Not that I am giving excuse for the African-Americans but you failed to realize that African immigrants nowadays comes from the upper or middle clbutt of their country or if lowere economic ladder, the ones who comes are the ones with the zeal. Comparing them with the whole African-American community is not fair. Also that they are very well aware of their heritage unlike the African-AnMericans here who feel lost of their identiy. Like Asains, African culture is diverse.
In their trying to find their idenbreasty and glorious past, some of their leaders had sought out to say things that are just bs. I have seen one of the book about their history where it's said that the Moors were Africans. ( I didn't read it as soon as the lady mentioned that the Moors were the Afraicans.) Any one with average knowledge of world history knows that the word "Moor" refers to the Muslims, esepcially when talking about the Moorish, Islamic Spain in Cordova.
Amidst such incomepetent leaders, it is not easy to see why the majority of African-Americans still have the victims mentality. If you put yourself in their shoes, you will see the obstacle they face even on small things on a daily basis.
I don't believe that they don't buttume that the system is against them. They are just more equipped to try something be it as a computer programmer or whatever. We know one successful African-American realtor (married to an Italian woman).
If any African-American is reading, please understand that I have no intention to offend. I highly revere Martin Luther King Jr. as I do Gandhi. I feel that the leadership in the community needs to reevaluate their strategy if they truly want to bring the community up. By brainwashing that the white twisted the history to the point of saying that the Moors were the Africans, only makes the people filled with anger, which perpetuate the victim mentality more, the leadership is not doing a good service.
