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Allah_U_Akbar

Allah_U_Akbar

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Maybe you are well versed on a variety of intellectually stimulating topics, but you choose not to show that side of your personality outta fear of being labeled a lame or a square or maybe get accused of “acting white”.

So, you opt to “keep it ‘hood”.

Maybe you like certain tv shows or movies that your inner-circle just wouldn’t understand.

So, you pretend to like stuff like “Love And Hip-Hop” and “Power”.

Whatever.

Maybe you’re a mathematician or a computer geek, but no one would ever know by talking to you.

Well?
 
Allah_U_Akbar said:
Maybe you are well versed on a variety of intellectually stimulating topics, but you choose not to show that side of your personality outta fear of being labeled a lame or a square or maybe get accused of “acting white”.

So, you opt to “keep it ‘hood”.

Maybe you like certain tv shows or movies that your inner-circle just wouldn’t understand.

So, you pretend to like stuff like “Love And Hip-Hop” and “Power”.

Whatever.

Maybe you’re a mathematician or a computer geek, but no one would ever know by talking to you.

Well?
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Nah

Can't say that I do
 
I actually think it’s valid to question the blackness of those who think it’s hot to act overly “hood” in stereotypical fashion like some kind of badge. I feel like neither those types nor the other extreme too who try to “intellect” their blackness away, or who use some other cultural behaviors to separate themselves understand their own people in general.

To me you have to have some knowledge of both sides of the spectrum of the black consciousness to really have a say so. Yhoshua is “black” and was “from the hood”, but he didn’t act nothing like these tropes you see today. Everything you think is smart or valuable for a man to know to make himself appear wise or whatever Yhoshua already has knowledge of it, but observe how he behaved.
 
Y’all remember that porn chick from the 90’s named Obsession?

I remember seeing an old video of her on YouTube doing an interview and she was trying to talk like she was from the hood, pretending she was from L.A. and just putting on this act.

I saw a more recent interview of her a few years later and she was completely different..

Didn’t act ghetto or none of that.

You can tell she was just doing that, back in the day to make folks think she was cool…

… Just afraid to be herself.
 
Allah_U_Akbar said:
Maybe you are well versed on a variety of intellectually stimulating topics, but you choose not to show that side of your personality outta fear of being labeled a lame or a square or maybe get accused of “acting white”.

So, you opt to “keep it ‘hood”.

Maybe you like certain tv shows or movies that your inner-circle just wouldn’t understand.



Nope. As an adult this not an issue

So, you pretend to like stuff like “Love And Hip-Hop” and “Power”.

Whatever.

Maybe you’re a mathematician or a computer geek, but no one would ever know by talking to you.

Well?
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Allah_U_Akbar said:
Y’all remember that porn chick from the 90’s named Obsession?

I remember seeing an old video of her on YouTube doing an interview and she was trying to talk like she was from the hood, pretending she was from L.A. and just putting on this act.

I saw a more recent interview of her a few years later and she was completely different..

Didn’t act ghetto or none of that.

You can tell she was just doing that, back in the day to make folks think she was cool…

… Just afraid to be herself.
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Lol I mean she was a porn star and the 90s was awhile ago
 
Nah im the same nigga everywhere i go

if they cant accept the real you then they aint your peoples fr
 
Sony Montana said:
lol nah

you have to have real insecurity issues or have really low self esteem as an adult for this to even happen
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I don’t know if this counts, but…

I ain’t gonna lie….

Years ago, the radio was playing a song by the rock band U2 at my workplace.

My boss (white guy) musta liked the song and he asked me what album that song was from.

I knew exactly what album that song was from….



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… But, I acted like I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.

I said, “Yeah, I don’t know” and I continued working.

At the time, I felt like, as a black person, I shouldn’t let anybody know that I knew the name of some white rock band’s album…

….. Would that count as insecure?

For the record, I’m a little bit more mature nowadays.
 
Allah_U_Akbar said:
Y’all remember that porn chick from the 90’s named Obsession?

