I have never seen anyone look down on smart kids in the black schools I went to.

[frankster]

It has zero to do with any of that shyt. It comes down to putting greater value on Whiteness than Blackness

Yes that is part of it, after all we live in society that practice, promoted and institutionalize the doctrine of white supremacy.

I grew up on the West Side of Chicago in the 80's and 90's. Nobody shamed somebody for being smart.

Are you saying because you did not see it or experience then it does not exist?
Are you also negating all the experience and opinions of the other poster in this thread who attested to the fact that they experience it?
To claim that "Nobody shamed somebody for being smart" is pure arrogance how can you speak for every school or for every ones experience in the school you attended.
Do you agree or do you disagree that "bullying" existed and still does exist in schools today?
If you agree that bullying exist, then you must realize that depending on the particular idiosyncrasy or eccentricity of the individual being bullied possesses dictates the label/nomenclature that's applied.
If the person being bullied is gay - its called homophobic, if the person being bullied is Black and the bully is white, it is called Racism/racist...the basic reason for bullying in most cases is that the victim usually deviates from the norm.

Nobody shamed Black people for knowing about African history or African American history.

Up till the 70"s only African history taught in school was about them being slaves...nothing else.
If you thought all your ancestor were nothing but slaves and all inventions and discoveries were done by whites.....no one would have to shame you - you would be shame by that fact whenever you in school
African History beyond slavery was not taught in schools and its was heavily contested when Blacks demanded it be taught...the very idea of Black history beyond slavery was ridicule by the White establishment at first. Still today a significant portion of Black history is still being contested.

Nobody was shamed for being good at math or science.

Again you do not nor can you speak for everyone experience, nor can you deny their own experience just because you did not experience it....that's not unlike some whites who say the do not see or believe racism exist.
By pathologizing Black achievements, when blacks excel it is seen as an oddity/rarity and when Black underachieve it is seen as innate... in most high school situation when ever you deviate from the norm you will be expose to criticism and ridicule...thus create an air of expectation for Blacks to fail. Expectation often creates self fulfilling prophecy.

Nobody was shamed for going to HBCUs. Nobody was shamed for going to any college or university.

True....Getting into college was a great thing and thing for you and your entire family (race) to be proud of...
I am addressing and I thought the OP was also addressing elementary to high school years...but mostly high school.

People were shamed for thinking that White people or acting like White people was better than being from Black people.

So once again people are making up a bunch of shyt.

No... the whole society of the US dictates that you think of white as better than all other races. If you live in America you are social to think act and behave this way .
It then becomes your responsibility as a person of color to unwrap and free yourself from this social indoctrination....if you do not do then you become by default a racist.

 

[Shadow]

Remember when wearing glasses used to be seen as lame because you were an assumed nerd, then years later glasses became trendy and stylish? Pepperidge farm remembers.

 

[Curioser]

Remember when wearing glasses used to be seen as lame because you were an assumed nerd, then years later glasses became trendy and stylish? Pepperidge farm remembers.

Yessir, in 9th grade I had glasses, then in 10th I came back with contacts and choosing went to all time highs. It was magical.

 

[ThaBronxBully]

The Coli Stay Delusional Good Lord

 

[frankster]

I'm not doubting YOUR experience, but we don't have the luxury of knowing anything else about you.



You just shot yourself in the foot with this one.

Really...

Barry is a mixed race dude raised by White people in Hawaii & Indonesia.

So what are you saying he is not Black enough?

What the fukk does he know about growing up around Black people?

Now you just done shoot yourself in the mouth
The phenomena known as "acting white" is more predominant in schools that are mixed with white and black students.

These are EXACTLY the type of c00ns that perpetuate this shyt.

Wake up your experience does not equate to every one else experience

nikkaz like him & McWhorter never lived in a hood their entire lives and went to White schools their whole lives, but tell us how shyt is in the "hood".

Who said every Black person lived in the hood?
What if you not from the hood you not Black?

They are both talking about African American experience. in this case they are address the "acting white" development in certain segments of the black community.
We all do not experience the same things in the same exact details....we are not monolithic society

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[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Yeah I remember when rapping was seen as lame.

