30. "Funny, I am the great grandchild of sharecroppers from Louisiana." In response to In response to 29
And I'll be damn if any Nigerians family history got shit on me. Imjustsaying
My point is that we have black people doing things on every level from caught up in the system to the upper echelons of society who are the descendents of sharecroppers from Louisiana. So yeah there are divides between different groups of black people but that divide is driven by class not place of originals of a persons great grandparents.
My wife is west indian so I can look at her family and you can see a cultural differences with the first generation and even the second generation dealing with Immigrant parents and grandparents, but those third generation kids? You could not pick them out of a line up from their descendent of American Chattel Slavery. Some are born into good situations, some of them aren't doing that great. The different outcomes aren't based on who their grandparents were.
>they are VERY different. >Educated, skilled professionals are the bulk of the black >immigrant class, most of whom would not have been allowed into >the country before the Civil Rights Act overturned racial >quotas in immigration. >The grandchildren of educated, skilled professionals from >Ghana, or Nigeria, or Kenya are =/= to the grandkids of >sharecroppers from Louisiana, skills-wise, economically, or >even socially. Two very different groups, with VERY different >political and economic needs
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