Re: "Acting White" Quantified
- From: John Rogers <tiger7_88@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 20:57:15 -0400
Huck Kennedy <tempehuck@xxxxxxxxx>, don't waste your summer praying in
vain for your Obama to rise from these streets...
On May 19, 1:52 pm, "David V. Loewe, Jr" <davelo...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
http://www.economist.com/world/na/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11326407
"Cool to be dumb
His most striking contribution to the debate so far has been to show
that black students who study hard are accused of ?acting white? and
are ostracised by their peers. Teachers have known this for years, at
least anecdotally. Mr Fryer found a way to measure it. He looked at a
large sample of public-school children who were asked to name their
friends. To correct for kids exaggerating their own popularity, he
counted a friendship as real only if both parties named each other. He
found that for white pupils, the higher their grades, the more popular
they were. But blacks with good grades had fewer black friends than
their mediocre peers. In other words, studiousness is stigmatised
among black schoolchildren. It would be hard to imagine a more
crippling cultural norm. "
MAY B TH4T 15 WHA'T5 R0N6 W1TH RSFC!!!!@!!1!!!~
HAW!!@!!! HAV3 ANUTH3R B33R U MORAN!!!@!!!!!~1!!!
John Rogers
AU Class of 1985
The Al Del Greco of Atlanta
"We are not fighting so that you will offer us something. We
are fighting to eliminate you." (Hussein Massawi, Hezbollah)
"There are good and decent people who cannot fathom the darkness
in these men and try to explain away their words. It's natural,
but it is deadly wrong." (President Bush)
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