Mandarin Duck
Majestic and Highfalutin
It's cool to be a black nerd, now.Ehh, I understand being teased for liking certain things as a kid in middle/high school, especially if you grew up in the 80s/90s. Thing is, once you hit college age it’s generally considered normal to be into nerdy stuff and those “lunch table” cliques start to dissipate. As long as you weren’t actually weird or otherwise had awful social skills, didn’t shower, etc. you could mingle with people who had different hobbies.
It seems weird that people hold grudges gr when they were kids, especially as full grown adults where they’re likely more successful than the “jocks” that made fun of them at this point lol. It’s even weirder in 2019 where being black and nerdy is extremely mainstream.
But you take a kid who grows up being teased because of what he's into.
He goes off to college, where people are accepting of him and the people telling him that they will accept him for who he is, are not black.
That's literally all he's wanted from black people his entire live but couldn't get it.
He had to leave his neighborhood and talk to folks who didn't look like him to finally be accepted.
It's only natural that that would warp someone's perception.
That myopic view of black people is something he learned,unfortunately, from other black people.

To this very day I'm too white for the black kids, but too black for the white kids.
Ali would've cracked his jaw with 1 jab


