A Response to “You Act White” w/ Gothix

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  • Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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    You guys have been clamoring for a collab with ‪@GothixTV‬ on the Discord suggested guests channel, so we delivered! She joins me today to discuss the idea that black people who don’t follow the mainstream narrative are somehow not “acting black enough.” Let’s get into it.
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Комментарии • 7 тыс.

  • @GothixTV
    @GothixTV Год назад +2677

    👻yeeeeee

    • @jbluyt8890
      @jbluyt8890 Год назад +19

      👍

    • @MegaTeeruk
      @MegaTeeruk Год назад +57

      Awesome to see you here Gothix!

    • @CelticX7
      @CelticX7 Год назад +14

      👏💥🤟

    • @eternallife9786
      @eternallife9786 Год назад +31

      I like how there's an English translation

    • @crashzone6600
      @crashzone6600 Год назад +40

      Being shamed for acting a certain way is a good way to get them to stop them acting like that, which is why I think shaming fat people for them choosing to be fat important. Bad and sinful behavior should be shamed.
      Rather, shaming someone for acting "too white" is a good way to keep your community from succeeding. If you are constantly shamed for wanting to succeed, and doing so, is a good way to keep your community from valuing achieving anything. Rather than racism from white people, I think it is more likely that it is peer pressure from your own community that is to blame. I think it is pretty much the same phenomenon we see with white liberals who are saying evil things and virtue signaling just to fit in. Peer pressure is so much more powerful an influencer than a boogeyman like white supremacists in controlling the black community. It also shows just how prevalent open racism is within the black community.

  • @ocarinaplaya
    @ocarinaplaya Год назад +3465

    "You act white" translates to "you don't act ghetto enough"

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +236

      And why on earth should you, I heard this crap myself growing up from people who ended up committing crimes. Yeah, we should listen to that bull shit.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +122

      Yeah like that’s something to aspire to.😄

    • @stephaniewheeler4626
      @stephaniewheeler4626 Год назад +72

      Thats exactly what it means...

    • @m4tta
      @m4tta Год назад +133

      it’s also like saying there’s a difference between humans based on their race which is… racist

    • @El_Bueno
      @El_Bueno Год назад +116

      "You're too well spoken"

  • @iamme7626
    @iamme7626 Год назад +5920

    My husband...a Black man...has heard that so often in the last 30 plus years. His response always was: "I dont sound white, I sound educated!!!" Left people speechless :)

    • @markspott1741
      @markspott1741 Год назад +274

      That's the truth of it. Strange that he's probably like me and some others (black, but
      educated, common sense, not jaded) and don't put down others for their speech, dress, job,
      music likes ,etc... when conversing with them...But They Put You Down!!! Jealous that
      you apply yourself and excelled. But it's their only card they can play! So Sad!!!

    • @jenniferh1416
      @jenniferh1416 Год назад +84

      Heard this aimed at one of my high school classmates in AP English by someone who walked up to the classroom door before the class began. My classmate loved to learn and this class was a creative outlet from the typical English class.

    • @Letsgo365
      @Letsgo365 Год назад +34

      Brilliant!!

    • @tomfink7505
      @tomfink7505 Год назад +50

      That is a fantastic comeback!

    • @cindyduncan7049
      @cindyduncan7049 Год назад +34

      AAVE sounds uneducated. There's your contrast.

  • @try8042
    @try8042 Год назад +1645

    The amount of time I have had my “black card” revoked. I once had a black man tell me, “You act white!” My reply, “How am I acting white?” His reply, “You read.” 🤦🏾‍♀️ most of my friends now are white. Not because I prefer white people, but because I became tired of having to prove how black I am. My white friends just accept me for who I am.

    • @ameliaannhouck2670
      @ameliaannhouck2670 Год назад +45

      Welcome home !

    • @ameliaannhouck2670
      @ameliaannhouck2670 Год назад +9

      @@aznboi1027 I did it and it was hilariously funny !! muy beuno ! funny cause it is true ! you made my day!

    • @thcreedon
      @thcreedon Год назад

      I have black friends that just prefer to be around white people

    • @dblum
      @dblum Год назад

      So he assumed black people can’t read? Seems racist.

    • @charlesmartinjr3971
      @charlesmartinjr3971 Год назад

      "'You read'?!" He SAID that?! Please tell me you are making that up - I'll totally accept that - because I'd rather you be lying than think that *reading* is for white people only.

  • @lindasimonet323
    @lindasimonet323 Год назад +463

    I am mixed race, but look white. I do not advertise my ethnicity like it is going to win points. But I can tell you, when I tried to join a black group at work, I was rejected because I am not black enough. My white friends accept me and are not bothered by it. Thank you both for your candor and honesty.

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      I am mixed race, but look white. I do not advertise my ethnicity like it is going to win points ... Sometimes the paradigm shifts and reality hits.
      ...You may think that your are Black because you are mixed but look at it like this.
      You ARE WHITE with a little pepper in your genes ... that makes you mixed race ...not Black ... why not seek out Mixed race groups outside of work if that is what you are really interested in. Just be cordial at work and that should work ... everyone should know how to fake it like that!
      There is a difference. Black culture comes out of suffering and reversal of negative energy. you say ...
      "My white friends accept me and are not bothered by it" ...what is ***IT*** ...?
      ... that indicates that you are probably more in tune with White Culture. mannerisms, lingo? There's another reason that you were rejected ...maybe they are just not into YOU?

    • @Lukas_AZ
      @Lukas_AZ Год назад

      Yet, it's White Folks who are generally accused of being Racist :(

    • @jummyran
      @jummyran Год назад +33

      I’ve seen a lot of bi racial folks say that. Very interesting

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      @@jummyran ... EVENTUALLY WHEN PEOPLE EVOLVE THEY WILL STOP QUALIFYING THEIR RACE AS IF IT MEANS SOMETHING SPECIAL FOR THEM TO TAKE ANY STAND... FOR INSTANCE - "AS A WHITE MAN ..."
      ...AS A WOMAN? ...BLACK WOMAN, WHITE WOMAN ...BLAH BLAH BLAAH?
      WHY NOT JUST AS A MAN OR WONAM?
      WHY NOT JUST CUT TO THE CHASE AND GO STRAIGHT TO THE ISSUE?:
      WHY DOES YOUR RACIAL SELF ACKNOWLEDGENT HAVE TO ( IN YOUR MIND ) MEAN SOMETHING SPECIAL?

    • @indridcole7596
      @indridcole7596 Год назад +1

      Are you serious? Black people have always accepted biracial people you literally could not be accepted by anybody else. From Frederick Douglass to Obama

  • @danielmuliira5363
    @danielmuliira5363 Год назад +1602

    I have been called a RACIST WHITE MAN on Facebook for pointing out black victimhood yet I am a black African from UGANDA.

    • @grahamperkins6582
      @grahamperkins6582 Год назад +96

      😂😂

    • @robertbaker3174
      @robertbaker3174 Год назад

      Dannng! People are stupid these days!

    • @MorganAFunches
      @MorganAFunches Год назад

      What? Omg I'm sorry that happened to you! People have to be delusional retards these days!
      I get told by family members that I have "self hate" for listening to Candace Owens or other black conservative voices and that I'm going against my own race. I'll also correct them on being racist to another race I told by someonein my family, "I'm choosing a different race over my own! Wtf? How does that make sense?

    • @MCPunk55
      @MCPunk55 Год назад

      Let me guess, the accusers were American...

    • @addingupto1002
      @addingupto1002 Год назад +30

      What black people have a problem with is you being an African trying to tell them about what they should feel or can experience. Sometimes, this has to with examining racism. This is insulting because you are a foreigner, who didn't nor did your ancestors grow up in this country. Nor did your ancestors experiencec slavery or Jim Crow here. This is insulting. This would be like telling you how your experience as an African was during colonialism with the us being American.

  • @Degarth
    @Degarth Год назад +1473

    Apparently every Nigerian I have ever met is "acting white" because every one I have ever met speaks impeccable English.

    • @eternallife9786
      @eternallife9786 Год назад +61

      By that logic Indian tech supports speaks impeccable English 🤣

    • @Jim87_36
      @Jim87_36 Год назад +76

      And they work damn hard

    • @missright9159
      @missright9159 Год назад +14

      Yes because all white people speak English. If you meant spoke with proper grammar, just say that 🙄

    • @Degarth
      @Degarth Год назад +4

      @@missright9159 so a black person in America where the conversation was taking place between two Americans in the English language and commented on by another American who speaks English and then by you in English again, could "act white" by speaking German or French impeccably or do you just desperately need something to make your butt cheeks clench in rage? If you do just say that rather than making idiotic comments. 🙄
      To speak impeccable English one would have to utilize proper grammar and proper diction so it goes without saying that I did in fact say that by saying the English was impeccable.

    • @dcarts5616
      @dcarts5616 Год назад +4

      @@missright9159why make this comment? Do you wake up every morning and pop your head off your pillow with the thought “WHAT CAN I LET OFFEND ME TODAY?” FFS get a life.

  • @Uncultured_Barbarian465
    @Uncultured_Barbarian465 Год назад +1865

    Growing up in the 70's and 80's, reading a lot of books and listening to heavy metal, The Black Community turned their backs on me because I was different. As an adult I had a black coworker who wanted to take a swing at me because I used words he didn't understand, and he thought I was making fun of him. I told him that it's not my fault that I read a lot of books. It doesn't bother me, though. My parents didn't raise me with a victim mentality, which I am very thankful for. I refuse to take part in The Oppression Olympics.

    • @Letsgo365
      @Letsgo365 Год назад +110

      Oppression Olympic!!! 😆😂

    • @rhondah.1478
      @rhondah.1478 Год назад +71

      Good for you for not buckling under societal pressure. I love all genres of music and also having grown up in the 80s (I was born in '76) I was into a lot of White artists, basically whatever came on MTV. I had a lot of White friends. And yeah, that got me criticism from Black people, especially my love for New Kids on the Block...still love them, lol.

    • @rhondah.1478
      @rhondah.1478 Год назад +38

      @@Letsgo365 I love that term too! I also don't play into that victim mentality.

    • @Uncultured_Barbarian465
      @Uncultured_Barbarian465 Год назад +61

      @@rhondah.1478 I've been told that I'm too white many times because of what I like, and I finally reached a point where I didn't care. Took me a few decades, but it is what it is. And I feel you, I was born a relatively short time after Dr. King was assassinated, and it was such a different time. But those of us born in that generation grew up with awesome music, both the classics that already existed and the new artists that came around. Those who did not experience the 70's or the 80's don't know the pure joy of finding new music being played on the radio dial, and it was always banger after banger. And we had older relatives that often introduced us to new music. One of my uncles introduced me to Ram Jam and I had an older cousin that introduced me to AC/DC while we were tearing ass across a frozen lake in a truck he had rebuilt. 😁

    • @billallen4793
      @billallen4793 Год назад +21

      @@Uncultured_Barbarian465 Thunderstruck, and open headers, is a beautiful combination for the human 👂 ear!..lol..from Wyoming USA 🇺🇸 🤠

  • @moon_0207
    @moon_0207 Год назад +302

    Them: gets mad when they’re stereotyped. Also them: gets mad when the person of the same race doesn’t act like the stereotype. Like bruh pick a lane🤦🏻‍♀️ why does you being black, Asian, female, male, gay, straight…etc have to be your entire personality? It’s only a small fraction of who you are. You’re more than that.

    • @rickwilson7282
      @rickwilson7282 Год назад +24

      But if we discover that we are more than just those things, then we can become united and make progress. The anti-American revolution only succeeds if we are too fragmented to support each other.

    • @Npc1488-wc1kf
      @Npc1488-wc1kf Год назад +10

      Its their entire personality cuz they have jck sht going on for them

    • @maddhatter3564
      @maddhatter3564 Год назад +2

      at least there SHOULD be more than that, i sometimes suspect there isnt

    • @maestrogamersz2120
      @maestrogamersz2120 7 месяцев назад

      She does speak white. I can name several factors. It's quite funny actually. She's like a smaller version, less successful version of Candace Owens

    • @chrisxavier1848
      @chrisxavier1848 6 месяцев назад +2

      Divide and Rule is the Game

  • @h.lynnerothsel6400
    @h.lynnerothsel6400 Год назад +853

    "You're acting white" generally translates to "You're not doing what I want you to do"

    • @blackperson5283
      @blackperson5283 Год назад +99

      “You’re acting white” translate to “you’re not the stereotype of black people”

    • @yell50
      @yell50 Год назад +6

      well said

    • @SpiritOfAbsinthe
      @SpiritOfAbsinthe Год назад

      Crab mentality is a tendency to pull down people around you who you consider are better than you in any aspect.

    • @yell50
      @yell50 Год назад +8

      @Epic Buffalo it's not about skin colour it's about attitude of mind if you think of yourself as a victim you will be a victim in your own mind.

    • @hardwired4548
      @hardwired4548 Год назад

      @Epic Buffalo Usually the ones that use the term, are generally racist. And it's often used in an attempt to bullie the person it's used ageist into acting a certain way or doing something they wouldn't normally do. Manipulation.

  • @donciers221
    @donciers221 Год назад +1351

    After being told one time too many, that I 'talk and act white', including teachers, I quit high school at 17, got a GED, and joined the Army. There, as a paratrooper, I found a true brotherhood, actually, a family to which I, at 68, still belong. I learned the truth of life. 'Skin tone means nothing. You're either a good person, or a piece of sh*t, everyone has a choice.'

    • @flavourruling2162
      @flavourruling2162 Год назад +57

      “You are not black, you are not white, you are not yellow, you are not red. You. Are. Green!”

    • @GrayS304
      @GrayS304 Год назад +31

      Thank you for your service, Sir! You make this world turn ❤

    • @davidhfranz
      @davidhfranz Год назад +19

      True brotherhood...and a lifetime of knee and back injuries. (I'm amazed I never got broken on Sicily, Holland, or Luzon)

    • @NouraZahle
      @NouraZahle Год назад +10

      That's a fantastic quote.

