always felt it is more an american cultural thing, I mean, example, have you ever noticed the attitude of black caribeans compared to african americans. caribeans were also slaves, but they've got motivation, wheras african americans seem to be stuck on a perpetual trip of pointing fingers and moping about being in the ghetto. guess I liked watching the boondocks due to it pointing out how backwards and racist things have become.
As a West Indian I shall start there. How we came about with our freedom was *totally* differant from Americans. The Brits first of all realized much earlier that what they were doing was crap and cut it out across the empire (Granted they ended up relying on the Chinese and India instead, but that's another story). Thus after releasing the african slaves they made efforts to bring them into society. Meanwhile Black Americans had a bloody war over economics and state rights fought over them. A war that many were not happy about and forever scared the American psyche. A scar which would perpetuate itself in the disenfranchisement of black individuals all the way up to modern times. Then to further exaserbate the problem what was the process of the black individual in america leaving slavery? The Jews had Moses and a burning bush. What'd the black American get? A memo. That's right, the Address wasn't much more than a memo. No 40 years of guidance to the creation of a culture or the establishment of the black individual as part of a
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