I have read the New York Times article "The racial politics of speaking well" The middle class black academies that wrote, participated or agree with the articles premise or view point are hypocrites. They are hypocrites because they in turn do the same thing to other blacks that the Europeans do to them. The black professional academies are absolutely correct with their analysis that Europeans are verbally and openly amazed, astounded ,mesmerized and set aside by a black persons ability to talk and formally speak with clear, comprehensive articulated word eloquence.
The Europeans find the fact that some blacks can read, write and articulate as worthy of public mention and rightly so because they know they were the authors of the laws and restrictions prohibiting us from achieving such literary and academic goals.
They understand that when they hear a black person speak with comprehensible and articulate English they are listening to and witnessing a black person that under the threat of death rise to a point of linguistics unimaginable when considering the deliberate sequestering laws, restrictions and gross mis-education of the African Americans.
As black academies write articles admonishing the Europeans for publicly noting their ability to form a complete sentence blacks in turn laud and applaud with pomp and ceremony the rarity of other blacks overcoming the same odds. They verbally laud and publicly applaud black surgeons, scientists, engineers, lawyers or physicists.
Black academies are constantly promoting and pointing out to less educated blacks the example set by other blacks that overcame a educational system designed for the academic failure of African Americans but admonish and refuses to accept or appreciate any praise, love, or public mention from Europeans because praise, mention or acknowledgment from Europeans make the black professionals feel and appear inferior to the Europeans.
The black academic professionals hypocritically repel and recoil when the Europeans give them the same and identical public praise, encouragement and media acknowledgment that black professionals give to other black professionals for knowing how to read, write and speak well.
It is clear to the Europeans that they can not take credit for our literary advancements. The Europeans realize that they put obstacles in our path and that they had a 300 year head start. It is for that reason the Europeans find it truly worthy of mention, recognition, heralding and verbal acknowledgment whenever or wherever they hear or witnesses the literary accomplishments of comprehensive articulation emanating from a black person.
The open acknowledgment by the Europeans in regards to the ability of blacks to read, write and articulate hurts them by making them painfully aware of their origin, history and legacy of chattel slavery.
The European verbal heralding painfully reminds the upper crusted academic black professional that they are one generation removed from ignorance themselves and as such are viewed by the Europeans as linquistic oddities.
The blacks middle class academic feelings are hurt and crushed because no matter how hard they try to prove that they are as good as the Europeans they are left feeling intellectually inferior every time a European mentions how well one of them read, write or speaks.
The true objective of the black academic professionals desire is not to be judged or veiwed inferior to Europeans but to be accepted by Europeans as their literary and academic equals. The black academic professional wants nothing less than total assimilation with the Europeans. The black academe professional wants to share and share alike with the Europeans.
The black academies professionals are not interested in black advancement, they are only interested in European acceptance.
The black academic professional wants the Europeans to forget about slavery, color, laws and restrictions that prevented blacks from learning to read, write or speak in a clear, precise, intelligent or articulate manner but yet the hypocritical black academic professionals exhibits public outrage and indignation whenever it is suggested by the Europeans that they should forget about the past as well.
The black academic professional desperately yearns to be viewed, received, treated and accepted by the Europeans as indistinguishable equals.
The black academe is however broken hearted, hurt and dismayed by the realization that having done everything to assimilate and disassociate themselves from the lower class grass root uneducated, disenfranchised African American that the Europeans still view them not as indistinguishable equals but as underclassed, uneducated decedents of slaves as they view the least of us.
The black academic professionals ego and pretentious nature is forever crushed by the European wake-up call to the reality that the object of their desires only view them as black academic aberrations.
