why do some white people try to act black?

Question

i can understand people like paul wall that are really from the hood and the ones who have been like this all their life but why are their people who just try to act black ?

Answer 1

They can't be winners so they try to be losers.

Answer 2

Mostly rich kids in suburban areas who are bored. They have nothing to do. Nothing seems to be required of them. That is in one section of town. These kids are harmless and just need to grow up. It is a phase. Most of the time, they don't 'act black'. They just think they're 'pretty fly for white guys'.

Meanwhile, the Somalians and Ethiopians in the city put on business suits and go to work after getting degrees. The few who pass through this area or live here are generally family-oriented, well-educated, hard-working types or the suburban Dad type with the SUV. Not exactly the gangsta lifestyle. People emulate images in hiphop videos and the media while knowing nothing about being a black single mother with two jobs in the projects and no high school education, trying to pay bills and raise three kids.

Answer 3

It that a problem for you? And what exactly is acting black? Is that like someone saying "acting white"? Why do you use such terms. It is not a "black" thing or a "white" thing, it is all about culture. Some people like-for lack of a better term-urban culture and think that it is cool. Culture go far beyond the scope of race.

I hope that you don't say that a black person is acting white if they speak clear and correct English, is ambitious and educated. That would be horrendous.

Answer 4

Some people regardless of race are attracted to the lifestyle of the thug life or the type of lifestyle that hip hop is guilty of promoting indirectly on the mtv and bet videos. They think they can have so many women and so much money, so many cars, so many houses-when they can't even pay their cell phone bill! Black artist make themselves marketable and their stories interesting-but the struggling life of living in the ghetto is nothing to boast about when most of the black men in the videos are steady calling black women bitches and hoes and the black women are always calling black men the same words used when racist organizations lynched black people. It's nothing to be bragging about-it's something to cry about.

Answer 5

Still trying to figure that one out myself. I've noticed it most in white women who date black men. While my boyfriend (soon to be fiance) is black, I have not changed who I am because of who I date. I think it actually makes a person look rather ridiculous (and earns the white trash label).

After mulling this over a minute or two...I don't think it's quite correct to say 'acting black'...because that's not really fair to label it like that. I think it would be more appropriate to say acting ghetto or something along those lines. Really, it's two separate things. Like someone else said, in order to 'act black' they would have to go about applying face/body paint to give them the appearance of being black. But to act ghetto, you skin does not need to be a particular color - it can be any color of the rainbow. For some people, it's where they came from...for other's apparently their own upbringing was so boring they need to put on an act in an attempt to impress others.

Answer 6

I worked with a girl like that, and I call it pseudo-ghetto. She used ebonics, talked loudly, cursed, went to every black club in the area, and dated every black guy available. She even put Afro Sheen in her hair, and her hair was naturally straight! She came from a middle class white family, and what she didn't realize was that every time she acted out every black stereotype available in front of black women, ALL of them talked crap about her when she left. It insulted black women to think that white girls really thought that was how black women acted. Point is, don't be a poser, because nobody buys into it, even the people you're trying to impress.

Answer 7

some people will do whatever it takes to fit in, and if the trend is to "act black," well that's what they'll do. if you go to a "ghetto" school, you probably see this more often than some others your age do, but any place you go, you'll see people who are trying to conform and be like everyone else, whether white poeple act black or people try to act all emo or really anything.

Answer 8

They are probably just trying to fit in.

What's acting black?
Do you mean ghetto? That 's not black, that's ignorant.

Do you mean because they listen to Rap and wear baggy jeans?
That's not black either, that's hip-hop

So what do you mean?

I have a better question for you.

Why do rich black kids from the suburbs keep trying to come down to the hood and hang and act all hardcore???

Answer 9

DO YOU REALIZE HOW STUPID YOU SOUND, FIRST OF ALL, HOW DO YOU ACT BLACK? WHY DO YOU FEEL ACTING "BLACK" MEANS TO BE DISRESPECTFUL, ACTING HARDCORE/THUGGISH, SPEAKING OUT OF TEXT? That's not acceptable, do you feel good to claim these characteristics? I'm going to assume that your under age, you need to pick up a book and get some knowledge into your brain, so next time you can ASK SOMETHING INTELLIGENT and stop proving to the people that look down on Black people, that we don't have any sense.

Answer 10

I think the reason is because what ever they see on tv is what they want to appear as.. MTV, MTV3, Movies etc...the black style is in right now so a lot of teens are goin for that look and trying to act that way..its all about the media

Answer 11

What is "trying to act black?". And how can you clarify how a person has to act because of thier color? Why do black girls straighten thier hair and dye thier hair blonde and try to look White??