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Only because you want to.....and if you don't....then don't. This is for black people with a certain consciousness about lifting blacks up by our bootstraps. I think that it would have a powerful impact to have at least ONE successful black county in this world, with above average global per capita living. That is a dream of mine....but I understand this video mindset very well. You probably have the adult version of this.
You could not be more wrong. You have no idea what I "have"; you can only guess and assume.
What I DO have is an aversion to helping someone out solely based on skin color. Skin color is the most irrelevant thing in the world to me. I'm a black male from urban Philadelphia, and my best friend in the entire world is a white girl from rural Northeast PA. I have a lot of friends who are non-black. Why would I invest in someone I don't know based on skin color before I invest in those closest to me? If they want to be lifted up, they need to lift themselves up like I did. My mom was a single mom who successfully raised two boys (she later had two girls, but under better circumstances) in some of the worst ghettos in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If I can do it, ANYONE can do it. All it takes is some determination, aversion to negative influences, self-confidence, and the mindset that "I can do ANYTHING I put my mind to".
Also, one could very well ague the case of the US being a very hostle place for blacks, especially black men. If the OP is a black man I'd argue that he's more in danger of being shot in the US than in Ghana!
Well if they didn't commit a disproportionate amount of the violent crimes in this country then maybe they would face a lot less hostility. We all gotta live in peace, bro.
You could not be more wrong. You have no idea what I "have"; you can only guess and assume.
What I DO have is an aversion to helping someone out solely based on skin color. Skin color is the most irrelevant thing in the world to me. I'm a black male from urban Philadelphia, and my best friend in the entire world is a white girl from rural Northeast PA. I have a lot of friends who are non-black. Why would I invest in someone I don't know based on skin color before I invest in those closest to me? If they want to be lifted up, they need to lift themselves up like I did. My mom was a single mom who successfully raised two boys (she later had two girls, but under better circumstances) in some of the worst ghettos in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. If I can do it, ANYONE can do it. All it takes is some determination, aversion to negative influences, self-confidence, and the mindset that "I can do ANYTHING I put my mind to".
Skin color does not mean anything to me either. Dravidians from India have skin darker than most African Americans and I feel no special bond with them. I am an AFRICAN, biologically. We just happen to have dark skin, curly hair, broad noses, thicker lips....and yes....darker skin. When people discriminate, they are not discriminating against the color of skin.....they are discriminating against a race of people that they identify by the color of their skin, their facial features, their hair, etc. If it was just about skin color, white folks would not try so hard to be getting tans. It's not nor has it ever been about skin color, in and of itself.
Newton said that any object in a state of equilibrium, disturbed from its equilibrium by a force, will thus require an EQUAL AND OPPOSITE FORCE to put the object back in equilibrium. Ergo, if African people were targeted for oppression, that removed African people from equilibrium with humanity, then African people need an equal and opposite sort of targeting to put them back into equilibrium. The only reason that color has anything to do with it is because that was used to target the group for oppression....so the cure has to target the group for repair....based also upon color.
None of that means that you cannot have white friends, relationships or the other. I just choose to be the equal and opposite force. You don't...and I am cool with that. It's called freedom of choice. However, you cannot fix the mindset demonstrated in that video without focusing on color. What fixes that mindset is for all races of people to see/witness black success, black love, black intelligence, black righteousness, black beauty.....then maybe these young kids would not associate blackness with negativity and whiteness with rightness. That is where building a successful black model nation would go a long ways.
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Skin color does not mean anything to me either. Dravidians from India have skin darker than most African Americans and I feel no special bond with them. I am an AFRICAN, biologically. We just happen to have dark skin, curly hair, broad noses, thicker lips....and yes....darker skin. When people discriminate, they are not discriminating against the color of skin.....they are discriminating against a race of people that they identify by the color of their skin, their facial features, their hair, etc. If it was just about skin color, white folks would not try so hard to be getting tans. It's not nor has it ever been about skin color, in and of itself.
Newton said that any object in a state of equilibrium, disturbed from its equilibrium by a force, will thus require an EQUAL AND OPPOSITE FORCE to put the object back in equilibrium. Ergo, if African people were targeted for oppression, that removed African people from equilibrium with humanity, then African people need an equal and opposite sort of targeting to put them back into equilibrium. The only reason that color has anything to do with it is because that was used to target the group for oppression....so the cure has to target the group for repair....based also upon color.
None of that means that you cannot have white friends, relationships or the other. I just choose to be the equal and opposite force. You don't...and I am cool with that. It's called freedom of choice.
Same here. I believe in the freedom of expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment. That is why I will always give someone a platform to speak, even if I don't agree with their views. We may not agree with each other, and that's absolutely fine. I'm just naturally inquisitive and love a good exchange of ideas.
Same here. I believe in the freedom of expression that is guaranteed by the First Amendment. That is why I will always give someone a platform to speak, even if I don't agree with their views. We may not agree with each other, and that's absolutely fine. I'm just naturally inquisitive and love a good exchange of ideas.
I wish everyone happiness....first and foremost.....but I cannot rest with African people in the lowest state of socioeconomic on the planet. That is unacceptable for me and my first step was to lift my African self...then help other Africans.
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I wish everyone happiness....first and foremost.....but I cannot rest with African people in the lowest state of socioeconomic on the planet. That is unacceptable for me and my first step was to lift my African self...then help other Africans.