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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ PP was making the point that it's about BLACKNESS. You aren't given benefits of the doubt like people assuming you have good credit when you're black. [b]So how do you explain African immigrants -- most of whom are also black and seem to be finding success just fine?[/b] You think the average white person sits their distinguishing between African black vs. American black with slave ancestors? GTFO. Slavery is an excuse AAs will hold for the rest of their lives. It's been 150 years -- YOU weren't personally affected -- maybe your grandparents were but it was probably your great grandparents.

All the arguments of -- oh bc my grandparents were slaves they didn't have family wealth to give us and now we can't get ahead are BS. More than one non-AA person has commented on here about NOT having school paid for, paying off loans, NOT getting down payments and cars etc. from parents, and STILL hitting a 7 figure net worths by themselves within 10-15 years of working. AAs can't do it - why - exactly?[/quote]

How would you explain it? According to you African Americans have all the tools they need to succeed but use slavery as an excuse not to. Why on earth would anyone do that? Why on earth would anyone intentionally not succeed?

My alcoholic grandfather was physically abusive to my grandmother and mother (and my aunts and uncles) in the rural South. My grandmother and her kids had no way of escaping him. He finally left her in middle age. My grandmother went on to have a poor but happy life. My mother has some issues but she has a happy healthy relationship with her husband and children. My mom and grandmother never told me anything like, "Don't depend on a man" but the unspoken subtext to many of the things she taught me was, "Make your own money and take care of yourself." Even now, my husband and I both have good careers and could easily life off his salary alone and meet all of our financial goals, I just cannot quit my job. I think about my grandmother and how she would have killed to have a nice career so she could walk away and I just can't do it. And I will teach my daughter (and son) the same thing. This is a relatively benign example of how a single unhappy family situation can have an impact for four generations. It isn't really a stretch for most people to understand how the impact of slavery can affect generations. You don't have to support reparations or affirmative action or vote liberal (I don't) to acknowledge the damage of slavery.
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