when they surprised on something they thought u have no idea about
Sometimes I feel black folk have to "dumb it down" to be accepted.
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Type of response ....just how our community is, I've grown to accept it.
I don't know.
But sometimes when I log on twitter and make tweets I feel there is this expectation of us as black people to be dumb and ghetto and if we display any sort of intelligence we're immediately seen as a threat.
I think black intellectualism is feared.
If you're a black man or black woman and display some intelligence and foresight and education
They think all we good for is for some dance moves, a hot 16, a wicked jump shot, inhuman speed, and nothing else.
I made some comments on twitter during the olympics saying that its cool that all these black people are winning sports competitions but we need more black doctors, technicians, chemists, biologists, geneticists, scientists, vetereniarians, architects, lawyers, judges etc....we dont need anymore black athletes.
It got some love...but I think throwing that notion out there that we should be more than show negroes gets people scared.
Anyways what are your thoughts?
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Now Dr. Constance Iloh is making history at the University of California – Irvine, becoming its first Black tenure-track professor in the School of Education (a U.S. News & World Report Top 25 Ranked Graduate School of Education).
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I am openly walking by faith and living my dreams in color. I try not to define myself by conventional ideas of success because purpose is bigger than that.
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If I have any advice to offer, I would say never be afraid to let your light shine. I think this is especially important for women and people of color because so many spheres of life aim to limit and minimize us when we are destined to be greater than any box we could be put in. There were times I felt as though I needed permission to do things when I forgot it was God who positioned me in this space for a purpose. As long as God is my compass I trust I am going in the right direction.
Not really. The people being called coli militants are the people bringing up stuff like "the jeffery album cover is a tool to dis-empower the black community" . Bringing that up around an intellectual IRL will get the
from them real quick. I'm pretty sure no one is going off on people talking about finance, philosophy, IT (programming/hardwarde), business, e-commerce, etc. people love those threads
