Many Black Americans have experienced arrogance from recent immigrants from Africa. They will say all types of evil things with their noses up in the air. The author of Sojourner's Passport does a great post about this and how African-Americans should respond. However, as Oprah's South African school continues to be rocked by scandal, the immoral African mindset is being displayed for the whole world to see. African immigrants are usually wealthier than their impoverished bretheren who can't relocate so they easily hide their culture's incivility in Western countries. However, we must always ask ourselves, if their culture/country was so much better why are there more Africans leaving Africa today than at the height of the slave trade? Again, these are the brains and a lot of times the wealth of many of their home countries. Wouldn't it be better to build up their home countries? Obviously not. What are they escaping from?
The latest episode where a 17 year old brings a dead baby in a plastic bag and then goes to the hospital to be treated for bleeding is showing Africans their own bullshit for the whole world to see (as if the world needed any more proof). In 2009, 4 were expelled and 3 were suspended for sexual behavior toward other students (I guess same gender sexual harrassment). In 2007, when it opened (Oprah couldn't even get a honeymoon period), a matron was charged with sexually assualting some of the students.
Another thing to consider of these instances is the inability to recognize and take advantage of opportunities. Instead they abused it. Here are a bunch of Black girls raised in a third world country who are given this opportunity by Black American woman who worked at becoming billionaire. A descendant of an African slave goes back to Africa to build a school for the next generation of African leaders. This woman even shut the door to white South Afrikans for their sake. They are given a school filled with all kinds of trappings and is the envy of all schools globally and they still manage to eff it up, year after year. I can imagine Oprah was probably considering another school of this type in Africa. Not no more. She may be even kicking herself. Here she built this masterpiece of a school to build leaders because Black Americans 'wouldn't appreciate it' and here she is having to deal with scandal after scandal by people who are not surrounded by the cultural garbage that is Black American pop culture but still manage to abuse the opportunity. Instead of having to cross a few states to squash the various incidents that arise, she has to cross a whole ocean to do damage control. Better them than us, I guess.
Black Americans also destroy opportunities. We whine about lack of school funding. However, the average student in Washington, DC is funded $24600/year. Yes, the kids in the 'burbs get more. However, $24,600 per year should be more than enough to convince you that the municipality cares. Instead of correcting our behavior, we blame the schools and watch our kids become dumber and dumber instead of pushing them to do better so that they can get out of poverty. It is our children who exude bad behavior which drive formerly compassionate teachers to run for the effing hills. Black Americans who are poor get free housing but still manage to destroy the properties (and refuse to work to get a property of their own). They get food stamps but children still come to school hungry and unkempt. They get free healthcare and people are still sick. There are more scholarships for Blacks than any other group but because our grades are so poor or we don't push our children to write the essays and do what needs to be done to get the free money our kids end up in debt after graduating from college. There are minority business centers at the state level, grant writing software, business training, federal funding for minority businesses and 'disadvantaged' groups but we sit on our skills and watch Asians get rich off of us.
Africans, nor African-Americans, need to brag about either's condition. Both groups are in the toilet and need to get their minds right. Both groups need to work within the system to beat the system. African arrogance is unfounded.
The latest episode where a 17 year old brings a dead baby in a plastic bag and then goes to the hospital to be treated for bleeding is showing Africans their own bullshit for the whole world to see (as if the world needed any more proof). In 2009, 4 were expelled and 3 were suspended for sexual behavior toward other students (I guess same gender sexual harrassment). In 2007, when it opened (Oprah couldn't even get a honeymoon period), a matron was charged with sexually assualting some of the students.
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| I just can't win with my people. |
Notice all these stories have to do with sexual impropriety. A lot of our issues as Black Americans/Carribeans center around sexuality as well-having children out of wedlock, not valuing marriage, AIDs, high levels of infidelity, and oversexualized music. Call it what you want but all Black people are related. As I said here, and am learning, some things we do may have been here before slavery. Black people are not a perfect people. No race is. I do believe that the effects of slavery and colonialism are far reaching. However, they may have just compounded (or masked) some other issues.
Another thing to consider of these instances is the inability to recognize and take advantage of opportunities. Instead they abused it. Here are a bunch of Black girls raised in a third world country who are given this opportunity by Black American woman who worked at becoming billionaire. A descendant of an African slave goes back to Africa to build a school for the next generation of African leaders. This woman even shut the door to white South Afrikans for their sake. They are given a school filled with all kinds of trappings and is the envy of all schools globally and they still manage to eff it up, year after year. I can imagine Oprah was probably considering another school of this type in Africa. Not no more. She may be even kicking herself. Here she built this masterpiece of a school to build leaders because Black Americans 'wouldn't appreciate it' and here she is having to deal with scandal after scandal by people who are not surrounded by the cultural garbage that is Black American pop culture but still manage to abuse the opportunity. Instead of having to cross a few states to squash the various incidents that arise, she has to cross a whole ocean to do damage control. Better them than us, I guess.
Black Americans also destroy opportunities. We whine about lack of school funding. However, the average student in Washington, DC is funded $24600/year. Yes, the kids in the 'burbs get more. However, $24,600 per year should be more than enough to convince you that the municipality cares. Instead of correcting our behavior, we blame the schools and watch our kids become dumber and dumber instead of pushing them to do better so that they can get out of poverty. It is our children who exude bad behavior which drive formerly compassionate teachers to run for the effing hills. Black Americans who are poor get free housing but still manage to destroy the properties (and refuse to work to get a property of their own). They get food stamps but children still come to school hungry and unkempt. They get free healthcare and people are still sick. There are more scholarships for Blacks than any other group but because our grades are so poor or we don't push our children to write the essays and do what needs to be done to get the free money our kids end up in debt after graduating from college. There are minority business centers at the state level, grant writing software, business training, federal funding for minority businesses and 'disadvantaged' groups but we sit on our skills and watch Asians get rich off of us.
Africans, nor African-Americans, need to brag about either's condition. Both groups are in the toilet and need to get their minds right. Both groups need to work within the system to beat the system. African arrogance is unfounded.
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