Why would anyone identify with that or internalize it? I mean, I grew up with society and my peers constantly telling me that I wasn't shyt due to my being Black... but I actively fought against that for a large part of my younger days.
I guess it was easier for me not to feel that inferior because I grew up with parents that constantly reinforced that I was "different from" and "better than" Americans, regardless of race, despite being one myself. It's something most first generation kids get told. It comes with constant negative reinforcement, so I guess it's not without its faults. Also, I grew up in an economically depressed sh!thole so it was pretty easy to see myself as "better than" most white people I dealt with. I grew up with white people in the same context as most people grow up with Mexicans. But at the end of the day, I had to make the conscious decision that I was better than the next man. All that "less than" sh!t stopped applying to me. I'm not worse off because I'm a Black man.
Why can't more Black people stop associating themselves as individuals with this second class mentality. It's noticeable and its really really disturbing. I guess in real life it translates into riding on a bus, a bum steps on it, causes a scene, and everyone looks at him, then looks at you, and sees a little bit of the same person. It's really disturbing when you stop and think about it. Maybe its because I just recently moved into a city, but it's shocking to me. Now, I don't really internalize that as any feelings about myself... but sometimes that brief glance does hit me really hard. I dunno... it's just bothersome seeing some of this nonsense on such an extreme basis then see it being reflected and perpetuated online.
Isn't the threadstarter the same fella that made that thread on SOHH about how you had chicken wings and fries thrown on you by a white girl while she called you "******" repeatedly?
Bingo...