“In other words, “acting white.”
That line of thinking has done more harm to the black population than we realized. I don’t think the white community gets it at all.
Some years ago I was a PTA president when our school got a new principal who was black. As we were getting acquainted, she told me that she’d been teased growing up for ‘acting white,’ i.e., for reading, doing well in school, etc. To her surprise when she arrived at our (99% white) school, she met her childhood tormenters, who comprised the school’s janitorial staff.
Poetic justice can be sweet!