YHoo yhoo,black is really beautiful my AFRICAN people, WHO EVA CREATED THIS SITE..THANK YOU,you have just made my day.This is something that I personally and my friends we were looking for and trust me I will spread the word here in South Africa,Eastern Cape,Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.I guess if I didnt have an assingment on entrpnr. I would not have found this site...THANK YOU
IM BLACK AND PROUD.....HA HA HA
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.
Hi Hoth, this is Carrletta... the creator & producer of the show. Thanks for watching! To answer your question, the idea for the show came up years ago when I was an after-school tutor. I always tried to inspire "my kids" (o; to do their best and to strive for A's. However, many of them in spite of their talent and intelligence would say, "I'm comfortable getting B's and C's but I dont wanna get all A's... because then kids would say I'm trying to act white." This simple statement, truly "out of the mouths of babes" encompassed what I think a lot of blacks struggle with... this constant unspoken sense of what "blackness" is... In truth, who defines that? Who gets to decide what that is and what that means? I hope this show can serve as a platform to discuss new ways, images and methods to discuss what blackness means in the 21st century.
Interesting brother, to say the least. I liked what he had to say about perseverence (sp), having that spiritual connection and the HBCU experience. What stood out most to me was when he, in a sense, corrected what many of us grew up hearing [mostly from our parents, family]: "you can do anything you want to do, be anything you want to be" [sic]. That's only half-true. What Adrian said about finding out what it is that you've been gifted with - we all have gifts - focusing on that (or those), then knowing that the sky is the limit is the whole truth. And the thing about it is that this brother is just one of many - not a handful, as the media would have the world believe. Much appreciated-- OnelOve.
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Greetings to all black people ,many thanks to jah for protecting the great land of africa.
YHoo yhoo,black is really beautiful my AFRICAN people, WHO EVA CREATED THIS SITE..THANK YOU,you have just made my day.This is something that I personally and my friends we were looking for and trust me I will spread the word here in South Africa,Eastern Cape,Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University.I guess if I didnt have an assingment on entrpnr. I would not have found this site...THANK YOU
IM BLACK AND PROUD.....HA HA HA
It's 5 am in decatur, illinois and i am awakening. thank you. I was just brozn the net blackness never sleeps.
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
What a awesome testimony of success! Thanks for sharing.
Hi Hoth, this is Carrletta... the creator & producer of the show. Thanks for watching! To answer your question, the idea for the show came up years ago when I was an after-school tutor. I always tried to inspire "my kids" (o; to do their best and to strive for A's. However, many of them in spite of their talent and intelligence would say, "I'm comfortable getting B's and C's but I dont wanna get all A's... because then kids would say I'm trying to act white." This simple statement, truly "out of the mouths of babes" encompassed what I think a lot of blacks struggle with... this constant unspoken sense of what "blackness" is... In truth, who defines that? Who gets to decide what that is and what that means? I hope this show can serve as a platform to discuss new ways, images and methods to discuss what blackness means in the 21st century.
Interesting brother, to say the least. I liked what he had to say about perseverence (sp), having that spiritual connection and the HBCU experience. What stood out most to me was when he, in a sense, corrected what many of us grew up hearing [mostly from our parents, family]: "you can do anything you want to do, be anything you want to be" [sic]. That's only half-true. What Adrian said about finding out what it is that you've been gifted with - we all have gifts - focusing on that (or those), then knowing that the sky is the limit is the whole truth. And the thing about it is that this brother is just one of many - not a handful, as the media would have the world believe. Much appreciated-- OnelOve.
This is a great show. Much needed for folks to see. I'd like to be able to read more about the creators of the show and the history behind the show.
Keep up the good work.