Aestu wrote:
I don't quite get the first part. Who, how and to whom was the speaking happening and how was it seen as offensive?
Sorry, allow me to clarify. It was a black boxer from Philadelphia talking about a black quarterback who used to be on the Philadelphia Eagles.
I find it offensive because he was saying how the black quarterback ("McNabb") talked differently (IE: he talked like a white person) with Eagles senior management, and how he isn't tough because he grew up in a nice neighborhood in Chicago.
Basically it's this same issue that seems to keep cropping up. If you are black in America, you are "less black" if you grow up in a middle class setting, have two parents who work to support the family, and if you speak like an educated person.
I think it's disgusting and I think it's an attitude that is one of the reasons black culture in America still has yet to truly move up the ladder economically (like other oppressed cultures in America have done: Irish, Chinese, Italians, Japanese etc.).
The fact that being educated and working hard, or not growing up in a broken home in high crime neighborhoods makes you "less black" is retarded.