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

[Booker T Garvey]

Dummy, Clarence Thomas & Ben Carson are technically Black. That doesn't mean they are

No need to discuss this any further than this here

You’re too dumb to realize this, but the fact that you see them as “technically black” proves my point more than anything I can say

Get your last word in man, put that matriarchal upbringing to work

 

[parallax]

Them: They don't like me because I'm smart.

The rest of the world: We don't like you because you're socially awkward, weird, act like you got aspergers, and are ugly as fukk.

why is this a reason to disilke anyone?

 

[Toe Jay Simpson]

This happened to me all the time

 

[patscorpio]

I can only speak for myself but i was a straight A student, honor role, all that ish

I never got clowned for being smart.

But i think i was somewhat insulated for being a 3 sport athlete. Had i not played sports would my experience have been different??

Maybe but honestly i dont think so. The people who got clowned were just socially weird. Wasnt about GPA

I got clowned..but then I came up in the generation of Steve Urkel so any black kid with glasses (big ones in my case) who was smart, that was the label. I sure as fukk got tried plenty of times because of it. I thank my athletic ability and fast educated hands for helping me quell many incidents back then.

 

[patscorpio]

It's not solely about being 'smart.'

Let's not pretend that kids didn't dumb themselves down as they got older. It wasn't 'cool' to like school. It wasn't 'cool' to be interested in learning. I got less interested in school as I got older. Back in the day everything else was more important than sitting down and trying to learn: sports, clowning, what kind of shoes you had, girls, etc.

This topic seems to depend on when you actually went to school. How many ya'll remember when video games (that weren't NBA/NFL) were seen as lame? How many of ya'll remember when anime (that wasn't DBZ) was seen as lame? This stuff just recently became popular in the mainstream (last 10 years). It wasn't always popular enough to be widely discussed in black schools. Back in the day you had to keep some of your interests on the low because you'd get mocked for having them. You had people you hung with who knew what you were talking about but trying to be open about certain stuff would paint you as a lame. The same went for actual interest in school subjects beyond sports, band, etc.

Even the 'smart' folks (who didn't dumb themselves down) had to put on a front to pretend like they were 'cool'. And ya'll know exactly what I'm talking about.

I believe I started to notice this in the transition from middle to high school. Certain folks acting brand new, people you knew in middle school turning their nose up to you, being apart of a click, etc. Hell, anything else was more important than school work.

everything posted in this is real talk..although i never fukked with anime ..i thought that shyt was weird lol

 

[L&HH]

This thread is nonsense. Nerds get their asses whooped every day and in aevery demographic. Let’s not pretend we have some monopoly on uplifting smart kids.

Whats your definition of being a "nerd"? I never seen someone get clowned on for being smart. The most I'd hear is "damn nikka you smart as shyt" or something along those lines. Now if they were a bit awkward and antisocial and dress like they were in an Anime then yeah. But thats not the same thing as being smart. I was one of the smartest kids in my all black middle and elementary schools and my middle school was pretty hood. nikkas never clowned on me for getting good grades. I'm darked skinned so I mainly would hear jokes about that but nikkas who were lightskin got jokes thrown their way too.

 

[Alvin]

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.

depends if you nerdy and if you are well-liked. If you aren't well liked or (no one knows you) then you probably will get picked on or hated on.

 

[Worthless Loser]

Happened in my middle and high school. Both were majority black. Just because you haven't seen it doesn't mean it doesn't happen.

 

[Alvin]

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.

If you are a teacher, please tell me you checked that shyt. I'm tired of teachers looking stupid when they hear disrespect and then having the nerve to suspend kids who defend themselves.

 

[Alvin]

nikkas who had 6x dragonball button ups talmbat "they clowned me because I was smart"


Nope, they getting on that mustard stain you've had on that tucked in white tee since YESTERDAY.

you got to realize some people went to school wanting to learn, better themselves and leave, not do all the bullshyt other people were doing. It has nothing to do with wearing glasses, liking anime or listening to music other than rap or not being in street.

