SPEAK YA MIND!!!

I've thought about that too. There's really no acting black or white. People getting confused with acting preppy, hood, rich, poor or whatever you choose to call it. Some people say others act poor or hood because of where they come from or what they mimick on tv. Due to slavery and racism in US History , it left alot of blacks or African Americans below the poverty line , where they couldn't and today still dont recieve the same experiences and oppurtunities! This leaves people who are "poor" acting one way (not all the time, this is a stereotype) and those who are rich acting the other way. It just so happends that alot of the "poor" people are BLACK.

Hood, poor, ghetto, preppy are all labels we as a society have came up with over the years. basically their stereotypes that make it easier for people who don't know anything. as for the acting black or acting white thing, that just sounds like a way to put someone down because their who u wannabe but can't. at least thats my opinion. their all labels and stereotypes to catergorize people and their lifestyles.

Iam a high school senior from new jersey and I think there is no such thing in acting black or white. What catorizes you is how you were raised. If you were raised with good morals and a wholesome upbringing where you were taught right from wrong and you just happen to live in the suburbs that doesn't mean you act white, it means that you were brought up well. And if the way you speak just happens to be slang most of the time and you are immune to getting into trouble a lot and you aren't close with you parentals as you should be and you just happen to live in a place that people normally call the "ghetto" doesn't mean you act black, it just means that you are very ignorant and are usually one sided about everything in life and that it has to offer!

i used to get that a lot when i was in high school so in college i changed the way i acted and felt really bad about it so now i act the way i know how to act: LIKE I HAVE AN EDUCATION AND COMMON SENSE, THE WAY MY PARENTS RAISED ME!

Its not acting Black or acting White. What you have to realize is that acting "Black" is a stereotype set out for Black people. Acting "Black" is being thuggish, ghetto, and loud about anything and everything for no reason. Not to mention talking like you have no common sense. When someone who is Black comes along and acts like they are civilized and educated, they are accused of acting "White" to discourage this behavior. This is just another way to keep the Black community going backwards instead of making progress. Now we have all these Black people worried about who got the Escalade and 24s and who got the Sean John. We have to stop giving in to that negative attitude and start encouraging one another. That same dude that told you that you were acting White, is the same dude thats gonna be acting "Black" after midnight shift at McDonalds. After we stop discouraging each other, then we can work together and push the Black community foward.

By copying a culture stereotypically...

Oh and another nutha deep blog, wow, great insightful questions.