    • @slayerofsouls1182
      @slayerofsouls1182 Год назад +6

      You sir are correct..

  • @craigpridemore7566
    @craigpridemore7566 Год назад +127

    It's NOT just the black community. My sister-in-law is from a Hispanic family in LA that calls her a 'coconut' - brown on the outside but white on the inside. Why would your family think this is OK?

    • @Carlitosway211
      @Carlitosway211 Год назад

      Lol! Because people used to not be softies.

    • @St.Basil.
      @St.Basil. 9 месяцев назад +4

      Nazis used word beefsteak (brown on the outside, red on the inside) to describe former communists, that joined their party.
      Soviets used word reddish to describe secretly non-communists, who claimed that they are.
      Oreo and coconut lovers have some bad company here.

    • @grant1739
      @grant1739 8 месяцев назад +2

      Coconut that is funny sorry lol

    • @kevinmccabe7263
      @kevinmccabe7263 4 месяца назад

      God that's terrible! What a horrible family!

    • @maniibabyy3378
      @maniibabyy3378 3 месяца назад

      That’s interesting I’ve never heard of being called a coconut

  • @vegetashairline3060
    @vegetashairline3060 Год назад +509

    They will say things like "You act white" all day. But if someone said to them "you act black" they would lose their shit.

    • @raymondleggs5508
      @raymondleggs5508 Год назад +29

      I act "white" and Ironically white people don't care lol

    • @destinyboykin8404
      @destinyboykin8404 Год назад

      They hate in white people who act black. I went to a majority black school so they would hate blacks for acting too white and for white people who acted too black saying they should “act their race” but everyone is raised differently

    • @raymondleggs5508
      @raymondleggs5508 Год назад +4

      @@DramaFreeZone-ws2tp white

    • @theanimeunderworld8338
      @theanimeunderworld8338 Год назад +32

      Wasn't there a Fresh Prince of Belair episode where the cousin was accused of not being black enough yet he debated by saying "Being black isn't what I'm trying to be, it's what I am"

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      ...this is not a excuse but the reason for that is that Black culture like White culture demands but doesn't always get conformity. Black culture that is at poverty level as well as educated Blacks have a Black / White filter ... Black vernacular language is slang infused which makes it "Black" ... or how "WE" talk .... the WE is subjective. ENUNCIATING is the divider between Black vernacular and White vernacular. In the past, "CORRECT" English was expected in society ...speech is a Freedom so that was always challenged by those who did not align culturally with Majority Culture.
      ...now to get specific ...
      Only a Black person usually says "You sound White" to another Black person ...
      so that is not racist but expressing a "Racial" perspective held by Black culture adherants which is that you sound like we do ... There is always CHOICE!
      ... Now on the other had, who would say "YOU SOUND BLACK" ...?
      ... that would have to be an assimilated American Black person who mirrors the majority culture .. in this case the statement is just as ignorant as the opposite.
      ...on the other hand if a White person says "YOU SOUND BLACK" ... ?
      #1. the person "IS" Black theoretically is they adhere to Black Culture and if they have dark skin which makes the statement absurd and race based or Racist!
      #2. Coming from a White person, the statement would be Racist on it's face no matter wehat the intent. This is Because the statement becomes part of a lengthy line of rhetoric that belittles or denies black aesthetics of any kind. It is a statement that says that "You need to change to be more like me" ... which is oppressive in any case.

  • @mrsonix20th
    @mrsonix20th Год назад +1131

    I'm black, love anime, and rock music, don't talk in slang, and wear converse and vans. The number of times I've heard from other black people that I talk and act white has made me isolate myself from many black people subconsciously out of fear of feeling like I am not enough or some bull crap like that. I've learned to just be me and not just my skin color. Because, quite honestly, it is hard to find other people who look like me and are interested in the same things.

    • @shadowswithin702
      @shadowswithin702 Год назад +25

      I'm sure their out there, but while you decided feck this I'm going to be me. Their still probably trying to appease their community, and not pursing the things they really like. And that to me is pretty sad, it's a short life and it's too short to not do all the things you want to do.

    • @mrsonix20th
      @mrsonix20th Год назад +23

      @@shadowswithin702 yeah life can seem short but we also can’t waste time. So although it may be nice to have people that look like you. There is absolutely nothing wrong with looking outside your race we don’t have to stay in our communities to feel wanted or feel like we belong. I went to a emo festival last month I’m vegas. When I say that is the most I’ve felt like I belonged ever it really was.

    • @tiestokygoericprydz3963
      @tiestokygoericprydz3963 Год назад +26

      Jimi Hendrix and Kenny Kravitz was also into rock n roll but then hip hop emerged
      And people turned more violent

    • @TheSchaef47
      @TheSchaef47 Год назад +8

      Good on you, man, chucks are awesome

    • @mrsonix20th
      @mrsonix20th Год назад +45

      @@tiestokygoericprydz3963 I don’t blame rap culture for violence I blame the people. I love Hendrix and kravitz too. Rap culture is important to black people just as much as jazz, blues, early rock n roll and etc. it’s just people forget that and now anything that isn’t about hoes, money, guns and killing is quote on quote white people music. Which I hate because honestly rock music saved my life in so many ways.

  • @BohoBroCHOREO
    @BohoBroCHOREO Год назад +947

    I’m a dark skinned black person and bc I’ve always talked intelligent and in complete sentences and my taste in music, I was ALWAYS told by black people that I was always too white. Which for a long time made me feel crazy. Even my family had stated this

    • @oreally8605
      @oreally8605 Год назад +26

      I know the feeling.

    • @valorie444
      @valorie444 Год назад +116

      And it's never from white people hmmmmm.

    • @thetruthisoutthere8598
      @thetruthisoutthere8598 Год назад +61

      Democraps have some folks trained

    • @adamaccountname
      @adamaccountname Год назад +3

      It's as though white supremacists figured that if they wanted to keep segregation they had to make sure it was self enforced. Which is a feature of CRT

    • @richard_from_england333
      @richard_from_england333 Год назад +1

      @@adamaccountname Is this white supremacy here in the room with you?

  • @bruvathroatpuncher500
    @bruvathroatpuncher500 Год назад +138

    Im half black and half asian, my black mother taught me to speak properly, and many in the black community accuse me of acting white or not black enough because I'm half asian. I'm so sick and tired of this BS especially when I'm into nerdy hobbies. So apparently to be black you have to act like a reject from a hip-hop video.

    • @rayjones658
      @rayjones658 8 месяцев назад

      U literally just said you were accused of “acting white” because you’re half Asian. You being biracial is why they said you act white, not because of your hobbies lmao.

    • @LouisianaGoon337
      @LouisianaGoon337 7 месяцев назад

      ​@@rayjones658so now Asians act white? Hilarious 😂

    • @jewelfox143
      @jewelfox143 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@rayjones658 Those nerdy hobbies are more common among white and asian people....or stereotypically at least.

    • @jamisojo
      @jamisojo 6 месяцев назад

      ​@@jewelfox143but only a dip sh*t would seriously infer that someone is not black for being articulate or have non-stereotypical hobbies.
      He might be "nerdy". He isn't "not black". Obviously, serious comments like that are from knuckleheads.

    • @2kx62
      @2kx62 Месяц назад

      I don’t think it’s bc your biracial, especially when light skinned people exist and there basically just another variation of black people who kinda act the same and get along fondly with each other, they probably don’t vibe with u simply bc they don’t relate to you, and if u think they were “making fun of you” is them being cruel well u just don’t know much your own people, bc blacks “make fun of each other” as an hobby, actually it’s more of them just playing with each other, that’s just their humor.

  • @Sldejo
    @Sldejo Год назад +577

    I have been called “acting white” because I made better decisions for myself. 🤷🏾‍♀️
    They are still struggling to this day for their horrible decisions. It’s jealously and envy.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +35

      That’s it.

    • @W0UlCV
      @W0UlCV Год назад +12

      I mean… she’s got a point🧐

    • @NoName-gr5eh
      @NoName-gr5eh Год назад +14

      I wish i could like this comment a million times!

    • @JawbreakerXD
      @JawbreakerXD Год назад +1

      Yup. You're either acting white or "think you're better than me"

    • @blackestknightx8881
      @blackestknightx8881 Год назад +17

      No it's not from envy. Atleast not at first. It was because you didn't follow the standard that has been set for black people therefore you were an anomaly. And that was perfectly fine because most people are simply followers

  • @thelastmotel
    @thelastmotel Год назад +639

    I'm American born, English raised in a Caribbean neighbourhood by Irish grandparents, served 6 years in the USAF, and I've travelled the world... there's almost nowhere I haven't been in my 50-odd years of life... and I've never seen a country that works harder to keep itself divided than the U.S. Sadly, the internet is spreading this socio-political virus to the rest of the Western world.

    • @yoleniartz
      @yoleniartz Год назад +37

      Thank you for your service! I come from a very muxed cultured family too. My dad's German, Russian, and Spanish (very small percentage Romanian) decent. My mother's S. Korean and chinese with a lil German decent. I was born in Nicaragua and raised in the States from 5yrs up. I traveled the world with my father whenever I could when I was younger and got to see other cultures. And I can agree..USA can be the most seperated when it comes to things like these.

    • @trith72
      @trith72 Год назад +3

      Keep in mind it's only one side that works to keep us divided..the left. They have an entire cash industry based on race-hustling..like BLM and jesse jackson. If we unite they stop extorting cash from idiots willing to be extorted and the government...

    • @pinchebruha405
      @pinchebruha405 Год назад +24

      Id venture to say that is the black American that does this. Ive traveled as well and black people I meet from other countries and they’re nothing like Americans blacks they always say they’re embarrassed and don’t want to be compared. That said I’m Mexican American and hear that I’m too white lol. Thé black experience is very unique indeed, sadly not healthy

    • @DeathsjesterKMNP
      @DeathsjesterKMNP Год назад +2

      It's the politicians with collusion from the mass media doing it, and sadly they are indoctrinating our younger generations to hate each other. If the normal citizens feel like they can't trust or get along with each other, these groups hope they will turn to them, and in doing so they will have control over them.

    • @shadowswithin702
      @shadowswithin702 Год назад +1

      You sound interesting as hell, that much diversity of culture you would think would be celebrated.

  • @blackbycoloronly
    @blackbycoloronly Год назад +774

    I’m a black guy who has been going through this for around 30 years. It is very refreshing to see these young ladies speaking on this.

    • @rollwiththetroll7497
      @rollwiththetroll7497 Год назад +27

      Yeah, it is. These young ladies are brave and brilliant. They give me hope for Gen Z.

    • @theanimeunderworld8338
      @theanimeunderworld8338 Год назад +10

      Wasn't there a Fresh Prince of Belair episode where the cousin was accused of not being black enough yet he debated by saying "Being black isn't what I'm trying to be, it's what I am"

    • @MarkAndrewRitchie
      @MarkAndrewRitchie Год назад +5

      A black guy? I mean a male? Listening to this? God bless you, Buddy [I didn't say 'boy.' I haven't said boy in 5 decades.]. You are the key man. Black ladies seem to have gotten this message. But the guys are still shopping for a leader. You, my friend, take the lead. Go for it. You can do this.

    • @blackbycoloronly
      @blackbycoloronly Год назад +7

      @@MarkAndrewRitchie, I do a radio program where I talk about this very subject. Been doing it for 13 years.

    • @darryl5372
      @darryl5372 Год назад +2

      Stay strong and be true to yourself.

  • @deveryellison1768
    @deveryellison1768 Год назад +54

    OMG! Amala. You just described my High school experience. I'm black (dark skinned) , considered articulate, musician who likes rock, heavy rock, but I was raised on Motown. My parents were ok with me and my brothers liking rock. I'm 62, and still get the "OREO" treatment. Some white people would tell me "I'm Blacker den you is". NO. You're Not!!! Just because I graduated college, have white friends, play hard rock, have a decent job, never been in prison...I guess I'm not Black. But I AM.

  • @HappySolarSystem
    @HappySolarSystem Год назад +827

    When I was kid, I drew anime-styled art a lot in school. But around 10th grade, I stopped drawing in school because I got sick of classmates and teachers always asking why I don’t “draw more Black.” Even when I participated in art contests, I always lost to that graffiti-style type of art anyway. I was always frustrated that they would never recognize my hard work and wondered if I should change my style. But my mom basically said “Screw ‘em!” and encouraged me to keep drawing the way I want. I’m a Studio Art major now. 😂

    • @untitled_firstdraft7726
      @untitled_firstdraft7726 Год назад +80

      Wait how does one “draw more black”? Were you ever given a definition?

    • @KJ-vp5fn
      @KJ-vp5fn Год назад +38

      Good for you and i hope you reach your full potential. You are also lucky to have a supportive mom

    • @RanMouri82
      @RanMouri82 Год назад +26

      You've got a good mom!

    • @RanMouri82
      @RanMouri82 Год назад +21

      @@untitled_firstdraft7726 I'm guessing not, because it's such a weird, subjective idea.

    • @madmitch3365
      @madmitch3365 Год назад +39

      “Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams; lions have little in common with sheep.”
      Matshona Dhliwayo

  • @yttraslercodren777
    @yttraslercodren777 Год назад +666

    Got asked by a Hispanic girl in elementary school "why do you like to read, you're black" and I was so confused by her question. I just responded, with an odd look on my face, "because I like to read?" And that was my first experience with racism.

    • @Thesmokeeffect
      @Thesmokeeffect Год назад +18

      I'm going to call cap on that

    • @ronnieallie8490
      @ronnieallie8490 Год назад +9

      You had me in the first half 😂

    • @cristobalgarcia3403
      @cristobalgarcia3403 Год назад +27

      You should have told her if she was also of mostly Native American decent why are you still speaking Spanish, Indian?

