why is it that the black communities is not sticking together.?

Question

Let me know if the same way i feel you feel. because this it our opportunite to shine to get back and let people know that we are not only singers or rappers but we are a people who want a chance.

Answer 1

What a great question!

As a "black" person (and I don't even relish that term, because I see myself as just a person. - except politically I have to distinguish myself because of existing prejudices)

anyway, as a "black" person, I feel that the big question is either seperation or integration.

This is a big problem - on the one hand, we have to get an education, we have to learn English, we have to communicate with the white people if we want to survive, or have any quality of life, you see, there is a white, male power structure we are up against.

This power structure is largely prejudiced - (They are the "bosses" and they prefer to NOT hire black people - but some must.)

So we have to present ourselves to them as a "safe" bet so that we can be hired.

So, we have to become more "white." We try to talk more white, dress more white, act more white... So we can get jobs - and indeed...

THe more successful black people are those who act more white... I speak the truth!

But there's a bigger problem...

Education has been labeled "white." So the black culture, who need education, have a subconscious social pressure to not act educated, and yes, there is a stigma in my community towards anyone who uses "white" words.

When you grow up in the ghetto - like most blacks are forced to do - there is unbelievable peer pressure to conform to the ghhetto life... Even successful black entertainers feel the need to show how they are "still ghetto" or came from "the ghetto" - it is a badge of honor, indeed, it is a response to a fear that you will be rejected by "your own people" if you do not acknowledge your "true" blackness, by affirming the Ghetto. This is seperationism.

The problem with "black" pride and seperationism is that it demands a measure of isolationism. This isolationism cause the black community to turn inward with a vengeance. This is why we have black on black crime and why the prisons are predominately black.

So, the best case scenario is when a black person can succeed in a white dominated world and still be respected by their isolationist black friends and family.

If the blacks continue to "stick" together - in some respects, this will engender more distrust and prejudice against blacks by the existing white power structure and will be detrimental to black progress.

If blacks try to absorb themselves into the "white" culture, several things will happen, some good and some bad:

1. Black's will lose much of their identification with being "black." They will be forced to view themselves more and more as just plain old "people."

2. There will arise black "extremist" reactionary groups (we have seen this over and over, already) who will insist on "purifying" their blackness by promoting "back to Africa" awareness and "Afrocentrist" ideals.

3. Interracial marriage will increase and the "dominant white power structure" will by proxy, decrease. The lines will be blurred as to what race anyone really is. Is he black, white, ... what?

4. At first, blacks will feel like "Uncle Tom's" because they will be accused of that by the Afrocentrists. It will be a blow to sacred culture and any desire to maintain cultural roots.

5. The long term effects will be conducive to unity. It will direct culture and humanity towards a homonegization, where prejudice will be seen as ridiculous and nonsensical and where racism will be much more difficult to practice and where people will be free (as a result) to explore any relationship they choose without overt cultural barriers and cultural stigma's getting in the way.

6. The "black" problem will, by default, become a human problem and the burden of society will be more equally distributed.

The question you need to ask yourself, is if you have more of a responsibility to your race than yourself - and more important:

Is it more moral for you to maintain the particulars about your specific race, or is it more moral to just be a human.

In other words, which is more important, your race, or the evolution of humanity?

Or can you have both? IF so, what are the problems with that?

Answer 2

Where do you live? Because it's not all Black neighborhoods that don't stick together! I'm a black female and trust me, my neighborhood does everything for each other. Also you can't just talk about Black neighborhoods! There are a lot of White neighborhoods that are in deep sh!t behind closed doors Miss Thing! White people are doing illegal sh!t that when you see it portrayed on TV and in the movies, you know it's true because a lot of Whites don't have any moral or scruples. So before you go jumping over the fence in the wrong territory writing about sh!t you haven't even experienced, you need to check your own back yard! And while you're at it, check the garages too! Are the teens in your neighborhood still committing suicide because they just have to much of a trust fund and their parents just don't understand ? Don't play Miss Thing because I will rip you a new one every time! And stop whinning like a punk @ss white girl! I believe you're Black! Straighten up your spine and walk proud! You have pissed me off!

Answer 3

I thought there were lots of great black people who are not singers or rappers. Clarence Thomas Moore, Condalisa Rice, Colin Powell, Bill Cosby, Will Smith, and the list goes on and on. I think the biggest problem that black people have are people like Jesse Jackson who tell you you don't have a chance. I see black people in every walk of life doing everything that anybody else does. If you want to have a chance, get off your butt and go out there take it. It is there for the taking by anybody who wants it. Don't wait for someone else to hand it to you because that's not going to happen for anybody anytime.

Answer 4

First of all to Jared P. Affirmitive Action is/was a band-aid of the US being a victim of its own shady upbringings. Don't forget, it includes your precious white women too; who have been the biggest victims of white mans oppression.

As far as blacks not sticking together. Much of that is media propaganda. I am not saying we are perfect, but we are not as bad off as images provoke.

Its not impossible to see a black CEO, Senator, Doctor, Lawyer, Accountant, or Engineer. We have made more strides in the corporate and business world over the last 30 plus years then ever before. Most of the black people I deal with on a daily basis have college degrees of MBA and higher. True, we are more then just great atheletes and singers in the sense that we have moved into the front and executive offices in those arenas as well.

Even though we are black on the outside, we are more white on the inside then every before. Especially our young boys. White men have always had an untouchable or above the law attitude about life. Our young black kids think they are as well. Are young black girls have become everything they use to hate about white women. Spoiled and gold-digging. There is nothing wrong with wanting a comfortable family, life, and future, but at what cost? Marry the first man you meet that has money and stay with him regardless to how terrible he treats you or live with the hope of him divorcing you so you can attempt to take half of what he worked hard for instead of working hard yourself.

Look at the sad shape our public schools are in. Its amazing, we all know about the lies of the past, yet still teach it in schools. Rather then de-program the lies of the past that are continuously fed to our children, we allow them to be educated with old and false ideology. "NO", Christopher Columbus did not discover America, but we still allow our kids learn this and still give them a day off from school. Think about this, if our history books would begin to reflect the contributions of everyone and not just white, dead, slave owning men, there would not be a need for a Black History Month.

I remember when the US allowed a large influse of Asians to enter the country. They gave them rights and funding that we still fight for and turned around and complained about there being to many of them opening businesses and taking over neigborhoods. Everytime a white person complains they could get into college because of a minority, they need to look again. When applying for college, Asians are considered white, which is why you see so many on college campus'. Once again, a victim of his own decisions.

Well, back to the subject at hand. If you give a group of people sh*t and tell them to make cake, regardless to how nice the cake may turn out, it still will still taste like sh*t. Bottom line we have a ways to go, but we are not as far behind and it may seem. The powers that be are dropping there radars everyday. We are on the verge of having a female or black president. In the next 20 years, we will have had both.

Answer 5

Black people are also individuals. There might be many black people who don't feel that "black community leaders" speak on their behalf. You could replace "black" with "gay", "Jewish", etc.

All I'm saying by this is that often individual people don't feel that self-appointed community spokespersons speak for them, even if they belong to the group of humanity that the spokesperson claims to speak on behalf of!

Answer 6

What does this have to do with LGBT issues? Are you expecting black LGBT people to stick together? I find that they often do.

Answer 7

Cause some a blacker then others.

Answer 8

Because they think by disliking other blacks, they will win approval from whites.

Answer 9

what do you think affirmative action is?