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"Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity." – Martin Luther King, Jr.
What is acting white? Or, better yet, what is acting black?
Early generations of African-Americans were determined to become educated in a foreign land that worked so hard to keep them uninformed. They put their lives on the line to learn to read and write to surpass the system that kept them down. Yet today, with all of the freedom in the world, our people choose to walk in ignorance. We choose to mispronounce words and forgo proper grammar and teach our children to do the same. And when anyone pushes against this norm, we tell them they are "acting White."
It has always amazed me that a person could be ostracized for simply speaking a language in its intended manner or choosing to wear Abercrombie and Fitch over Baby Phat. Why don't we strive to speak the most grammatically sound English possible? Why not seek to be the most cultured and diverse group of people? Why stay confined within the walls of a ghetto mentality, striving to be less than the standard of superiority? (Continue reading)
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