Black culture is a dead end. Except in rare cases of sports stars, music stars, and other carnival forms, including government work, the road to success is the abandonment of that culture.
-———Black culture is a dead end.-——
Yesterday I surveyed a cargo bound for Liberia. All those loading the container were black....... I mean really black. They are part of a Liberian community in nearby Johnson City Tennessee. They have an extended family business involved in shipping things back to Liberia.
There is a huge demand for used clothing, shoes, trucks, tires and all sorts of stuff we no longer need. The elder told me they have a community of about 300 that varies as some go back to the cities (Baltimore) and others filter in to Tennessee. They don’t like the big city.
The fled the civil war and one 30 something told me he would be dead if there now even though the war is over and things are stabilizing. His wife, a tiny woman, has mastered Excel and is struggling to handle the export documentation and the freight forwarder.
The semidriver, a fiftyish black man, came in to see how things were going. His jaw didn’t drop but he was clearly awed by their presence. They were 12 men, lean and muscular, having a great time loading the container. They were jabbering rapidly is what ever language they speak in Liberia. They all had on shorts and T shirts or tank tops and sandals or athletic shoes. One was barefoot. He took everything in. They were black, darker than him and yet very very different.
Te driver by the way is an entrepreneur. He and his brother own tractors and haul containers from Charleston to where ever.
There were two boys, 17 or so. They were stylish. One exhibited red briefs with green jeans fastened way way down. The other exhibited brightly colored boxers but his jeans were not so far down.
They have established a colony and the two boys aside are very different from what we talk about as Amish. No, I don’t know if they are Christian. I asked the elder if the war was religious (like Nigeria) or tribal. He said neither. It was all about corruption. They got tired of the oppression of the corrupt leaders and got rid of them.
It was a truly interesting morning