Re: Yes, there are always the wünderkind who excel no matter the odds, and then everyone turns to them and says: See! If they can make it, anyone can. We have our Booker T. Washingtons, Harriet Tubmans, George Washington Carvers, Frederick Douglasses. It means little. Some people excel no matter what hurdles are placed in front of them. However, the majority remain in the barrio, working for pennies.
We've been there, done that! Nice try, though! ;~)
Not so fast.... Remember the last sentence of that post of mine:
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These Turkish "success stories" involve people whose grandparents, and even parents, were not born in Europe... They are what we in Europe call second-/third-generation immigrants (with or without German citizenship). How did the children and grandchildren of your black slaves fare in the early 1800s?
It'd be great indeed for today's Europe to boast black, Turkish, and North African, Brigadier-Generals, CEOs, bankers and other celebrities --other than soccer players and pop singers-- BUT THAT WOULD BE FOR EUROPE TO ACHIEVE IN 50 YEARS WHAT TOOK THE US of A 200 YEARS TO PULL OFF!!!! You didn't draft your Civil Rights legislation in the late 1700s, and if Rev M.L. King had been born in 1800 and started rabble-rousing his fellow Negroes in the 1830s he'd have been lynched pronto --dreamless.
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