/lit/ - Literature

>>18509631
here's a question for you:
I'm in Canada a lot for business, here now.
I see black people here and they are as you describe; just like everyone else. Shovelling snow off their driveways in winter, or playing street hockey (it's a thing, right in the middle of the (non-busy) street), walking to school with friends of different races, buying groceries, whatever.
Dressed the same, too.
Talk the same, no ebonics, no gangbanging, no leanin', no steamin'. None of that trash.
Then i come back to America and BAM! it's like a rap video or something.
my question:

WHY THE DIFFERENCE??? They're literally just a couple miles apart.

>>17000122
Either one.
But I might be inclined to think that if one of them is an American black, and they've made it to and through an Ivy League university, that that person has had to deal with being accused of "acting white" and so on, but soldiered on alone and made his own future, his way.
That's a valuable kind of perseverance, and I might consider that.