Do African Women Dislike Black American Women?

Oh really? Exxcellent, now i can go seek some help. 

Yippees! More attention seeking guard dogs! woof!

There's nothing to tell. I should tell him how I left my ex because I got bored?, 


Not all, most of them are though!


The only reason people fight in recent times in Nigeria is due to the introduction of the Sharia law and the Muhammad's cartoon fiasco. Did I say ethnic tension?, Scratch that. There is really not much of that, it's basically religious tension.


Again, that argument is invalid because the greater majority of Africans do not live abroad. Get it through your thick skull, the ones who do live abroad bring their family with them after they're established. Geez, don't you get it?, If you're going to argue, argue with the typical case. The typical African man does not live abroad, end of story!


Who is interested in fighting a lost battle? No one. Good thing you quit when you haven't fallen flat on your ass.

See what I mean?, AA's definition of family isn't consistent with the African's definition of family. Husband + Wife + Children is our own definition of family. Yours?, Woman + kid + Grandma/pa + Cousins is your definition of family. End of story.

Yeah shit does happen, but when shit turns out to be the norm rather than the exception, then shit cannot be out of circumstances anymore, it is the norm of the society.

It is not only AAs who have this family problem, most of the Western world do infact.

@Drusiliar

I really don't care, just trying to give you reasons why traditional Africans won't be exceptionally happy with their sons/daughters marrying a foreigner.  , No hard feelings!


Notice I didn't say Father/Mother but instead I used husband/wife to emphasize the value we place on the marriage institution and kids born/raised within it. Thanks for playing. 

Am I supposed to go into a back and forth with you at this juncture?, Donzman refuses to do that. Keep whining, whether we're on top or down under, a people's culture keeps them going from day to day.

Lest I forget, how's the baby mama thing going for you guys?, Last I checked, AAs had the larges income per capita in America, America, land of plenty! 

Donzman,

It seems to be working just fine for us. Smile.

Black American Wealth 1998
Published Sunday, October 11, 1998

In remarkable turnaround, blacks' incomes soar


David Westphal / McClatchy Washington Bureau Chief

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of the strongest, most durable business expansions in US. history is being led by a minority group that usually finds itself trailing the economic parade the nation's 34 million blacks, whose incomes are suddenly rising at a remarkable pace.


Over the past five years, as the vibrant economy pushed Americans back to the record-high living standards they reached a decade ago, blacks have not just kept pace. Their household incomes have skyrocketed, soaring three times faster than the those of the nation as a whole.



The 16.8 percent climb has added almost $3,600 a year in inflation-adjusted dollars to the average black household's income, which topped $25,000 for the first time last year. It's pushed poverty among blacks to a record low. And for the first time since the civil rights revolution of the 1960s, blacks are once again closing the huge economic chasm that has separated them from white America.


Something remarkable



It's really amazing, says Wendell Primus, an analyst for the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities, which monitors poverty and income trends. We ought to be celebrating.



Primus and other policy experts say it's too early to explain all the factors responsible for blacks' economic gains, or to know how well they will withstand the next national recession. Further, they point to the stark, nearly $14,000-per-household gap that remains between blacks and whites ($25,050 a year vs. $38,972, according to new Census Bureau statistics).



Still, the analysts acknowledge that something remarkable is happening to blacks' quest for economic parity in the United States. In the past five years, 1.7 million blacks have gone off the poverty rolls, earnings by black women have moved to within a few percentage points of white women's and unemployment among blacks has dropped to less than 10 percent for the first time in almost 25 years.


The progress shows up at every income level -- from the still-large but shrinking underclass to the fast-developing black middle class to the growing ranks of wealthy blacks.



From 1992 to 1997, the number of black households making less than $15,000 a year declined by about one-fifth, while the number of households making more than $50,000 a year increased by one-fifth. Both reflect gains beyond the effects of inflation.


Its tremendous news, said Robert Reischauer, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. And a wonderfully good story.


The quick explanation for all this? Experts say it's a classic example of how a sustained economic expansion featuring low unemployment reliably benefits low-income groups the most. The nation's unemployment rate (now 4.6 percent) hasn't stayed this low since 1970.


For most of the post-World War II period, blacks have been more responsive to economic conditions than whites, said Sheldon Danziger of the University of Michigan's Center on Poverty, Risk and Mental Health. So when labor markets get very tight, that's a good time for less-skilled workers and particularly minorities. Last hired, first fired.


