Athlone....
Excellent article and right on point. If you are British-Jamaican-now-living-in-USA, I cannot tell because you covered everything like you were originally from here.
I can relate to many of the comments made in this thread (and the other blog). African-american who always did well in academics but was ostracized from his african-american peers...UNTIL I put on some spikes and ran a few 100-meter dashes or caught a few passes on the football field (still nowhere close to being as good in sports as academics). I always kept "2 circles" of friends...the academic ones and the non-academic/same-ole-negative-cultural ones. Black math majors were not really popular....LOL.
Excellent article and right on point. If you are British-Jamaican-now-living-in-USA, I cannot tell because you covered everything like you were originally from here.
I can relate to many of the comments made in this thread (and the other blog). African-american who always did well in academics but was ostracized from his african-american peers...UNTIL I put on some spikes and ran a few 100-meter dashes or caught a few passes on the football field (still nowhere close to being as good in sports as academics). I always kept "2 circles" of friends...the academic ones and the non-academic/same-ole-negative-cultural ones. Black math majors were not really popular....LOL.