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Originally Posted by redsk1
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.
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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.
