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>In speaking in reference to today’s era, there is more black >wealth than before. Based on per capita. Uh, you need to put >down that outdate material home-skillet. Sure there were >more black owned businesses based on the population of a >geographical survey. However on a national level, the black >community had established more wealth today than before. >
Actually, the black middle-class has grown but the black lower and under-class' (i.e., the masses of Black people) level of poverty has increased.
Individual and collective wealth is not the route to take. Institution building should be our focus. Two men: Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. duBois, had a debate. B.T.W. believed that institution building was the proper route for Black people to take; W.E.B. believed that we should engage in the pursuit of intellectual stimulation (some would say intellectual masterbation).
Almost 100 years after his death, B.T.W. has a school that he built that is still standing and is still graduating Black students. As a matter of fact, Tuskegee has one of the best Veterinary medical schools in the country. White students wanting to study veterinary medicine are on waiting lists to get into Tuskegee!!! Now that's what I call progress!!! A former slave has built a school that the children and grandchildren of his former slave master are on waiting lists to attend!!!!!
What has W.E.B. left in the form of institution for his legacy? That's not to say that W.E.B. was completely wrong. I honestly believe that we need a combination of B.T.W. and W.E.B. But if we could only chose one, I'd pick Booker T. over W.E.B.
>See you pick and choose to dissect only one part of my >statement out of context ,but that’s ok. It’s the only way >you could try to make a point. > >Now if A black man (Actor) was to play the role of King >James, or Napoleon in a movie would you be so upset as to >call it inaccurate.
Personally, I would. I want the Truth in these "Historical" portrayals. And having a Black man playing a flaming king faggot or a midget conquistador ain't nothing that I'm tryin to see. And it ain't right or truthful. Portray things as they were.
See its superficial Negros like your >and your boys that get caught up in the surface level >thinking. Errbody knows Jesus was BLACK, heck the whole >region was. >
I don't think everyone does know this. I think that some have started to believe these fantasies. You hear some make arguments for Jesus not being Black by saying: "He probably looked like the people in that region today." So for far too many, the current portrayals of Jesus are believable because they haven't put the history of that region in context.
>But if you feel so back about and adaptation, go on down to >the next Rap video and protest how or women or objectified >and demeaned as Hoes and Bitches. Or protest the use of the >word nigger being used or material object being gloried and >push into the minds of young uneducated children that can on >focus on the fast avenue to a dollar. >
Yes, I agree with you here. The way we allow ourselves to be portrayed in these rap videos and movies is criminal and we should not allow it.
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