Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: bentway who wrote (801551)	8/15/2014 3:18:10 AM
From: SilentZ	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571762

>I noticed this right away when I managed an apt building near the University of Texas and had some black tenants from Africa. They have no tradition of being slaves or Jim Crow. They are proud, conficent men who are sure they are the equal of any white. No so our blacks, in the main. My next door neighbor and most of his friends are Liberian, and my best friend is married to an Ethiopian... I've seen several go from proud to having a moment of "Oh, wait, maybe there are downsides to being black in America" in fairly short timespans. One Liberian dude, who was staying on my neighbor's couch while he was on a job hunt, told me on his first night there that there's no way he would be in the position of American blacks and that if he'd been alive two hundred years ago, he'd have been a slave trader on the other side of the world and not a slave. He'd only been in the States for a few years and had come from an aristocratic family in Africa, so he expected everything to come easy to him. Six weeks later, when despite an experienced background aj having attended an Ivy League school, he couldn't find a job, he said to me "Oh, now I get where you're coming from. It really isn't easy being black here." When my best friend's wife, the daughter of a career diplomat, moved here from Ethopia around the time she started college, she identified with conservative Republicans... after a few years of the occasional refusal of service at restaurants in Central NY (which is pretty rednecky in some areas), and an eventual move to "Red" America, she's begun to finally see that racism exists here and has been moving (slowly) to the left. -Z