If being black and "staying black" in the hood is caused to mean don't attend college, blame twenty-ten hundred years of history for all your woes, including all the bigotry that you keep allowing on yourself, or use slogans inspired by the Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to seek to "unify and uplift" people of African descent, and to burn everything white, then I will rather stay gray - and if showy speeches and high-sounding vocabulary with little meaning is caused to be the standard by which the black man measures his intelligence, let me remain dumb.
Fortunately, with all these smartphone-using smart black kids getting degreed all over the place, if intellectual masturbation is your thing, stop it already because it may lead to your shame; these kids can Google. Now, being smart like Oprah, Obama, Mustapha Njie (Taf), Michael Jordan, Dr. Dre, et cetera is becoming the new black. Those applaud-harvesting Armitage School "jangist" tendencies are dying and should stay dead. Let me rephrase that: Distending beyond natural English to impress or to sound deep and very difficult to understand is no longer fashionable and puts nothing on the table. Today, the black worth looking up to is the black that communicates in a well thought-out and well considered manner, and one who walks the talk.
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