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In reply to the discussion: Cornel West LOSES IT....Calls Al Sharpton a ‘Bonafide House Negro of the Obama Plantation’ [View all]JustAnotherGen
(38,016 posts)Malcolm X had it right my friend - prosperity from within. And never ever - dare I say blindly trust "black leadership". You can trust him - but I trust my husband and brother first. My brother owns a green building supply company and goes out of his way to find young black and Hispanic kids from his high school to bring into his business . . . That they never thought they would have a shot at. He still hires other people - but they won't come out to the burbs for a high paying job unless the burbs reach outta them.
My husband is an Italian immigrant . . . He's now plucked 5 African American kids out of the Camden School district and given them a shot at a skilled job that starts at $20 an hour. Twanda has been with him since she took a welding class in High School and he came in there and saw her skills - and artistic talent. She's now 23 and making $38 an hour and traveling a world she never dreamed was open to her as a forewoman who is Unesco certified for metal restoration.
So while you get all jolly over this man who speaks a lot and writes a lot - there are people - black people (my husband considered himself black from the day what he thought was a friend called him a nigger lover) - who are actually bring prosperity to the black community inch by inch.
Too bad you are so blinded that you can't see how he is pandering to you - and that he looks at people like my brother as a House Negro - while he lines his own pockets and does nothing of any real value to lift black people out of poverty.
We have a hard enough time with the niggers, and porch monkeys, and nigger lovers, and thugs, and all the other bullshit from the "But I'm Not A Racist" white folks - we really don't need race based derogatory terms thrown at us from other black folks.
Why don't you go buy one of his books that only benefit HIS selfish, self absorbed personal financial interests.
And tip - don't shove that MLK nonsense down black folks throats. It's very very demeaning to think we don't know the content of that speech. It also reeks of, "go be complacent and wait for us to throw you a bone."
See - you might run into an uppity one like me.