You know I saw this exchange between the two of you and I really had to think about it for a second.
At first I was about to laugh and agree with triple agent, but as I really thought about it; I realized the Africans are actually in a better position. I know this is going to sound controversial but it's about the pie distribution. The African pie is smaller but Africans have a much larger piece of their pie than the distribution of the pie African Americans do.
Black people in America
are in a unique position where we exist in a successful economy but we have no stake in that successful economy. You have a few exceptions like maybe Maryland and Atlanta, but the general consensus is that the grocery store in a black community is not black owned , neither is the drugstore, neither are the banks, neither is the electronic store, and very few of the physicians are themselves black with most of the specialists being Indians or white. Furthermore, whatever natural resources are in Black American community is whether they are timber or farmland or for petroleum or mining are also owned by non black people.
But when you start and look at the African pie,
yes I will agree that it is a much smaller pie since these countries have only really existed for 60 years. However the distribution is radically different. The largest grocery store chain in a place like Nigeria is ran by Nigerians. The largest electronic store in ghana is ran by ghanaians. The banks in Kenya ran by Kenyans. The only place where you don't see this trend is the places where white people actually colonized and decided to stay like Namibia or maybe South Africa. But these are outliers in the same way that Atlanta and Maryland are outliers for black American communities. In fact the only commonality that black Americans and Africans have as far as owning the economy is that neither party controls the natural resources since cacs have reserved those for themselves. However when you look at the pie in an African country, the overwhelming majority of economic activity is native. In fact I would compare African countries more to black American communities prior to the civil Rights act
And the chilling thing here is that these countries came from a position where almost everything of value was controlled by white people prior to their civil rights/liberation struggles.
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And the chilling thing here is that these countries came from a position where almost everything of value was controlled by white people prior to their civil rights/liberation struggles.
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I know my description of Africa may sound strange if you've never taken a trip, but it was a truly eye-opening experience for me the first time I went to an African country and the minute I left the capital city I never saw a single non-black person for hundreds of miles. The fascinating realization to me was that all the economic activity over those hundreds of miles was purely owned by black people. This is a picture we just don't see in America
Even if you were to account for percentages
, it makes no sense how little of the economy African Americans actually control. In a given economy in Africa It's not unusual to see 80% of their economy being African. If we were to scale the same 80% down to the 14% population a black Americans in America , then a good 11% of the economy should be held by black firms. So even when accounting for the minority population, Black America is punching beneath its weight. And you have to realize that adversity was felt by both Continental Africans and diasporic Africans. Both groups have their civil rights struggles at the same 1960s. I'm not saying Black America should have gotten 50% of the American pie but at least getting it up to that 11% would be the threshold for equaling the African pie
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And I’m talking to all races
in the the south 