seignet posted:Stormborn posted:seignet posted:caribny posted:Stormborn posted:BTW. white americans will have all of us in the category above...black, Mexican or "other"... backward "other". Imaging the irony of us maintaining the the same racist stratification among ourselves that as a group we have to confront...the irony of irony!
True because contrary to what some believe the success of Asian Indians in the USA has not rubbed off on Indo Caribbean people. The latter aren't any better off than are Afro Caribbean people or African immigrants.
Was in Houston, Texas on the weekend. Met with some Ethiopians and Indians on a business deal. Each of those 6 men are living in million dollar homes, driving Mercedez Benz and Landrovers. Each one of those chaps have atleast 3 high priced vehicles. They deal with businesses of their fellow groups, whether it is a limousine service or restaurant.
Willingly they shared their experiences living in Houston. Each expressed their success had nothing to do with racsim. They put it aside and just carry on carving out their share of the American Success Pie.
Those consumed by racism seems to be living in it. And prevented to succeed.
Bigots are everywhere. Even the bigots who notice bigotry in others.
So your six Ethiopians are a measure against which you negate what is self evident in the system. I have a class mate whose father is a dean at Austin. She has 3 brothers, all with doctorates. Her mother is also a professor. She is head of a Catholic woman's hospital in LA. She is a psychiatrist. One of her on going projects is to lecture on the psychology of racism. Why is it you know better than her. By the way, she has advance degrees ( MD in internal medicine and geriatric psychology) and an MBA from two ivy league universities.
Fella, I stated the success of those six men. And how they deemed racism in America. They doan let it hold them back.
Your Professors create scenerios to hold them up in high esteem.
Doan let's start a fight. U juss returned. Many here missed u. Doan disappoint dem in leaving.
No one lets racism hold them back. Otherwise there would be no movement to civil rights and all the privileges non whites now experience. The reality is racism is a strong counter flow against effort that is measurable across dozens of parameters.
Guyanese indians are feeling it also. It is no strange thing for them to gain a measure of success but to transcend that to be truly accomplished means they have to swim against the tide of institutional bias that is build into the system. No one that is of any hue other than white can say they have not experienced racism here in the US.
Man woman or child any that say so I would call them blind or abnormally impervious to the prevailing slights, slings an arrows that they encounter daily. Every indian man or woman would have already warned their teenage boys now to respond to police. If they do not they are fools.
Every minority would have seen the supermarket or mall security following them for no other reason except they are not white. Everyone would have had some white person jumped in front of them for a cab or in a line. For them to say otherwise is to be absurdly situationally unawares.