Black people, what do you think of UMAR JOHNSON and his school for black boys?
Nacirema -_- he was featured here by the philadelphia college. so he has credentials. http://issuu.com/pcomeducation/docs/2008_digest_no3/5 we pour billions of our taxes and dollars into this racist government and society that neglects black people all the time. whats your excuse if its not self hate / hate of black people.?
Why do some black people seem to think that if we follow all of white society's rules (speak standard English, abandon Afro-American culture and become perfect citizens who do no wrong) that they'll finally accept us?
Why is speaking standard English, adopting mainstream American culture and being a perfect citizen a "white society rule"?The premise of your question is completely wrong. Although the framers of the Constitution had landed, educated white men in mind when they founded the country, they created a self-correcting structure. The ideals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness are not exclusive to white people.Of course, living in a pluralistic society means that you can live according to whatever rules you choose. There will be consequences if those rules violate mainstream rules (e.g., polygamy, animal sacrifice, female genital mutilation etc....).Whether "they" accept "us" is less important than whether "we" accept "ourselves" in all the shades, ideologies, religions that we come in. If I'm the descendent of land owning free blacks am I any less Afro-American than someone descended from slaves? If I speak standard English, am I any less Afro-American than someone who speaks gulla or AAV? If I have a college degree (like my father and his father before him) am I less black than someone whose graduation from HIGH SCHOOL is a first in the family?We, that is the collective black we, need to stop worrying about "white people". If you're an engineer, solving an engineering problem, the math and physics doesn't care if you're white or black. If you're writing code or programming, the code doesn't care if you're white or black. If you're a plumber, airplane pilot, oil driller, archeologist, brain surgeon, architect, none of the media you work in care if you're white or black.The only time this becomes material is when you're dealing with people as a lawyer, police officer, family doctor, teacher etc...and you're constantly held up to the mirror of others. The more you focus on the hard sciences and the like, the more you realize that the issues you are focused on are irrelevant. The more of "us" in the hard sciences setting an example for broader society, the less of a focus there will be on "us".
Poll: How are Black People Bad Bargaining Chips?
he's making a joke about how the US government doesn't care about black people. He's saying that if a black person were taken hostage, the government would do nothing to get them back so they are a bad bargaining chip because the gov. wouldn't bargain to save a black person's life. If a white person were to be taken hostage the government would do something to get them back, so they are a good bargaining chip. It's not particularly true, but it's kinda funny.
BLACK PEOPLE: Why do you think black history is considered forbidden knowledge in USA?
Why do you think anyone that learns or teaches black history white devils and the entities they control try to shut them down and destroy them? Doesn't this make you want to learn it even more because it's forbidden? This is what drove me to learning about black history as a child. When you learn it it ALWAYS contradicts white history. You find information (especially in ancient Latin) that discredits every white so-called "historian" in America.
Why are black people hated so much for being black?
I think it’s important to distinguish here between black individuals and blackness. I find it hard to believe that an individual in today’s society, except in a few small pockets, would be hated just because they’re black. Profiled, discriminated, dismissed? Probably. But going as far as “I hate you only because you’re black,” I find unlikely.That being said, blackness is disliked and devalued by our society. Blackness is seen as a bad thing to be. It goes to the extent of non-black people to dislike it when black people are proud of their blackness. “Why can you be proud of being black and I can’t be proud of being white!?” We’ve degrated and devalued blackness to the point we’re uncomfortable with black pride, black power, black empowernment, black coalitions, black protest, black organizing, black culture, black neighborhoods, I could go on.As to why: history. We’ve inherited a society that has profited off the subjugation of Black people. Division is necessary for subjugation. Black people and the white working class have historically suffered from the same problems. Black and White working class coalitions are and have been a threat to the status quo. The solution to this was to instill hatred for black people within the white population. “You may be poor but at least you’re not black,” basically.Centuries of blackness being cemented as the perceived lower cast of society, and you get the hatred we see today.Mind you this is a very oversimplified version of history.
Are black people really detrimental to the economy/society?
I'm not asking this to be racist but I heard somewhere that if you took out the minorities, the US' education scores be solidly in line and ahead of other developed countries. Now it is artificially low apparently. Also, if the minorities weren't around, average income levels would go up since the minorities bring the incomes down by having under-skilled labor en masse. Is this thesis true