Posted on 10/03/2017 8:44:22 AM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
It’s all about culture. I’ve met many well spoken Africans. When I hear blacks say that Ebonics is just their “natural” way of speaking I just smh.
Well, Black Students United (Against Black African Students) have a valid point. The international students have only had to suffer war, famine, disease, and poverty. They’ve never endured the horror of banana peels thrown into trees.
The black Africans that attend US Universities tend to be the best of the best, the smartest and the hardest working. When I was in college I became friends with several of them. They are the nicest, most polite people you will ever meet. And they had NOTHING in common with American blacks, in fact most of them thought African American culture was disgusting and found American blacks to be rude, lazy, overbearing and uncouth. In fact most wanted nothing at all to do with American blacks and hung around with whites or other foreign students.
... but for all that they’re still family. One aunt in particular had a troubled life to the point that the only song played at her funeral was “Bridge Over Troubled Water.” We all pitched in to bury her. No point in spiting her once she was gone. Unlike some of the others, she did try, at least when she was younger but it kept dragging her back down, whatever “it” was.
African Americans are very snooty to Africans. Hypocritical and dare I say, racist?
If you’ve ever had a candid conversation with black Africans then you know they are often horrified by the antics of many black Americans particularly the tendency towards loud, look-at-me behavior and gaudy dress to say nothing of the celebration of the vulgar.
Most Africans come from very poor backgrounds and cannot fathom why US blacks would squander a plethora of opportunities with or without any real or perceived racial tension.
I like the tales of white from South Africa joining the “African Students’ Union” at college. Hilarity always ensues, especially when the college uses that information to assign him/her an Advisor. The end-of-year scholarship winner ceremony goes about as you’d expect.
The very best example was a Jewish guy with Americans who worked in the American Embassy in Egypt. The blacks tried to shame out of the Union by asking him, in essence, what would a Jew from Egypt possibly know about his people being enslaved hundreds of years ago.
*a Jewish guy with American parents
An even funnier story when you consider that Moses is/was a common first name among black males for many years.
“They should have listened more to Booker T. Washington than to W.E.B. Dubois.”
Washington had it right.
Start a business, work hard, educate your children and be successful then the white men will deal with you on and equal footing.
I understand he had a group of white businessmen who financed small black owned businesses.
A tragedy that Washington died at age 59 but DuBois hung around until age 95.
Exactly. I was inspired when I read his book, because it so resonated with what I feel is one of the strong points about being an American-work hard, and you can make it.
Agreed...it is a shame Dubois outlived him by that much, but...what can you say. God chooses.
I’ve read here on FR more than once that real Africans don’t have much respect for `African-Americans’.
Maybe after 400 years here and 150 years after the war AAs might eventually stop feeling sorry for themselves, demanding reparations and so forth, and start acting like grownups and not petulant, dependent children fifty years after Johnson’s Great Society.
Go to any of our big cities. Parts of them aren’t so great.
Start your tour on MLK, Jr. boulevard.
I have met a few from Africa. They do not look fondly on African-Americans and ghetto worship. They have seen horror on all scales in their lives. The USA is still the shining light and yet the ghetto and liberalism is a flaming tire around our neck.
My grandson is bi-racial. As they live next door to his dad’s family most of his out of school contact is with black kids.
He will be 10 in December and not yet ready for it but I am buying him a copy of Up From Slavery so he can at least read a different point of view from a black man who knew slavery first hand but grew up to advise presidents.
Next summer I hope to take him to the BTW memorial here in Virginia.
I need to plant seeds in his mind while he is young.
As you say, God chooses but he gives us choices as well.
I’ve noticed the same when I was in college in Newark, NJ during the 1970’s. This was New Jersey Institute of Technology, yes, an engineering school. There were a number of black students from Africa and the Caribbean. They did not think highly of the “inner city urban culture”.
City of Evil ping
That’s a great book. You get someone who could have been bitter, but held his head up and acted like a man.
Good choice...:)
I know I saw that movie years ago-——but forget the name.
Help.
Well played.
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