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"Acting White"

By The Daily Dish
Feb 22 2007, 4:48 AM ET

This African-American blogger does not recall that in his high school, black achievers were ridiculed for "acting white." But he knows many other African-Americans who testify that this is indeed a damaging phenomenon and that Barack Obama is right to talk about and tackle it as a cultural burden on young black Americans. Then James Forman Jr notices a possible explanation for the discrepancy between his experience and so many others': he went to an all-black school. Data back this up.



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