Pheonixops
Proud Liberal
What are Black people building now? Is it enough? Should they be building more? What "building" are you talking about?
Businesses:
Small Business Expo 2013 Adds Three New Cities
Race Matters in Funding Small Businesses - Businessweek
There are plenty of people from different ethnicities who are trying to "build" their lives. There are a minority of people from different ethnicities who are not trying to "build" anything. That's why I prefer to concentrate on the "individual" and not define the majority of an ethnic group by the failures and problems of the MINORITY of an ethnic group.
I just want to point out how history seems to repeat itself and why I think it's important to study the lessons of history. What I put in bold above was addressed more eloquently in 1841. It's on the last paragraph on page10 and goes onto page 11 , here's the quote I am referring to:
"Four years after Grimké's observation, in 1841, Joseph Willson, writing under the pseudonym "A Southerner," explored in considerable detail the the question of a black aristocracy in a little volume entitled Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society in Philadelphia. Aware that such a title was likely to prompt derision, Willson nonetheless hoped to disabuse whites of their inclination "to regard people of color as all huddled together, without any particular or general distinctions, social or otherwise and to hold the "errors and crimes of one . . . as the criterion of the character of the whole body."
Aristocrats of Color: The Black Elite, 1880-1920 - Willard B. Gatewood - Google Books