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

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

F outta here... why a black person has to b3 eating time retaliating against people when they don’t care about that, I had to get suspended for hitting people in they face cause they wanna clown me on my focus and achievements. It’s completely unnecessary. My tongue is sharp and I can go back and forth with the best of em but a lot of smart black people fold and just stop caring about school cause of how it’s look at. Chicks clown you too.

Corny is the vibe and you had it, despite being in Detroit.
I have hella smart homies from there so you must have been:
The uppity nikka who clowned slow readers...the same ones who could beat your ass.
I learned to leave them alone...OR HELP THEM
Wow!
"Y'all nikkas lying"
Nope, you were just soft and you had no getback jokes...nikkas who never learned to code switch in here mad af.

This is how BLM blue checks are born, brehs.
Double up on the blackness in college for clout

 

[Booker T Garvey]

I remember nikkas getting called "gay" for getting good grades on tests, nikkas thinking your weird for not claiming a set, being considered a lame for never getting suspended, seen nikkas get called white for knowing big words; I can go on and on. 90% of y'all nikkas denying this either went to some sort of privileged private school or straight up lying to yallselves.

somebody on here brought up how in the 90s if you had a computer or talked that internet shyt you were seen as a big ass nerd

i promise I was the only person at my school on AOL, somebody once said "my momma got dat shyt i think"

but all of that stuff happened, there's been books written on it..some of these cats are guilty of doing this shyt which is why they're lying about it

Spoiler: books and essays on the topic

Acting white - Wikipedia
It's time to abandon the 'acting white' theory once and for all | Victoria Bond
The myth about smart black kids and "acting white" that won’t die

 

[Curioser]

Corny is the vibe and you had it, despite being in Detroit.
I have hella smart homies from there so you must have been:
The uppity nikka who clowned slow readers...the same ones who could beat your ass.
I learned to leave them alone...OR HELP THEM
Wow!
"Y'all nikkas lying"
Nope, you were just soft and you had no getback jokes...nikkas who never learned to code switch in here mad af.

This is how BLM blue checks are born, brehs.
Double up on the blackness in college for clout

I never clowned anyone, not my style. And in complete and utter honest ni65@z couldn’t physically handle me. I really wasn’t the one. But the pressure to be a stereotype was real then and it’s real now. The reason I’m not in jail right now is cause I got pulled out into a magnet. And f fitting in, wasn’t trying to and didn’t care to. How bout let people be who they are.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

"Gold star kids" are not smart like that, either.
Mimicking cac speech, bowing down to admin, having perfect attendance x "good grades"...
These same types would be mad at the "high testers" who didn't do much work.
Some of us were born with it, sucka.

All that energy for nothing.
Ol fake tryhard wannabe talented 10th asses.
Funny thing is: I have hella people from school on my SM, and the ones who "talked white" didn't do any better in life than anybody else.

These people?
Do not care.

 

[Will Ross]

I don’t know why people deny shyt everyone is getting made fun of in school. Smart kids shyt on kids they think are dumb all the time

 

[Ugo Ogugwa]

Only proves yall aint grow up around stuggle.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

This thread is trash. I went to hood ass middle school and a ghetto high school for 9th grade and I was constantly teased for being square and smart as shyt. Plus i didn't rock Jordans, nor would i skip class to buy them, so i was definitely considered lame as fukk.

Thank God i had a strong family and a dad who whooped ass, so i was way more concerned with upsetting my parents then some too cool for school ass nikkas.

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

shyt literally just happen to my kid at school

hatin on her for liking to read

came home crying

Get your kid out of that toxic environment.

 

[Indiglow Meta (R$G)]

I never clowned anyone, not my style. And in complete and utter honest ni65@z couldn’t physically handle me. I really wasn’t the one. But the pressure to be a stereotype was real then and it’s real now. The reason I’m not in jail right now is cause I got pulled out into a magnet. And f fitting in, wasn’t trying to and didn’t care to. How bout let people be who they are.

You got pulled out into a magnet?
Good for you.
No reason to complain then.
I tested into a good school when I was in 8th grade, and went to hood schools LATER.
All that shyt you complaining about means nothing to a nikka who had higher highs and lower lows...but in reverse.
Expensive unisex academic military academy down to a feeder school for at risk kids.
From rich cacs and mexicacs to pregnant hoes and a metal detector in a whole new city, state, and region.
You won't hear shyt from me...I got called ****** nearly every day in that "good school" and got into hella fights.
Never caught one fade at the "hood charter school where all the bad kids who got kicked out go".
I could rap, so I was good.
I skipped 2 grades, got put on to hustling, and got ENLIGHTENED that same year.