    • @mbmd_nation
      @mbmd_nation Год назад +11

      That's a really weird question, why did she even ask that lol

    • @siobahnhurley85
      @siobahnhurley85 Год назад +4

      😳 OMG seriously?! I grew up in the verbs and never thought to ask that! My mom would have tanned my hide for a comment like that!

  • @rickschucker9697
    @rickschucker9697 Год назад +319

    Don’t act black, don’t act white, act like a good , decent, kind human being. We could all get along😊.

    • @rockinrobin4681
      @rockinrobin4681 Год назад +11

      Well said. It’s that simple.

    • @WhiteTiger333
      @WhiteTiger333 Год назад +11

      You got that right, Rick!!

    • @jackorispontiac
      @jackorispontiac Год назад +11

      like Morgan Freeman says "you stop calling me a black man & I'll stop calling you a white man" end of story

  • @ItsTaniya
    @ItsTaniya Год назад +1359

    The amount of times I’ve been told I “act white” “speak white” “dressed white” it’s honestly ridiculous.
    Update: I should probably update my channel. I didn’t think I’d get as much as 1k likes on a comment😂 thank you all for the compliments!

    • @Lucrei.
      @Lucrei. Год назад +49

      You do you, it's not like there's anything wrong with those things

    • @Remy4489
      @Remy4489 Год назад +11

      The fact that speaking properly, or behaving in a classy
      , probably elegant manner; is deemed "white", actually shows that you are NOT the problem but the prejudice, the self-limitation and the toxic self-segregation of the accusing community are the problem.

    • @ItsTaniya
      @ItsTaniya Год назад +26

      @@Remy4489 I loved how you explained this, I appreciate it, thank you!!

    • @Remy4489
      @Remy4489 Год назад +7

      @Niya Beonsay Well thank you, and you're welcome 🙂.

    • @isardonic8601
      @isardonic8601 Год назад +5

      Join the club

  • @chrissytina6379
    @chrissytina6379 Год назад +63

    I was harassed my entire life said I spoke "white" when I just simply spoke properly.
    I came from educators and parents who pushed education and I was corrected growing up it's sad and a sickness in the minds of those who if I don't live up to the stereotypes I'm not black, I don't pay it any mindwhen you are you ger it's harder but as you get older and gain wisdom and understanding you feel sorry for those trapped in a limited mentality.

    • @johnandersons
      @johnandersons Год назад

      I have always said the only thing that will fix black society is black people and that ain't happening any time soon.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 10 месяцев назад +4

      This mentality is so lame and backward. How are we supposed to speak or act? Are we supposed to speak slang all day or misuse words or grammar to be accepted? This is too stupid. I happen to like language and words.

  • @ink4852
    @ink4852 Год назад +400

    This resonates with every atom in my body!
    Growing up I was always told that I "sound" white because I speak too proper. I'm like, "Yeah I paid attention in English class".
    Seriously like 99% of racism I have ever experienced has been from OTHER black people!

    • @elithluxe7568
      @elithluxe7568 Год назад +9

      No one ever said that to me but boy did I feel out of place in predominantly black schools and neighborhoods until I met other asians

    • @user-wz4hr5xu4k
      @user-wz4hr5xu4k Год назад

      @@elithluxe7568 lolol

    • @zarach9459
      @zarach9459 Год назад +8

      I am from Venezuela, at the university I had a study partner named Robert, he was from Trinidad, he was black and he constantly complained to me that I never used bad words, everyone interspersed profanities when speaking except me, I often called him an idiot, an oligophrenic and the latter was the one that bothered him the most, possibly because he did not know what he wanted to say.

    • @SoneaT
      @SoneaT Год назад +14

      I always wondered why we white people are addressed by the POC constantly as white people. Honestly I never understood why? I'm European and even in our whiteness, we all have different skin color! Northern EU is "often" lighter, middle EU usually have all different skin colors. More to the south it will be way darker than in the north! Sun is tanning us, too. ( not all european meets this standard, even in northern region might be people who are more tanned)
      If we look into our DNA there are often found African, Hispanic or some other native blood-types in it! And if you paid attention in history class you will know why!

    • @rollerturtle
      @rollerturtle Год назад

      ​@@SoneaT because Americans came up with this and they are stupid. I think they had no idea what Europe is which is quite possible

  • @Chalando.9431
    @Chalando.9431 Год назад +464

    A white girl who dates only black men told me I talk white. I walked away laughing thinking damn she’s so lost

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад

      They’re idiots.

    • @candiigurl7893
      @candiigurl7893 Год назад +66

      Noooo 🤣 The lack of self awareness lol

    • @kon1402
      @kon1402 Год назад +2

      I am white and I grew up in a white country. All I can say is that nobody talks white in a white country: you can either talk smart or talk stupid.

    • @cthulucalamari2448
      @cthulucalamari2448 Год назад +75

      Did she talk with a "blackcent" as well? Lol

    • @TheWhipsnap
      @TheWhipsnap Год назад +2

      @@cthulucalamari2448 😂probably was overweight, with black booty shorts, a white tank top with hoop ear rings and gelled up hair stuck down to her head😂

  • @timlamb6196
    @timlamb6196 Год назад +533

    Wow ! You made one heck of a point. Blacks whine about stereotypes yet if somebody doesn't act and talk in a stereotypical way they are "acting white".

    • @MyBelch
      @MyBelch Год назад

      Yep. Gotta be a brute or a jezebel or a picaninny or, like unkle FJB says, you ain't black. The whole toxic culture is a dumpster fire.

    • @donmiller2908
      @donmiller2908 Год назад +39

      I saw this 40 years ago when I was in the Navy, so it's nothing new. Black men on board were constantly appraising you for any sign that you weren't "acting in strict accordance with behavior protocols rigidly set by the black community" AKA "being ghetto". They all wore the same clothing while on liberty, ate the same foods, smoked the same cigarettes, had the same haircuts, bought the same types of automobiles with the same aftermarket modifications, listened to the same music, talked the same way, walked the same way and drank the same soft drinks. Any diversity from the accepted script was instantly criticized. I was from an upper middle class family in a upscale suburb of Baltimore so it was like being tossed among Martians for me. We looked alike but we lived on different worlds. Black culture can be likened to crab mentality.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +9

      @@donmiller2908 Hispanics were doing this also, I never wanted to act like they wanted me to and my parents were born here and just never got that limited mentality.

    • @donmiller2908
      @donmiller2908 Год назад +9

      @@deniseberman8633 - I'm glad. The world needs more free thinkers

    • @michaelbrown8441
      @michaelbrown8441 Год назад +6

      it is how all victims of nothing act to feel important

  • @MYJ61
    @MYJ61 Год назад +113

    I have always loved a line from Sidney Poitier in the movie “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” where he lovingly looks at his father and says “You think of yourself as a colored man. I think of myself as a man”. Such a wonderful line.

    • @mwfmtnman
      @mwfmtnman Год назад +5

      Such a great movie

    • @isaiah3872
      @isaiah3872 Год назад +5

      As someone who's been accused of "acting white" all my life, that scene spoke for me in such a simple yet also profound way.

    • @heavenlywells3818
      @heavenlywells3818 11 месяцев назад +1

      Nice 👍

    • @rogerward801
      @rogerward801 8 месяцев назад +2

      That sort of thinking used to be the ideal. Now we're supposed to see color in everything

  • @Primroseholic
    @Primroseholic Год назад +320

    One of my best friends in middle school is black. She was a great girl smart, kind, and sweet. We were in advance classes. That's where we met. When we met ( we were sat next to each other) we started to talk about how we got in the advance classes. She told me that she up till that year made her grades lower so she wouldn't look smart because she wanted to fit in with her family and other black kids. She then realized that was hurting her future and started getting better grades. We hung out everyday , and i saw how other black kids and even her family started treating her. I felt so sad for her. Her own family called her little miss white girl to insult her. Other black kids wouldn't even talk to her anymore (they would talk to me though). They would say anything she did from then on was her trying to be white from how she dressed to how she acted what she ate. How was a 13 year old girl supposed to handle being ostracized just for wanted to have a better future?

    • @donaldhoegger1162
      @donaldhoegger1162 Год назад

      The parents calling her little miss white girl, there in itself is the problem, so now all this craziness going on in black communities and every where else says another about how their home lives are. Be a good black person and disrespect others, steal, loot, be a criminal, don't take responsibility for your actions, blame society and the white people. How fucked up is that!?

    • @angelaa3463
      @angelaa3463 Год назад +26

      I hope she is on top of the world now!!

    • @Primroseholic
      @Primroseholic Год назад +33

      @@angelaa3463 Oh i really do she was one of my best friends and i miss her a lot. She was very shy ,but when you got to know her she was a joy and made you happy. You couldn't be sad when she was around. She'd just brighten up your day. I couldn't believer her own family would do that to her.

    • @rachelmariecaberapacheco7942
      @rachelmariecaberapacheco7942 Год назад +13

      This is one heartbreaking story...is already bad when people reject you and such, bit her own family? And only because she wanted a better future? What is wrong with this people?

    • @rachelmariecaberapacheco7942
      @rachelmariecaberapacheco7942 Год назад +3

      ​@@angelaa3463 Me too!!!❤

  • @heidiclement4923
    @heidiclement4923 Год назад +336

    This was touched on in The Fresh Prince. Carlton was rejected from a fraternity because he acted 'too white'. Carlton called it out and responded to it, GREAT EPISODE.

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox Год назад +33

      Or when Uncle Phil had to tell them what the civil rights movement really was.

    • @verucasalt9182
      @verucasalt9182 Год назад +16

      I’ve been told that they are producing a spin off of the fresh Prince of Bel Air where Carlton is sent to Philadelphia to get more street wise .😂
      Like educated and high achiever black parents would be interested in their kids to go the ghettos .😂

    • @azmike3572
      @azmike3572 Год назад +26

      I remember Uncle Phil's response: he shook his head and said, "WHEN are we going to stop doing this to each other?"

    • @theanimeunderworld8338
      @theanimeunderworld8338 Год назад +23

      "Being black isn't what I'm trying to be, it's what I am"
      Which honestly is good commentary. Just because you're a certain ethnicity doesn't mean you have to follow the "standards" else that creates stereotypes

    • @bengraham5699
      @bengraham5699 Год назад +8

      that scene is on youtube; called "Carlton is called a sellout"

  • @tyrantkingking
    @tyrantkingking Год назад +281

    This is one of the single most damaging things the black community does to itself. The underlying connotation of the statement "You Act White" is that Black = Ghetto/Poor/Stupid and White = Fancy/Rich/Smart. Can you imagine a school where every day the students that scored the highest on homework or tests were singled out in front of the rest of the students and ridiculed for their achievement and then forced to sit alone by themselves until they brought their grades back down. The black community is also often referenced with the "Bucket of Crabs" analogy where as soon as one crab tries to climb out of the bucket the rest of them pull the escaping crab back down into the bucket and so none of them ever escape

    • @pauldelaney5990
      @pauldelaney5990 Год назад +23

      Bucket of crabs.
      The perfect description.

    • @zarach9459
      @zarach9459 Год назад +17

      In the early 2000s I read an article written by an African-American journalist who described what it was like going through high school, all the boys were gang members or drug dealers, all the girls were interested in "catching a man who would support them." , her classmates had sex with their boyfriends in exchange for gifts and money, they frequently pointed out to her that not being promiscuous was as if she believed that she was better than the others, half of the girls got pregnant before graduating and they didn't care For them it was normal and in general they obtained subsidies to support themselves for a while. Their mother and sisters had become pregnant without being married and that example gave her the conviction to seek a better life.

    • @IrisRayLadyBlue
      @IrisRayLadyBlue Год назад +8

      @@zarach9459 you just described the poor community in my country perfectly. (No black ppl /community in my country tho. We don’t have this skin color discrimination issue)
      So, instead of the white and black things, in my country it’s just the poor vs middle-to-rich with the same mentality as what you just described. I’m coming from immigrant family that extremely poor but we build up our wealth in just 3 generations through our hard work , investing in education and financial discipline.
      This may sound heartless but some ppl just deserve the life and disrespect they are getting. Coz they don’t even try and make it their goal to degrade those who are trying and their achievements.

    • @queenbeaute9967
      @queenbeaute9967 Год назад +7

      That's the most accurately description of tge black community in a nut shell and that's why they all the same and noone makes it out that "Crab in a Barrel"

    • @ameliaannhouck2670
      @ameliaannhouck2670 Год назад

      There is an old song for this : Don't Get Above Your Raisin ! They want to keep you down with them in the pile of crap with them , whites do the same , so whatever you do, GET OUT OF WHERE YOU WERE RAISED AND LEAVE THEM THERE, AND YOU GO ACHIEVE THINGS IN LIFE !! AND GO BACK AND LOOK AT THEM AND SIGH WITH PURE RELIEF YOU ARE NOT THESE MUTANTS OF DO NOTHINGS !
      Read Ayn Rand ,on youtube, about this : the masses will pull you down to their level of low wits and mutants !! She is correct !!

  • @rumbaughsteven5577
    @rumbaughsteven5577 Год назад +30

    I worked for the Army. On a trip once with a Back Colonel, he told me he grew up in Philadelphia and all the guys who were his friends went to prison. ROTC made him an Army Officer and moved him into a positive direction.

  • @PaulJokiel
    @PaulJokiel Год назад +360

    Ladies... thank you for existing. Like... can't we all just be humans together?

    • @chimychimes
      @chimychimes Год назад +7

      Not everyone is crazy on the internet 😅☺️☺️

    • @-KMA-
      @-KMA- Год назад +4

      Wouldn’t it be nice? ❤

    • @W0UlCV
      @W0UlCV Год назад +4

      That’s what I’m saying! We all breath the same air… so what does it matter.

    • @omnibusman5792
      @omnibusman5792 Год назад +2

      No. Absolutely not.

    • @maymarsh9117
      @maymarsh9117 Год назад +1

      🎶They say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one.

