“Acting White” http://educationnext.org/actingwhite/ in case you want to learn research related to this very real thing some are trying to pretend away
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@johnlegend i think some of it is valid while some of it is being used as a way to avoid self-examination w black america
@owillis but if the "acting white" stigma isn't significantly affecting academic performance, you won't fix anything by calling it out
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@johnlegend@owillis Bullying does impact academic performance, severe enough bullying means someone hiding their smarts and failing tests. -
@Subimaginati@owillis but the ones getting bullied the most are the ones with poor academic performance according to this piece -
@johnlegend@owillis I would like to see the method used for collecting data, and how it was collated.
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