Only if you could really rap

Or if you had an "East Coast" rap style anywhere outside of philly, jersey, or nyc.
Party/Talent show dance-rappers were always popular.
Same with "hyper regional standard" rappers.
Super basic street shyt and dancing was what's up...unless you lived somewhere fast.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

Obama didn't even grow up around black folks, and neither did that c00n who's books y'all keep posting.
Outliers with a white frame of reference.
There was not one black person in Obama's household, he was raised by WHITE GRANDPARENTS, his white mom, and his indonesian stepdad.
Guess what that means? He's using anecdotal 3rd hand experience and packaging it up for outliers.
I probably have the most varied early life experiences of this board, and people didn't just get bullied for being smart...IN FACT: the most popular people at most of the PUBLIC, BLACK schools I went to were smart with good grades. They were also well dressed, good looking, funny, or athletic...
Some "smart" people have haughty attitudes.
I also know some people had life downgrades, moved from the burbs to the hood, and got punished for bringing that smug, sarcastic cac energy to a place where people may be dealing with more at home.
nikkas who HAVE TO work at Kroger's don't care about dry humor.
Suburbreh in here talmbat "peer pressure"?
Oh, like getting into MAJOR trouble with the wannabe cacs in your white area and having to eat the blame 99% of the time?
Instead of grams, it's kilos.
Instead of "hitting a lick" it's robbing a mid level distributor with law enforcement connections
Instead of a breh getting jumped at a party it's you getting blamed for raping a drunk white girl.
Selling lbs with cacs and getting involved with REAL shyt, getting your family hurt...because Cartel, not your cousin up the block with a pound of "gas".
I've seen y'all play the game and lose the WORST because you're playing on an all white team.

 

[Afro]

@Kenny West

@Kiyoshi-Dono

Here we go again

 

[Skooby]

I don't know how old you guys are (I'm 41), but it used to be true. Very true.

Back in the late 80's to mid 90's...if you weren't acting hard then you were getting clowned. If you were actually smart or were a nerd, then you got picked on.

It happened A LOT back when I was in school.

 

[Eddy Gordo]

I'm not doubting YOUR experience, but we don't have the luxury of knowing anything else about you.

I guarantee you you weren't ONLY smart.

You were probably corny or fat or ugly or smug or socially awkward

What was your shoe game like?

Clothing game?

Were you a snitch or a brownoser to the teachers?



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nikka did you just try to justify the fact that I was getting shanked in middle school? Based on clothes or shoes.

If I could reach through the screen I would slap you like the bytch you are.

I saw a young black boy get shanked in middle school and almost lose a kidney. There is no justification for the shyt.

 

[8WON6]

Yeah one part of what you said rings some bells for me. When I went to the magnet, it was actually a school within a school. So general pop was sketchy and cats was looking at me sideways from day one. Even at that magnet I was a standout so ob an academic level my peer was mainly this guy from Bangladesh and a c00nish black guy. It was a no win situation.....

If you viewed other black people as "general pop" like they were felons or something then, i'm not buying the "i was too smart" shyt. Maybe you carried yourself the wrong way and people with street smarts picked up on it.

 

[Max.]

The amount of coppin pleas I see in this thread, straight up lies

"Drug dealers n seniors would dap us up n tell us to keep grindn in the class room"

Lmaoo man cats exposed themselves in this thread....that big booty mixed girl wasnt fukkn with urkel...she was fukkn a dumb football player or a 20 year old drug dealer in a buick on 24s


I had a friend that got gold grill n grew his hair out n everyday n class would be high n sittn there twistn his hair...getn F's

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I don't know how old you guys are (I'm 41), but it used to be true. Very true.

Back in the late 80's to mid 90's...if you weren't acting hard then you were getting clowned. If you were actually smart or were a nerd, then you got picked on.

It happened A LOT back when I was in school.

"Drug dealers n seniors would dap us up n tell us to keep grindn in the class room"

Lmaoo man cats exposed themselves in this thread....that big booty mixed girl wasnt fukkn with urkel...she was fukkn a dumb football player or a 20 year old drug dealer in a buick on 24s


I had a friend that got gold grill n grew his hair out n everyday n class would be high n sittn there twistn his hair...getn F's

I seriously think there are 2 types of people that post on here

- people that post as themselves, as in people who would say the same things offline that they would on here

- dudes who are in character...playing a "role" or whatever, pretending to live another life altogether completely different from the one they lead in real life

that's the only way I can explain all the bullshyt in this thread...I mean look:






there are thousands of these on youtube...but according to these dudes, it's all a myth

 

[UberEatsDriver]

I'm trying to figure out where you guys get this idea that black folks (black Americans to be exact) looked down or mocked extremely smart/book nerd kids in school because I never witnessed it. If anything what I seen was all the kids in school gave them props and complimented them on how intelligent they were,even the kids who gang banged or was in the streets gave them respect to the point were some were noticeably envying their continued success of getting good grade after good grade. Now I'm not trying to downplay anyone's experience, I'm just saying in my personal experience I haven't seen it.

I was a victim of this in junior high school. Kids really hated me because I was smart and I knew that was the case because one minute they were cool with me and after I got a 99 on my 5th test they all chanted Geek altogether and didn’t respect me.

But during high school it got much better. In high school as long as you were cool and could dress you could be smart and most people respected you.

 

[Black Haven]

I seen more kids get clowned in classrooms like this than I seen of kids getting clowned for being smart in inner city schools and I'm being honest.