KHH1 wrote:
** I had accomplshed more by 30 than most in a lifetime and have more to go...I know what is appropriate for what environment...maybe you do not and think everyon e is limited by your ability...I am a versatile person.....no one can look at me and tell what I do...but once I start to elucidate for their edification....they get it....black men are scrutinized in a non-objective manner...I even had black women talk schit to me and homies standing out drinking beer saying stupid schit about what we would amount to...I was 26 with the majority of my masters finished......my other homie was a phycisist and the other was getting ready for dental school.....look at the commerical by Sprite that states image is nothing...three brothers are doing a commerical on a basketball court with names like mad dog motiff and a similar name...the director says, " CUT!! hey genius the can is upside down"...then the brother states with a british accent, "DON'T TALK TO ME LIKE A CHILD, I PLAYED HAMLET AT CAMBRIDGE!!"...the other brother says in the same accent, "once again you've ruined my concentration" and the third brother holds is hands out and says, "whats's what's my motivation?"....and the premise of the commerical is Image Is Not Everything...You Tube it...funny as hell...well that is my mantra...like my homie told me, "man...I don't have to be a Ph.D. like you as long as I can sound like one". I do not worry about the perception and I am a free spirit not bound by what people think I should look like, act like and talk like...why do they worry? If I get it wrong, i'll suffer the consequences, not them...and whether it is a mate, friend or whatever....I do not allow lectures on my behavior because I do not ask anyone for anything ansd have always been mostly independent...plus those lectures are for parents with their little children and grade school teachers with their students. I have always spoken my mind and was not subjugated by my parents, so everyone else can go f-k off with that bullshit...I always got A's and U's in conduct...because I stated what was on my mind...in a respectful manner because my parents required it...but I was also told how to respectfully admonish an adult...because some of those teahcers were like the white lady on "everyone hates chris"...where she would make comments to him like"i hope you find out who your daddy is for christmas when chris lived in a two-parent home..even like here in OPP...your expectations for black people are so low with what you consider our norms, that black scholars are a concept you cannot even embrace...like the guy in here who told me I was a poser when it came to radars and tracking missiles....well if he was what he said he was, the level of detail that I provided about things I designed, tested and operated....really gave him a clear picture of how much I am not lying...do white people really think blacks defer to them to the extent that we would even lie to them in a quest to impress them? That is not the case...i'm here to give you people a look at black life that is never protrayed by the media and definitely on nothing conservative....i'm not trying to convince you people of anything...just offering perspectives that you obviously have not been exposed to based on the vitriolic language yiu all use when referring to anything black**
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