  • @MegaTeeruk
    @MegaTeeruk Год назад +566

    I'm white but grew up dirt poor in an all black neighborhood. When I was a kid if I did something well - say got good grades - my friends in the neighborhood would be legit happy for me "aw man we are going to be working for you someday" etc. But if another black kid did the same thing I did they would get mocked for "thinking they were white." It has honestly always bothered me even now decades later I wonder if some of their lives would have turned out differently with a littke bit of encouragement.

    • @omnibusman5792
      @omnibusman5792 Год назад +2

      THAT has bothered u for decades? U need to go to a therapist bro.

    • @lisettes.9598
      @lisettes.9598 Год назад +102

      @@omnibusman5792 yes, it's horrifying and perplexing to other cultures to see how black people treat eachother and others. With good reason.

    • @omnibusman5792
      @omnibusman5792 Год назад +1

      @@lisettes.9598 Let that roll off your back. It's not that serious. "Horrifying" come on now. 😐

    • @grim_2000
      @grim_2000 Год назад +92

      @@omnibusman5792
      I can't speak for OP, but I don't think he thinks 24/7 about that. It's probably smth like "it bothered me then, it bothers me now, when I think about it". The thought can be provoked by seeing/hearing smth similar & we are commenting under this video, so...

    • @ericksonjustinAK
      @ericksonjustinAK Год назад +19

      You shouldn't wonder. That definitely made an impact on those kids.

  • @hasfidanken
    @hasfidanken Год назад +622

    If they accept there is such a thing as "acting white" or "acting black" they are basically saying racism is a correct ideology because they recognize skin color DOES affect your behaviour.

    • @ian-flanagan
      @ian-flanagan Год назад +24

      Well I think they mean “black” as the name of a culture in the US, rather than “black” as a skin colour. They have the same name, but they’re 2 separate concepts. Someone with black skin from outside the US wouldn’t be expected to “act black”. So, I agree it’s annoying, but I think it’s going too far to say it’s promoting racism.

    • @hasfidanken
      @hasfidanken Год назад +46

      @@ian-flanagan sounds like linguistics acrobatics to me.

    • @ian-flanagan
      @ian-flanagan Год назад +11

      @@hasfidanken Well maybe. But I think we’re better off being as understanding as possible before declaring people evil, or racist or whatever.

    • @hasfidanken
      @hasfidanken Год назад +41

      @@ian-flanagan Agree with you. However I cannot imagine a more racist remark than saying "you are acting ".

    • @dixonpinfold2582
      @dixonpinfold2582 Год назад +7

      @@hasfidanken Nah. Typical/average social behaviors definitely do differ by race, so pointing it out shouldn't be controversial and certainly not be regarded as something racist. But it is very wrong and racist to _criticize_ anyone for not behaving in line with their race's norms.
      Equally there's nothing wrong with saying women are generally gentler than men. But criticizing men who are very gentle or women who are harsher, on the basis that they don't match the norms for their sex, is definitely sexist and wrong.
      That would be as silly as telling a man he's effeminate for being 5'6", or a woman that she's really 'butch' for being 5'11". It'd be total nonsense. But mentioning that men avg. 5'10" and women 5'4" is in no way sexist.

  • @momsnoteatingbugs1919
    @momsnoteatingbugs1919 Год назад +28

    My daughters were white in a minority white school district growing up and saw this dynamic playing out over and over again. They would have black friends who, the more successful they got, would be taunted by their black peers who would drag them back down to their academic level with these attacks that, at times, were quite ugly. None of them wanted to be “accused” of acting white. Only a couple of them had the fortitude to stay the course and become successful students who would go on to college. The others would fall back and like their peers ended up for the most part becoming gang members or at the very least high school dropouts. It was very sad and was so necessary. My daughters reported they did not see this at all among Asian or other ethnic peer groups. In fact the parents and other community members in those peer groups valued academic success and saw that as a means to escape their cycles of poverty.

  • @jeromestafford3089
    @jeromestafford3089 Год назад +367

    I’m a high school teacher in Philadelphia. My students have always been suspicious of my “blackness” because I correct their grammar and don’t allow them to curse in class. One student openly accused me of not being black because I’ve never seen the movie “Stomp the Yard.”

    • @OgamiItto70
      @OgamiItto70 Год назад +51

      Ask them who do they think they are, Joe Biden?

    • @zxyatiywariii8
      @zxyatiywariii8 Год назад +13

      @@OgamiItto70 😆🤣😂

    • @Aethon_is_here
      @Aethon_is_here Год назад +24

      Who the hell even remembers that movie?

    • @1rstBorn
      @1rstBorn Год назад +5

      Neither have I. Musical aren't really my thing. Weird since I 💜 some music videos. Kpop, Deutsche rap, Japenese Pop and rap, Spanish boleros and Merengue, and some French Pop.

    • @martierickson7937
      @martierickson7937 Год назад

      You should ask those students to make a list of what makes blacks act like whites

  • @PotatoFL5451
    @PotatoFL5451 Год назад +271

    Im mixed and my Black mom made sure I spoke right when she didn't. That i was properly educated. I have been told I act and speak white all the time by family and strangers. Its strange to put people down for how they speak, and to me it shows the lack of education and abundance in ignorance.

    • @awakenedpersona6488
      @awakenedpersona6488 Год назад +14

      Keep being you, all it really shows is their insecurity when they try and put you down for that. Be proud of your intelligence and who you are.

    • @michaelfalsia6062
      @michaelfalsia6062 Год назад +5

      I guess you ought to learn to speak Swahili? Would that satisfy these haters? Keep being who you are and forget these people. You are better than your haters. Keep on keeping on! Is that black enough? 😅

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      ...YOU MAD ABOUT LYFE BRUH?
      ... spoke right? ... There a Black Dictionary today Bruh ...that means that people got correct about judging the way a person speaks. Academia got on the stick too and began to recognize! In Culture you play sides. I'm guessing you didn't hang with the people who thought you were too White.
      ... You and your mom are the same blood ...the way to look at it is that YOU are mixed because you are dealing with the issue of DIFFERENCES ... You are White and Black mixed, so you have the same choices as your parents for a mate ... that's life. YOU are CALLED Mixed by those who see the mix and you are called Black by those who see the double PLIGHT of POC. That is Politics.
      ...did you perhaps forget that he higher law says that we are ALL HUMAN which makes your description of your Black mom null and void.

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад +1

      @Technologist ... looks like YEW are the one who doesn't understand. He used a stupid reference that implied that because his mother is African descended she automatically doesn't speak well. This is 2023 ... regional vernacular or slang is not a new term, nor is it wrong~!

  • @mer8795
    @mer8795 Год назад +174

    I'm white. The only time I heard this outside of black community, was when my daughter-in-law was told at the university Asian club, that she didn't look Asian enough. She told them to shove it. She is half Korean and half white. People complaining about racism, but they are the ones promoting it. Yes, as a Christian, all Christians are my siblings. Who knows, we all might be blue or green in heaven 😅.

    • @bugcatcherjacky1334
      @bugcatcherjacky1334 Год назад +11

      Even if we were all green, people would still find a reason they're different, have a "different shade of green"
      There's an episode in a kids show I watched years ago where a boy was bullied for his teeth. So he went ahead and wishrd all people would look EXACTLY the same. Wish came true, they were all gray blobs. So he approached his bullied talking about how they're exactly the same now and the bullies still claimed they were better because their shade of gray was better looking. People will ALWAYS find a reason to hate.

    • @awakenedpersona6488
      @awakenedpersona6488 Год назад

      @@bugcatcherjacky1334 It's called ego and social maneuvering, they feed their own ego with their delusions they're better than other people. Meanwhile the social maneuvering is knowing how to manipulate a system or government body to get the result you want at the cost of other people, so to justify what you take/steal from other people you have to find a way to demonize them or make it seem 'fair' to do so. The radical left are socialist/commie parasites doing just this and the government plays along because it's also using their divisive agenda to seize more power for themselves. Because guess who ultimately gets to decide 'what's fair' in a system? Whoever runs the system...

    • @metalheadjake3339
      @metalheadjake3339 Год назад

      The ones desperately trying to be anti racist are the ones trying to hide that they are racist.
      Someone who truly isn't racist just doesn't care about race. At all

    • @margaretschultz6209
      @margaretschultz6209 Год назад +4

      I heard once there would be no hate if everyone was blind. No...those who want to hate you will find some other reason if they can't see what you look like

    • @TheUniverseWorksForUsBeings
      @TheUniverseWorksForUsBeings Год назад +2

      Sounds like our government

  • @sweetnighter72
    @sweetnighter72 Год назад +56

    At age 69, I'm so happy to see young women who have not checked their brains at the door! Carry on sisters!

  • @LoriWolfcat
    @LoriWolfcat Год назад +199

    I’m mixed, but Mexican and I struggle with learning, but I always try hard and in high school, a “cholo” Mexican said “Why you gotta be a teacher’s pet??” And I straight up told him “Cuz I don’t wanna be a moron.” I constantly love to learn new things and sometimes people blame the teachers if they fail and always come up to me and question “How do you do it??” And I tell them “I actually study. And especially since I have a learning disability, I have to learn twice as long.” They think I’m lying, but I don’t like to lie and I don’t anymore. I ain’t gonna be a moron because my parents raised me right. To be a hardworking person.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +14

      Good for you! You want to get ahead.

    • @Livel1
      @Livel1 Год назад +11

      Great perspective

    • @shadowswithin702
      @shadowswithin702 Год назад +2

      You sound cool to me, be whatever you want to be. It's in your hands, don't let anyone change who you are or what you want to be.

    • @tshadow6
      @tshadow6 Год назад

      God bless you. I didn’t do well in high school and it cost me. Once I took school seriously, opportunities came knocking.

    • @sandyaz5595
      @sandyaz5595 Год назад

      I have a daughter who is learning disabled also. I was told she may never be able to read. She is not a scholar today (in her 30s) but she is employed, successful in her position, and receives awards for her what I call hard work! There are many learning disabled that don’t try and let themselves be put into a box that expects nothing from them.
      Keep your attitude and you will be acknowledged when out of school and not known for being in a category!!

  • @shawnj8568
    @shawnj8568 Год назад +138

    Acting White= positive qualities Acting Black = negative qualities
    I got this from asking my students at a predominantly Black school…they listed qualities for acting white & acting black…days later I mixed up the qualities and had them identify them as either positive or negative qualities…result: the positive list matched the acting white list and negative list matched acting black. Multiple classes and multiple years! “Things that make you go.. hmmm 🤔 “

    • @IggyTthunders
      @IggyTthunders Год назад

      It's bizarre, bc this *isn't* how blacks acted in the 1950's, when, according to econ prof. Thomas Sowel, they were the wealthiest non-white minority in the States. This dogmatic mediocrity is a recent fixture to black American culture, from the boomers going forward. School zones, Margaret Sanger and the welfare state did more damage than slavery ever could to obliterate the black family.

    • @tulip5210
      @tulip5210 Год назад +18

      That’s a good thought experiment that challenges those thoughts

    • @chickencharlie1992
      @chickencharlie1992 Год назад +9

      That's fucked up

    • @tallowturq
      @tallowturq Год назад +6

      Do you think it is an inferiority complex, a ‘chip on their shoulder’?

    • @shawnj8568
      @shawnj8568 Год назад +7

      @@tallowturq not at all…what’s inferior about identifying stereotypes or the reality of the connotation behind them. And these were good kids from all walks of life.

  • @sorateal12
    @sorateal12 Год назад +302

    I experienced this growing up - it always made me feel uncomfortable because most of the racism I've experienced comes from other judgemental black people who think they know me or know what's best for me based on the colour of my skin, and not on my individual merit, personality or interests.

    • @annas4843
      @annas4843 Год назад +3

      My dance teacher was north American (I wasn’t really dancing just joined a uni salsa club for fun), first day she told me I dance like a white girl.. 😅 she was smiling but I kinda feel that was meant as an insult! (In Europe it’s just a joke, we don’t get offended)

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +3

      Same with some racist Hispanics. Heard this baloney too growing up. I thank the lord my family wasn’t like that. We had books and read all the time in our house, and yes we even owned a dictionary.😆

    • @valorie444
      @valorie444 Год назад

      same that’s why I now surround myself with only Asians and white people because they’re not judgemental

    • @beachymama3333
      @beachymama3333 Год назад

      BINGO!!!!!!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

  • @StorytellingHeadshots
    @StorytellingHeadshots Год назад +32

    I would say, “I don’t have to “act black” I AM black. Therefore, whatever I achieve or choose to do or be is an example of what is is to be black.”
    The accusation “you’re not black enough” just sounds like a bullying technique not unlike “tall poppy syndrome” in the UK.

    • @PaulKMF1
      @PaulKMF1 5 месяцев назад

      I thought that was an Aussie thing

    • @2kx62
      @2kx62 Месяц назад

      Your white washed

  • @hinduismwithpremananddasbhagat
    @hinduismwithpremananddasbhagat Год назад +111

    "people use identity as a replacement for an actual personality" 100% !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @blueguise23
    @blueguise23 Год назад +82

    My sister is a very Light-skinned Black woman who was bullied daily by Dark-skinned girls and was told she was "acting White" and called horrible names and harassed.

    • @ST-lm9bh
      @ST-lm9bh Год назад +11

      Unfortunately it is the reality and it shows that the people pointing fingers dont give a fuck at all.

    • @sasha43630
      @sasha43630 Год назад +1

      yeah and when lsw speak out about this they are told to stfu bc they have "privilege"

    • @ST-lm9bh
      @ST-lm9bh Год назад +1

      @@sasha43630 Its all a facade. They dont want individual thinkers. Speakers. They want you to obey. Just like the bad people of yesteryear. Except they will tell anyone and everyone that its not them when in fact they are exactly the people they claim not to be. WAF indeed.

  • @darkwolve114
    @darkwolve114 Год назад +99

    “You act white!”
    Translation: “You portray yourself with intelligence!”

