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[QUOTE]Originally posted by LiberatedQueen
[B]Actually, they can. My whole family is West Indian, and we all qualify for African American Status after we've been naturalzied. Any AFrican (of whatever color) can claim African American once they achieve American status. What's crazier, in my opinion, is that most North Africans (according to immigration law), and people from what we call the "middle East" are eligible for honorary White status. So they can legally claim that they are of caucasian status.
The key there is that you became "naturalized". I have several West Indian chapter Bruhs who are not American citizens even though they have been here since childhood and they could not get certain scholarships and loans or preference for certain grad programs because they could not claim "African-American" status. Also, technically and genetically, North African Arabs (Middle Easterners) are Semites, who are a subset of the Caucasian genus.
Anyway, as long as Black folks take a myopic viewpoint of the real and larger world (America and its capitalist, libertarian system), we will always view ourselves as crabs in the barrel. To continously measure our success or percieved lack thereof against vague and misleading measurements thrown about by the neo-socialist academics who pass themselves off as the Black Intelligentia, does us a great disfavor.
Jews as a group are successful because they have successfully integrated while maintaing their group identity. They are rich, not because they sell to themselves (not enough of them ) but because they sell to the greater American community of all races.
Asians are successful for the same reasons, a committment to education, self-discipline, and self-sacrifice, all of which are within the dominion of African Americans as individuals and as a race. "We" would view ourselves and our businesses alot better if "we" better reflected those tools of success.
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