The growth in black incomes is translating into big gains in buying power and opportunities for black businesses. A study by the University of Georgia's Selig Center for Economic Growth projects that the nation's black buying power will grow from $308 billion in 1990 to $533 billion next year, well ahead of the nation's overall growth.


The number of black-owned businesses shot up almost 50 percent between 1987 and 1992, and a Census Bureau study currently underway is expected to show continued strong growth.

Over the past two years, Hispanics also have been part of the economic surge, with household income growing 10 percent to a median of $26,628 last year. But that followed several years of income decline and remained more than $1,000 below the high-water marks reached by Hispanic households in the late 1970s and again in the late 1980s.



Different messages



Household income for blacks, by contrast, has hit record highs each of the past three years. And with the median income now topping $25,000, black households have shaved nearly $1,500 off the black-white income gap in the past five years.



Similarly, the poverty rate for blacks has fallen to a record low 26.5 percent. Alternative measurements of poverty that include such noncash government payments as food stamps push the number lower, to 21.5 percent.



But, as President Clinton noted late last month while touting these figures, the statistics on black income and poverty carry two very different messages -- one of remarkable progress in the 1990s, the other of the huge divide that remains between white and black.


We had a record low in African-American unemployment and poverty, a record low in the poverty rate of African-American children, Clinton said. But then he added, Do you know what that record low is? It's about 39 percent. In other words, it's breathtakingly high.


The same holds true for income. In 1939, black workers made barely more than 40 percent of white workers' pay. Now, the ratio has moved to 65 percent. In other words, it's taken more than a half century to eliminate only a piece of the income gap between blacks and whites.



Nevertheless, the recent progress cheers experts who track income and poverty because it marks the first moment of sustained growth for black workers since the postwar heyday of the 1950s and 1960s, when economic progress was accompanied by landmark gains in civil rights. Amid a string of recessions in the 1970s and early 1980s, though, further gains were hard to come by.


It just shows the good things that happen to the poorest segment of America when you have 4.5 percent employment out there, said the Brookings Institution's Reischauer. In some states [including Minnesota], it's more like 2.5 percent, 3 percent, which means you're really grabbing some less well-off people into employment, and wages also are rising.


What's not yet clear is whether black income gains will vanish in the next recession -- as has occurred over the past two decades -- or might prove to be more durable.



For example, might such other factors as falling crime rates in metropolitan areas, declining drug use and lower welfare rates provide a better foundation for blacks to hold on to recent economic gains?



It's an interesting theory, said Danziger. But just speculation at this point.



Linda Haithcox, manager of economic development at the NAACP in Baltimore, said the role of education is critical. She said black children now complete high school at nearly the same high rate as white children -- a milestone she said is certain to strengthen blacks' economic standing over time.

© Copyright 1998 Star Tribune. All rights reserved.http//www2.startribune.com/viewers/cgi-perl/article.hperl?thisSlug=INCO11

Donzman,

yes. That's all you can do. Play it off. 

Drusilla, why do you even waste your time with that schmuck? By the way, over 70% of Nigerians live in poverty. 60% live in crucial poverty.

@Drusilla

Unlike you, poor Nigerians do not blame the white man for their problems. Try again!
@Hero
How do you get those statistics in a mainly informal economy?, Did you go out counting poor people one by one?, How are you confident in those numbers when Nigeria hasn't had a fair census since 1966?, Again, foreigners should ask to be taught instead of teaching others.

Aww.

Crucial
Absolute 


what about critical 

@Drusiliar

Yeah, pull out a post of an AA whining like it proves anything. Fact is that Africans value a complete family unlike the AA Baby Mama culture, try and justify it. All it does it reinforce my belief that I'll never marry anyone from this part of the world.

I'm just trying to tell you how African women differ from AA women, if you choose to diss Africa's economic woes, that is your lot. In the end, we all know those with the stronger culture, end of story.

What does Africa's economic problems have to do with our value for a husband/wife household?, If there's anything going for us, it's our family unit.

This thread reminds me of my mama's soup is better than ur mama's soup   

Yeah, just like Drusilla said. When ever you've been put in your looser place, you bitch out and resort to stupid childish antics. Get a life, a manhood, and if you can manage,  a proper education.