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[quote=Anonymous]PP, I really appreciate your post.  Some of this discussion reminds me of a friend of my husbands who married a registered 5/5ths Native American woman.  She later received a letter in the mail from the tribe reducing her to 1/5th status for marrying a white guy. Is some of this story apocryphal?  Maybe.  But we have all head of similar issues of judgment in communities.

I agree that the anti-gay language in the ghetto is shocking.  It's hard to be a gay kid in the ghetto (why they band together or keep it under the radar).  Equally hard to be a nerd.  So many forced to lead 'double lives'.

The odds of being academically successful in the ghetto are slim.  The odds of meeting white people (to date or marry) are low.  The coolness and success accruing to the modern American professional gay communities (San Francisco, Dupont Circle, Ellen...) remote.  Maybe it made the students I worked with feel better to bash academic success or black/white couples.

The cornball brother comments that speak to a lack of "coolness" I get.  Every community makes loving fun of its dweebs.  Think about the endless humor provided by the 'mullet haircut'.  But there is a serious, threatening, political element to the comments as well.  I am stretching to find the white equivalent...maybe being a white Republican professor on a small liberal arts campus?

As PP said, the threat of losing your 'black card' for not falling in line.   I think B. Cosby is very cool.  I also think he's a cornball hero for some of the serious issues he has taken on.  As we have seen with RG III--falling out of line can lead to banishment![/quote]

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