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| George L. Cook III |
Now I feel Jalen Rose today doesn't feel the same as Jalen Rose 20 years ago but he doesn't make that clear in his film. But I will give Mr Rose the benefit of the doubt.
But he has opened up a can of worms here. Calling a black person an Uncle Tom is worse than calling them a nigger. That's right I wrote the word. We are all grown here so let's not pretend. You see a nigger may be ignorant but he/she haven't sold out their people.
But this has gotten me to thinking and I'm wondering do we even know what a sellout is. Some call people who supposedly "act white " sellouts.
I have a question for those people. If being educated, having two parents, and speaking well are "acting white" what is "acting black"?
Personally I think a sellout is someone who does one of the following things below;
* A person that sell drugs and help destroy their own community.
* A father who goes to prison and leaves his children to fend for themselves.
* A person wallowing so much in self pity and self hate that they don't want to see anyone do better even their own children.
* A person that profits by presenting negative stereotypes of black people.
* A person that exploits young women and sometimes girls by acting like stripping is a real job.
* A person that does not vote and allows politicians to do whatever they want. ( That does not include those that have lost the right to vote because of incarceration but have turned their lives around. )
To me those type of people are the ones truly selling out the Black Community" . What do you think?
George Cook AAreports.com. Author of the Kindle book Let's Talk Honestly: One Black Man's Thoughts $1.50
3 comments:
The word sellout is played out. It only applied during the black power movement. I see what Ernesto is saying as far as people abandoning their culture, and identifying with other cultures, thinking its a step up. That could be considered a sellout, but a sellout from what? We're not fighting for civil rights anymore.
My black wife, I'm white, told me today that she feels that black male friends of mine are not as much of my friend as I think. That because she feels like they look at her as a sell-out, which comes back on me through the respect they have or don't have for me. I guess I'm confussed because I jsut married the women I fell in love with. The one who made me happy and though I notice the skin difference, I didn't care. As we have grown I have even less regard for this factor. She is who she is, good and bad and it's not because of her skin color. Are people so screwed up in their own lives that to feel better they must make me/us the object of their hatred? I don't get it at all. I see a black person with a white person (either sex) and don't think anything of it at all. I guess her and I are sell-outs in some peoples eyes? In my eyes we are exactly what Dr. King talked about, wrote about and died for. We are compassion, care, love and all the wonderfulness that two people could be together, regardless of the race that they are.
Of course you don't get it because you did not have color as an issue.Martin Luther king jr was killed he did not die.white people always want too play dumb
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