To: originalbuckeye
Many Blacks, like Hill, will never believe that most Whites arent evil Black people haters; no matter what advantages Blacks are given simply because of the color of their skin. No affirmative action, no racial quotas will ever be enough and Whites needs to realize this fact. Hill operates from this vantage point. I believe that even if African-American socioeconomic status was made subtantially better than that of whites through Affirmative Action and other measures, blacks would still resent it... and rightly so... because they would still realize at some level that they had arrived through the sufferance of white society.
The path to real independence for African-Americans does not lie on this course. Black America must stop defining itself in terms of White America if there is any progress to be made from here. The black professionals I know and respect seem to understand this.
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02/12/2010 7:26:29 AM PST by
Oberon
(Big Brutha Be Watchin'.)
To: Oberon
Yes. Many Blacks already do have a higher socioeconomic status that most Whites. I feel badly for high achieving Blacks in some respects. There will always be a segment of Society that believes that they have arrived at that point due to the benefits of affirmative action, etc. In some way it's a no-win situation for them. I have never thought that Blacks, as a race, have lesser intelligence or capabilities. I think most Whites think this way. I wish the high visibility Blacks would realize that fact.
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