best friend struggled with his peers in school bullying him for "acting white" when he actually tried to d

I was fortunate to not experience this myself, but my best friend struggled with his peers in school bullying him for "acting white" when he actually tried to do well. Fortunately for him, his dad was a firm believer in education, so he moved up out of poverty when most of his childhood friends ended up in gangs or worse.