I couldn’t understand much of it. He basically mumbled and cursed.
Where I grew up and where I work now (an urban university), that is pretty much standard.
In fact, I’d be very surprised if it looked or sounded any differently.
Thirty PLUS years of affirmative action, all the programs, all the assistance, all the special help in HS and college.... THIS is still the unchanging result.
You can’t throw money at the problem. It is inherent and can’t be addressed materially.
With all the many commercial and professional examples of assimilated African Americans in this society and culture, there is STILL absolutely no motivation to learn and evolve. Why?
Because we have a minority President who himself discourages assimilation, and in fact encourages a rift between minorities and mainstream America-we have a situation that cancels out all the many and significant efforts which have been made and which are ongoing NOW, to compensate for past inequities!
African Americans who are sincere in their effort and in their concern to improve things for themselves and their children did NOT deserve THIS kind of minority President. They earned and certainly are worthy (as Americans) of much better!
I feel very sorry for the minorities who will have to endure the setback “O” has handed them.
I am Greek and if there would ever be a Greek President who so shamelessly pandered to Greeks in this country, drove a wedge between Greeks and Americans or compromised Greeks’ hard-earned place at the table, I would change my name and hope NO ONE would ever see my shame.
• WE were ostracized
• WE were discriminated against
• WE had ‘foreigner’ cast in our faces
• WE were excluded
• OUR opportunities were limited
• OUR credibility was challenged
And YES… we looked (STILL look) like Europeans. And YES, some of this stuff still goes on. Bourgeois xenophobia dies real hard.
SO?
It is what it IS…Welcome to the universe. People STINK!
My grandfather didn’t sit around at home pi^%ed off at the world and demanding something for nothing just because his life wasn’t a box of chocolate! That man worked till the day he dropped, literally!! He worked in a coke mill (and I don’t mean soda), so you know what a filthy, dark and dangerous place THAT was! This old man didn’t have a car, so he walked to work, a daily …5 miles in ALL weather. (Sometimes in bad weather, the police cruiser would give him a lift to work, all the cops knew him.)
I am SO F’n sick and tired of this everlasting WHINING!!!!