"College Boy", "Pretty Boy", "Skinny Bitch", "Bougie", whatever.
Isn't having a education a desirable thing?
Isn't being good looking a good thing?
Isn't being fit better than being fat?
What's wrong with being only 'Middle Class'? (Okay, a lot of things but many imagine the Bourgeois as being members of the Upper Class not just members of an aspirational and acquisitive middle-class.)
Some say that Blacks don't value education, that they hate the social standards of other cultures in regards to ones looks, that being fat is the default state of being, that they hate anyone better than themselves.
But this is more a question of status than one of race alone.
Recently, I heard:
Joy Behar call some woman a 'Skinny Bitch" on The View,
uneducated but well paid white oil workers referring to their Black superior as a "College Boy",
a group of guys call me a "Pretty Boy",
and a group of affectational women refer to a much better looking and better educated woman as "Bougie".
Maybe SeeNew is correct in his assertion.
But being better than others in anything can be socially daunting.
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