Lets Talk About How Slaves Were Made To Hide Their Intelligence As a Survival Technique

[Behind-the-wheel]

shyt...that was my entire life before 18. As a kid, the only threat to my life and livelyhood were other black people.
Living in the projects in The Bronx in the 80's-90's, you weren't allowed to be "Smart" or you got beat up every day and worse.
So after getting my ass kicked a few times I learned to play "Dumb" and talk "Stupid" when around the less intelligent majority of people my age. When I got around adults I'd talk and act my normal highly intelligent self.
It's survival...
When you're surrounded by those of lower intelligence, you have to play chameleon until you can get away from them...which I proceeded to do when I turned 18 and graduated high school.

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

I'm sorry but im tired of the this narrative i keep seeing from some of your. About Black people calling other Blacks c00ns or sellouts because they are intelligent.

I swear i must have grown up in some freaky Black world. Because from elementary through high school, i was around nothing but mostly Blacks, i never witnessed that. Yeah kids got made fun for being nerdy, dressing "corny", and being ugly, but never for being smart.

Lets stop outright perpetuating that narrative please.

Oh so because you didn't go through it...it doesn't exist. I guess I never got murked on the daily back when I was younger because you say intelligent black youth in the hood don't get attacked for being intelligent.

Go sit down over there with the rest of the white racists that say racism doesn't exist because they don't see it.
Head in the sand ass nikka...

 

[RAX 010]

When I was 16 I was recruited into the nation of God's and Earths...needless to say I was privy to so much new information that people today are just learning about...but even before I became a God body I challenged my teachers because many things they were teaching just made no sense...to make a long story short I embraced my savage side more just to survive the inner city as well as too not be a target by my teachers...
Have a nice day

 

[brother walt]

Why people Always look at black people from the very small group of us doing wrong but look at other race from the small group of them doing good I don't get that shyt

 

[frush11]

Oh so because you didn't go through it...it doesn't exist. I guess I never got murked on the daily back when I was younger because you say intelligent black youth in the hood don't get attacked for being intelligent.

Go sit down over there with the rest of the white racists that say racism doesn't exist because they don't see it.
Head in the sand ass nikka...

Reread my post again , and actually understand what I'm saying. I'm far from a dude that's burying my head.

I just don't feed into this divisive narrative about Blacks going on other Blacks for being smart. Because I've never witnessed in my 34 years any off that shytt.

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

Reread my post again , and actually understand what I'm saying. I'm far from a dude that's burying my head.

I just don't feed into this divisive narrative about Blacks going on other Blacks for being smart. Because I've never witnessed in my 34 years any off that shytt.

And my reply to you stands.
Just because you didn't see it...doesn't mean it doesn't happen...and others really shouldn't agree with your willfully ignorant behind.

 

[Samori Toure]

shyt...that was my entire life before 18. As a kid, the only threat to my life and livelyhood were other black people.
Living in the projects in The Bronx in the 80's-90's, you weren't allowed to be "Smart" or you got beat up every day and worse.
So after getting my ass kicked a few times I learned to play "Dumb" and talk "Stupid" when around the less intelligent majority of people my age. When I got around adults I'd talk and act my normal highly intelligent self.
It's survival...
When you're surrounded by those of lower intelligence, you have to play chameleon until you can get away from them...which I proceeded to do when I turned 18 and graduated high school.

So the projects in the Bronx NY represents every place in America that has poor Black people?

The projects in NY, Chicago, Detroit, L.A. and every major city are not fit for rats. They are concrete jungles; that dehumanize people. You can not take shyt that happens in project as being normal and representative for all Black people. Do you think that that type of behavior happens in poor Black communities in the South? Because it didn't and it doesn't. Think about it. Poor Black communities in the South built their own colleges and universities.

 

[Samori Toure]

Why people Always look at black people from the very small group of us doing wrong but look at other race from the small group of them doing good I don't get that shyt

Because they are mentally lazy and ignorant and easily manipulated by propaganda. As of 2014 there are more Black people with college degrees right now in this Country than at any point in the history of this Country. There are over a hundred HBCU's that turn out thousands of Black college graduates each year. 84.4% of African Americans over 25 have a high school diploma or higher; 20% of African Americans have a Bachelor's degree (that is about 10 million people); almost 2 million Black people hold advanced degrees and about 3 million African Americans are enrolled in colleges and universities right now (that is not even looking at the recent increase in enrollment at HBCU's).

African American Demographics, Population, Incomes, Veterans, Education, Voting

I didn't even address the number of Black people that are in the trades (electricians, plumbers, carpenters) or the number that own businesses or the number that are just Blue collar workers.

Yet the media projects that a few ignorant ass rappers and neighborhood thugs represent all Black people.

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

So the projects in the Bronx NY represents every place in America that has poor Black people?

