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Cynthetiq · 08-12-2003, 08:20 AM

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Originally posted by warrrreagl
Has anyone ever seen a group of Vietnamese or Koreans demonstrate for equality and civil rights? When a community or society becomes its own economic force, it doesn't have to beg for anything. Asians immigrated to the United States, assimilated themselves without losing a shred of heritage, and learned the rules of the game in America. And the first rule is BECOME AN ECONOMIC FORCE AND THE REST WILL FALL INTO PLACE.

For whatever unknown reason, black society refuses to grasp this simple, yet powerful truth.

Another group who has recently learned this truth is the Latino community, the past decade has show truly how powerful they have become as an economic force to a political force. They have reaped the seeds sown by the black civil rights movement. They have exploited everything that the black america fought. Why? Because black america sat back and rested on their laurels.

While they weren't owned, remember that Irish people in the mid 1800's America were denied basic rights and they weren't black. Maybe you think that it's just here in America that Black people are always at the bottom. When there is someone at the top there is someone at the bottom. There cannot be winners without losers, as there cannot be rich without poor.

My thought as to what is holding black america back isn't that they aren't an economic power, but as a whole they have allowed others to capitalize on their strengths all the time. As individuals they do not take responsibility.

I cite Larry Elder's Personal Pledge 32 as one black man's attempt to return something to his culture and community.