15 years ago or so when my boy was a High school senior he told me about a conversation he heard in the lunch room at a nearby table of Negro students. Two were berating a third for acting white. The third replied that white people got all the good jobs byu they way they acted and made more money. Everybody should “act white.” The other side of the conversation degenerated into four letter words, most of which “would probably be misspelled if they were written down (what my son said).
What is labeled "acting white" is usually labeled acting mature, civil and practicing good manners with others. Showing up on time and doing your work consistently is also important. Those qualities are missed by the "losers". A local Walmart manager said she had plenty of people applying for jobs. The problem is they didn't actually want to work. They thought simply showing up earned a paycheck. Nope! They didn't come back to "work".