McGeeAKey;1117287 said:
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[video=youtube;J_KKyw8V-l0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_KKyw8V-l0[/video]
He made some good points but some ignorant ones too.
IMO the name change from Negro to Colored to Black to African Americans is something that came about because we as a people are still struggling with our identity. This is not just a problem that affects us but people of Africa descendant all over the world. East African Asians basically have the same identity problems that African Americans have. East African Asians are a person that has an Asian origin , but has lived most of their life , or was born in east Africa . Different to people coming from India or {Pakistan] . Speak Swahili and are very cool people.
Light Skinned Blacks did not originated from the product of White Slave masters raping their female slaves.
Africans are a very diverse people and indigenous to all skin types, hair textures and facial features.Human skin color can range from almost black (in skin with very high concentrations of the dark brown pigment melanin) to nearly colorless (appearing pinkish white due to the blood vessels under the skin[1]). Skin color is determined primarily by the amount and type of melanin. Variations in skin color are mainly genetic in origin. There are an estimated 2000 languages spoken in Africa. The American linguist Joseph
According to scientific studies natural human skin color diversity is highest in sub-Saharan African populations.[2]
I disagreed with him when he said that when African Americans go back to Africa to live they are just taking up space. The same thing can be said for Blacks in the US. I don't quite know what he was getting at when he said that. Africa is a big continent. There is enough space.
Pamela Bowen, originally from Chicago, who moved to Ghana from Silicon Valley is interviewed in Accra, Ghana, Friday, Dec. 17, 2004. Marcus Manns, 30, from Virginia, right, and Ronald Pickings, play a round at the Achimota golf course in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004. Manns and Pickings are among a number African-Americans who in recent years have traded a career and the comfort of the U.S. and relocated to the West African country of Ghana. Ronald Pickings, center, hits a golf ball while Marcus Manns, 30, second-right, from Virginia looks on at the Achimota golf course in Accra, Ghana, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2004http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/photo.day.php?ID=73241
Smokey is blessed to have a rewarding career.
But not every Black in America is as blessed as him. Single Black women have a median wealth of $100 compared to the median wealth of single White women which is $41,500, according to the report Lifting as We Climb: Women of Color, Wealth, and America’s Future. The report was produced by the Insight Center for Community Economic Development and uses data from the 2007 Survey of Consumer Finances. The report found that:
■ Forty-six percent of single Black women have zero or negative wealth compared with only 23 percent of single White women.
■ White women between the ages of 36-49, their prime working years, have a median wealth of $42,600. Women of color in the same age group, however, have a median wealth of only $5.
■ Women of color who are divorced have a median wealth of $4,200 compared with White women who have a median wealth of $52,120. Widowed White women have a median wealth of $136,000 compared to $38,400 for widowed women of color.
■ During their retirement years, 38.5 percent of Black women who lived alone were poor compared with 16.7 percent of White women who lived alone. More than 60 percent of White women receive income from assets compared with only 25.4 percent of Black women who receive income from assets.
He says that he has been all over the world and stayed in the most beautiful places but have never stayed in Africa. Are there not beautiful places in Africa?
He sees no problem with the TV Show Amos and Andy and everyone should just lighten up and enjoy a good joke.
The characters of Amos and Andy reflect the stereotype of Black Americans being less intelligent than White Americans. In the show I listened to, the characters introduce each other as being "incompetent." They are able to fool each other very easily over insignificant matters. When they are discussing splitting money with each other, they have no idea how to perform any simple math operations and come up with random numbers. During one part of the show, they are reading a map and trying to figure out how to get to Alaska, but they continuously confuse roads with rivers and vice versa. The stereotypical "Black American vernacular" is a main focus in the show, attempting to reinforce the unintelligent Black American stereotype.
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/25853/blatant_racism_present_in_amos_n_andy.html?cat=37
