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Firstly, as I am one to abhor the principle of ghetto, I think the article's description of Martha's vineyard makes it sound ghettoised - an area in a city predominantly occupied by a minority group. So these successful ones are certainly not being as progressive as they would like to think.
Overall I think that this article's purpose is one of divide and rule, and one like this is to be expected often, driving a wedge of any potential bonds between Obama and other successful black people, no doubt they have used a few anectodes from a typical dimwit, to try to massage a point.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is particularly true among parents, who talk about the importance of introducing their children to other black upper-class families so they can know they’re not as peculiar as they might feel. “Black kids need to be around successful black families, because other blacks from humble beginnings want you to apologize for being successful,” says psychiatrist Carlotta Miles</div></div>
This statement <span style="font-weight: bold">could </span>tell me a lot about the 'successful' blacks in this article, but I have to wonder;
'Is it such a terrible situation with black people in US that most black people feel that all black people must be "poor like them". So any successful blacks feel they have to 'apologise' for being successful?
Is there so much resentment against successful black people?
'I would have thought that the pressure was having to bear the burden of being role models? OR, the lottery-winner effect, where you have to not feed every begging bowl.'
Which is often what is complained of by most in limelight - NOT this apologist statement, but maybe I'm wrong.
To me it indicates a lack confidence in themselves. Nothing wrong with wanting peace and quiet, but using this apologist nonsense is really just trying to create a non-progressive elite group/class structure to try to satisfy their narcissistic selves. In other words, they are just nasty individuals anyway...
After moving out of the UK, I now live in part of the world where there AREN'T many blacks, (so don't even think of finding groups of successful/unsuccessful), and you know what? You just have to put yourself in the context of another human being, that has a darker skin (that you often get complimented on), and your hair is frizzier, but you walk, eat, sleep, sh++lt, the same. So you see yourself as capable of YOUR potential. As opposed to what "a group" expects, which can be limiting as groups compromise to remain so.
Maybe these black need to learn to have confidence in themselves then they don't need to be part of elitist ghetto's, and shying away from the experiences that helped to shape them.
Firstly, as I am one to abhor the principle of ghetto, I think the article's description of Martha's vineyard makes it sound ghettoised - an area in a city predominantly occupied by a minority group. So these successful ones are certainly not being as progressive as they would like to think.
Overall I think that this article's purpose is one of divide and rule, and one like this is to be expected often, driving a wedge of any potential bonds between Obama and other successful black people, no doubt they have used a few anectodes from a typical dimwit, to try to massage a point.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This is particularly true among parents, who talk about the importance of introducing their children to other black upper-class families so they can know they’re not as peculiar as they might feel. “Black kids need to be around successful black families, because other blacks from humble beginnings want you to apologize for being successful,” says psychiatrist Carlotta Miles</div></div>
This statement <span style="font-weight: bold">could </span>tell me a lot about the 'successful' blacks in this article, but I have to wonder;
'Is it such a terrible situation with black people in US that most black people feel that all black people must be "poor like them". So any successful blacks feel they have to 'apologise' for being successful?
Is there so much resentment against successful black people?
'I would have thought that the pressure was having to bear the burden of being role models? OR, the lottery-winner effect, where you have to not feed every begging bowl.'
Which is often what is complained of by most in limelight - NOT this apologist statement, but maybe I'm wrong.
To me it indicates a lack confidence in themselves. Nothing wrong with wanting peace and quiet, but using this apologist nonsense is really just trying to create a non-progressive elite group/class structure to try to satisfy their narcissistic selves. In other words, they are just nasty individuals anyway...
After moving out of the UK, I now live in part of the world where there AREN'T many blacks, (so don't even think of finding groups of successful/unsuccessful), and you know what? You just have to put yourself in the context of another human being, that has a darker skin (that you often get complimented on), and your hair is frizzier, but you walk, eat, sleep, sh++lt, the same. So you see yourself as capable of YOUR potential. As opposed to what "a group" expects, which can be limiting as groups compromise to remain so.
Maybe these black need to learn to have confidence in themselves then they don't need to be part of elitist ghetto's, and shying away from the experiences that helped to shape them.
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