Ethiopian girl exposes African American women - Your thoughts?

Clueless Republican bitch in the vicinity

There is a difference between West African, East African and American ghetto culture? Is that what she's saying? I'm confused.

I think African immigrants are generally quite successful in the US relative to African-Americans.

A lot of what she said is OTT imo and doesn't apply to a lot of African-American women. The main reason why African-Americans struggle to be successful in mainstream American society is because a lot of them a bred in ghettos. In order to be successful in the ghetto you need to adopt characteristics which she mentioned in the video, being loud, abrasive, cocky etc. (basically sticking up for yourself and putting on a tough attitude). Also if you study/work hard it's seen as a sign of weakness/conformity as well so many young people (boys in particular, girls aren't affected as much) are teased/bullied if they work hard. This sort of culture makes it incredibly difficult for a young black person to be successful in life unless they're willing to be left isolated and bullied throughout their childhood for adopting 'white' characteristics.



I think African immigrants are generally quite successful in the US relative to African-Americans.

Possibly because they might have experienced actual poverty back home in Africa as opposed to relative poverty in American cities so the drive to succeed is greater. There seems to be contempt between the two in my experience. The Africans tend to consider their American counterparts to be 'Westernised' cultural traitors and in return, African-Americans are hostile to Africans for being 'race-traitors' for participating in the slave-trade. By Westernised, I mean random stuff like oral sex which is a huge taboo in Africa but completely normal amongst American blacks. It's the most ridiculous and bizarre beef ever.

Before crack cocaine infested african american communities, they were not ghettos at all and were far more pleasant stable places to live with majority traditional conservative families. There is nothing inherently worse about african americans as human beings, it is a tragedy that more was not and is not done to exterminate the blight. And people wonder why Iam in favour of chinese style laws when it comes to drugs.

Another thing is the racism, being of the right I tend to have little time for sob stories and excuse making, but in the states the history of african americans is tragic.There was real racism and discrimination that went on ,and to this day has effects. I was always struck reading about muhammed ali and despite fighting in the ring for his country in the olympics he was still seen as not enough of a person to eat in a restaurant in the states where he was living. Or reading about colin powell ,who after returning from a tour of vietnam , was mocked and told he wasn't allowed into a diner on a highway because of his skin colour. Or when he explained how he couldn't stop even to take a leak at some garages when he was travelling from army base to army base. Colin Powell at that point was a major in the US Army. Protecting the very people who did not see him as a person.

That is why ,while I have little time for Barack Obama who I believe is completely unsuitable for being president of the united states i completely understand why the majority of Black people voted for him. Unfortunately the 'change he promised' hasn't happened, and he has done not enough for african americans who have suffered greatly.

There is a difference between West African, East African and American ghetto culture? Is that what she's saying? I'm confused.