To help us out, rather than your text, maybe you could provid us with a chart of the relative worth of different sectors of humanity.
Help who out?
I'm going to
help me. Ergo, I'll be taking my a__ to
Asia. I'll be
helping me by learning from people like Yvette and the guy on Tone Talks that know more than myself on certain aspects of finance and economics.
The USA is the USA. My Black-American (very dark skinned) friend went to and graduated from a fairly elite Catholic high school with my black cousin. I met him through my cousin. That friend joined the US Army and double volunteered by becoming a US Army Ranger. He served in Desert Storm like I did. Like myself, he came back to a near non-existent job market (at least for Black-Americans). He ended up in basically the same situation as me. As my brother has pointed out to me (my brother has 2 master's degrees) every single one of us black and mulatto guys that we all knew, who went to these Catholic high schools
got no where. Some of us eventually did but not until we were in our late 30's or or early 40's, but that was only
the beginning of careers our white graduating peers from the same high schools were starting in their 20's. So, by their 40's they were already far ahead.
So, I guess a [dark skinned] black guy that came from a single parent home
in the ghetto (not middle-class like I did from the Sherman Park neighborhood), got into (probably through a grant, I don't know and never asked) an elite Catholic high school which he graduated from (mine was not "elite" filled mostly with *rich* kids like the one he and my cousin went to), became an Army Ranger, was merely a loser that "never tried"? It wasn't just him. My cousin had other black friends there which I became friends with. None were rich but one was more upper-middle-class.
All (as in every single one) ended up no further than any black person that graduated from the worst public high school in Milwaukee.
My cousin and one of his friend's became home owners (my brother isn't even married with two incomes). But there were periods my cousin was almost psychologically crushed. My brother too. Hell, he was almost psychologically crushed when after his 1st master's he couldn't even get a job shoveling dirt. It was compounded by the fact his white wife who at that time had no work history, had been on welfare, no college education, was getting call backs constantly for jobs.
But I guess
it's just FastPace. I'm the only one. My experience is abnormal. :roll:
Yvette Carnell and the Tone Talks get what I'm saying. Hell, they know more than me. I knew it was bad but I had no idea it was
as bad as it is until listening to them. By that I mean I would have guessed--thought--ethnic Black-Americans had about 10% of the US wealth, if I had been asked. So, I was shocked to hear from them its only like 2% of US wealth Black-America owns.
According to Yvette in one of her videos, a study done into the black enrollment at Ivy League Universities in the USA discovered that slightly over 40% (this was in the early 2000s or before year 2010 I think) of the blacks students were immigrants (not ethnic Black-Americans).
Yvette's argument (not one I created but the argument she makes does make sense to me) is that these blacks that don't have black ancestry from Southern slaves, but directly to Africa, are
masking the failures on-going in Black-America. That actually ethnic Black-America is in far worse shape.
She and the guy from Tone Talks take a much harsher position towards black Africans than I do. For one thing, I don't think the insults have been in a on-way direction as Yvette kind of depicts it. I grew up hearing little black kids on the playground taunting darker black kids as "African Booty Scratchers." While these were children and not adults tossing disparaging references to "Africa," it has not been uncommon for Black-American liberals and conservatives to dismiss Africa as nothing. You don't hear Italian-Americans doing that about Italy. Actually, white America and Black-Americans trip over themselves to yap about how "we" need to protect "Europe." Europe is never dismissed as nothing.
That said... I think Yvette (she is smart as hell too--and "down to earth") and the guy from Tone Talk make some valid points. I also think Black-Americans could learn some good qualities from black Africans.
As for the Latinos--I like Latinos and I would not care if the USA became 99% Latino. But I also like knowing
reality.