Why is black America so color conscious is what people think of them the pinnacle of there intellect.?

Answer 1

Because whites favored light skinned blacks over dark skinned ones during slavery and it is still prevalent even today.

Answer 2

No, it's not the pinnacle of their intellect, more like an attachment. Imagine everyday you have to base your decisions, lifestyle, job performance, mutual conversations, etc.. around the color of your skin. It's quite evident you'll become color conscious. If you were acknowledged as an individual, not a colored person, you wouldn't display such inexorable behavior. It's concrete evidence that in the good ol' U.S.A., the black race has to be color conscious, check your history, and present day surroundings. This behavior is a result of the past and ever present biased beliefs that shape our way of thinking.

Answer 3

For greater than two centuries, they were bound or "jailed" by the color consciousness of others. After the Emancipation Proclamation, a century passed before legislation and court cases announced to them that it was o.k. to come out and mingle. A decade or two passed, and they found that "hey, it might be o.k. out here, but there was, and is, still under the legal radar, a lot of bad stuff we have to deal with." The generation of children of those treated harshly, understandably so, started celebrating their freedoms, and the rest of society had mixed reactions to their behaviors in their celebrations. Considering that history, skepticism still remains in their vigilance toward equal treatment; for they know what their fathers had to endure, and they are superconscious in not wanting to return to that. It will dissipate as the decades go on. Inwardly they know that what others think of them is not their intellectual pinnacle.

Answer 4

according to ibn kheldoon, the people who loose a war see something divine in the winner. they start to imitate them in clothing, and other features. what is interesting for me is how some white Americans imitate black people, they must won something important lately. maybe sports, basketball. that's of course after generalizing ibn khaldoon's principle. it's a social pressure coming from the subconscious. even the individuality of the intellectual is nothing but social construction that allowed him to be like that for a certain limit. of course we can fight back, but even in a cave in the desert you will take your childhood subconscious which is social. you need a continous struggle to free yourself again and again. but whenever you get out from a bubble you get into another, from a discourse to another.

Answer 5

You mean the"Its cause Im black " thing? half of my family is black (Im black and Mexican),and I have noticed. I think maybe they just want to rebuke a racist. Its human nature. We all like to tell someone off sometimes. Perferably a narrow-minded person like a racist.

Answer 6

because race comes into play in many aspects of life

Answer 7

Don't worry, your better than everyone, not just blacks.

Answer 8

no