text: why do people call acting like a real person instead of a minstrel character "acting white"? blue blazes i'm so sick of being labeled an "oreo" simply because i act like a real person instead of a one-dimensional stereotype. heaven forbid a black person think for themself instead having "liberals" tell them what to think or like something else other than hip-hop or menthol cigarettes! so much for the "civil rights" movement. i wish hip-hop and those crappy upn shows would just die because it's just a modern day minstrel show that makes amos n' andy look progressive and brainwashes black kids into thinking this is how they should think and behave, portraying a distorted idea and definition  of "blackness". ironically enough the stuff that actually is racist and smutty is the material that doesn't slide by the censors. i just had this conversation with somebody on another board.  let me cross post it.  btw- i believe you are correct.  i care about people, not color, and i hear what you are saying.  so anyway, this is a reply to a person that was playing that race card...   the angry black thing doesn’t work for me belinda.   my mother’s boss, head of personel for nih was a black woman. she died a couple of years ago of breast cancer. my parents (who are in their late 70's still keep track, and visit her husband). my boss is black. i think the world of the guy. the manager of the help desk where i work, and i work for a mult-billion dollar a year company, is a black woman. she has 25 employees.   so you want to talk entertainment? and no “superfly” crap. the father on “fresh prince of belaire”, a judge. aldus huxley. james earl jones. oprah, remember her?   black americans are moving into positions of power. mayors, congress, supreme court, generals, admirals.   and no, i am not discounting the drug problem, crime rate, and prison population. i hear you on those.   but, belinda, you don’t want me, whitebread boy, to solve those for you. that makes me either the liberal or conservative solution you were talking about.   the best i can personally do, is come up and greet you, look you in the eye, and shake your hand, or hug you, and not really care about the color of your skin. all i can do is accept you as an equal, and i do.   the rest, well, up to you folks to figure out the answers it would seem. you sure do not want whitebread doing it. we have screwed up enough already.