The real problem is American (Democrat Plantation) black culture. Black schools in the parts of Africa in which I have lived and worked are disciplined, the students polite and respectful and eager to learn.
Perhaps one major reason for this is that their parents usually had to come up with school fees and the money to purchase school uniforms. I do not recall ever seeing a school where the students did not wear uniforms. This included schools where the students and their parents often wore goatskins or less outside of school.
I was once treated by a black African doctor in Nairobi. He was a Kenyan but had been living & working in London, doing kidney transplants. I commented on his graciousness in leaving all that to work in a clinic in Nairobi. He responded that it was harder on his wife, and especially his children. They had been born in England and were essentially English schoolchildren, but with dark skin.
We were both doing “humanitarian” work and talked about that for awhile. Finally I said, “When I get totally fed up with the bureaucracy, the tribal fighting and the abysmal state of public utilities, I can always go home, having done my nobles oblige thing. You, however, have worked your way up and out of here, yet you gave up the prestige and affluence of doing some of the most skilled surgical work on earth.”
I was not pandering; this man truly amazed me. He replied, “My mother is illiterate. She worked very hard as a cleaning lady to earn enough to pay my school fees through primary school. I came back because I owe it to her and her sacrifices to pay back a little to my people.”
It is very unfortunate that “Africa-American students” are not more like true African students. My children grew up in the tribe. We returned home on furlough and they began attending a majority black school in a Southern state. My son was the only white boy in his class.
One day after he had told my wife about an incident at school, she asked him, “Don’t they respect you?”
“No ma’am, They don’t respect me, they don’t respect the teacher, they don’t respect each other. Someone needs to put them on a plane and send them to African where they can learn some manners.”
He was 10 years old at the time, without a racist bone in his body. (In college, he was made an honorary member of the African students association. Real African students, not “African-American” students.
Most, if not all, of my African friends living in the US have feelings of disgust or even contempt for African-American attitudes. Especially when the Africa-Americans complain about “poverty”.
The problem is not race, but culture. Liberals, not slavery, segregation or racism, are responsible for the creation and continuation of this septic situation.
Culture is definitely the problem. It’s a “culture” that existed among lower-class, mostly rural Southern blacks who had migrated to Northern cities during and after WWII. It would have died out simply because no “culture” can survive with such a lack of values: no culture can survive without work, family, communication skills, a respect for law and the rejection of crime, and a host of other things that we take for granted in any functioning social group.
It only survived artificially because black ghettos became the ultimate petrie dish for US liberal dreams of a totally state-supported and state-managed population. So ghetto black culture has been artificially maintained for 50 years now (several generations, especially with the early-childbearing of blacks) and is now taken as the norm for all black Americans. This idea, btw, is reinforced by popular culture, which promotes the image in everything from rap music to sneaker sales, much of which actually benefits well-off whites such as the bigwigs in the media.
Great post!
No, don’t agree.
The real Africans had the benefit of unbroken history plus the rigorous socialisation of British colonialism. The American blacks had the violent disruption and eradication of their history and identity via slavery plus decades of suppression and ill-treatment after “freedom” ....
That combined with the perniciously stupid policies of the 1960s, and voila, you have the mess that we find today.
The "African-Americans"? Wanna be thugs most of them, its sad. My neighbors are disgusted by them.