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> Taking part in a race-selected accelerator, instead of a quality-selected accelerator This is very true. I'm half-black and I've avoided such programs and cl
by JabavuAdams 15y ago
> Taking part in a race-selected accelerator, instead of a quality-selected accelerator
This is very true. I'm half-black and I've avoided such programs and clubs to avoid being labeled.
This is part of a larger issue: "black" is not a culture. What we call "black culture" is more like US-poor-uneducated-black-ghetto-post-slavery-culture.
So, if you happen to be black and aren't poor and aren't living in a ghetto, you don't really identify strongly with what most people call "black culture".
This means that successful, main-stream blacks (speaking of Canada, here) are dis-inclined to live with or be particularly helpful to struggling blacks. Compound this with other cultural divides like high religiosity of uneducated blacks vs. lower religiosity of educated people in general, and there really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us."
Contrast this to other minority groups that have strong cultural ties. If Jews are shunned in a country, they tend to set up their own parallel social structures. Chinese help Chinese, etc.
Kenyans help Kenyans, and Somalis help Somalis, but blacks (in general) don't really help blacks, because "black" is not a well-defined cultural group. It's only a well-defined cultural stereotype.
- create_account 15y agothere really is a sense of "those losers are embarrassing us." Chris Rock has a famous rant about this: "There are black people and there are n!!!ers, and the n!!!ers have got to go"
- JabavuAdams 15y agoHilarious rant, but there's still the problem of the word "nigger". There's a recent tendency to equate "nigger" with "white trash". White people don't call white trash niggers. Innocent whites weren't hung from trees in living memory with crowds of blacks shouting "white trash!". The word "nigger" is more offensive (for now) because of the history of its use. It's an ugly word. By analogy, ask an Irish Catholic which is more offensive: "white trash" or "dogan". Actually, don't ask, unless you know the person really well.
- create_account 15y agoHence my unusual spelling. I'm not sure the white trash equivalency is really gaining momentum, though. Whites never deeply disliked their poorer and less-educated brethren despite looking down on them, and there has been a spate of "white trash is cool" with the popularity of the Cable Guy and Redneck comedy tours.
- JabavuAdams 15y ago>Hence my unusual spelling. Oh, I wasn't intending to criticize you. Yeah, I agree.