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Originally posted by DoggyStyle82:
POSITIVELY AKA and WOMAN OF VIRTUE: your points are well stated and thought out but they are INVALID. The points you make are like two announcers coming into the second half of a game and then start giving analysis as to why one team is winning and the other is losing. Blacks are different than any other minority in this country. They can not be compared on any level. We never grew up in our own country, never educated in our own language, never gained a sense of self-worth in this country, never allowed to be educated, never allowed to develop the entrepreneurial skills to take us past owning juke joints and chicken shacks. To constantly compare us to Chinese, Korean, Cuban and East indian immigrants (the so-called successful ones) is wrong. These people come here with business skills having been educated or owning businesses in their own countries. Only the strong families and cream of the crop are coming. The drunks, drug addicts, non-family oriented ones are back in the slums and villages of their home countries. The majority of the successful Cubans in Miami were the ruling or merchant class in Cuba before they came to Miami. Immigration is set up so that only the economically viable families and communities come here as a whole. They stick together because they are all of the same family and community when they get here. They stick together because of the language barrier. They stick together because they pooled their money together to get here so they are already inter-dependent when they arrive. None of that is similar to our experience here. African -Americans have always had to play catch-up. Immigrants arrive here with the necessary tools for success. All they need is an opportunity. Thats why they are here. I just wish that we would stop bashing ourselves by always comparing ourselves to other people negatively. I know way more successful Black folk than failures. Lets celebrate that for a change. Black America has a top ten GNP. Why are we arguing about the success of some Korean weave place? Just the fact that POPLIFE can rattle off 20 plus Black owned products must mean that there are some successful Black entrepreneurs. I celebrate our success. Damn the negativity!!!
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call a sista out why don't you
Doggystlye82 you are absolutely right and i did not mean to insinuate that the black experience in america is "exactly/identical" to other minorities, it is not, your points are well taken and understood. i was merely saying that with the resources we do have it might not be a bad idea to focus more on economic unity within our own communities which "minorities and whites" have done so well at, in that mind set i see nothing invalid
we have made great strides individually and as a people and i recognize that, however there is still much that is lacking and i would like to hear even more suggestions on how we can help promote unity and economic prosperity within our own communities. make no mistake as we have seen on this board we will not always agree on the method which is fine, however many whites do not always agree but they do agree that they do not want blacks to hold economic power over them and with that in common they have worked together to make sure that we do not achieve pure equality with them. i think we can all agree that we want the best for our children that alone should bond us and motivate us to take some action even if it means following a method slightly different from your own, unless of course it goes against your belief in God. take care