Considering that we are oppressed ppl in this .. the negative thing that we do unfortunately are magnified and used as propaganda to influence and generalize blks. Im not trying to be negative but alot of blks I KNOW really just dont know or even realize whats going on. Most blks in my circle or ones i met in my lifetime dont know their history. I actually met someone who didnt even know who malcolm x was(Not to say I do know everything cause I dont). You must have a more conscious circle
i see what you are saying, but my point is more that the things you mention are not just relegated to black folk...irrespective of color, there are a whole lot of people who "really just dont know or even realize whats going on," now you could make the argument that we might be affected more negatively by that circumstance and that WOULD be a problem, and the negative is magnified in this 24/7 news world and much of it may be crafted to fit certain narratives, just not sure that is really the problem at hand though...plus the gift & the curse of the interwebs is you can find exactly what it is you are looking for, whether it be the other side of a news story or personal accounts of groupie experiences with celebrities; so on some level you could say that type of negativity is just always going to exist in some fashion, hopefully just much less of it...
...as the for history thing, while not unimportant, seems like a reach to me; the black folk in america that aren't doing well isn't due to some lack of "knowledge of self" or knowing about kemet or moors, it is that many of the places they inhabit have poor schools and not many opportunities...it is unfortunate that someone wouldn't know who malcom x is, but it is almost unarguably MORE problematic if that person doesn't have the opportunity to be economically sufficient
Great points like how blacks in America often get compared to other minorities that already had their own native languages and cultures that allowed them to integrate and still have a sense of unity while blacks with no sense of their own culture were integrated with the dominant society that already disapproved with their existence
partly this.
i think part of the american ethos is freedom/respect for individuality the (irony that it was built on slave labor), the country was basically founded on the principle of individual "pursuit of happiness"and it has for the most part served the country well; it is what attracts people here. also, it isn't really an apples to apples comparison, to compare people that emigrate from other countries to average black americans as groups, because people that make the decision to leave their country are generally, in a way, exceptional...this by now means is a guarantor to success for those people but a person who leaves their home country of their own volition, to take that risk, is maybe more likely than the average person to be resourceful and/or find success?
its cool that this effort is being made, not sure it necessarily matters though, getting better teachers regardless of sex and/or ethnicity should be the goal and if the profession at that level were more lucrative there would maybe be more & better competition?...semi-related, i'm reading a book called
the end of men and the rise of women, that mentions a little bit about how teaching was once a profession that was mostly men and seen as inappropriate for women and how that has completely flipped around (i read elsewhere one of the main reasons k-12 teachers became mostly women was due to the thinking that women were naturally more nutruring but mainly that women could be paid MUCH less, which may be why teachers at that level don't get paid very much generally) such that now many of the fastest growing professions and in fact many profession that were once traditionally male dominated, are/will be mostly inhabited by women. with the economy switching from being less manufacturing based & more service & tech based, men in general have not adapted well; super eye-opening...and black men black communities were most adversely affected by this, on top of racism, white flight, housing discrimination, increased competition in the new workplace, and it starts to make sense why many communities have decayed such
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it has a lot to do with this thread, because a lot of what I read in here is very similar to what I would expect to hear on CNN.
