Black Graduate Stands Outside Train Station Handing Out Resume After Being Rejected By 300 Jobs

[wheywhey]

Are the West Africans in the USA the same ?

In the US all black immigrant groups do well. Ghanaians, Nigerians, and Kenyans have a head start over other Africans because of their English skills.

The runner Meb Keflezighi arrived in the US as a 12 year-old refugee from Eritrea not speaking a word of English. He graduated from UCLA at 23. Most of his ten siblings are college graduates. A sister has a medical degree from UCLA and a brother has a bachelors and a law degree from UCLA.

The first black Congresswoman, Shirley Chisholm, had a mother from Barbados and father from what is now Guyana.
The first black Secretary of State, Colin Powell, is the son of Jamaican immigrants. Barack Obama is the son of a Kenyan.

 

[wheywhey]

is the UK as bad about needing a degree to make anything halfway decent as they are here in the States?

The UK has the same hoops to jump through as the US. The BBC documentary Dream Jobs - How To Get Them highlights the British education system and the increase in social immobility.

 

[wheywhey]

The same thing black guys do everywhere else? Raise the crime rate?

An article came out a while ago saying that some landlords in the UK didn't want to rent to Caribbeans. They were fine with Africans but not Caribbeans.

 

[OCCAMS_RAZOR]

All the Nigerians, Kenyans I know have sweet degrees or they are currently pursuing them. The discrepancy between black immigrant success & native black underachievement exemplifies how subjugation can vaporize a human being's will to live sensibly or succeed. i like seeing black people succeed & i sincerely hope we all do. we just have to learn from each other and follow each other's example.

 

[Blessings]

Nigerians....just get it

 

[Theraflu]

Nigerians....just get it

get what ?

 

[Blessings]

i'll say immigrants or first generations...just have the 'drive' to do better

 

[Capo Dei Capi]

Lol After I graduated I had to do security, imagine my rage taking orders from people who didn't even finish highschool.

So what, that makes you better than anybody who didn't?

 

[Roid Jones]

Props to the brother for grinding, at least he is not at home arguing over PS4 v Xbox

 

[OCCAMS_RAZOR]

So what, that makes you better than anybody who didn't?

Nobody should think that just because they have a college degree that they are automatically better than someone who didn't. It's a sickening sense of entitlement that does not reflect reality at all, and will make you depressed once things don't go 'your way'.

 

[TTT]

The UK has the same hoops to jump through as the US. The BBC documentary Dream Jobs - How To Get Them highlights the British education system and the increase in social immobility.

The internship system that people use to get jobs is a big problem. I saw another documentary about social mobility in the UK that looks similar to this one about the dominance of what they called public education alumni from wealthier backgrounds in all aspects of politics, law and finance. They offer unpaid internships in London that only rich kids can afford to take shutting down anyone else from less wealthy backgrounds.