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[quote=Anonymous]This discussion doesn't really belong in a Basis thread, it's a far bigger issue.

There IS a huge problem with the attitude of anti-intellectualism in some segments of culture that needs to be addressed.  The attitude of giving a beatdown to the kid that raises his hand in class.

With some AAs, there exists an attitude that it's "acting white" or selling out on black culture to get educated or try to be upwardly mobile comes out of nowhere and has no merit or valid historic basis.  Dr. King sold black culture out by becoming educated?  I think not.  Try and tell a proud Morehouse grad he sold out and is acting white.  Try and tell Cornel West or other AA academics, intellectuals and thought leaders that.  You won't make much of a case.

But, as the PP points out, it's not confined to segments of the AA community, as an example whites have their problems of anti-intellectualism, too - with their glorification of redneck "hold my beer while I..." antics, goths, stoners, and other segments that glorify all the wrong things.

As to how to fix it, for starters, we should not feed into it and cater to it by wrapping schools around it.[/quote]

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