Happy black history month brehs. Not black myself but I want to take the time to appreciate all the great African Americans in our country's history, from Frederick Douglass to Malcolm X (if you haven't read Dr. X's autobiography already, you MUST 
). The black community in the U.S. has the richest and most satisfying history, from slaves forced here to getting a black president elected. But the fight isn't nearly over, and as a fellow minority I'll be hand in hand with my AA brothers in the fight to end institutional racism and uplift poor black communities across the nation. America won't be great till all of its black people are.
The older I've gotten, the more I've become disillusioned with white people and begun to identity with other minorities more. We can't place our hopes on the white establishment to fix the racial divide (look what happened to the DemoCACic establishment this election season
), it has to be on the people of color, and especially black people (your fight for equality is the most important) to stand up and make their voices heard. I'll be supporting y'all at every step. Only when black people everywhere have equal opportunities as whites in education and every field will the centuries long fight against racial inequality in the U.S. finally come to an end.
I'm glad I discovered TheColi through my search for a forum to discuss basketball. A lot of posters here have opened my eyes to the AA fight for equality and made me learn a lot of stuff I never learned in school or through the news. I was born to Pakistani immigrants and, even though there's many people in this country who hold racist views towards Muslims, me and my brothers never faced any roadblocks in our education and life in general (except for getting randomly checked every damn time I fly
). Unfortunately the same can't be said for many black communities, which have been here for decades, if not centuries, longer than my family. Change has to come from the bottom up.
I know this all sounds corny but I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Immigrants to the U.S. tend to be high skilled or educated bc the process is extremely hard, so people coming from other countries (like my parents) tend to have a solid footing to build careers upon or get an education (for example, many of my cousins that move here are coming to study at universities they've been accepted to, and the nature of the visa process makes it so that they tend to be well off enough that their family back home can pay for their education; if not, then other relatives like my fam support them). This is not counting uneducated, illegal Mexicans btw (that's another issue). You won't find poor Pakistani communities here, because poor or uneducated Pakistanis don't get their visas accepted to come here. The African American community, on the other hand, is native to the U.S., and the nature of racism and Jim Crow throughout U.S. history has made it so that many black communities are at an inherent disadvantage, there's no picking and choosing the educated AA's and building the community through them. Poverty gets perpetuated because nothing is being done to help uplift the poor black communities. Other diaspora, like the Pakistani one, doesn't face the same problem because only the educated ones are getting picked. So non black minorities face a hell of a less struggle (again, not including poor illegal Hispanics), with superficial racism from whites being the only negative versus an actual institutional racism that's been here for centuries that black people have to face.
). The black community in the U.S. has the richest and most satisfying history, from slaves forced here to getting a black president elected. But the fight isn't nearly over, and as a fellow minority I'll be hand in hand with my AA brothers in the fight to end institutional racism and uplift poor black communities across the nation. America won't be great till all of its black people are.The older I've gotten, the more I've become disillusioned with white people and begun to identity with other minorities more. We can't place our hopes on the white establishment to fix the racial divide (look what happened to the DemoCACic establishment this election season
), it has to be on the people of color, and especially black people (your fight for equality is the most important) to stand up and make their voices heard. I'll be supporting y'all at every step. Only when black people everywhere have equal opportunities as whites in education and every field will the centuries long fight against racial inequality in the U.S. finally come to an end.I'm glad I discovered TheColi through my search for a forum to discuss basketball. A lot of posters here have opened my eyes to the AA fight for equality and made me learn a lot of stuff I never learned in school or through the news. I was born to Pakistani immigrants and, even though there's many people in this country who hold racist views towards Muslims, me and my brothers never faced any roadblocks in our education and life in general (except for getting randomly checked every damn time I fly
). Unfortunately the same can't be said for many black communities, which have been here for decades, if not centuries, longer than my family. Change has to come from the bottom up.I know this all sounds corny but I've been thinking a lot about this lately. Immigrants to the U.S. tend to be high skilled or educated bc the process is extremely hard, so people coming from other countries (like my parents) tend to have a solid footing to build careers upon or get an education (for example, many of my cousins that move here are coming to study at universities they've been accepted to, and the nature of the visa process makes it so that they tend to be well off enough that their family back home can pay for their education; if not, then other relatives like my fam support them). This is not counting uneducated, illegal Mexicans btw (that's another issue). You won't find poor Pakistani communities here, because poor or uneducated Pakistanis don't get their visas accepted to come here. The African American community, on the other hand, is native to the U.S., and the nature of racism and Jim Crow throughout U.S. history has made it so that many black communities are at an inherent disadvantage, there's no picking and choosing the educated AA's and building the community through them. Poverty gets perpetuated because nothing is being done to help uplift the poor black communities. Other diaspora, like the Pakistani one, doesn't face the same problem because only the educated ones are getting picked. So non black minorities face a hell of a less struggle (again, not including poor illegal Hispanics), with superficial racism from whites being the only negative versus an actual institutional racism that's been here for centuries that black people have to face.
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