I was reading the Prelude: The Barbershop by Vershawn Ashanti Young and I found that there are certain things that you find; little words and phrases for example like "race-fake", and "racial schizophrenia" that really spoke to me as a African american male with an apparently high as Young says "linguistic performance". As young recalls Ms. Shelly Eversley's story when she herself was in her own barbershop In Baltimore she says that the men in the barbershop discounted her in a way that she felt Like she was a so called "race fake" although she says that she left the barbershop triumphant yet sad, she said that the men " thought of her educated language as an "imitation whiteness". I read that and It's not that I couldn't understand the reason why they thought this way; Its that I couldn't understand why this attitude or conceived notion of the educated African american person or really any race with as Young says, "spicy lingo" or "trendy hallmarks" that dawns a certain persona that doesn't include the educated "white" aspect in its unspoken ideology of who its people are hasn't been wiped from existence. I can only come to one conclusion; Its that people, at least in this aspect are actually complacent with the stagnant place they hold in society where the trend setters or ones who want to figuratively tear off the pigmented label their born with and let their own linguistic performance tell shape the views of the people around them instead of the preconceived name tag that reads "100% (Your Race Here)".
