28. "African Brain Drain" In response to In response to 0 Mon Dec-07-20 08:34 PM by Mori
If African immigrants can make it happen abroad, why can't they make changes in their home countries? First world countries recruit the best of the best from Africa. I have friends who want to go home to Ghana, Nigeria, Sierra Leone but the corruption is so bad that they could not move forward.
So many people are advancing off the back of Black Americans' initial struggle, so there is no way to really compare.
Black Americans have been psychologically beat down. I question if I want to raise my kid here much longer. So much embedded defeat in how we live our daily lives. Totally consumed with pop culture, entertainment, violence and politics. Any deviation from that will ostracize her from her peers.
Black American culture is a strange endless loop and it is hard to break out of. I see it in how we condition our kids about being black in America. Already starts off with defeat.