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Was speaking to my father on the situation and from the jump he hit me with some old head knowledge.
He said there is no point in having emotion unless it turns into concrete action.
If nothing happens then it just becomes a cycle of being emotional half the time and being placated the other half.
He said don't get caught up in the "We" talk that the black community loves to make.
That same "We" was the we that said there would never be a black president.
He said "We" starts with you.
There can only be a we if various individuals go out on there own to make the change.
As the old cliché goes, "be the change you want to see."
Once those individuals go out and start their businesses and the community supports them, then there is a "We".
If we start out as "we", the black community ends up looking for a person to lead this "we" and we get so caught up in a movement that no one makes any individual action. The movement becomes stagnant we and we go back to where we once were.
He said it is ultimately our fault.
Not in the sense most people say where they blame the attire or the music of the person.
He is saying it's our fault because the black community hasn't been playing the game.
The system works. It just responds only to those who have a stake.
He said at the close of the civil rights movement we saw a spike in black politicians.
That same spike resulted in a growth of black people in business (read: black employment) and other national institutions.
That is because it is easiest to get business or lobbying or what have done when the person you're speaking to can relate to you.
And it's not racist as some people make it out to be. As an example, if you're a black multinational corporation and you want to do business in China the logical idea isn't to send just anyone.
Send a Chinese person who represents your interests.
That's how business is done all the time, everywhere, at every level, even among government.
So if we are no involved we have no say.
He said as a community we have to elect leaders.
Support our businesses.
Support our students and entrepreneurs.
Make it understood to our young that we have a community of our own.
Instill those values that you buy from your own.
He spoke about how in Arab, Jewish, Chinese, Korean, Indian (including Indo-Caribbean and Indo-African), and Hispanic neighborhoods they support each other's business.
Yes individuals have their own goals and agendas but they work together and fall in line towards a community greater good. Typically, there is no soul food restaurant in the Chinese neighborhood, there is no Nigerian spot in the Jewish neighborhood. That is because they support their own.
Lastly he said, It is not some giant conspiracy.
If blacks did as other races and ethnicities did we would be seeing the same benefits.
It's a proven system that for whatever reason we just haven't subscribed to.
/of dad's rant.
He said there is no point in having emotion unless it turns into concrete action.
If nothing happens then it just becomes a cycle of being emotional half the time and being placated the other half.
He said don't get caught up in the "We" talk that the black community loves to make.
That same "We" was the we that said there would never be a black president.
He said "We" starts with you.
There can only be a we if various individuals go out on there own to make the change.
As the old cliché goes, "be the change you want to see."
Once those individuals go out and start their businesses and the community supports them, then there is a "We".
If we start out as "we", the black community ends up looking for a person to lead this "we" and we get so caught up in a movement that no one makes any individual action. The movement becomes stagnant we and we go back to where we once were.
He said it is ultimately our fault.
Not in the sense most people say where they blame the attire or the music of the person.
He is saying it's our fault because the black community hasn't been playing the game.
The system works. It just responds only to those who have a stake.
He said at the close of the civil rights movement we saw a spike in black politicians.
That same spike resulted in a growth of black people in business (read: black employment) and other national institutions.
That is because it is easiest to get business or lobbying or what have done when the person you're speaking to can relate to you.
And it's not racist as some people make it out to be. As an example, if you're a black multinational corporation and you want to do business in China the logical idea isn't to send just anyone.
Send a Chinese person who represents your interests.
That's how business is done all the time, everywhere, at every level, even among government.
So if we are no involved we have no say.
He said as a community we have to elect leaders.
Support our businesses.
Support our students and entrepreneurs.
Make it understood to our young that we have a community of our own.
Instill those values that you buy from your own.
He spoke about how in Arab, Jewish, Chinese, Korean, Indian (including Indo-Caribbean and Indo-African), and Hispanic neighborhoods they support each other's business.
Yes individuals have their own goals and agendas but they work together and fall in line towards a community greater good. Typically, there is no soul food restaurant in the Chinese neighborhood, there is no Nigerian spot in the Jewish neighborhood. That is because they support their own.
Lastly he said, It is not some giant conspiracy.
If blacks did as other races and ethnicities did we would be seeing the same benefits.
It's a proven system that for whatever reason we just haven't subscribed to.
/of dad's rant.
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