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Originally posted by I Am Music
I know it sounds off but he is making sense.
Higher education and "speaking well" is considered white and not the norm for a black male.
Some black males feed off of this and it manifests itself into a self loathing nature.
Some back gays chase after whites because of how they would be perceived which is above other blacks.
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Ugh this line is everything.
And it's so sad because subconsciously, because of the way I have been brainwashed, I'm taught to hate everything black, even myself to some extent. I have to actively turn it off in real life, when I may be speaking from someone from the hood that can be considered "ghetto". I have to remember to love them and to understand why things are that way.
In my college american history course we read a book by Dubois call The Souls of Black Folk. and he discussed this "Shadowy Veil" that we carry in American society. It was crazy. Sigh.