I'm so glad to have found this site. I never knew anything like this existed. I have been longing to see the diversity of black people in media. Thanks!
I enjoyed watching Adele Berry's story. I wanted to thank her for sharing it. I come from a different background, one filled with fear of people in authority. That has a lot to do with my upbringing in Shreveport, La; however, it is something that I am working on overcoming.
I long to visit Africa and know what it feels like to see black people in the majority and in all positions of authority. A friend of mine from Nigeria told me that he didn't understand racism until he came to America. I told him that I envied him.
One thing I kept thinking about while watching Adele was the fact that she said that none of her clients were black. I felt that this was a shame. This is the one things that I don't understand about professional black people. Why do such talented blacks always seem to want to enrich other cultures? Why is there so much pride in being able to mingle with others (almost exclusively in a professional sense) and so little emphasis in building up the black culture. Is it just feeling good at being able to play the mainstream game?
Adele spoke of future generations and success. Considering how fast young black men are dying, I wonder how many generations black people have left.
The brain drain on the black community since the Civil Rights Movement is exactly as predicted by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in The Mis-education of the Negro in 1933. What if some of that highly developed black professional talent could be brought back to the black community to build up black businesses, which in turn, could employ more young black people? Could we bring brighter hope for saving our future generations?
If the answer is 'yes,' then it might take a miracle to pull it off without people actually getting their hands dirty--so to speak.
Well, thanks again for the opportunity to share and to receive.
I Am Blackness - Dr. Adrian Isles
I'm so glad to have found this site. I never knew anything like this existed. I have been longing to see the diversity of black people in media. Thanks!
I enjoyed watching Adele Berry's story. I wanted to thank her for sharing it. I come from a different background, one filled with fear of people in authority. That has a lot to do with my upbringing in Shreveport, La; however, it is something that I am working on overcoming.
I long to visit Africa and know what it feels like to see black people in the majority and in all positions of authority. A friend of mine from Nigeria told me that he didn't understand racism until he came to America. I told him that I envied him.
One thing I kept thinking about while watching Adele was the fact that she said that none of her clients were black. I felt that this was a shame. This is the one things that I don't understand about professional black people. Why do such talented blacks always seem to want to enrich other cultures? Why is there so much pride in being able to mingle with others (almost exclusively in a professional sense) and so little emphasis in building up the black culture. Is it just feeling good at being able to play the mainstream game?
Adele spoke of future generations and success. Considering how fast young black men are dying, I wonder how many generations black people have left.
The brain drain on the black community since the Civil Rights Movement is exactly as predicted by Dr. Carter G. Woodson in The Mis-education of the Negro in 1933. What if some of that highly developed black professional talent could be brought back to the black community to build up black businesses, which in turn, could employ more young black people? Could we bring brighter hope for saving our future generations?
If the answer is 'yes,' then it might take a miracle to pull it off without people actually getting their hands dirty--so to speak.
Well, thanks again for the opportunity to share and to receive.
In peace and love. Nzinga25