  • @LorTheGore
    @LorTheGore Год назад +23

    As a black woman who's always been Alternative, I've always told that I've been "different", or "unique" by my mother when it came to self expression and temperament, but when it came to address mental health, that was "for white people".
    Opposite for my social life, I was ostracized by my black peers, focused on my education, but i was definitely called "emo", "goth" "oreo" , asked why i was talking white, and bullied.
    I never understood why it was that way, but getting older shows me that its just deep rooted trauma, and how much "being black" and "being white" meant in society.

  • @xCrusader66x
    @xCrusader66x Год назад +135

    I believe this same issue was tackled in The Fresh Prince of Bel Air when Carlton tried to join a black fraternity in college and was rejecting for not acting black enough. The episode ends with Uncle Phil calling for an end to that discrimination and stereotyping, but a couple of decades later and it’s still an issue.

    • @cassandrabrooks5185
      @cassandrabrooks5185 Год назад +21

      Uncle Phil: "When are we going to stop doing this to each other?"

    • @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid
      @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid Год назад +1

      @@cassandrabrooks5185 Vixtimblaxks : uhhh… never?

    • @swifty1969
      @swifty1969 Год назад

      why would anybody want to be part of a group that strives for stupidity?

    • @camil3545
      @camil3545 Год назад +1

      I grew up watching that Fresh Prince, but haven't seen the "reboot" one, with modern writing how it is, I can't imagine they would address these topics in the same light.

    • @markthompson9056
      @markthompson9056 Год назад

      One of my favorite episodes.

  • @gigilarigi3132
    @gigilarigi3132 Год назад +214

    This is heartbreaking because not only do you deal with racism, you’ve got to deal with it within your own race. 😢

    • @chrisbruno6681
      @chrisbruno6681 Год назад +2

      You'll find that some of the most racists people are actually in the "black" community. They have been raised so anti-white that doing anything they consider white they hate and will call you out for it. What closed-minded people.

    • @ironphill911
      @ironphill911 Год назад +19

      Probably mostly within her own race.

    • @milkmancometh149
      @milkmancometh149 Год назад +17

      To be honest it happens in white culture too. All woke white people seem to hate hate white people.
      I think it's possible every culture demonizes those that don't "act" the way they're "supposed" to within a group. This has been happening forever. I think the issue is that nowadays the media says this that these race issues are a white exclusive issue. Like when I was in highschool in the mid 2000s white kids who liked black culture and black kids who liked white culture are called out by their own race and let's face it, they're judged by "everyone" despite the race of the person doing the judging.

    • @travisjazzbo3490
      @travisjazzbo3490 Год назад +7

      Almost entirely her own race, no doubt.

    • @gsentinel4821
      @gsentinel4821 Год назад +1

      Precisely.

  • @oreally8605
    @oreally8605 Год назад +144

    Black people who are educated are called that every day. Among other things.... Hated by both sides. I'm use to it by now, but it shows their ignorance not ours.

    • @patrickharriss
      @patrickharriss Год назад +11

      Preach... Please preach

    • @hhasslinger9601
      @hhasslinger9601 Год назад +15

      I agree with most of what you say, but what do you mean hated by both sides?

    • @sfall616
      @sfall616 Год назад

      @@hhasslinger9601 .

    • @ruckusbeblack
      @ruckusbeblack Год назад +4

      See how ninjas act when you tell them KFC dwight mane robot chickens 😂✊🏿

    • @sarahg2653
      @sarahg2653 Год назад +9

      Man, that's messed up. I really hate hearing those terms thrown around so casually. Why do some people believe that black people are a monolith?! We are all INDIVIDUALS. I abhor identity politics. But I find it extra distasteful to hear those from the alleged "tolerant" side call black conservatives awful names.

  • @razorchuckles
    @razorchuckles Год назад +22

    I have taught high school AP World History for over 15 years, and it pains me to see how some of my students who are African-American wrestle with pushback from friends in their social circles. Several students over the years have had private conversations with me about this, both boys and girls. I've had students drop AP courses because of peer pressure, but I've also had students leave their friends behind because they felt ostracized for excelling in school and participating in academic activities. This is a very real problem that many teachers, including myself, cannot fully relate to because we may not have grown up with similar issues. It often gets overlooked, and while some may find it a dismissive topic - I have seen the very real impact it has on student success and self-confidence.

  • @jonnylawrence3506
    @jonnylawrence3506 Год назад +48

    Story of my life. Growing up, I was taught to speak proper english, be polite and well mannered, and I was constantly hounded for "acting white".

    • @tonyves
      @tonyves Год назад

      Jonny - it's not about you - it's about idiots who want to classify you for their own ends.

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +1

      Why would I want to go to school my whole life only to end up sounding like an uneducated fool?

    • @EmperorOfChaos
      @EmperorOfChaos Год назад

      They are merely insulting themselves because they think they should act a certain way because of their own skin colour.

    • @historyrepeated4239
      @historyrepeated4239 Год назад +2

      We’ve got your back. And not because of your skin color, but because of your desire to be polite, and general goal to be a good person. Those traits are way more uniting than skin tone will ever be. Good luck, brother.

  • @lexyg420
    @lexyg420 Год назад +325

    I used to be really offended by being told I "acted white" even to the point of tears because I wanted to belong somewhere. So I succumbed to peer pressure and started to act black and they still didn't like me because they thought I was trying to hard 😂. You have to learn that you can't please everyone. You just have to be yourself.

    • @gawainethefirst
      @gawainethefirst Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/60XTeHM9iLQ/видео.html

    • @crypterion_moon
      @crypterion_moon Год назад

      That's the secret they'll never get, when you're yourself, whatever identity they try to impose on you won't matter. They won't have power over you anymore because you'll have something they'll never have. Your very own mind

    • @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid
      @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid Год назад

      So what is your ‘status’ now?

    • @magicfeliuri2681
      @magicfeliuri2681 Год назад +1

      Yeah
      Crazy

    • @That_Random_British_Dude
      @That_Random_British_Dude Год назад +1

      You can't win either way with these people

  • @markwilson3697
    @markwilson3697 Год назад +413

    "you act white" translate as "you're disproving our victimhood mentality"

    • @Archmage9885
      @Archmage9885 Год назад +17

      I think you've got it.

    • @shiny2423
      @shiny2423 Год назад +11

      Well said.

    • @squeezyjibbz7407
      @squeezyjibbz7407 Год назад +9

      Nailed it

    • @richatlarge462
      @richatlarge462 Год назад +18

      "You act white" is what the crabs in the bucket say to the other crabs who are trying to climb out, as the former try to pull them back down. (If you don't know that analogy, look it up.)

    • @mjanny6330
      @mjanny6330 Год назад +16

      "Stop succeeding and making us look bad"

  • @mikelucas3072
    @mikelucas3072 Год назад +11

    "How dare you step outside the box and be an individual!"
    "How dare you speak proper English!"
    "How dare you have morals and ethics!"
    "How dare you have respect for yourself and others!"
    "How dare you be responsible!"
    "How dare you READ!"
    "How dare you!"
    "How dare you!"
    "HOW DARE YOU!"
    😆

  • @flyingpaladin617
    @flyingpaladin617 Год назад +135

    Remember that episode of The Fresh Prince when Will and Carlton tried to enter a fraternity and Carlton got called a sell out because he "isn't black enough"? I remember. Good to see nothing's changed 👍

    • @sam_tate
      @sam_tate Год назад +35

      "Black isn't what I'm trying to be, it's who I am!".... I loved that line.

    • @jamesmallory4542
      @jamesmallory4542 Год назад +19

      Classic episode that was! Carlton handled that situation very well but at the same time you can see the hurt in his eyes he had to go through that from his own peers.

    • @ambhatti1538
      @ambhatti1538 Год назад +9

      Exactly the first thing I thought of when hearing the opening. That scene had a huge impact on me at a very young age. 👍

    • @blackestknightx8881
      @blackestknightx8881 Год назад +6

      @@jamesmallory4542 it was a learning experience. You're always going to have people that don't like you. It's ok

    • @jamesmallory4542
      @jamesmallory4542 Год назад +4

      @@blackestknightx8881 very true my brother

  • @davehemminger1401
    @davehemminger1401 Год назад +177

    As a white heterosexual christian male, I love your show!!! I'm tired of being the blame for everyone's problems. It's refreshing to have great people such as yourself and your guest Gothx understanding that personal responsibility is paramount to improving your life!!! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for being an amazing and mature person!!!

    • @TheBaumcm
      @TheBaumcm Год назад +8

      No one should feel “to blame” for anyone else’s problems because they are just that. That’s the fun of being East Indian…until someone thinks you’re mixed. Seriously though, I was adopted by a white family and neither of my parents came from wealth and privilege but they made something of themselves regardless of the raw deal they got. Playing the blame game is a good way to avoid actually changing anything.

    • @magicfeliuri2681
      @magicfeliuri2681 Год назад

      Jack

    • @AspireGMD
      @AspireGMD Год назад +1

      As long as you don't hate people because of the way they're born (even though Christianity preaches that) then you shouldn't blame yourself for anything.

  • @stonevisionmedia
    @stonevisionmedia Год назад +262

    Actually.... As a Mexican, Navajo, Scottish man, I've been accused of "acting white" or "being a white boy" by the latino community. Even members of my own family have made those claims in regards to who I am and the manner in which I speak. I'm also a metal head so my music, clothing style and how I express myself only further isolated me from my fellow Mexicans. I will state that I've noticed a shift or change in those views and attitude within younger Latino circles. I'm proud of my heritage. ALL of it. I'm proud to be brown, red and white.

    • @elettramia6380
      @elettramia6380 Год назад

      Americans especially North Americans use the term “Latino” incorrectly. It is a misappropriated culturally raped term of LATIN EUROPEAN origin misused in America especially North America. REAL ethnically Latino men and women are Racially Mediterranean. That is where actual Latin culture comes from. Mexicans are indigenous Americans not people of Latin origin. Some Mexicans are mestizo Americans still not people of Latin origin. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO (Latini) TRIBES, THE LATIN ETHNICITY ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA. Latin europe was Latinized by ROME ITALY hence how Latina italy got the name Latina. & HISPANIC (Hispania) is literally the Latin language MEANING SPAIN NOT the NATIVE AMERICANS they Colonized. Latin America got its name SOLELY and ONLY to mean the part of the Americas CONQUERED by LATIN EUROPE and that is all it will EVER MEAN. Latin ORIGIN, HISTORY& people are NON INTERCHANGEABLE. STOP THE CULTURAL THEFT OF MY PEOPLE& OUR ANCESTRY. BRAINWASHED AMERICAN/ MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL APPROPRIATION & CULTURAL THEFT FOR "PROFIT AND GAIN" WILL NEVER BE LATINO. CULTURAL APPROPRIATION EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE AND WILL CONTINUE TO BENEFIT FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATIN PEOPLE AND OUR HISTORICAL ACCOMPLISHMENTS! AND US TRUE LATINS ARE & HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR GENETIC CONTRIBUTORS FROM OUR MIDDLE EASTERN (ASIAN), NORTHERN AFRICAN, AND BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THERE ARE NO "WHITE" LATINS. JUST MORE ASSIMILATION . SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICANS AND MEXICANS ARE NATIVE AMERICANS, MESTIZOS, CASTIZOS, PARDOS, ZAMBOS, AND PURE SUB SAHARAN AFRICANS. NOT LATINS, NOT LATIN BLOOD, THEREFORE NOT LATINO. IN SOUTH CENTRAL AMERICA AND MÉXICO THE ONLY PEOPLE CALLED LATINO AND HISPANIC ARE US SOUTHERN EUROPEANS OF LATIN MEDITERRANEAN ORIGIN. OBVIOUSLY THE SAME IN LATIN EUROPE. PUSHING AND CONTRIBUTING TO BRAINWASHED NORTH AMERICAN MISAPPROPRIATION OF FOREIGN TERMS SUCH AS LATIN/LATINO AS TRENDING PROPAGANDA FOR SOCIAL STATUS TO APPEAR MORE DESIRABLE DOES NOT JUSTIFY THE CONTINUING CONTRIBUTIONS OF CULTURAL THEFT. THE TERM LATINO DERIVES FROM THE TERM LATINI, THE LATINI WHERE THE VERY FIRST LATIN TRIBE TO EXIST FROM ITALY! LATINI IS PLURAL MEANING MORE THAN ONE LATINO! AND LATINO IS SINGULAR FOR LATINI MEANING ONE LATINO. THE SAME WITH LATINA AND LATINE. ALL TERMS CREATED BY THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY. PUSHING BRAINWASHED AMERICAN MOSTLY NORTH AMERICAN CULTURAL RAPE AS A FASHION TREND FOR “PROFIT & GAIN” NEEDS TO BE EXPOSED. YOU CAN NOT BE PART OF AN ORIGIN, HISTORY AND ETHNICITY WHICH YOUR ANCESTORS FACTUALLY ARE NOT HISTORICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад

      I hate when white Latinos, because let’s face it those roots come from Europe, condemn other Latinos of acting white, stop it you are white! This generation has to stop all this moronic B.S. already. Forget color just be HUMAN. Who the fk cares.🤨

    • @manichispanic5234
      @manichispanic5234 Год назад +11

      I just made a similar comment. Unfortunately, we all do this to each.

    • @egotrpn
      @egotrpn Год назад +4

      Yup, I heard it for a long time.

    • @alejov923
      @alejov923 Год назад

      @@miss_anonymous_II Latin Americans in general consider Spaniards as white, as they are Europeans. However, there’s still some ridiculous grudge against them due to the Spanish Empire. Some of these idiots go to the extent of demanding a formal apology from the Spanish government for things that happened 500 years ago, as the current Mexican president said some years ago. Like, my dear fellow, you speak Spanish, have Spanish surnames and have a LOT of Spanish elements in your culture and you want to keep hating on Spain, come on! All of this stems from an idealized idea of how indigenous peoples were saints and Spaniards murderous men who did nothing but pillaging and genocide. It’s just a black and white view of history that doesn’t stand a conscious exam of the facts.

