No, the acting white attitude isn't a product of so called black culture, nor did it emanate from blacks and for the record you Texas ******[the Bass bitterly hates anything that comes from out of that God forsaken state] the Bass has never chided nor put down any black that makes good grades as acting white, on the contrary, its the schools that ingrain the idea that getting good grades is acting white:
School Culture, Academic Achievement and the Social Construction of Blackness
School Culture, Academic Achievement and the Social Construction of Blackness
Abstract: Despite the legal, political and economic changes that America has made since the Civil Rights Era, the racial disparity in academic achievement continues. Over the past several years, a number of theories have been developed to explain this dilemma. My research was inspired by John Ogbu’s ‘Oppositional Culture’ theory, which state’s that the racial gap is due to black student’s failure to apply themselves academically because of the black community’s conception of school as ‘white’.
While I found this argument compelling, it seemed to me that school’s also play a significant role in framing academic arena’s as ‘white’. To test this hypothesis, I conducted a 5 month ethnographic study at a Minneapolis based alternative school. The preliminary findings of my research at MFS suggest that, while Ogbu may be accurate in his assertion that many black students believe that school is ‘white’ his assumptions about how and where this belief is constructed are problematic.
The belief that school and academics are ‘white’ results, not from a cultural perspective that black students bring to school, but from a dialectical relationship between the school and the black community. Thus, any effort to eradicate the racial gap in academic achievement must include an examination of the way that school’s construct ‘blackness’ and ‘whiteness’ in ways that either inhibit or promote academic achievement.
The 7 out of 10 out of wedlock rate was from the year 2000 and none of what you posted demonstrated anything proving that a black ghetto culture exists that praises failure and laziness over success.
For the last time you jackass, blacks[not all but some] did pass the firefighter exams in New Haven they just didn't score high enough of the exams to qualify for the 15 immediately available slots, so your logic that the tests need dumbing is retarded. Only 27 blacks took the exams out of a total of 118 people, most of whom were white .
