This is ignorant off the bat cause there's no such thing as African culture.
I'm very familiar with Europe, Europeans OPENLY hate black people it isn't like here. Europeans don't have the same concept of political correctedness as they have in the U.S. Britain may single handedly be the cause of the plight of a lot of Africans and non-Europeans worldwide not just America.
It's not really in opposition to black male power struggle, its still opposed to the male power struggle just a subset of feminism. For example, black gays are still for gay rights, but they certainly deal with even more prejudice than white gays and deal with issues white gays wouldn't even dream of, if that makes sense. More or less a subset of the movement.
Yes, cultural differences, and family structure as well. There are a whole heap of factors, my point is that a difference obviously exists correct? This whole we all black bs needs to quit, because we need to be proud of our different backgrounds and cultures. Instead of looking down on other blacks maybe we should adopt some practices from the cultures that are doing it right?.....Just a thought.
Yea it is easy to say adopt characteristics of other cultures. But those same people, a few generations after their families have gotten settled here, adopt our characteristics. Opposite of what made those people successful when they first arrived. It is HARD to adopt those cultures here in the US when the system is in place. It can be done but it isn't like people consciously fail you know......
How can you say this? What evidence supports this? Are you reaching out of thin air? Most African and Caribbean immigrants have only been here for a couple generations. ****, I myself am American as can be, but was raised in a Caribbean household where college wasn't just thought of, it was expected. These kinds of things are not easy to engrain, but it's not gon be easy. Reparations could be beneficial, but they also have to be APPLIED correctly, and efficiently by those who receive it.
Don't know how I feel. Sometime your environment doesn't allow that base for self well to be generated. It could start when a child is 7 years old and their mother allows them to quit at everything and that is that kid's base. Hard to onvercome that. It can be done but I know from experience (not me, people around me) that people are essentially who they are by the age of high school freshman.
By far the worst SN to post ratio I have ever seen on here. That's like advising a hamster to run faster in the wheel while the rest of the hamsters are out of the wheel and running the race. Getting an education and applying yourself is importantly, but that more so is the second half of the equation. The first half of the equation is addressing the "system" that was set up and is still set up to hold us back.
Oh, another joke about my SN
Still agree with what he said. The work world is filled with money trees if you're black and apply yourself. It's not our jobs to lift up every single black person that fails to understand what's right in front of their faces.
Who's complaining champ?? Also, I just expect the guy in my avy to make music and that's it. If YOU want something more from him than just that then that's on you, keep waiting around and lets us know how that works out for you.Oh another joke about my SN. What is the second half of the equation? What exactly are you guys expecting out here? Of course the system is against us, but there are ways to make a negative a positive. I can speak from personal experience that after you get an education, the opportunities are endless, you are foolish if you think otherwise. Maybe if the dude you slurp daily in your avy did more, you wouldn't be complaining so much.
Loud and wrong. I do and can do all those things, I just KNOW that there WAS and IS a system designed against me. That's all. Of course that's something that we can work around, I just acknowledge that it exists.
Like I said earlier..............
Dude, why do you think the black culture is the way it is today?? It's because of the SYSTEM. When solving a problem, you always go to the root of the problem, the problem for us is the SYSTEM. We have other issues of course and even issues amongst ourselves but let's not shy away from what got us to this point. That's how I'm looking at it.
I don't see how anyone could entertain these jimmy rustlers after that comment
Honestly, many of them don't know. They aren't black. They don't know what it is like to be black. They have a different life perspective. And it shows with certain comments. It is ignorance, they don't know better. Just speaking on something they have a controlled view of.
You make it sound sooooooooooooooo simple man.
. Nobody believes in that "it starts with you" campaign. Dog eat dog out here man. The ruling elite won't surrender that power for anything. For now, things aren't changing.
I think whenever someone brings up the fact that the system is unfair, people take that and run with it. I guess most have a hard time understanding that we know people can make it, even though the system is against us, but the fact that the system is rigged HAS to be pointed out. And in many instances, that unfair system is THE reason why some of us fail. You can't always say, "If there is a will there is a way." Sometimes there is a will but the system won't make a way. But we know people can make it against the odds.
@ these "just fix yourself" type statements. Just goes to show how out of touch people are with the entire scope of the issue. What's really hilarious (and pretty sad) is the posters of (more than likely) African descent who have this mindset. Talk about being in a hamster wheel. If things were that simple to fix, then they'd be fixed.