The projects in NY, Chicago, Detroit, L.A. and every major city are not fit for rats. They are concrete jungles; that dehumanize people. You can not take shyt that happens in project as being normal and representative for all Black people. Do you think that that type of behavior happens in poor Black communities in the South? Because it didn't and it doesn't. Think about it. Poor Black communities in the South built their own colleges and universities.

And just like I told frush11...fukk anywhere else.
I'm speaking on what I went through...the thread wanted examples...I'm giving mine.

I'm not saying it didn't happen or anything asinine like that because that's your experience.
I don't know what it's like growin up in surburbia or the dirty south or out west or the beach communities of florida and california or the deserts of the southwest.

I'm talking about NYC!
Nowhere else.
So frush11 can take his suburbanite head-in-the-sand ass on over there and you can take your southern hospitality college building ass on over there.

This fukkin place man...nikkas in here always wanna invalidate every other experience just because they didn't go through it.

 

[Samori Toure]

And just like I told frush11...fukk anywhere else.
I'm speaking on what I went through...the thread wanted examples...I'm giving mine.

I'm not saying it didn't happen or anything asinine like that because that's your experience.
I don't know what it's like growin up in surburbia or the dirty south or out west or the beach communities of florida and california or the deserts of the southwest.

I'm talking about NYC!
Nowhere else.
So frush11 can take his suburbanite head-in-the-sand ass on over there and you can take your southern hospitality college building ass on over there.

This fukkin place man...nikkas in here always wanna invalidate every other experience just because they didn't go through it.

Except that I grew up in Chicago in the heart of the ghetto in a neighborhood, that is just as rough if not rougher than where you lived in NY. And I didn't see shyt like that happening regularly either; except by insecure nikkas who somehow twisted people getting an education as some kind of indictment of them. Even then most Black people everywhere are extremely supportive of kids getting an education; unless the kid is an a$$hole; who tries to belittle people that don't have an education.

 

[brother walt]

Because they are mentally lazy and ignorant and easily manipulated by propaganda. As of 2014 there are more Black people with college degrees right now in this Country than at any point in the history of this Country. There are over a hundred HBCU's that turn out thousands of Black college graduates each year. 84.4% of African Americans over 25 have a high school diploma or higher; 20% of African Americans have a Bachelor's degree (that is about 10 million people); almost 2 million Black people hold advanced degrees and about 3 million African Americans are enrolled in colleges and universities right now (that is not even looking at the recent increase in enrollment at HBCU's).

African American Demographics, Population, Incomes, Veterans, Education, Voting

I didn't even address the number of Black people that are in the trades (electricians, plumbers, carpenters) or the number that own businesses or the number that are just Blue collar workers.

Yet the media projects that a few ignorant ass rappers and neighborhood thugs represent all Black people.

bro we need u in the lockroom

 

[Samori Toure]

bro we need u in the lockroom

I am in the locker room every once in a while. I was in a thread on the Moors just recently. The White Supremists were getting that werk on all sides.

 

[cjlaw93]

Because they are mentally lazy and ignorant and easily manipulated by propaganda. As of 2014 there are more Black people with college degrees right now in this Country than at any point in the history of this Country. There are over a hundred HBCU's that turn out thousands of Black college graduates each year. 84.4% of African Americans over 25 have a high school diploma or higher; 20% of African Americans have a Bachelor's degree (that is about 10 million people); almost 2 million Black people hold advanced degrees and about 3 million African Americans are enrolled in colleges and universities right now (that is not even looking at the recent increase in enrollment at HBCU's).

African American Demographics, Population, Incomes, Veterans, Education, Voting

I didn't even address the number of Black people that are in the trades (electricians, plumbers, carpenters) or the number that own businesses or the number that are just Blue collar workers.

Yet the media projects that a few ignorant ass rappers and neighborhood thugs represent all Black people.

 

[Behind-the-wheel]

Except that I grew up in Chicago in the heart of the ghetto in a neighborhood, that is just as rough if not rougher than where you lived in NY. And I didn't see shyt like that happening regularly either; except by insecure nikkas who somehow twisted people getting an education as some kind of indictment of them. Even then most Black people everywhere are extremely supportive of kids getting an education; unless the kid is an a$$hole; who tries to belittle people that don't have an education.

Aight...glad your intelligence wasn't deemed beatdown worthy by the crabass nikkas in your hood.
Lucky you.
It wasn't that way in my projects.
Lots of a$$holes...male and female.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I swear i must have grown up in some freaky Black world. Because from elementary through high school, i was around nothing but mostly Blacks, i never witnessed that. Yeah kids got made fun for being nerdy, dressing "corny", and being ugly, but never for being smart.

Lets stop outright perpetuating that narrative please.

I was one of those kids that got treated exactly that way by my peers from 3rd grade all the way to 8th. Matter of fact, my first fight in 3rd grade was against a girl and a group of her 'friends' in front of my house. I literally hit her with a garbage can and made the rest scatter. Had to fight them almost every day for a month before they stopped fukking with me. It just started all over again in the next grade.........

If you think about it, it's STILL happening now albeit not just in the schools.​