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yukio
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Sunday, May 11, 2003 - 08:08 pm: | |
Happy Mothers' Day to the mothers out there!
If there are black people that believed that they were inferior because of their phenotype and culture then black people haven't been doing their job!
The issue, it seems to me, has never been about race, anyway. It has been about RACISM, not race, which was supposed to identify differences that constituted different racial groups. Now that we know race is an illusion, hopefully we can move to the issue of contemporary inequality and the legacy of old inequality.
Now, i have said before that there isn't a such thing as a black race, but their is an African continent, and we are direct descendants from the continent, hence African American, an national identity as well as a cultural group, makes some sense. We don't have to be confused about race, but we need to talk about our heritage, and it is African. There is a such thing as culture, and may black Americans do not have one. There is a such a thing as self-determination, and as a continental group and a national one, African Americans have a culture of struggle, of resistance, which is stronger than passivity. This is clear! So we begin again. Still, where we began before this program. Nothing has changed. Africans were racialized, made into a race through the transatlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. This doesn't change the fact of racism, the perpetuation of discrimination on an alleged racial group. Again, we know that racism, from the vine to the wine, from the alpha of creation, was economic..., as it is today, so lets not confuse race with the real issue racism and general injustice, lets not place full responsible on individuals. Lets place the blame and act on the culprits: ourselves, parents, family extended family, the government, our politicians, principals, educators, etc...
Are we so assimilated that we believe that individualism really works...it still takes a village. Insides of the homes of wealth, there is laughter...Why, you ask? Because, some of us think that wealth is accrued from individual effort. They know it is a family affair...and we know it too, but we afraid to say.....
"70% of the so called Black children waking up in a single parent household has little do with race and more to do with the mentaility of the people involved."
If there are black people that believed that they were inferior because of their phenotype and culture then black people haven't been doing their job!
I'm sorry. This statement is problematic. It assumes that life is solely the product of individual effort. Whether someone is rich or poor, they had help, both from individuals and the larger society in some shape or form.
Poverty is a systemic problem and a personal problem, which means that poverty can not be limited to what our parents do, although it definitely plays a large part.
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