The point of this thread is so stupid because it speaks in absolutes:
"nikka you weren't made fun because you were smart. you were ostracized because you dared to be different
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As if that's any better.
Were all "nerds" geniuses and doing well for themselves now? No but I could argue a significant portion of them weren't compete bums either. Nearly everyone in this thread has stories of "nerds" (not necessarily smart kids but different kids) getting ostracized and then as a community we wonder why people get the fukk out the community as quickly as they can and why there's a generational cycle of bad influences.
nikkas wanna tiptoe around it but having such a rigid standard of being "black "means alot of us wasted our potential subscribing to stereotypes because God forbid you were different.
I saw it with my own eyes, guys and chick's who were indeed smart but got dragged into bullshyt actions and attitudes that they werent raised on and couldve easily avoided.