cawacko
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Since you declared yourself the black translator for white America what do you think of my buddies thoughts. Not only is he from a well known rap group he is also a Stanford grad. He is a friend/classmate of mine from high school and posted this yesterday on Facebook.
""I hope that I'm not alienating anyone with my Nationalist banter. I'm from a community that has had a hard time here for as long as I can remember, one rife with immense pain and recurring setbacks. IN SPITE OF this history we have at every step made progress above beyond the prior generation. HOWEVER, I am part of a generation which for the first time will NOT (we can change this) exceed the strides made by the previous. What is even more alarming than that mutable statistic is the fact that information, communication, and hence opportunity for us seems to be at an unprecedented high. Thus I am very distressed and preoccupied with changing this trajectory. I am not a racialist (race is a farce) but I do feel that African Americans need to create a job and trade base amongst ourselves, similar to Latin- and Asian- Americans. Our disconnection with our homeland makes our position very different than those groups, yet we have the means to reconnect, or create a base here. We consistently seem neglect to take advantage of the opportunity to do so, and that perplexes me to no end.""
""I hope that I'm not alienating anyone with my Nationalist banter. I'm from a community that has had a hard time here for as long as I can remember, one rife with immense pain and recurring setbacks. IN SPITE OF this history we have at every step made progress above beyond the prior generation. HOWEVER, I am part of a generation which for the first time will NOT (we can change this) exceed the strides made by the previous. What is even more alarming than that mutable statistic is the fact that information, communication, and hence opportunity for us seems to be at an unprecedented high. Thus I am very distressed and preoccupied with changing this trajectory. I am not a racialist (race is a farce) but I do feel that African Americans need to create a job and trade base amongst ourselves, similar to Latin- and Asian- Americans. Our disconnection with our homeland makes our position very different than those groups, yet we have the means to reconnect, or create a base here. We consistently seem neglect to take advantage of the opportunity to do so, and that perplexes me to no end.""