“So if you’re Intelligent, you’re acting White?”

“So if you’re Intelligent, you’re acting White?”

By Glenn Peppers

Know your Roots People! How often have you heard one young black child tell another young black friend or student, “If you’re intelligent. Or if you’re smart, you’re acting white!” 

I say stop letting greedy, ignorant record companies and the people behind them, fueling these messages who mean none of us any good, from telling your children that being intelligent and speaking well means that you're acting White! 

To put it plainer, you are simply being what you are! You are being Black! In fact, you are being more Black than you’ve ever imagined you'd be! The trend of infused ignorance within black culture has only existed within our youth’s culture basically for only 30 some odd years, on a large scale! 

Largely, black people have always maintained a level of calm, poise, innovativeness and intelligent creativity. Even through times so hard through era's like Jim Crow that such trials would  destroy and break young black teenagers of today!

Our people down through the ages have always been great orators, speaking clear and articulately, like James Earl Jones, and Roscoe Lee Brown and Ozzie Davis and William Marshall! We gave the world advanced math and produced great mathematicians, and libraries and universities in Africa, yet those accomplishments  would only be stolen and copied, and African ingenuity and great advancements in science and mathematics would be taken over by the Greeks! 

We are now, and have always been scientist, astronomers, agriculturalist, inventors, builders, etc! We were, in many ways, and still are the soul of this world's major intelligence and technological advances in everything from music, art to the medical arts, and have played a huge role in every form of technology from the invention of light bulb, refrigeration down to the invention of scores of tools and everyday home and work utensils, to being the technological backbone of all wireless communication. 

All the way to a newly discovered, quietly squelched secret crew of incredible genius black women, working at Cape Canaveral space center in the late 1950's, early 1960's as living breathing human computers! Literally charting the math necessary for astronauts to travel into and out of space! And all on a completely hush hush, unsung level at NASA!.... This was until recently until the revelation of the story of “Hidden Figures!” A book and a major motion picture was released in 2016!  

So if you and your children are talented,  and filled with wisdom and intelligence, or are articulate and communicate well. Believe me this is not a fluke! 

It is not a bad thing or something to be ashamed of, (as those who'd like you to believe) who pump that Rap Rot into our children's heads tell your children everyday, using Rap Music to convey the program! This is what you tell your kids, night and day!........

You tell your children this one true fact!........... “Knowledge and Intelligence is Your Birthright!”

All you parents out here!... Listen and pay attention to how these rap songs of today have dumbed down the level of our children’s everyday communication skills! Skills needed in order to get along in a global world filled with people of all cultures and colors! 

Show your children the Arts

Following this ignorance has set our children aside so to speak, and put them on a second string playing bench! In fact, on an all together different shelf! Because of this. In some schools, there are some black students who have compound issues, and  are misunderstood, functioning on a level no better than special education! They are tagged and deemed as, uneducable! They do not need anything further to hinder their learning processes!

Employers are either threatened or confused and confounded by the audible dialect, lack of comprehension skills, and the consistent mispronunciations of even basic words by youth applicants at job interviews, and job fairs! And these are not only white employers who've complained. These are black employers and companies! 

So how did they pull this whole "Flip the Script on Intelligence" thing on black culture?... Please excuse my crude culinary analogy, but here's my shake on how some of it was done! 

Let's say, if I wanted your Roast Beef  dinner (like white culture wants soul and jazz music for their own). And I wanted to take your roast beef from you. I’d tell you that your roast beef was nasty, and that it is un-cool, unsexy, and just old fashion to eat Roast Beef! I’d then offer you some cheap manufactured Sweet Chicken Chow Bites (i,e. Rap Music in place of your Soul and Jazz Music. And a dumbed down intelligence program), and tell you that the Sweet Chicken Chow bites is better than your old dried up old Roast Beef! 

And that if you eat Roast Beef (speak well and be intelligent and listen to soul music, etc), you’re just trying to be like an Older White Person, eating all that brown gravy and well cooked potatoes, and carrots, and celery, and onions and all that darned well seasoned meat! And listening to all that out of style Muddy Water's and Johnny Lee Hooker blues music. I'd tell you. "I mean really, who do you think you are?”

So how would I really pull this off?

"I’d drill into your brain my now deceptive little Alternative Fact that you and anybody else around you would be cool for eating Roast Beef! My motto would be, 'Here!.... have some Sweet Chicken Chow Bites! Now you’re cool! Now you’re acting black!' 

And then you'd go for it, hook line and sinker, and BAM! Just like that, I've got ya! And all the while, you're not even thinking for one moment that your new Main Thang of the Sweet Chicken Chow Bites has all the GMO, Chemicals and many  Nitrites, and MSG Preservatives loaded right into it! 

Your Sweet Chicken Chow Bites will have More chemicals in it then it will have actual food! And all with Chemical names you may not even be able to pronounce! No matter how smart you are!" 

So there, I’ve convinced you and your children that that healthy, all natural food called Roast Beef and Potatoes is just not cool, and is bad for you! But in its place, you’ve got you some Sweet Chicken Chow Bites! Because as the ad says, they’re Sexy! 

Of course my ad would have half naked dancing girls, and a platter full of Sweet Chicken Chow Bites, being sampled by a beautiful Carl's Jr. type model, chowin’ down on some juicy Sweet Chicken Chow Bites! See!... Makes you want to throw out your Sunday Roast Beef already, doesn’t it?

Think about it! How would I keep you from knowing or believing the truth about yourself,... Especially in this matter?....... I'd project and tell you the complete opposite truth of yourself in order to keep you confused! 

And from there I can keep you dumbed down and out of the running for most anything in life! You'd almost never get into to a decent college! All my cohorts in industry and business will see and hear you coming before you walk through the doors! We'll know you by the way you speak! They way you dress. And by your lack of Communication skills and your lack of Intellect! 

Introduce your children to the Joy of Reading!

I'd dress up the whole Sweet Chicken Chow Bite culture that I created in fake-fashion, sexy videos, and even drugs! We'd even let you think that you created Sweet Chicken Chow Bites! Just like you thought you created that whole idea of Saggin'! 

But mainly, and chiefly, I'd drown you with Sweet Chicken Chow Bites and laugh all the way to the bank as I listen to my new found genre of music that I stole from you, in soul jazz and funk. I gave you the rap, and we kept the soul of your music!

And this I'll do all  while I eat your discarded Roast Beef dinner with a glass of nice red wine! Out of sight and view of you, up in my ivory tower! 

Still laughing all along at just how easy it all was, that through your music, I jacked your entire culture; and as far as true history goes, the very idea of letting you know who you really are would be totally out of the question! 

Why, you'd only tell your Children Otherwise! Raising their awareness factors! Instilling Intelligence and Self-confidence, and competition for me! I can't have that now can I?

"I must therefore always hide the truth from you and your children, at all cost!"

Explore histories hidden from you! Know thy self!

So what does this mean people? It means that we have to be more pro-active with our lives, and the lives of our children! We have to tell our children the truth about who they are! 

We have to teach and educate our own children! We have to awaken and hone their talents, and nurture and cultivate the Wisdom of the Ancients that lives within our young. and within us all!  

Glenn Peppers                                                 April 4, 2017 4:33am