  • @1stltwife
    @1stltwife Год назад +29

    My niece who is white and latina, married a black man and has 2 daughters. Parents are Ivy League Master's level graduates who are highly successful. I know my nieces will be highly educated and successful because my niece and her husband are wonderful parents who want the best for their children. Simple as that..families matter. Values are absorbed and taught. People are people. I wish this nonsense would stop! God bless America 🇺🇸 and you!

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад +1

      My niece who is white and latina, married a black man and has 2 daughters ...
      sans racial affectation? ... it would go somethin like this ...
      ***My niece got married and they have two 2 daughters ...***

    • @dontaskdonttell_
      @dontaskdonttell_ Год назад +1

      @@barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426the entire video is related to the topic of discussing race/ethnicity.

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      @@dontaskdonttell_ ...yes and probably badly ... I people drop the racial tones which are not the answer, they'll accomplish more' Once you reference White and Latina you have two stereotypes. where's that going?

  • @nasonyarowell2277
    @nasonyarowell2277 Год назад +231

    It's sad that negative traits are considered traits of blackness. I've been called an oreo and other derogatory names for having interest or thoughts that are not stereotypical. It's disgusting and I feel less aligned with more black people everyday, especially since all this racial division in the country that tries to tell you how you have to think and believe in order to be black. I'm not interested in everything being about skin color. Thank you ladies for this conversation.

    • @awakenedpersona6488
      @awakenedpersona6488 Год назад +30

      There's reason why the 'crabs in a bucket' mentality was coined. When a group identifies as negative things and someone attempts to escape that, the others try and shame(grab) and drag them back down to that level. The group think is a trap, all it really is, is that if you're strong enough mentally to not devolve into pity politics and victimhood but make something of yourself then you prove how weak, lazy, and selfish they are. So they cast you out of the group to pretend 'you're not x' but something else so the mental delusions they live in can continue with themselves as the poor righteous victim who has no power to change their lives/situation.

    • @johnkerich876
      @johnkerich876 Год назад

      0o ok I poo😅😊

    • @supersaturn956
      @supersaturn956 Год назад +1

      @@awakenedpersona6488 facts

    • @kimberlybrown5348
      @kimberlybrown5348 Год назад

      Do you feel like it's gotten worse in the past few years? I feel like racism has really gotten bad in the past 10 years

  • @Outlier999
    @Outlier999 Год назад +235

    My wife of nearly 47 years has also been told that many times. Since she is a mixture of several races, including black, white (Spanish), Native American, Arab and even 3% Chinese DNA, her response is, “ Which race should I act like?” No one has ever had an answer.

    • @davidingram1016
      @davidingram1016 Год назад

      Great answer! My wife asks which part of her should she cut off to appease the vocal , aggressively angry blacks. She is white, her father 1st generation American , his family came over from Europe just before the First World War ( no slave owners in his family) and her mother’s people were from Georgia and possibly Alabama, but no slave owners in her family only the fact that she came from the south does not make her owe reparations to blacks for anything! So stop blaming whites for every bad thing that happens in the world - Take responsibility for your win life, get a solid education an stand for Truth not lies!

    • @maryamjoha
      @maryamjoha Год назад +4

      Most Americans are multiracial. There would be a lot more peace if we all had ancestry testing.

    • @Outlier999
      @Outlier999 Год назад +2

      @@maryamjoha Technically I am multiracial. I am 2% Sub-Saharan African (black). By the “one drop” laws of many states in the Old South I would have been considered black. Besides that my family was originally Southern Italian and I have Arab DNA. I consider myself a Caucasian, but it’s no big deal to me or my mixed race wife.

    • @maryamjoha
      @maryamjoha Год назад

      @@Outlier999 Good for you! It truly shouldn't matter. That's exactly what I mean. If we all we're to actually look at our ancestry, it's usually a lot more complicated. Growing up we had a lid on all this in my area of the metro. We were kids and teens just hanging out and playing. It was the last thing on our minds! It's like that old Simpson's Halloween Special where ignoring the evil giant advertising monsters made them die. The song went: "Just don't look. Just don't look." The more attention we pay to it, the worse it gets. It creates its own momentum.
      I applied for scholarships since my grandmother was a genocide survivor, but got thrown out of the pile because of being too "white" 🤦‍♀️

  • @terijones5673
    @terijones5673 Год назад +63

    I had a bi-racial friend in school. We were talking one day about our differences and she told me she told me sometimes she doesn't know which kids she is supposed to be friends with. I was afraid she was trying to stop being my friend and told her, "Just be friends with the people you like."

  • @zayinseven7923
    @zayinseven7923 Год назад +19

    choosing to have your own INDIVIDUALITY & Personality is like stepping outside of the "Black Matrix"

  • @mikealvarez2322
    @mikealvarez2322 Год назад +168

    I taught inner city school for 30 years and heard so many black kids accusing other black kids as "acting white." The accusations were directed at Black students who were high achievers. So sad that the pressure on Black kids was to under achieve. In no other racial group did I see this phenomenon. Our school system had a large Asian community (mostly refugees from South East Asia and from South America. The Asian kids were under a great deal of pressure to achieve, while Hispanic kids, like white kids, just did their own thing. So now our colleges and universities discriminate against Asian kids while giving privileges to other racial minorities. So even our institutions go along with this farce. A funny true story. I had an 8th grade student from Kenya in my homeroom. One day a debate broke out between 2 Black, high achieving girls and several other low achieving students over the issue of acting white. I decided to turn the issue over to my Kenyan student for arbitration. When asked about what it meant to act black, all he said, pointing to low achieving Black students, "Nobody in my country acts like that." Everyone in class cracked up.

    • @warrenstemphly5756
      @warrenstemphly5756 Год назад +17

      How many days of riots did that kick off?

    • @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid
      @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid Год назад +5

      @@warrenstemphly5756 😂😂😂😂😂

    • @That_Random_British_Dude
      @That_Random_British_Dude Год назад +27

      When the ACTUAL Black Kid from a Black Country and grew up in a Black Community says the Black Advocates aren't acting Black, you know there's something wrong!

    • @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid
      @I9s7lam5is-S3tu1pid Год назад +4

      Even Asians make fun of their own who decide to learn to like and read and speak English well as you’re trying to be white/British/American/Banana/Twinkie/Apple/Coconut/Bounty bar/Oreo/etc.

    • @Amg-ks1tc
      @Amg-ks1tc Год назад

      Things that never happened:

  • @tattooeddragon
    @tattooeddragon Год назад +134

    You bring up some very good points. One of my best friends is black and he always had to struggle with pleasing his “community” while trying to pursue a career in finance. Something seen as a white job and therefore selling out to the white man. He also brought up something that I would have never thought of, the fact that so many in the black community don’t pursue their dreams for fear of being labeled “white”. How many wonderful minds and world changing innovators have we lost to this type of mentality?

    • @thecamillarose9806
      @thecamillarose9806 Год назад +6

      Like isn't the point of this culture thing to make sure blacks have equal opportunity?

    • @mrjones4249
      @mrjones4249 Год назад +4

      That is extremely common and young people even have to deal with physical assaults for academic achievement in many places. I aggressively began my children's academic learning very early so I enrolled them in jujitsu and Muy Thai as soon as they turned 3yrs old.

    • @Sophie-pv5jo
      @Sophie-pv5jo Год назад +3

      Love your last sentence. Social rejection is HARD. I’ve been the nerdy straight As girl my whole life. I love who I am but some of the comments get so me sometimes! I can’t imagine if my whole community rejected me, I’m sure I would have changed who I am

    • @shadowswithin702
      @shadowswithin702 Год назад +2

      Probably far too many, and isn't that sad. Not doing something you may enjoy, because your community says so. Me I would rather be an outcast, and have always walked my own path. Not for everyone, and I can't speak for anyone else. But I'm happy not being a color but a person, living how I choose on my terms.

    • @christitaylor2770
      @christitaylor2770 Год назад +1

      But u make is racist when you view it black and white jobs 🤣

  • @paulmcallister7909
    @paulmcallister7909 Год назад +123

    I’m in the UK and I’ve had to deal with this nonsense all my life. My dad used to call it “crabs in a barrel”. My brother is a lot less diplomatic. He calls it the slave mentality. Maybe it’s just human nature, but it seems like it’s easier to pull others down than lift oneself up. One of my favourite commentaries on this actually comes from the film Man of Steel. Jor-El asks a simple question: “what if a child aspires to be something other than society intended?”

    • @jackhhun2698
      @jackhhun2698 Год назад

      the crabs in the bucket thing is around in white culture too but more subtle as for the black community yeah its open what you think you better than us hmmph whytie

    • @teru_9921
      @teru_9921 Год назад

      I'm so sorry that happened to you. I don't get this thing people call "slave mentality" when it's literally just people speaking impeccable english and carrying themselves with respect.

    • @jackhhun2698
      @jackhhun2698 Год назад +1

      ​@@teru_9921 people just like being better in some way than another group even if its an illusion its just a bit of human's lesser side part of nature

    • @teru_9921
      @teru_9921 Год назад

      @@jackhhun2698 so if the person lives a better life and carries themselves as such, they should be put down by others to the same level?? That's not how it works. That's insecurity and jealousy. You're right about the small errors in humans, but bringing someone down because they're more successful than you is also wrong

    • @jackhhun2698
      @jackhhun2698 Год назад +4

      @@teru_9921 Indeed but humans really hate to see others succeed really strange

  • @user-vg8ls2jn4i
    @user-vg8ls2jn4i Год назад +17

    I've heard this same sentiment from sooo many Black people. However, as a Native Mesoamerican whose ancestors are form modern day Mexico, I have been told many times that I act "too White" or sometimes "too American". And that experience is not just typical for myself, but several so-called "Mexicans" that live in the US

    • @luishetzler9429
      @luishetzler9429 3 месяца назад

      I can relate when I was younger in the 70's, parent uprooted to a totally white area very hard to adjust finally I just became myself

  • @RealWorldGames
    @RealWorldGames Год назад +75

    You ladies don't act white. You act ( and are) articulate, intelligent, successful, confident, filled with integrity. I don't need to look like you to admire and look up to all of these wonderful qualities. I a 46 year old white dude ( you know the kind of guy movies aren't made for lol) and I can definitely see you as role models.

  • @Wellnessdrinkingbuddy
    @Wellnessdrinkingbuddy Год назад +103

    From my personal experience as a Hispanic woman I’ve been told that I “act white” a lot in my teenage years. So it’s definitely not exclusive to the black community

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +14

      It’s an excuse for stupid people to stay stupid. They didn’t want to learn the language, hated people from other backgrounds. I was born raised and educated here so were my folks. Luckily this negativity didn’t come from my family. Heard all this crap too from idiot friends who ended up committing crimes and or getting addicted to whatever.

    • @kyotodreamz871
      @kyotodreamz871 Год назад

      🙌

    • @genzi78514
      @genzi78514 Год назад

      What? I'm Latina and some of us are literally white and there are a lot of educated, well mannered people here.
      These "Hispanics" don't even know anything about Latinos that born, grow up and live in Latin America.

    • @MustangCely
      @MustangCely Год назад

      Agree!!!

    • @zxyatiywariii8
      @zxyatiywariii8 Год назад +2

      True, it's not exclusive to any one race. I'm predominately indigenous Polynesian and I was accused of the same thing when I got a great score on my GED. 🤦🏾‍♀️

  • @chenugent
    @chenugent Год назад +216

    I’m mixed race (my mum is Trinidadian and my dad is white) I pronounce my T’s, I have a well spoken middle class southern British accent. People used to call me the N word, I finally spoke out against the racism and people responded by saying “you’re not black anyway” and “you’re basically white”. I’ve had people tell me I don’t “sound black”.
    I’m bloody disgusted by all of this. It makes my blood boil considering I literally grew up with my black single mother, didn’t really go out much, this is just how I am. Being mixed race around a bunch of uncultured swines can be truly unbearable.

    • @mrjones4249
      @mrjones4249 Год назад

      ApaChe: being mixed raced has nothing to do with it because people say the same stupid things to dark skinned people. Being mixed just gives morons additional insults to cast because they're jealous of succes or of you doing something in a proper manner.

    • @OldBoydudeman
      @OldBoydudeman Год назад +13

      I'm almost 50 now, and I also live and grew up in the south of England with the same kind of people saying that I spoke more like a white man, when I was a teenager working in a supermarket an older white man said that I was 'the whitest black guy he knew' prefaced with the 'I'm not being racist, but..' phrase. Also as a teenager I was at college and just happened to sing along a reggae lyric near a black guy only for him to then say to me 'how come YOU know that song?'
      For a long time I questioned myself for the racist comments I received from both black and white people but then I built a friend base of all manner of people from all backgrounds just by staying myself and finding those that love and respect me for who I am.

    • @chenugent
      @chenugent Год назад +7

      @@OldBoydudeman Hey, it's reassauring to know I'm not alone, thank you for sharing! It is great you found a healthy circle of friends, I found a few friends in university who are good people.
      The the trait all of them have in common is that they are kind, calm, polite and respectful.
      Most people who have made racist remarks were loud and obnoxious people who couldn't control their toungue.
      I'm currently friends with a Ukranian who has only lived here since September, I get along well with him and most foreigners due to the fact I can relate to not fitting in. But most importantly, he is very respecrful and kind.
      My ex girlfriend was half Portugese, and actually stuck up for me when I recieved racist remarks from people during our relationship. She was one of the kindest souls I think I ever met, very supportive and had a caring and gentle attitude. Moral of the story is that it doesn't matter about race, how you look or sound. It is simply about how you behave and what your morals and values are.

    • @shadowswithin702
      @shadowswithin702 Год назад +1

      I'm sorry you go through that, and it might not mean much from a white person. But I got the same thing as I said above, you like what you like and don't apologize for it. Be who you want to be, if that does not align with your community oh well.