I was living with the homies then.
Life comes at you fast.
One year you a private school nerd, the next you're off the porch and on your own.

 

[Black Haven]

yall went to some schools in a alternate universe. Oakland public schools was the worst experience of my fukking life. them shyts was like gladiator academies

Bruh I went to school in South Memphis where many schools needed metal detectors with armed police officers breaking students arms and jaws in the cafeteria during fights and shyt. lol Like I said I'm not invalidating your experience but I just never seen kids get bullied for simply being educated, the other kids really did compliment them. I remember this one kid use to always bring his chess board to the fukking gym of ALL places were cats hooped all the time (or shot dice behind the bleachers) and yet he never got bullied, in fact the other kids who were waiting their turn to hoop, were lined up trying to beat him in chess, even the most thugged out kids.

 

[ThrobbingHood]

knew two cats like this...we use to come to class and bring gamepro magazines to thumb through as freshmen, straight geek shyt.

by our senior year they'd dropped out and was HEAVY into the streets...i already know it was because of that pressure.

I’ve seen this happen waaaaay too often. I’ve seen genius level teenagers get drawn into the streets. Peer pressure is too real, especially now in the social media era.

 

[EndDomination]

I’ve seen it happen constantly, depending on the school.
The “talking white” thing and the nerd thing.
Depends on what school i was at, but that shyt happens all the time.
Even some of my students used to do it to each other.

A whole lot of nikkas who grew up in big ass public schools in the 90s are fronting if they say it wasn’t a real thing.

 

[frankster]

That shyt didn't have nothing to do with getting good grades.

“Go into any inner-city neighborhood, and folks will tell you that government alone can’t teach kids to learn.They know that parents have to parent, that children can’t achieve unless we raise their expectations and turn off the television sets and eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white.”
—Barack Obama, Keynote Address, Democratic National Convention, 2004



It started in the late 60's right after or during the Civil Rights Movements, when white teachers began saying Black students do not speak standard English and so could not be taught....this was a ploy to maintain segregation. As a result division develop between Black student who spoke proper English and those who did not. Black teachers reacted in the mid 70's with an attempt to have common street vernacular/slang in the Black community accept as a language in schools and it was called "Ebonics"...it failed and many Blacks students felt disaffected /humiliated and defeated by the education they were receiving from the White establishment curriculum that was design for White students. Black students who excelled in mostly highly integrated ( or white Teachers) schools began to be seen by some Blacks students as sellout and so were label "acting white".






In An Empirical Analysis of "Acting White" (NBER Working Paper No. 11334), co-authors Roland Fryer and Paul Torelli find that black and Hispanic students who earn high grades face social costs in terms of their popularity. Fryer and Torelli define "acting white" as any "statistically significant racial differences in the relationship between [student] popularity and grades." Participants in student focus groups say that a number of behaviors are condemned as "acting white," including enrollment in honors or advanced placement classes, speaking proper English, wearing the wrong clothes from the wrong stores, or wearing shorts in the winter.

The resulting popularity indexes demonstrate that "the relationship between social status and achievement is categorically different between racial groups, a difference that is robust to changes in specifications, data sub-samples, and definitions of social status or achievement." At a GPA of roughly 2.5, racial differences begin to emerge, and Hispanic students lose popularity rapidly. Popularity peaks at a GPA of about 3.5 for black students. Whites continue to gain popularity as their grades increase. The social cost of "acting white" is more severe for black males than for black females. It is larger for blacks in public schools, but nonexistent for blacks in private schools, "a finding that may partially explain why black kids in private schools do especially well." Finally, the burden imposed for "acting white" is greater for students with more interracial contact. Blacks in more segregated schools "incur less of a trade off between popularity and achievement." The toll for "acting white" is "particularly salient among high achievers and those in schools with more interracial contact."
Acting White

 

[EndDomination]

Now apparently every Coli nikka was a brilliant nerd/athlete/cool down-to-Earth hood nikka who never saw a single person get made fun of for being bookish

Again, most nerds, really smart kids, are squares, and it continues into adulthood. Most find their niche, and have outside interests, but now we’re shifting everything again

 

[Black Haven]

A whole lot of nikkas who grew up in big ass public schools in the 90s are fronting if they say it wasn’t a real thing.

I'm starting to think that it's maybe a generational thing because I graduated in this decade and that is what my experience comes from.