...It’s saddening that I have to admit that Barkley is right. The cultural of self-hated and antagonism between regressive and progressive African-Americans has been present since slavery and Jim Crow, where we’d admonish blacks for being “uncle Toms,” and “house slaves” when they would be too closely associated with whites, and mulatto women were treated harshly by darker-skinned African-American women since they had white lineage in their blood. Now “uncle Tom” has been replaced with “Oreo” and “not black enough,” but the intent of the message is still the same: To some, you aren’t a true black person if you do not share the same backward views as they do. - See more at: bit.ly/1wPqiGg
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:01:15 +0000
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