Comments on: Uncle Tom & The N-word just don’t mix. https://thyblackman.com/2017/09/21/uncle-tom-the-n-word-just-dont-mix/ Black News 24/7 Online for the Black Community. Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:41:15 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Tony Gayden https://thyblackman.com/2017/09/21/uncle-tom-the-n-word-just-dont-mix/comment-page-1/#comment-277643 Sat, 23 Sep 2017 13:41:15 +0000 http://thyblackman.com/?p=70388#comment-277643 I just wanted to leave a comment with regard to this article because it hits close to home. I’m a Black man who grew up in a two parent middle-class household in the suburbs. I didn’t experience the extremes of poverty or the difficulty of being raised by a single parent. I also didn’t grow up in the inner city.

Keeping that in mind, other Black people have judged me to be too “white” and I have been called an “Uncle Tom”, not for my political views, but because they feel the way I talk, walk, and act isn’t Black enough.

I never understood why people who do not know you want to tear you down for things that are beyond your control. This sort of behavior will never help our people.

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