This is the primary Reason why Africans beat everyone in the country. African Americans don't have that type of culture, the culture was lost during slavery. There are pockets of African Americans who are like this, just not enough.
How America's Top Colleges Avoid Real Diversity
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This is the primary Reason why Africans beat everyone in the country. African Americans don't have that type of culture, the culture was lost during slavery. There are pockets of African Americans who are like this, just not enough.
1) Brother incog, African-Americans(AA) are not being left by the wayside. A majority of them simply don't measure up to the requirements of going to a PRIVATE institution. The article notes that " 'When we compare immigrant blacks to African Americans from similar family socioeconomic backgrounds, we find no significant differences between them in their chances of attending college', says Pamela Bennett." This quotation is an example of many AA's inability to attend PRIVATE institutions, because it is an issue of ECONOMICS. Furthermore, there are AA's who are lower income that do attend these private institutions, because of their RESILIENCE, INTELLIGENCE, and DESIRE to succeed. The story of "Teresa Wiltz, senior editor of black politics and culture website The Root, [who] graduated from Dartmouth in the 1980s" proves that lower income students are capable of ACHIEVING and attending private institutions. The article notes that "She says that a lot of her black peers did benefit from programs helping low-income minorities, but the African immigrants with whom she went to school were very affluent," which goes back to the issue of ECONOMICS
These elite institutions are by and large status quo and reaffirm the global power structure as well as beingPRIVATE, and as such have their own REQUIREMENTS of who they let in.
If there are AA's who aren't able to afford private schools, or aren't able to attend because they don't fulfill the academic standards have EVERY opportunity to attend PUBLIC institutions and thrive there. There are scholarships, grants, federal student aid as well as in-state tuition that are available and allows AA students to attend colleges and universities.
2) You are correct AA's should demand more of their government. There is an argument being made for the reformation of PUBLIC SCHOOLS from K-12 that may also be made for colleges and universities. Yes Barack Obama benefited from his blackness in America, but he has the RIGHT to benefit from his blackness, because the civil rights movement fought to make conditions fair for ALL BLACK PEOPLE.
3) Yes the educational disparity sucks for AA's, but we need more black people to be devoted to our achievement in this country. We need more black people to inspire our youth that education is the KEY to success. "It takes a village..."
The Moor example was a gross distortion. The Moors didn't rob the Spaniards of their culture, language, their essence, commit genocide or enslave damn near the whole population. I think you'll realize that was pretty stupid to say.
Yes African Americans are the luckiest black people on this planet, and it does have to do with their struggle and contribution to this land, but it also has to do with the contributions of Marcus Garvey and other foreign blacks that contributed to the struggle here in America. There is a rich history and struggle in this land that many African Americans should be proud of, and we should continue to promulgate and use this history as inspiration going forward. We blacks need to use our struggle as FUEL to ACHIEVE in this land.
Co-sign. the Native Americans, the Japanese interned in concentration camps in the US during WW2, and the Jews who didn't live in the US during WW2 were given or were aided in receiving REPARATIONS. Black people in the US and the diaspora have yet to receive any form of reparations for their free labor.
U right. But the fact remains, we cannot change the past. So there's no point in crying about it. Can I use the Jews as an example? Even though they cry about it, they have definitely moved forward. When you have young black minds (BGOL) professing that higher education is a scam, you know the chains haven't been untied completely.
Nah the Jews aren't a good example either. It wasn't as bad AND they got reparations. Furthermore, the blacks persecuted in Germany got nothing. I'm one of the "striver" types so I'm with you on fighting regardless, but the black experience is very unique and tragic.
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