(05-20-2015 01:01 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 12:58 PM)VA49er Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 12:56 PM)Fitbud Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 08:22 AM)VA49er Wrote:  

(05-20-2015 07:57 AM)UofMstateU Wrote:  The vile piece of dung also attacked a white rape victim by trolling her on a board. But she's still starting at Boston U on July 1.

Yes, double standard indeed.

Not a double standard but a different university.

No, obvioulsy a double standard based on race. But that's to be expected these days.

Exactly. One does not opression another race for 300 years and expect not to suffer consequences.

That's not the problem, it's just how we got here. It ended 150 years ago. There was black success even during that time (Senators, Congressmen, Business, Education, Architects--the architect of Duke's campus was black, Doctors, Lawyers), what killed it and put us behind was basically a removal of citizen status until the 60s.

I'm just 27 years old and I'm the FIRST generation that never had to attend segregated schools. Luckily I had a great background so I had a head start over even my 2nd cousins.

As black American's we have found the type of success that we weren't supposed to have, but we still have a long way to go and even after that ground is made up, we'd still have some people behind.

Here's my opinion of the name thing. I won't name my children anything too untraditional, but I've had old people call my name ghetto and just because there's a y in it.

Also, why should black people assimilate into American culture, we ARE and have always been an integral part American culture.

Something that came to mind last night, did the Irish change their names to assimilate or did they change them so people would never know they were of Irish decent at all?

It's not a knew phenomenon, I've had family members--all pretty long dead now--go off, pass for white and never acknowledge they were black ever again.

(05-21-2015 05:28 PM)nomad2u2001 Wrote:  Here's my opinion of the name thing. I won't name my children anything too untraditional, but I've had old people call my name ghetto and just because there's a y in it.

Also, why should black people assimilate into American culture, we ARE and have always been an integral part American culture.

This. All those examples of italians or jews changing their names to fit into america are nice, but the average african american had been in the US for half a dozen generations by that point.