Like most of your posts on here you sound full of shyt and slack jawed. Or a dumb person trying to sound smart or a wannabe negrodamus, parting the red sea while smoking a blunt.

 

[Alvin]

I got picked on for being smart in elementary.

I wasn't a 'nerd', as in glasses and super weird kid or anything, I was just sharp and super bored with the pace that I was learning at. My own cousins used to (and still) get at me for having an answer for everything. Kids would get at me for that and for being poor. I also had problems with teachers which is why I ended up in GT classes, which made shyt worse. Most of the kids in there were older and from better homes with more money so I felt very alienated there.

It was a lot of jokes but there was some fights which was wack because I had already switched schools from fukking up white kids behind some foul shyt that happened...I get to a school with more black kids and now I gotta fight them too.

Between friction with kids at school and not really being able to concentrate because of my neighborhood being hot...I ended up back in regular classes after a year and basically just put my head down.

What were the teachers doing?

 

[Alvin]

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.

you still outside with the youngin's OG

Tell us how it was

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

Not heavily clowned, but I saw kids get teased for being in AP classes "with all the geeks".

Same thing with magnet/gifted programs.

If you were in the same classes as the "cool kids" but excelled, then nobody said anything. But once you started being in different classes, different programs, IB programs and s**t, that's when the slick comments came about.

Lol i was in comp sci ap.

but i was the nikka rocking black af1s so you know i deadass did not give a fukk and people didn't want it with me

 

[frankster]

Oh yeah, I'm sure there were lots of Black peple at the Punahou School in Hawaii and in Indonesia, where he was eating dogs.

Being Black growing up among white people expose you to racism moreso than some one growing up in a Black community.
Where you grow up is not your responsibility, but what you do and make of your life is....without a doubt he has done more for the Black community than most Black people alive today.
Wow!? how we quickly malign a brother. What proof do you have that he ate dog?....you really carrying a lot a hate for a highly academically successful brother....you sure you not one of those haters of black students who do well in school?


So let me ask you a question based on your definition of what it means to be Black , let me quote you -

"Black don't mean "hood". It does mean having regular contact with other Black people though."

Are you then saying that a white European who has regular contact with Black people are Black.?

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

No need to discuss this any further than this here

You’re too dumb to realize this, but the fact that you see them as “technically black” proves my point more than anything I can say

Get your last word in man, put that matriarchal upbringing to work

No, I actually have 2 parents. Way to stereotype. You crying about people sterotyping nerds, but sterotyping me as fatherless because I'm from the hood.

While you still probably don't know the difference between a liberal and a leftist

I can tell why you got yo ass whooped because you aint that smart.

You'z a smug motherfukker who don't know how to take your L and keep it moving.

That's more bytchlike than anything I've said.

why is this a reason to disilke anyone?

Because kids are a$$holes

That's not unique to the Black community though.

Being Black growing up among white people expose you to racism moreso than some one growing up in a Black community.
Where you grow up is not your responsibility, but what you do and make of your life is....without a doubt he has done more for the Black community than most Black people alive today.
Wow!? how we quickly malign a brother. What proof do you have that he ate dog?....you really carrying a lot a hate for a highly academically successful brother....you sure you not one of those haters of black students who do well in school?


So let me ask you a question based on your definition of what it means to be Black , let me quote you -
Are you then saying that a white European who has regular contact with Black people are Black.?

Being exposed to racism isn't what makes you culturally Black. Being Black around other Black people is what makes you culturally Black.

Growing up in an all-Black city/neighborhood exposes you to racism (usually) through housing discrimination, environmental discrimination, undefunded schools, racist cops patrolling your neighborhood, and employment discrimination.

And Obama's an Uncle Tom, who bombed the fukk out of Africans, helped recolonize the continent, helped the Clintons rape Haiti, and helped Wall-Street rape Black people here.

And no being a White person around Black people doesn't make them "Black", it just makes them disconnected from their people, just like those toffee colored negroes Obama and McWhorter are from the Black community.