"I don't understand it."
Posted on 02/13/2006 1:11:11 AM PST by Stand Watch Listen
In 1989, Zedueh Doerue, a proud and traditional-minded father of eight, smuggled his family out of civil-war ravaged Liberia into Guinea, a more stable West African nation to the south.
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Zedueh Doerue: "I don't understand it."
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Before long, Guinea, a former French colony, began to slide into political unrest as well, and Mr. Doerue was jailed and harassed as an insurgent because he spoke English.
Four years ago, a Catholic refugee resettlement program brought him to Pittsburgh, where two of his children were born. Now, working as a nursing assistant and living in a two-story Bon Air home, Mr. Doerue and his family would seem to have left danger and chaos behind.
But Mr. Doerue, 44, said that for the last year he's been continually harassed, his children have been bullied by neighborhood thugs, his car damaged and the windows on his home have been repeatedly broken.
Mr. Doerue has called police because he feels "hunted" by the perpetrators, who he claims are mostly black youths.
Police are unclear on the motives for the attacks, and Mr. Doerue said, "I don't understand it."
He's not alone. Many sociologists and researchers are trying to understand the relationships between black Americans and a recent boom of immigrants who have come to America from Africa and the Caribbean.
It is not always an easy transition and black Americans and the immigrants find they are being forced to confront complex issues of identity, ethnicity and community.
(Excerpt) Read more at post-gazette.com ...
No Kwanza in Pittsburgh?
i personally know a professor at a large university. he is a black immigrant from uganda. he and his family are the nicest people. he tells me the hatred other blacks feel for him at the university is palpable. take this tale as you wish. i dont think he would lie to me about this.
my experience has been that recent immigrants from sub-saharan africa have good work ethics and generally are a good class of people to bring into the US. Obviously if you start filling planes full of abritrarily selected people matters will change, but the folks who go through our immigration procedures seem for the most part to be good additions to society.
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"he tells me the hatred other blacks feel for him at the university is palpable"
I have heard something basicly identical.
Let's face it. The mere existence of voluntary, successful immigrants from Africa undermines much of the mythology popular among many black Americans. If you blame the failures in your community on America racism, oppression, inequality, etc., why would Africans possibly want to come here voluntarily? And once here, how could they possibly accomplish anything? The fact that they're doing the things they're doing (i.e., getting jobs, working, going to school, etc.) is incompatible with the mentality of victimhood.
This elucidates the whole pack of lies concerning "racism". What we are talking about here is culturalism. Ghetto culture is garbage. Take a bunch of people, whine and cry over all the injustices to their ancestors - encourage separatism, expect little from them and hold them accountable for absolutely nothing, and then subsidize dependency - and you're going to get garbage for culture - I don't care what color or ethnicity you start with. Liberal pampering - failed everywhere it's tried.
When this immigrant family comes and faces harassment in the middle of ghetto culture - the "police are unclear on the motives for the attacks". Maybe they're thinking "Gee, they're black, so are the long-time residents. Duhhh...what's the problem?"
And all these earnest pinheaded sociologists carefully ponder the unfathomable puzzle of how people of the same skin color can act and be treated differently. What a bunch of infuriatingly hypocritical and obtuse schmucks.
Uh oh! I smell democrat victimology indoctrination all over that sentences.
I saw this with my Eritrean next door neighbor. A young widow with two very small kids (she was just a couple of months pregnant with the youngest when her husband unexpectedly died), she managed to pull herself together, continue the small business her husband worked, and is now living in a very expensive home. She pickeda neighborhood where she wouldn't have to live around too many Mexicans or "African" Americans--her words.
A close friend of mine had two African roomates in DC, two of the nicest guys I've ever met. They were really adamant about not having anything to do with American blacks. Curious but true.
" "undermines much of the mythology"
BBINGO!
He's a detective in one of the cities here. He often experiences the African American culture. He is disgusted with the victimization that is so ingrown, so prevalent in the culture. The 'man' is always talked about...this boogeyman' that presents so many hurdles, so many detours in the African American's striving to succeed.
He said his greatest struggle at the present time is to protect his sons from the 'influence', the mind set of the African American peers. His sons want to fit in so there is pressure not to do well in school, in society in general. He is successfully winning the battle so far.
The black underclass doesnt seem to be able to get along with anyone, including themselves.
As usual in the big city, everybody was pretty much keeping to themselves, not talking, just waiting for their turn at the machine.
Then one fellow started up a conversation with me, and I recognized that he had an accent of some sort, and I asked him if he was from the West Indies; he told me no, he was from Camaroon.
From that point on until we got our turns at the machine, we had a pleasant conversation.
In light of this story, I have look back at that and wonder why he chose me, the only white person there, to make small talk with.
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