bygINCpresents says:
there is a perversive movement afoot which champions anti-intellectualism in all its forms. the movement actually calls it dissent or un-american to think critically. sad reality, correct? and it's not confined to young, black people. americans are lied to each day, told what to think and believe as true. a war is raging now based on a marketed lie many have to believe as righteous b/c their elected leaders have been marketed as being righteous. my point is, anything can be sold to the young, the uninformed, the intellectually unwilling... the lazy
i was the proverbial black overachiever growing up. i lived in a new jersey suburb my first year in america. when i moved to brooklyn the following year, i rarely talked b/c i "sounded white". it took me a while to accept that anyone would sound that way if they lived in a white, suburban neighborhood their first year in a new country, just trying to understand everything.
i came to accept a few other things about that white neighborhood and it's accent. i saw the higher eduction lived in many houses, so did well-paying jobs, cars, the dream marketed as america, and all else. i brought that ethic --not that it doesn't exist in other communities in this country-- to brooklyn with me, and when i finally began talking to my peers, i was couched in a hybrid-blackness i spent countless hours struggling to define while my peers were drowned in its darker side.
to succeed in america and earn the things one needs to survive and thrive, a --for lack of a better term-- "middle class" work ethic must be understood. it's another language any person wanting distinction here must learn. you don't have to use that language everyday, everywhere, but you must recognize it when you hear it and be willing to respond.
so keep teaching your children it's okay to be themselves no matter what. help them define their own version of blackness along the road to becoming the successes they want to be. blackness is too big, too broad, too glorious to be limited to adolescent fears. teach your kids better. show them better so they can become the BEST.
Click the link below in "Source" to hear me talking about the reality of being a black boy living righteous today. Send comments to
bygINCpresents@live.com.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA0grC8D3I
Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA0grC8D3I
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