I just wonder what started this new black culture. Originally, blacks wanted to learn and get jobs and stood loyal to their families but now, it's completely changed. Every time a white person points out the problems in the black community, he's classified as a racist and if a black man points out the problems, he's called a sell out or an Uncle Tom. What led us to where we are now? That's what I want to know. How long will it take before all blacks realize this and make a change? Will that happen or are we destined to destroy ourselves and everyone else in the process?
Anyone in America who is black, awake, and really understands the residual effects of the civil rights movement from having been there during that era, can trace the backward momentum in predominately black communities directly to it.
The strategy of integration granted LEGAL access to public services and facilities, but did nothing to revitalize and drive self reliant economic development in the communtities that blacks lived in.
The movement should have actually been a multi tiered program that included a grass roots venture capital raising initiative led by black business people, geared towards creating and reinvesting wealth in black owned businesses city by city.
Truth be told, in just as many ways as integration helped, it also hurt, primarily because loyalty to black owned businesses, mainly in urban areas eroded, and black citizens(generally) took their business elsewhere, because now, "they could".
Dr. Kings message would have had a more positive long term impact if his message had also included "support and invest in one another"
Since I have posted in this cesspool, I have stated more times than I can count that black business ownership in predominately black communities represents less than 2%, while Asian and Hispanic business ownership is in excess of the 80 percentile range in their communitities, so it does not take a rocket scientist to understand why so many predominately black communitities are in a state of decay.......lack of ownership, which translates to lack of concern.
If you look at the community growth model that Asian immigrants use so effectively, it is based on several consistent behaviors that all mirror a belief system that revolves around support of self.
An Asian friend and business associate of mine explained to me long ago that many major cites in America have a Chinatown, a Koreatown or a Little Saigon. The principle behind these microcosmic "towns" is to create an environment where a new immigrant of that culture can assimilate comfortably and in many cases build relationships, find work, and eventually through networking within the community, obtain funding to bring yet another business to the "town".
So, the fact is that these "towns" are not really just tourist attractions, they are wealth generating, self reliant, culturally based businesses.
I could go on, writing sentence after sentence on this subject, but will leave you with some names to look up:
Bob Law, Dr. Claude Anderson
Lastly, if you have access to XM/Sirius satellite radio, tune in to channel 128 between 6am to 10 am PST and listen to Joe Madison and Carl Nelson. They frequently have guest speakers on their shows who actually know what they are talking about and are out there doing something to bring about positive changes.
A community is powerless until it is self reliant and empowers itself economically.