I remember seeing an old video of her on YouTube doing an interview and she was trying to talk like she was from the hood, pretending she was from L.A. and just putting on this act.

I saw a more recent interview of her a few years later and she was completely different..

Didn’t act ghetto or none of that.

You can tell she was just doing that, back in the day to make folks think she was cool…

… Just afraid to be herself.
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is Obsession black or white?
 
Allah_U_Akbar said:
I don’t know if this counts, but…

I ain’t gonna lie….

Years ago, the radio was playing a song by the rock band U2 at my workplace.

My boss (white guy) musta liked the song and he asked me what album that song was from.

I knew exactly what album that song was from….



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… But, I acted like I didn’t know what the hell he was talking about.

I said, “Yeah, I don’t know” and I continued working.

At the time, I felt like, as a black person, I shouldn’t let anybody know that I knew the name of some white rock band’s album…

….. Would that count as insecure?

For the record, I’m a little bit more mature nowadays.
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Well technically it’s a bit insecure man but being insecure isn’t this horrible thing that people make it out to be

It’s okay to be insecure at times and it’s normal

Btw is that the U2 album that they put on everybody iTunes way back when?

That shit STILL on mine
 
Sony Montana said:
Well technically it’s a bit insecure man but being insecure isn’t this horrible thing that people make it out to be

It’s okay to be insecure at times and it’s normal

Btw is that the U2 album that they put on everybody iTunes way back when?

That shit STILL on mine
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I think you mean this one…


www.eonline.com

Remember When Apple Forced a U2 Album on Us All? - E! Online

It's been five years since the legendary band's album Songs of Innocence just showed up on every iTunes subscriber's personal devices, unasked.
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I've basically had to "dumb it down" for as long as I could talk. Very, very, very few people have ever witnessed my intellectual side in full form. My IQ places me as one of the most intelligent people on the planet, but I rarely ever show it, especially around Black folks. As a kid I was teased 'cause I "talked white". I grew up with an interest in computers, electronics, and math. I read Quotations From Chairman Mao, Che's "Guerrilla Warfare", Marx's "The Communist Manifesto", and Plato's "Republic" between 7-9 years old and one of my sisters and I spent our weekends reading the encyclopedia set we owned or books by Jacques Cousteau for fun (my stepfather had a bunch of them). I had very little in common with my peers, so in order to make friends I learned to dumb it down. When we moved to Detroit I really had to do it. My teachers loved me for my intellect but a lot of my classmates thought I was weird 'cause I wasn't into the same shit everyone else was into. I adapted and basically dumbed it down to just slightly above my peers so I was basically the cool nerd in school.

I still don't flex it if I'm around my peoples. There was a point in time after my wife had passed where I basically let it loose and my middle daughter was like "Daddy... you're really a nerd aren't you???" during a conversation we were having (I forget what it was about).

Shit, I was talking to one of my ex'es earlier today and she called me "Sheldon". I'm like "are you calling me Plankton???" and she was like "no, silly, from The Big Bang Theory". then we did thei whole back and forth about how I've never watched so much as a single minute of that show, how I'm like him, and alla this other shit. When I worked as an engineer some of my co-workers used to say I was just like the character House, except for EE, ME, and SE plus all things IT (that's actually how I was even introduced to the show. One of my favorites). My wife used to say I can be a lot like Rick Sanchez and that's probably why I loved Rick and Morty so much.

Flexing my intellect has never helped me socially, so I tend to keep it muted.
 
Allah_U_Akbar said:
Y’all remember that porn chick from the 90’s named Obsession?

I remember seeing an old video of her on YouTube doing an interview and she was trying to talk like she was from the hood, pretending she was from L.A. and just putting on this act.

I saw a more recent interview of her a few years later and she was completely different..

Didn’t act ghetto or none of that.

You can tell she was just doing that, back in the day to make folks think she was cool…

… Just afraid to be herself.
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I remember seeing Obsession on an episode of some old dating show. I can't remember the name but I don't think she was acting all hood on that either
 
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