"Ooh, A black person's involved, I gotta support".

For most regular black people, as opposed to okp's, this is how they operate.

Dancing with the Stars
Bad Summer Movies, hell movies in general
Black people in an extreme sport.
Music that isn't hip hop/R&B (Tvotr, Bloc Party, Living Colour BAd Brains)
The Lion King on Broadway

To cheerlead is the default for the black mass.

For the elites (or outkasts, depending on how you look at it) they often have to walk a tight rope between, not cheering for wack shit, and not looking like a sell out (or feeling weird cause erebody got the new tyler perry/r.kelly/zane and is loving it) Most of the time they end up on some bathroom dread locks steez talkin bout how they don't eat pork and watch Soul Plane, but are up on every episode of Sex and the City.

And then you've got the anti-elite elites, who have an ironic/pathological embrace of black culture, but appreciate it at a "different" level, despite despising a lot of material that they feel insults their intelligence, or promotes the same traditional wisdom that has got us in this mess in the 1st place. They find themselves @ a cross roads when they watch a series like the Wire, and find out it's mostly a white writing staff.

Is there a 3rd way?

What do you see as the 3rd way?

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