Black-White Gap Widens Faster for High Achievers
Posted on April 22nd, 2008 by Tariq Nelson
On the one hand I get really tired of people using studies like this to
Filed under: Children's Issues
On the one hand I get really tired of people using studies like this to
Filed under: Children's Issues
I don’t think it is about blacks being inferior. I think it is about something wrong in the prevailing culture that does not recognise or encourage success.
Like a well known African American cartoonist said, it is a culture where people “aspire to fail.”
When it is seen as a “white thing” to succeed, be smart and advance yourself, it is no wonder so many go the other way. I think more needs to be done to actually draw in successful African Americans into situations where they can influence others in their community. All too often it seems such people are met with indifference, or even worse, often with hostility. The reception often given successful African Americans sometimes seems to drive them away.
Intelligence, at least the one that comes by the books, become a part of a person because of what they learned from their parents, and their environment. No body is born talking about nuclear physics. If they do, then they should be put on the DISCOVERY channel.
I agree with Abu. The problem with some Black kids is that they some of them have defeatist attitudes. Compound that with defeatist parents and teachers and the environment becomes that of serious apathy. Sadly, there are some AA’s feels that success is a dirty word.It’s anybody’s thing if they want it.
Some African-Americans may argue about our background, of slavery being a cause of it. Yes, while slavery had negatively effected our people, I also think about those AA’s who managed to do it in spite of it. I think about people like Black inventors like George Washington Carver ,Benjamin Banneker or, Granville T Woods and other examples like them. They lived in times that were far challenging that ours and on top it, they didn’t have all the technology that these kids have today, but yet they and famous African-Africans before them weren’t underachievers. It seemed that in the African-American cared about their education in the old days then they do now.
I admit, sometimes I look at today’s young students and just don’t get some of them? They have everything at their door, but some of them do not take advantage of it. Apathy , not intelligence, is hurting our people. It’s the “slave mentality( far as personal thought) that is holding them back. They can achieve anything they want if they get away from this problem. If our Black forefathers/sisters were able to do and they had a million time harder than they , they can also do it.
Og course it has nothing to do with lack of capability. Many Black leaders (not the JJ, or AS type) have been decrying the lack of popular black culture’s emphasis on responsibility. Responsibility as fathers (being one) , the issue with unwed mothers and the lack of focus on education.
This hip hop gangster stuff leads to what?