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Camille Looks good.
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Take into account there will always be people who will critize you for accessing the world in a way that’s different from how they’d access it. Imagine being the only person of African accestry in a crowd of approximately 1000 attendees at the Chicago Yachters ball in 1985. No matter how many questions I answered correctly, no matter challenges I successfully negotiated, and no matter how socially ellegant I might have been; they didn’t think blacks could sail a boat, be familiar with yachts such as Cheoy Lee or Merrill Stevens. Just because I grew up in a ghetto in Miami, FL., and I black means what? Never sell yourself short!
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txbx Never that. I never sell myself or anyone else short for that matter. I give everyone the benefit of the doubt. My dad used to always say you can either have people think you a fool, Or you can open your mouth and remove all doubt.
Suffering builds character. I used to ask why me lord? Now I say thank you lord for putting me through all my trials and tribulations. Without them I would not be the person I am. For better or worse fake hair or not. I am nothing if not real.
P.S. those people who criticized just because the color of your skin probably wouldn’t have made good friends anyway. So later for them.
It’s not the fact that they are not accessing the world the way you do. It’s the fact that they are not even willing to see a different point of view. If everybody was the same, the world would be a boring place. We are all unique for a reason. So you have endless possibilities to learn something new.
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Their is nothing wrong with speaking proper English but their is when you add a “whiteness” to it. Although she was raised around privileged children like herself, I’m quite sure they were not all white. Bill Cosby was not the first African American to be rich and nor is he the last. So she needs to clarify priviledge people like herself. It doesn’t matter the $ amount behind your
name but your education level. My sister,a MD, from the ghettos of philly and educated at one of the seven sisters colleges, Bryn Mawr, which was not all white at the time of her attendance. She speaks proper English whithout the whiteness.
Bill need to preach to his children about acknowledging their
blackness instead of preaching to the masses.
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Micheal M when you say “whiteness” what do you mean. I speak properly as well as my husband and children. My dad was an educated man and he wanted his children to be. My kids all started reading when they were four. All but my baby because she is only 2, but I am working with her. I’ve had people ask me why we sound white. I simply say if you mean educated it’s because we are. My point is no matter who you are or what you do someone will always have something to say. They talked about Jesus I don’t expect anything less.
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Standard English is not indicative of color, and Bill’s children have only to look in the mirror to know that they are black.
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I grew up around all cultures and backgrounds during school until now and, I don’t care who you know or what you know if you do not know yourself. That is the most important thing in the world, knowing ones’ self. If you can speak like the queen of England and are as dainty as the Dutchess, that doesn’t mean anything to real people who have actually experiance LIFE. What do I mean by this? People who have gone through struggles and adversity may not have the best education but, often we do know how to treat people and take care of family, self and those around us. I am 24 soon to be 24 and I still have not been through college but I do have an education. And People don’t know unless I tell or want them to know how and wher I grew up. On the streets. And I am not a stereotype but, I do love music, basketball, chicken, grape and orange soda and watermelon! If you don’t respect yourself no one else will. When you grow up “privilleged” that is wonderful; to the world what is your contribution for we are not here for ourselves.
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eblaze I could not agree more. Just because you have more money, etc. than someone it does not make better. It just means they have more money (etc). Just because someone has less, it doesn’t make them any less. It just means they have less.
It is why I don’t want anyone’s life other than the one the lord has blessed me with. All that glitters is not gold. Just because it looks glamorous doesn’t make it so.
No matter what have, who you are, or who you know. You poop stank just like mine. You have to put your pants on one leg at a time like everyone else, and has a human you are bound to have insecurities just like anyone else.
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