I really don’t care. These people know better. They just DON’T care. Just stay out of me and MINES’ way.
I’m so tired of black people wanting everyone to be responsible for some else’s kids who continue to misbehave out here.
The parents spent time making them, they need to spend the time raising them.
Too many excuses out here.
We celebrate gender reveals and baby showers… once that child gets here and reaches a certain age, it’s “to hell with them”
America OVERALL wants everyone else to raise the children BUT, their parents. It’s getting ridiculous at this point
THIS!!!
I have more in common with a white moral citizen with good character than a black immoral citizen with poor character.
Black folks have nothing to do with what N-words (be it field or house) have going on.
IMHO, N-words and the so-called Black Boulee (AKA "house N-words") are the greatest enemies to progress that black folks have ever faced.
Lumping us all together based solely on the color of our skin is the definition of racism.
No other racial group has to be brought down to their lowest moral common denominator.
Respectability politics is nothing more than "talented tenth" classism endorsed by house n-words.
No different than a Nigerian governor calling for the arrest of deadlock-wearing Nigerian citizens, who would be forced to face the judgment of white man wig-wearing legislators.
Edit:
Excellent read on the "myth of the model minority."
Origins
Professor Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham coined the term ‘politics of respectability’ in her 1993 book
Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880–1920. In it, she examines the use of respectability narratives by Black Baptist women to “counter the images of black Americans as lazy, shiftless, stupid, and immoral in popular culture” and appeals for both societal acceptance and equal legal protection.
Even when the word “respectability” is not referred to directly by name, Professor Angela Banks points out in
Respectability & the Quest for Citizenship that respectability politics has consistently been used in areas such as immigration law, in hopes of creating more access for excluded immigrants. In particular, she studies the reversal of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act through the use of respectability narratives that “described Chinese immigrants as sharing a belief in and experience with democracy, having a strong work ethic, having high moral standards, Christian or believing in a higher power, a commitment to the rule of law, self-sufficiency, and individualism.” Politically, these strategic narratives and the growing need for U.S.-China allyship during WWII led to the
repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1943. However, the respectability narratives told of Chinese immigrants also paved the way for the
model minority myth.
Historian
Kenneth Mack explored respectability politics from a legal perspective, coining the term “legalist strand” to describe the intentional use of respectability—or the "similarity of the values, norms, and practices” between dominant and marginalized groups—as the rationale for policy changes that offered more rights to marginalized groups. In short, respectability politics in action.
An overview of what respectability politics are, how they differ from respectability narratives, and the inherent problems in using respectability as the grounds for sociopolitical change.
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