How come white people run evertything? When black people try to work hard 2 get somewhere, we pushed back?

Answer 1

maybe because we use proper grammer and dont sound like an ignorant fool every time we open our mouth or type a question on yahoo answers?

Answer 2

1. Ask Oprah, Condoleeza Rice, Aretha, Sidney Poitier, Eddie Murphy, Colin Powell, Black Enterprise — (voted the most successful Black-Owned Company in 2003), Morgan Freeman, Denzel Washington, Country Western Singer Charlie Pride, the numerous successful Rap & Hip Hop performers (too many to name), Ice-T, Multi-million dollar earning sports athletes, Tina Turner, Halle Berry, dead Johnny Cochran, Carl Upchurch, dead writer James Baldwin, dead Scott Joplin, Thema & Whitney Houston, Barack Obama, 'Gone With The Wind —1939' oscar winner because of her brilliant performance, Hattie McDaniel, also Butterfly McQueen gave an excellent performance, Scientists Benjamin Banneker, Thomas Jenningsetc.

2. The list is too long of successful Black people that persisted to accomplish, just like all successful humans do, regardless of race. If at first you don't succeed — try, try again. I think we all would like to have Oprah's money. She's not a quitter. Quitters come in all races and genders.

3. Below are a few links you find useful. Be productive with your talents & compete. That's what the above mentioned people did & they succeeded.

Good luck and warm regards!

Answer 3

It's the old "white man holding me back" song and dance. Please! How did Bill Cosby, Oprah, or that congressman out near Chicago somewhere who has an interesting name make it if white people are always holding black people back? Who has been working hard to get somewhere but has been held back by white people? Or maybe those people aren't working as hard as you'd like to think. It's a lot easier to whine that "white people won't let me" than it is to do what you need to to make it.

Answer 4

i think nihil_initio's got it right... i don't go around blaming black men because i have a small pecker... so why go blaming us cuz we've been a bit better at leveraging power?

And I'm a capitalist, so I think if one group can take advantage of another, more power to them! If times ever get terribly tough, it's every man for themselves, and every culture for temselves. And for all the money that's been funneled into racial integration and affirmative action, the blacks still view themselves as a completely separate culture from us, and if things got real real bad, I could still see them splitting off and simply fending for themselves. So why should any race or country or culture give up its own superiority? Should I work slower so my co-workers have a better shot at getting a raise? Hell no! We pull ourselves up, and I think that's the approach every group needs to take.

Answer 5

Perhaps it is the types of jobs you are going for. I think it also depends very much on the culture in which you are working.
I have a suggestion, move up here to Canada. Here we have an equal opportunity employment law in place, which doesn't allow any white males to get a job.
Some equal opportunity isn't it!

Answer 6

plenty of black people are successful. The ones who aren't fail not because of racial oppression, but because of their own attitude or hang-ups or shortcommings. And those are the same things that hold unsuccessful whites back, too. I'm sorry, but I've worked with many professional and successful black people, and I just don't agree with that generalization, and I'm sure they wouldn't either. Maybe it's because they don't view themselves as "held back" that they are successful, and maybe if people like you stopped blaming whitey for your shortcommings, you'd actually turn around and do something about it.

Answer 7

Well actually we are not pushed back, we have this negative victim mentality. Think about it, Indians, asians and every other race faces the same troubles we do but still strive on. Change your mentality from victim stand point

Answer 8

You are assuming that that only happens to black people! It seems like we get shoved back 3 steps for every one that we take forward. It's just not you, baby, it's everyone these days.

Answer 9

Majority rules and unfortunately your in the minority. Hell African Americans are behind Latin Americans based upon population.

Answer 10

I ain't running anything.