Doggstyle,
I understand what you are trying to say but I don't agree at all.
For one, if the language barrier is so big, then how do Asians, Arabs, and Hispanics, manage to do business with people that do not speak in their native tongue? Many Arabs and Asians have 'satellite' stores. That means that their businesses are located OUTSIDE their community but the profit goes home with them. Half the reason why they are so successful is because blacks don't mind spending money with them. Intra-community spending makes them secure, quasi-community selling without spending makes them rich.
And sure Asians are marrying white people and it's mainly the women. White men own and run almost everything in this nation. But guess what? If these Asian women get rejected by neighbors, in-laws, and coworkers they have a COMMUNITY to run back to. Blacks don't have real communities to seek refuge in...only AREA's. The Asian that assimilate do so because they want to, not because they feel like they have to in order to succeed. Many of them are already successful! Besides, Asians attempt to blend in wherever they are. It doesn't matter if they're in a Black area, White area, or Indian area...they will take on the characteristics of the main group.
I want to ask you why every group doing better than blacks who were BORN and RAISED here. We should know 'the system' better than all of the immigrants, right? Yet, we are the only ones who don't use it to our advantage!
And how many white kids buy Fubu as opposed to U. C. of Benneton, Abercerombie, Ralph Lauren, J. Crew, Levi's, Guess, and the millions of other 'white' label? It's a TREND. White people do not support black business en masse and never will. They do NOT want to see us succeed in any sense of the word. I work in a department store, and the white people often avoid blacks so they won't get the commission. Do you really believe that they will be o.k. with pumping billions of their dollars in to black wallets? One business deal, and one there. That's nice but do you think it'll work on a national scale? I sure as hell don't.
We HAVE to compare ourselves if we want to help. It hurts, but how else are we going to gage our position in society? Even after slavery, black people continue to run on autopilot. We don't even know where we are headed anymore because no one has bothered to look out of the window. Midwest, 1 Woman, and I as well as the people that feel the way we do are not beating anyone up. We are just being realistic. Do you want our people to gain a more collective status or do you want to be a 'good Negro' and believe that nothing needs to be done because you are doing well?
I think Dr. Anderson summed it up when he said "God already assigned me to a color team, but who wants to be on the losing one?"
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