caribny posted:ksazma posted:caribny posted:Afros have a very open notion of who is "black". Even some Indos run around calling themselves "black" and are accepted as such. You might be shocked to hear what your North American grand kids call themselves.
Those North American Indian kidss you refer to above. Are they typically striving for the finer things in life or are they just wasting their lives away? The ones I am aware of don't seem too interested in school or work, etc. Is that your observation also?
My observation from those who I know is that if their parents focus on providing them with values they do well. This is true for the black Guyanese kids who I know and I am sure that its true for the Indo Guyanese kids as well.
Some people ignored their kids and then are shocked when the results weren't too good. There is no village raising kids in this country. If parents dont do it no one else will.
And the Indo kids who I have heard calling themselves "black" are actually the highly upwardly mobile ones. They seek to form relationships with as broad a network as possible, note that Asian Indians dont usually include them, so seek alliances with others. Sticking in a RH mindset they dont see being especially helpful, nor do they see their [parents/grand parents who threaten to kill them if they form connections with blacks to be useful.
Despite what the Indo Nazis think there are a powerful group of young very progressive black people forging ahead.
No one is denying that there are blacks who are progressive because that would be grossly inaccurate. We see many blacks excel and that is not only in sports. Both of my primary doctors are blacks. One woman and one man. The man did his fellowship at Cornell so he is no schmuck. When I criticize blacks, I am criticizing only the ones who are the subject of my criticism.