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Know how Black folks always cheer louder for the White performer who shows up at The Apollo? It has less to do with the persons talent, but the fact the White person had the courage to come to Harlem and step foot on the sacred stage in the hood. We are a forgiving and embracing people because we understand the courage it requires to operate in a perceived "minority" every day of the week.






Mark Lassiter November 10 at 2:55pm (facebook) https://sites.google.com/site/mayuradocs/PinIt.png
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Amen to that quote!

11/11/09, 2:47 PM
Jennifer said...

NOt to be a Debbie Downer, but
I think it has more to do with self-loathing and being happy that someone white is in *our* presence at all. It substantiates "You have to be twice as good to be just as good" and it it true on all sides.

11/24/09, 2:36 PM
Craig said...

Wow Jennifer, That certainly is along the lines of my original thinking, for years that was the way I put it. (you just putting the unfettered truth out there!) I'd hoped this was perhaps a truer sentiment and maybe I held an abnormally cynical view.

11/24/09, 2:45 PM

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