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Comment on Why Black Nerds are Unpopular by m.dot

m.dot — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:14:45 +0000

Hi David.
Thank you for your post.

When criticizing/observing folks its important to think about the system in which they exist.

I think it is REALLY easy to say “the black kids don’t want to learn, they just want to….” As oppose to looking at the social forces that perpetuate and benefit from their “failure” as well.

I noticed three things.
The African experience, the African American experience is arguably different, when it comes to class and education.

If Blacks do spend more ON “stuff” then the next question is WHY?

Also, there are class distinctions that
need to be made as well, as they pertain to school and OUR history of being educated properly, and I mean, being educated while keeping our humanity and dignity in tact.

Learning is a spiritual process.

Check out the follow
bell hooks “Teaching to Transgress” on how learning is a emotional experience.
John Ogbu on the “academic failure” of Black middle class children.
Geoff Canada “Fist Stick Knife Gun”

I am going to write about this this week as well.

Comment on From Everywhere, From Nowhere by Tyler

Tyler — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:05:21 +0000

I totally identify. I went to high school in Lewisburg which is 30 miles from State College. Being black in Central PA was an experience, to say the least. good post

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To Be Black: Don’t Miss the Forest for the Trees « David Adewumi — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 22:22:31 +0000

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Comment on Why Black Nerds are Unpopular by Trula

Trula — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:46:19 +0000

What an interesting post! and some of the comments are also interesting in their extremes.

There is a big problem with/about education among black Americans. So many of us don’t want to admit this or try to make changes so that those coming up behind us have better options. Why? I think about this all the time. Why this pretense that we have no control over how black children are educated, both in the home and at school? Why this pretense that there is a serious disconnect towards education among many of our youth?

Comment on Why Black Nerds are Unpopular by davidadewumi

davidadewumi — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:23:28 +0000

Andrew, maybe it’s more prevalent than I thought — but most of the black people I know don’t know the different, so I (wrongly) assumed that being able to identify Africans/1st-gen Africans was something uncommon in non-Africans.

I’ve also spent enough time around Koreans, Japanese, Chinese and other East Asians to be able to correctly identify nationality probably 3 out of 4.

Any other comments/thoughts you had on this post?

Comment on Why Black Nerds are Unpopular by Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 Jul 2008 01:18:21 +0000

> In fact, I’m probably one of the only people I know that can recognize an African/1st-gen African from an American Black on sight.

I can recognize them on sight about 50% of the time, and on sound (by their accent) ~100% of the time.