    • @tubester4567
      @tubester4567 Год назад +7

      @@OldBoydudeman Africans in countries other than the US tend to speak just like the majority, (unless recent immigrant) Blacks in the UK speak like everyone else, same in other Europeans countries. For some reason African Americans have adopted a different speech. I think there are a few reasons, the AA community is large (around 30 million) and many of them only interact with each other. Many of them left school early, and more recently they glorify gang, hip hop and rap culture. The woke left movement has also allowed them to have an identity of victimhood, and any poor standards is just part of their "culture"

  • @brittongodman7769
    @brittongodman7769 Год назад +53

    My true opinion on this topic is this. Those who say you ''act White'' are actually jealous of you because you speak proper English, dress nicely, act civilized, prefer to be as educated as possible, and accept people for who they are instead of judging them solely on the color of their skin.

    • @rocknroll7400
      @rocknroll7400 Год назад +3

      Bingo! Exactly why.. You are to civilized to be cool or get street cred from those who front (portraying) an image to be accepted.. Problem with them is why they have such low standard that it's a high point to them to be in that club. Problem they have with you is that you by reason of dating whitebread or plain, or "normal" no flava, is you aren't validating that urban images importance, or showing longing to be accepted through that type of image personification. It's not even just a racial thing. Its invalidating them if they validate you..
      Their whole house of cards falls.

    • @michaelbush1374
      @michaelbush1374 Год назад

      They hate us because they ain't us 👻

    • @tyturner7110
      @tyturner7110 7 месяцев назад

      Broke my heart when I finally realized “code switching” is a skill. It’s like a second language and some are not capable or willing. It’s like being an immigrant with a thick accent in your own country. It just makes life harder.

    • @sublime_death_000
      @sublime_death_000 6 месяцев назад

      interesting point of view. though not all people that are white share those characteristics.

    • @2kx62
      @2kx62 Месяц назад

      Not really jealousy, I mean they literally have the obligation to those dilemmas, dressing nice is a preference, most black people typically have there own style and perfer there style hence why a lot of black people who gets rich, continue warring similar brands and type of clothing they were waring before just more expensive and higher quality. It’s just that when a black person sees another black person who talks white, there just realizing that there not like other black people and also that they cant really relate to this person also it reminds them of the oppressor which is probably why they have a problem with it. it could be seen as a lost brother to there community, bc that person was white washed. Also it’s not about being highly educated, it’s about the environment you come from, Mlk Jr and Malcom x, we’re black leaders who were highly intelligent, but also didn’t talk like a white person simply bc they were never white washed.

  • @esther589
    @esther589 Год назад +114

    I ve always been told I dont act black, im not black enough, oreo and etc.
    it so strange to be degraded by literally everyone for reading, traveling, having a diverse group of friends, speaking different, enjoying non stereotypical genres of music and fashion like metal and trance.
    I ve had people debate my blackness if front of me… it blew my mind.
    Like i thought we were breaking away from stereotypes and people have the right to walk through life how they want but then they turn around and debate how black I am. Like what??
    I dont deal with people who think like that.

    • @QED_
      @QED_ Год назад +5

      props

    • @hanabishaven
      @hanabishaven Год назад +3

      Tf is up with this Oreo stuff

    • @awakenedpersona6488
      @awakenedpersona6488 Год назад +10

      @@hanabishaven Racist black people's way of referring to 'black on the outside white on the inside' a way to put down anyone that doesn't follow racial group think.

    • @maryamjoha
      @maryamjoha Год назад +5

      So true. Not worth even talking to people like that. Their brains are too broken. They have to figure it out on their own.

    • @metalheadjake3339
      @metalheadjake3339 Год назад

      It's like when actual dumb neo nazi white supremacists call other white people n word lovers just because those white people aren't racist.... Yikes
      I remember seeing a white male uber driving kick two racist white people out of his car after making a casual racist remark straight away about non white people and he ended up being called that.
      It's funny how actual racists get annoyed by actual anti racists

  • @jonathangaudette1436
    @jonathangaudette1436 Год назад +67

    This is an issue within many minority groups. I am indigenous (Native) and get called an Apple. It's a derogatory term meaning red on the outside but white on the inside, for Natives that do not conform to the groupthink mindset of victimhood.

    • @xhagast
      @xhagast Год назад

      So being drunk, poor, ignorant, powerless, hopeless and miserable is how LEGITIMATE (Native) Americans should be? They (and every other oppressed minority) should be seeking revenge by accumulating all the money, power and status they could.

    • @jonathangaudette1436
      @jonathangaudette1436 Год назад +2

      @xhagast not quite sure what point you were trying to make, or what you were suggesting.

    • @xhagast
      @xhagast Год назад

      @@jonathangaudette1436 If you study, work, try to be successful you are "acting white." If you leave the reservation you "betray your culture." Too many people seem to draw pride from living in ghettos. I would expect them to try to beat the white man at his own game instead.

    • @23GreyFox
      @23GreyFox Год назад

      I saw a video on youtube were a woman told a little anecdote from her native mother: "If we weren't occupied in killing each other, the white people would had a much harder time conquering this land".

    • @gathercreatelivewithleslie8340
      @gathercreatelivewithleslie8340 Год назад +2

      Yes, I have a friend that has experienced the same thing. They want blood tests to prove if you're Native enough to be part of their group.

  • @nahmastay3300
    @nahmastay3300 Год назад +172

    So, I’m a white girl who grew up in a lower middle class white family who are HARDCORE gearheads. I’m talking Harley choppers, hot rods, dirt bikes, etc. So, a few years ago, we went to a chopper show that premiered an Indy documentary about these two famous black motorcycle riders who basically paved the way for black acceptance in a very predominantly “white” lifestyle in the 70’s. These men earned and gave respect everywhere they went and rode thousands of miles on two wheels across the country. These men called themselves Sugar & Spade and they lived amazingly full lives. Sadly, Sugar passed away earlier this year. Anyway, growing up, I never saw many black men on Harley’s riding around my city-but the past few years, many more black men and women have been taking up that lifestyle and I feel so much pride for them doing things that I know are sometimes ostracized by their black friends and family because it’s considered “white people shit”. Fuck that, man. I love seeing people living their life regardless of what cultural expectations may be imposed upon them. Leather wearing bikers are not limited to rough just white men with long beards.

    • @VenomLeon
      @VenomLeon Год назад +9

      That sounds awesome! I'm going to look it up. 😎

    • @nahmastay3300
      @nahmastay3300 Год назад +8

      @@VenomLeon I hope you do! We got to meet those guys and they were such nice dudes. Seriously what a cool experience

    • @skylamei
      @skylamei Год назад +2

      @@VenomLeon Hey!!! I love your profile picture! I get so excited when I find other persona fans ❤️

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +2

      Amen to that, in this day and age you could pursue your dreams and especially in this great country.

    • @psyck
      @psyck Год назад +2

      I went to Street Vibrations in Reno years ago. There were lots of black bikers. Not just 10-20. There were at least 100 of them. Mingling right in with everyone else and very passionate about their bikes. One of the best motorcycle events I’ve been to.

  • @jrenee3199
    @jrenee3199 Год назад +13

    I hate this so much. I grew up being told I talk white or act white and it infuriated me. Everything I know, everything I learned, everything I am, came from my Black family so I never understood the idea that I was “acting white”. They don’t understand that they’re dissing our community when they say that.

  • @lucystoner
    @lucystoner Год назад +101

    "Using inadequacies as an identity" is true. I am white, but I grew up in the ghetto. I taught high school in the ghetto. Watching so many students hold on to that identity... a lot of them with potential, but it was almost like they were afraid of it. Potential not to be like white people, but potential to go to college. To study a trade. Not get involved in a gang & the gangs are rampant in my town. It's just sad all around.

    • @girardedward
      @girardedward Год назад +21

      Teachers like you changed my life. I was a cholo until some high school teachers helped me see a different - better path. Thank you for being in the trenches lifting those like me out! Onto my Masters of Finance this year…

    • @Michael-hm8vh
      @Michael-hm8vh Год назад

      Seems they are wanting to be ignorant on purpose and prefer not to be educated! Maybe that's why racism is still around! Criminality is within black culture is rampant! Educate and upgrade your culture or stay down, it's your choice!!

    • @rogerward801
      @rogerward801 8 месяцев назад

      Not about being "white". It's about being your best

  • @JeremiahHartmanPhotography
    @JeremiahHartmanPhotography Год назад +21

    My son's best friend is black.. he got bullied by other students because he makes good grades...like literally kept trying to fight him. It was the most bizarre thing I had ever heard of.

    • @gravitatemortuus1080
      @gravitatemortuus1080 Год назад +8

      This happened to my daughters' black friends. She was in AP classes and the blacks in it were bullied by other blacks. It was really sad.

    • @danielmaster8776
      @danielmaster8776 Год назад

      ruclips.net/video/tLzMTgvHQ-8/видео.html

  • @Downsdddgh
    @Downsdddgh Год назад +37

    I was in a restaurant once in Germany back in the 80's. Military base. Im white.
    I was sitting close to an African guy and we struck up a conversation.
    As I sat there all of a sudden I thought to myself that I wasn't talking to a black guy.
    That was a revelation for my young mind.
    It isn't about skin color...it's about attitude.

    • @YujiroHanmaaaa
      @YujiroHanmaaaa Год назад +5

      Africans are different then Black Americans. They take education much more seriously than Black Americans. Africans speak several languages. and when they speak english, french, spanish, portuguese etc. they speak iit properly eventhough if they have slightly accent

    • @Downsdddgh
      @Downsdddgh Год назад +2

      @@YujiroHanmaaaa I hear you.
      I admire their English, they speak it better than me.
      Probably understand it better also.
      Never was strong with it in the classroom.

    • @armynurseboy
      @armynurseboy Год назад +8

      @@YujiroHanmaaaa I work with an African doctor (Ethiopian). He admitted to me he is befuddled by the attitude of Black Americans and how he is insulted when they expect him to share the same beliefs as them simply because his skin color is the same.

  • @sublime_death_000
    @sublime_death_000 6 месяцев назад +6

    thanks for this discussion. ¨you act white¨ is too often an underhanded compliment or an insult. usually all somebody is saying is: ¨i have beliefs/stereotypes about what it means to act white and you live up to those beliefs/stereotypes.¨ or it can mean ¨you are not black enough in my eyes because you do not match my limited ideas of what it is/can/should mean to be a member of the black race.¨

  • @pujatelicreative
    @pujatelicreative Год назад +137

    As a Brit born woman with Indian heritage, when I started to question people from India about their hatred of us Brits because of the ills of the past, I got told I 'could never be white' and 'I was trying to be', because I stuck up for the now and the fact the majority of people in the UK aren't racist. So in order for me to be authentically brown, I need to not succeed, because if I do, I'm trying to be a different race.
    A similar thing happened when we had a black Chancellor recently, he was told by a member of our Labour Party (more left wing) that he wasn't really black because he didn't sound black. Our PM was lambasted for getting the top job and that he didn't really represent brown people.
    I've put down the left side of things recently, and I have to give a shout out to Amala for this. You were part of the help that enabled me to see the issues on the side I thought I was on, but would rather steer clear of.

    • @patrickharriss
      @patrickharriss Год назад +4

      Preach, you went alot more indept. Preach.

    • @aristobrat4987
      @aristobrat4987 Год назад +12

      its like , self whipping. ive seen more poc say "im never going anywhere in life because im brown" than any white people. the self hatred is insane

    • @kindacalled777
      @kindacalled777 Год назад +8

      That labour MP didn't get away with her racist speech about the Chancellor thankfully. I hate the Tories, but those woke labour MPs too 🙄

    • @crisl9079
      @crisl9079 Год назад

      “I need to not succeed, because if I do, I'm trying to be a different race. “
      😵‍💫What?? Why would brown people believe this?? Isn’t this just self-inflicted racism? That’s horrible that you have been told brown people can’t be brown and successful. I can’t imagine being told I can’t succeed and be white at the same time…that is so demoralizing. I hope your generation and younger changes that toxic mindset.

    • @earthsecho4770
      @earthsecho4770 Год назад +13

      As a South African I have realised that conservative Indian culture viciously rejects anything positive about the English and the UK. They cling to the past and paint a picture of how amazing India was pre colonization and that their kindgoms never did anything wrong - ever. Which is false but they don't care much for accuracy...

  • @beccaa2919
    @beccaa2919 Год назад +115

    I was bullied so much for acting "white" its crazy even my crush told me that. In elementary it made me try to conform especially started listening to music I didn't like to fit. Even my brothers would say things like that.
    I eventually realize it was absolutely ridiculous. I listening to the music I like now lol and am unapologetically myself.

    • @iamnotabodybuilder8337
      @iamnotabodybuilder8337 Год назад +3

      You’re definitely not alone

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад +3

      That’s good for you, I went through this crap from my peers in school, who went on to ruin their lives with their dumb mentality.

    • @TrollAxeThrower
      @TrollAxeThrower Год назад

      You're being yourself? How dare you! The idea of self was made up by white men!

    • @deniseberman8633
      @deniseberman8633 Год назад

      @@TrollAxeThrower People are really dumbing down aren’t they?

  • @maguffintop2596
    @maguffintop2596 Год назад +87

    I had a friend who was black in HS. She was one black of four girls in the whole school class of 500. She dressed preppy, she lived in the wealthier side of town. Dad was a lawyer. She told me nightmare stories of a sleepover w/ the other black girls. They called her Oreo ( nvr heard of that in 1981), mocked her for eating certain foods w/ a fork, and said all they did was physically fight half the night. Eye opening.

    • @sonjaevans3858
      @sonjaevans3858 Год назад +25

      This sounds about right to me. I went through the same exact thing throughout the 80's for speaking properly, loving reading, ballet, camping, and rock music and dressing creatively. Most blacks cling for dear life to their stereotypes and never even fathom what life beyond them can be like.

