The Genius of Toby Keith

You need not look further than that fool Ron Artest's recent comments:

"I understand what Yao said, but I'm still ghetto," Artest said, according to the report. "That's not going to change. I'm never going to change my culture. Yao has played with a lot of black players, but I don't think he's ever played with a black player that really represents his culture as much as I represent my culture. Once Yao Ming gets to know me, he'll understand what I'm about."

:doh:

To be fair, I used to work w/ african-american...a friend of mine. Other black people would say he acts like a white guy. So I know if it was said about a friend of mine than i'm assuming it's said about others. That's an assumption, based on my experience. It's what i've heard as selling out...and i hear it often. Bill Cosby has been talking abou t this alot recently in the last couple of years.

Couldn't have said it better.

I don't hear it in college at all but when I get around some of the people I work with, they're younger, 17-19 or so if you heard me talk and heard them talk, it's like two entirely different worlds. A few years back I used to work with inner city youths about 13-17 and they gave me HELL about the way I carried myself.

I think I've heard the phrase, "You talk/act white" so many times it doesn't even phase me anymore. :doh:

Couldn't have said it better.

I don't hear it in college at all but when I get around some of the people I work with, they're younger, 17-19 or so if you heard me talk and heard them talk, it's like two entirely different worlds. A few years back I used to work with inner city youths about 13-17 and they gave me HELL about the way I carried myself.

I think I've heard the phrase, "You talk/act white" so many times it doesn't even phase me anymore. :doh:

I think this is a great challenge to the black community because while I am quite sure it isn't representative of the entire population it is the aspect that is most often presented as what the black community represents. I recognize it's inaccuracies but I'd like to more fully understand why this is the image that gets presented so much when it isn't correct. Is it a media thing or what? Anyone have some strong opinions on this that make good sense?

its all about what you want in life. do you really want to be successful? i was raised dirt poor, a white kid surrounded by minorities. i always wanted better. i still believe that with hard work, and maybe alittle luck, anyone can live the American dream. but people like Ron Artest do nothing but drag blacks down. that man has a god given talent, and should be a role model for the young black community. but instead chooses to be an idiot. there isn't anything wrong with being black, and proud. but talking educated, and being respectful of others isn't, or shouldn't be a white thing. its a human thing. and saden, or who ever wants to answer this, please help me out. i have been around blacks my whole life. some of my best friends are black. but i have never understood the African American thing. we are ALL Americans. you are about as much an african as i am

If you're white, it's best to avoid the subject of race completely. No matter what you say you're bound to violate some tenant of political correctness which is essentially designed to silence white males anyways.

BTW, does the fact that Obama is not related to any slaves, make him less "black"? Isn't being descended from slaves an essential part of being "African American". Thoughts?