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Here is my take on all this. I'm a 1st generation American. I also grew up in nycha projects in the south Bronx. I grew up in Melrose projects. I was able to go to the university via CUNY system but I graduated during the recession. Btw my family is from Columbia. I got lucky some years ago. I was stuck in a job that did not go nowhere, but at nycha project. An advertisement for construction jobs appeared via section 3. The thing that suck is that one needs to have a 2 year degree and no criminal record to qualify. Anyhow I got hired, but the only condition is that I have to reside in a nycha development. I ended up getting hired by AEcom and obtain my osha 30 and other certifications. I spoke with my previous employer and told them I want to move on and not be on section 3. I later on was promoted to site safety supervisor and eventually move out of nyc to suburban NJ. Now I work for the city as an inspector and in the process of becoming an inspector supervisor.
Their js alot of tools out there for African Americans, sadly plenty of African Americans in NYC don't use those tools, and those tools end up being used by immigrants who will leap frog both white, native and African Americans. A good example is upward bound program. I used to do history tutoring for that government funded institution. Not one African American kid was there. The only black kids I saw were either African, afro Caribbean and black Dominicans.
My advice. Black community has alot of money. Black pastor makes alot of money because he gets his money from the very same black women who live in the projects or live in section 8 tenements. Black pastor should work with mainline white protestants and Jews who can fund money directly for black Americans in need in which welfare can not provide such heavy lifting. Also work with social justice initiatives which can fund needs directly to black Americans.
Another thing is to bring education back to vocational training instead of gearing students for college and military instead. Learning hvac in an South Bronx high school in post covid will pull black men who live in the hood out of poverty.
Here is my take on all this. I'm a 1st generation American. I also grew up in nycha projects in the south Bronx. I grew up in Melrose projects. I was able to go to the university via CUNY system but I graduated during the recession. Btw my family is from Columbia. I got lucky some years ago. I was stuck in a job that did not go nowhere, but at nycha project. An advertisement for construction jobs appeared via section 3. The thing that suck is that one needs to have a 2 year degree and no criminal record to qualify. Anyhow I got hired, but the only condition is that I have to reside in a nycha development. I ended up getting hired by AEcom and obtain my osha 30 and other certifications. I spoke with my previous employer and told them I want to move on and not be on section 3. I later on was promoted to site safety supervisor and eventually move out of nyc to suburban NJ. Now I work for the city as an inspector and in the process of becoming an inspector supervisor.
Their js alot of tools out there for African Americans, sadly plenty of African Americans in NYC don't use those tools, and those tools end up being used by immigrants who will leap frog both white, native and African Americans. A good example is upward bound program. I used to do history tutoring for that government funded institution. Not one African American kid was there. The only black kids I saw were either African, afro Caribbean and black Dominicans.
My advice. Black community has alot of money. Black pastor makes alot of money because he gets his money from the very same black women who live in the projects or live in section 8 tenements. Black pastor should work with mainline white protestants and Jews who can fund money directly for black Americans in need in which welfare can not provide such heavy lifting. Also work with social justice initiatives which can fund needs directly to black Americans.
Another thing is to bring education back to vocational training instead of gearing students for college and military instead. Learning hvac in an South Bronx high school in post covid will pull black men who live in the hood out of poverty.
You can't be from Colombia spelling it like that, lol. Let's be honest, the same can be applied to American born children of Hispanic parents - that assimilate the American culture within their environment. I'm proud of you're achievements but you're a small percentage within that demographic.
However, I do agree that there's a cultural difference which is shown w/ education/work between African Americans and Blacks who are of African, Caribbean and Hispanic descent.
You can't be from Colombia spelling it like that, lol. Let's be honest, the same can be applied to American born children of Hispanic parents - that assimilate the American culture within their environment. I'm proud of you're achievements but you're a small percentage within that demographic.
However, I do agree that there's a cultural difference which is shown w/ education/work between African Americans and Blacks who are of African, Caribbean and Hispanic descent.
Stop with the respectability politics. Black folks deserve reparations. We deserve love. Compassion. More benefits and help. Not attacks from another minority on why they work harder than us. It's pathetic and feeds into white supremacy
it's sick how the city oppresses its black populace. The oppurtunity in Harlem, the bronx isn't the same as for priviliged white folks in Midtown manhattan or brooklyn. We need reparations.
the reasons riots and looting happens is because the government has neglected a community for so long. Give us resources, give us jobs, give us hope, give us benefits, give us cheap housing. Instead they leave the community to fend for itself, disgusting.
How is the city oppressing black people? Also, what do you deserve reparations for, were you a slave?
How is the city oppressing black people? Also, what do you deserve reparations for, were you a slave?
Are you blind to the history of NYPD killing black men? The racist housing policies? The segregation? Also my ancestors never got their 40 acres and a mule. We deserve it. NOW.
Stop with the respectability politics. Black folks deserve reparations. We deserve love. Compassion. More benefits and help. Not attacks from another minority on why they work harder than us. It's pathetic and feeds into white supremacy
...but other minorities DO work harder than Section 8 or Housing Project Black Americans, and that has nothing to do with White Supremacy. It's because Dominicans or Ecuadorians will show up with the clothes on their back, work, learn English, and contract a mortgage in about 3 years, while Junmill from the projects complains the entire time that Latinos are stealing jobs he was never even applied for to begin with, while collecting welfare money that whole time.
Black Americans in the NYCHA system don't have to pay electricity, gas, and barely any rent (about $100 a month).
...and yes, while there is a case for recompensation (especially in the case of racist cops across the country), I don't have to love or feel compassion for even one damn soul if I don't feel like it.
Go p--s up a rope!
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