    • @Npc1488-wc1kf
      @Npc1488-wc1kf Год назад +2

      Our ancestors werent wrong about them

  • @johnpatitucci7919
    @johnpatitucci7919 Год назад +8

    "Acting Black" is a social construct... Change my mind.

  • @edh7761
    @edh7761 Год назад +226

    I feel this. I am a 1/2 native 1/2 Puerto Rican that grew up around white people and only went to the Rez to see my grandmother intermittently. When we moved to south Dakota in my elementary years. I finally met some other Indians. By that time my vernacular and vocabulary was well entrenched. They did not accept me because I didn't know the lingo or handshakes. They used to call me a Apple. Red on the outside and white one the inside.

    • @patrickharriss
      @patrickharriss Год назад +9

      I know the feeling.....

    • @MrSophire
      @MrSophire Год назад +60

      Ok so the is Oreo, banana, coconut and now apple. Wow, why so wrong being “white “

    • @edh7761
      @edh7761 Год назад +2

      @@MrSophire it's been in my experience the minorities use white people as a pejorative when referring to people of their own race that they don't like.

    • @deesnuts2791
      @deesnuts2791 Год назад +26

      That's awful but also pretty funny, not in a bad way through. I totally understand where you're coming from, I'm half Samoan and half white and I got called coconut all the time, so feel your pain. You be you, who cares what anyone else thinks, they're probably just jealous.

    • @abbiereynolds8016
      @abbiereynolds8016 Год назад +4

      It's crazy how many variants to that insult there are. "Oreo", "banana", "coconut", and now I'm hearing "apple" for the first time. One for every minority group🙄
      Do these people not realize that all they're doing is putting the white people they hate so much on a pedestal? They're basically saying that certain behaviors are the "white" standard by default and anyone else trying to behave that way are a cheap imitation.

  • @thatoneviewer1553
    @thatoneviewer1553 Год назад +87

    I come from a Mexican household and in an area of the U.S where Mexicans or hispanics make up the majority of the town so I can say that 'acting white' is a pretty common thing in our community. It's joked that if you like nice clothes, shoes, have a good house, like Hallmark, etc., that you are 'acting white'. It's just a common thing that whiteness is a joke in the Hispanic community. My own mother who is on the lighter side gets the brunt of these jokes since she is very proper sometimes and likes stereotypically 'white' things. In my own life experience, I've probably seen more outright racism against white people and their lifestyle than anything else.

    • @elettramia6380
      @elettramia6380 Год назад +2

      HISPANIC LITERALLY MEANS SPAIN. 🙄THE CULTURA LATINA THE LATIN CULTURE, THE LATIN PEOPLE, THE LATINO TRIBES (Latini), THE LATIN ETHNICITY AND THE LATIN LANGUAGE ALL COME FROM ITALY! LATINO IS THE SOLE IDENTITY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA WHOS ETHNICITY AND CULTURE COMES FROM THE TRUE AND REAL LATINO ANCESTORS OF ITALY. And Hispanic is literally the Latin language for Spain not the native Americans they colonized such as those Of south, Central American and Mexican origins weather you or others like you acknowledged it or not. Both Hispanic & Latin/Latino culture come from Europe that is Latin Europe. & Latin Europe was Latinized by Italy hence how Latina Italy got the historical Latin name LATINA! LATINO= SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATIN MEDITERRANEAN DIASPORA OF THE LATINO ANCESTORS OF ITALY. Hispanic is the name the TRUE Latino people of Rome/Italy gave the Spaniards. People from south central America and Mexico are historically native Americans & now some Mestizos whom where just forced to learn Hispanic ways just like people in North America who where forced to learn English ways and it ends there. Being culturally UNROOTED due to brainwashed acculturation is why so many North Americans don’t know their own identity Nor even care.TRUE Latin people need representation in North America as we are misrepresented all day long in this country and it’s not ok. Culturally rooted proud People native to south Central America and Mexico who embrace their true identity feel the same way with FALSE brands like Hispanic and Latino as that is Not their origin it is the origin of their colonizers. South Central Americans and Mexicans are indigenous Americans, mestizo Americans, Castizo Americans, zambos, sub Saharans etc. Not Latins, Not Latin Blood therefore Not LATIN_O. LATINOS are SOUTHERN EUROPEAN LATINS born anywhere in the world who’s roots come from the LATIN Roman Empire of the Mediterranean Race. Again HENCE HOW LATINA ITALY GOT THE HISTORICAL LATIN NAME LATINA! If those like you want to claim the Hispanic identity and origins of Spain then what where. HOWEVER us culturally aware true Latin Mediterranean people are tired of this brainwashed American obsession with misappropriation and cultural rape of foreign Latin terms from Italy. Supporting American Brainwashed cultural theft for “gain” and “benefit” does Not magically change this. CULTURALLY REMOVED North Americans need to learn and respect their true culture that way they can stop stealing from mine. & TRUE LATINO MEN & WOMEN AKA SOUTHERN EUROPEANS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN MULTI GENETICALLY MIXED ETHNIC PEOPLE DUE TO OUR MIDDLE EASTERN, NORTH AFRICAN& BALKAN GYPSIE DNA. THIS CULTURAL RAPE TOWARDS THE TRUE LATIN PEOPLE OF ITALY EXIST BECAUSE THOSE LIKE YOU BELIEVE YOU HAVE & WILL CONTINUE TO “BENEFIT” FROM THE CULTURAL THEFT TOWARDS US TRUE LATINO MEDITERRANEANS WHO DESCEND FROM ITALY!

    • @chebaca8
      @chebaca8 Год назад +16

      @@elettramia6380 u gotta take a chill pill

    • @Aaron_Rodriguez808
      @Aaron_Rodriguez808 Год назад +3

      @@chebaca8 🤣🤣🤣 yes

    • @evac7590
      @evac7590 Год назад +3

      elettramia6380 Hispania was all Iberic Peninsula, not only Spain. Latino american are family.We share a lot of things.

  • @seanadams4920
    @seanadams4920 Год назад +104

    im glad someone said it. basing everything on skin color and grouping ourselves into that is what is tearing this country apart.

    • @HerMajesty1
      @HerMajesty1 Год назад

      That's because the powers that shouldn't be are trying to start a race war.

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      ...why didn't YEW say it ??????????????????

    • @jummyran
      @jummyran Год назад

      It’s part of the plan duh

    • @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426
      @barryr.irvinga.k.a.deansto9426 Год назад

      ... THAT'S AN UNEDUCATED "OPINION" ...WHAT IS TEARING THIS NATION APART IS RACISM. PEOPLES SKIN COLOR IS OBVIOUS SO IT SHOULD BE ACKNOWLEDGED WITHOUT SAYING.
      WHITES HAVE ***NEVERRR*** ACKNOWLEDGED THEIR RACISM AND THEIR MURDEROUS OPPRESSION AS A GROUP BECAUSE THEY ARE THE MAJORITY CLASS ANS THEY ALLOW THEMSELVES TO DELVE INTO THE DEEP MULTI GENERATIONAL PROFITS FROM SLAVERY WHILE CLAIMING ***NOY***TO BE RACIST.
      YOU WANTTO SEE A WHITE MAN LOSE IT? CALL HIM A RACIST JUST IN CONVERSATION AND THEIR GUILT COMPLEX GOES THROUGH THE ROOF. IT'S BECAUSE THEY KNOW SOOO MUCH OF WHAT WAS TAKEN, WITHHELD, COVERED OVER, LEFT BEHIND. PURE GUIL;T!

    • @adu1991
      @adu1991 Год назад

      "We don't claim you"...
      This is just as bad as White slaveowners feeling like they OWNED Black slaves, years and years ago.

  • @Npc1488-wc1kf
    @Npc1488-wc1kf Год назад +51

    'You act White' is the best compliment you can get

    • @leabianchi
      @leabianchi 7 месяцев назад +2

      Yes.

    • @icebergslim3737
      @icebergslim3737 7 месяцев назад

      No the fuck it ain't stop smoking PCP you fools

  • @whatchaknowe
    @whatchaknowe Год назад +48

    I've heard it most of my life. It's a shame. My parents stressed the importance of the content of someone's character is what matters most. Don't let ignorant people dictate your life just to fit in. Treat people the way you want to be treated regardless of physical characteristics.

  • @ninakennedy4092
    @ninakennedy4092 Год назад +86

    I definitely fit into this bracket. I’ve been bullied, even family members who are for the majority also light-skinned have pointed out how much lighter I am compared to them. The mother of a guy I dated has mentioned how ‘white’ I talked and has encouraged me ‘to be myself’. I’ve had friends who have criticized my struggles because ‘I’m not dark enough to understand them’. I’m older now so I’ve learned to love myself the way God made me. I’ve also learned how to identify and pull weeds from the roots in my garden, throw them in the trash and make sure they don’t grow back.✌🏼❤

    • @midnightaurora9483
      @midnightaurora9483 Год назад +9

      They weren't your friends at all then. You don't have to be a certain colour to understand their feelings that's just stupid and racist. I'm glad you've learned to love yourself, I've just started to learn to love myself and I've gotten out of depression for a year now and everything has gone well for me and i hope everything is going well for you. God bless you and have a happy almost Christmas!

  • @rhapzodyb
    @rhapzodyb Год назад +39

    I was NEVER Black enough. In our house we grew up with a "Command of The King's English" and only used slang to make fun of people! In high school the hoodlums I hung with (briefly) would say "What? You think YOU'RE BETTER THAN US!!!??" I couldn't say ''well, yes" because then I would just get my ass whooped! Then, of course, I was the one with the scholarship from the teachers union. 😎

    • @fabioghezzi1969
      @fabioghezzi1969 Год назад +1

      You defended your values and the education your parents gave you.
      This "acting white" sh*t trown at guys who do well at school it's the black community shooting his own foots.
      How many kids would hide their smart side just to conform? That gets me mad.

  • @thomasjorge4734
    @thomasjorge4734 5 месяцев назад +2

    A public school teacher spoke about a young African-American girl's violin constantly being broken by her harassing fellow students. She gave it up and gave up.

  • @andresperez8902
    @andresperez8902 Год назад +107

    Gothix and Amala on a video together, what a delight to hear them express their bright minds 😍

  • @Dontbeweak123
    @Dontbeweak123 Год назад +49

    It’s a sad state in the black community to see being articulate, intelligent, and any other positive behavior as being tied to being white. It does my heart good to see individuals break free of the destructive indoctrination, but makes it sink to hear so many cannot see who is really keeping the black community down. Keep up the good work, the more individuals who cast of the chains of their mental enslavement, the more the community as a whole can wake up to the reality.

    • @crazychicSHENA
      @crazychicSHENA Год назад +2

      Never going to happen

    • @dwwolf4636
      @dwwolf4636 Год назад +2

      @@crazychicSHENA it's too usefull for certain parties.

    • @aceblack92
      @aceblack92 Год назад

      You're full of it sir. Acting white has nothing to do with sounding intelligent or articulate, acting means that you act white! You can pretend that whites don't act or sound different from blacks if you want to though.

    • @aceblack92
      @aceblack92 Год назад

      And you black conservatives kill me with the "breaking your chains" BS. You basically trade masters from white liberals to white conservatives. Your whole ideology and talking points are from white conservatives.

  • @matthewblumenthal804
    @matthewblumenthal804 Год назад +22

    I'm a old white guy. I've worked blue, gray, and white collar jobs. I've worked with people of every ethnic variety that was common in those arenas. I have never found that race spoke to the quality of a person. I've known people of great worth. I've known people of very little worth. Both sets came in all shades. The emphasis on race is just another tool to divide us. I'd like to see fewer people taken in by it.

  • @DeterminedDIYer
    @DeterminedDIYer Год назад +6

    My really good friend Chris deals with this. He's a black guy who went to our predominately white suburban school. He says most black women won't date him because of how he talks and his interests, and he gets crap for dating white girls because they actually give him the time of day. He feels alienated so of course he hangs out with people who accept him. Who wouldn't?

  • @rosegarden9100
    @rosegarden9100 Год назад +102

    as a black conservative woman this was a great show!!! thank you ladies ❤❤❤

    • @chamberpot969
      @chamberpot969 Год назад +3

      As a white man I am sick of the behaviour of many white women who no longer know how to be a wife to men who want to be good husbands and raise a family.
      I think a lot of black women have the same values as I have but are forced to marry in their groups.

    • @addingupto1002
      @addingupto1002 Год назад +2

      ​@Chamber Pot I agree. The two groups need to meet up more. We may have a lot in common.

  • @seanstewart302
    @seanstewart302 Год назад +50

    One thing I've noticed in life is that there are a lot more people that want to tear others down to their level than want to build others up. People are usually just awful to one another regardless of race, gender, social status, etc. How our species accomplished anything positive in this world baffles me.

    • @tknows470
      @tknows470 Год назад +1

      Crab in a bucket mentality, right?!

  • @yournotmydad9260
    @yournotmydad9260 Год назад +109

    Out here in California this is very prevalent in the Mexican/ Hispanic community. We just don’t take it up the butt and keep on keeping on. No sense in entertaining nonsense especially when it come to unchangeable characteristics.🇺🇸🦅

    • @hotrodriguez549
      @hotrodriguez549 Год назад +8

      Agree 100% I remember hearing the word pocho.

    • @graffmonstersp
      @graffmonstersp Год назад +5

      Agree I'm a skater/punk it's odd

    • @YA-qj8fx
      @YA-qj8fx Год назад +6

      @@hotrodriguez549 Yup, I'm a pocha and proud from East LA! 🤣

    • @RanMouri82
      @RanMouri82 Год назад +2

      @@YA-qj8fx What does pocho/pocha mean? Is it saying the Hispanic person's acting "too white"? I'm half-Puerto Rican from NYC, and I'm super white (my sis is a ginger!) so I've thankfully never encountered that.

    • @calinfus80s
      @calinfus80s Год назад +1

      @@RanMouri82 pocho is a chicano? 🤔