Lies About African Americans.

I apologize right now to all the African Americans who will get offended by me even bothering to answer these lies. I know it gets sickening and we could get rich if we had a quarter for every lie told about us.

I just feel that Africans, in particular Nigerians are worth it. Their just asking. We can't shove them off because so many others have asked and now it is just irritating.

So I give them a chance to know the truth.

Or a chance to explain why they think the Drug People, The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Health and Human services departments are such liars because it does not match up with their imagination about African Americans.

5. African American fathers don't take care of their children.

I always want to ask people where in the world do they think the fathers go and live? Haven't they yet realized that for many years the "welfare game" was all about saying the father was long gone?

Yeah, we did it for the dollars, but we was broke back then. We felt our poverty gave us no choice.

Reality is, African Americans tend to stay together much longer than those who actually get married. So much so that we call people wife or husband (I don't care for it) because they have been together so long.

Besides which, African American rate of marriage actually had a slight rise,(4 percent) while other races went down. So people are marrying again, since there is no financial incentive to fake it anymore.

It's good to get married and some black people need to stop being ridicolous (being with someone for decades but just don't bother) and just do it.

Before computers and the internet, it used to be popular to marry in the south but then pretend not to be married up north for the welfare.

I even had an old aunt at the age of 60 remarry her legal husband of 29 years because she had been pretending in her northern state not to be married and did not want to get in trouble claiming all his benefits as his wife, while he was near dying. 

7. Poor African Americans hate whites because their not doing good.

Absolutely not true. Every study shows in fact that 50 percent of African Americans at ALL economic levels believe that a racist incident happens to them at least once  a month.

In fact a lower class black is more likely to believe in the American dream than middle class blacks.

For reference: See "Living with racism. the black middle class" and others like it.

Have I left any of the well known stereotypes out? Let me know. Or forever hold your peace. Smile.

Another myth: African Americans don't read. Hence, an educated black American with a gift for gab is sometimes potrayed in the media as being 'articulate'

Bump for Inititator.

And sorry why do AA music come out materialistic? Like they're writing a love letter to themselves. Am concerned because this also affects continental africans as many young chaps buy into this and its not good for africans everywhere.

It's called "Blingbling rap" by others but in the African American community it is called "fronting", it is part of the "dozens game". To see who can proclaim themselves the best and the other the worst.

If you listen carefully, you will find that many messages unrelated to the outside message are being transmitted in music. We still communicate by music with each other across this country.

I actually get a kick out of listening to the underlying messages. It amazes me that unbeknownst to some they are with our music carrying our message to the world. It's a beautiful thing.

Rev. & Professor Michael Dyson has a lot of books talking about the conversation AA are having with each other in music. "God and Gangsta rap" is one such book.

Initiator,

Also take special care to read Number 6. It is a whiteman's response to the question of whether African Americans want to be victims, an especially hated lie.

Dru,

I would love you to dispel the myth about "Baby Mamas and Baby Daddies", its my believe though I may be wrong that there is a high rate of Children giving birth to Children in the African American community.I have seen this within the Afro Carribean community in the UK,this can't be good.

Absent Baby Fathers.Is this a myth,real or over blown? From what I have seen,heard and read about African American fathers,there seem to be a lot of absent fathers and the women a left holden the babies while these men sow their seed in another woman.

mrmayer,

The Absent father one is a serious exxgeration, as explained earlier, due to the American's new requirement as of 1965 that the male must be out of the house. This was the first federal gurantee that an African American could recieve the program (1965). Previous to then, when it was a state program, the states mostly did not allow AA to get welfare, as we were seen as a manual labor race, sorta like the Mexicans today. In fact the Mexicans have our old jobs, the fields. Thus we never qualified cause we could always work any old job. (Ever see Malcolm X by Spike Lee?). So Nigga's stayed with they mama's while the welfare lady came out to check your house to find male clothing. To see if they caught you owning a TV. They yes, did come to your house back in the earlier days. They still demand directions but they don't come no more. Per the new rule of 1965, one could now recieve welfare for just the father being gone.

Previous to then, the white male actually recieved the check in his name. So it was a change to demand the father be gone, if it was going to be allowed to blacks. (1965)

We were young.
We didn't know no better.
We was greedy.
We was too hungry to care?

Well we all got real good hindsight. We thought we was hungry.

300Yrs of Freedom?  This nation isn't even 300yrs old yet, Ace. It's only 231yrs old. Beyond that, it wasn't until 1865 that slavery was officially ended in this nation and even that took a civil war to accomplish, and that all wasn't but 142yrs ago. Yet, although in the literal sense we were freed--- in the general-- we weren't.

It took an exhausting 110yrs of painstaking Civil Rights movements in which resulted in the deaths of thousands through assassinations and other general forms of brutality, and negligence to even achieve our general constitutional rights as Americans and human beans here in this nation to some reasonable standard and it has only been about 40 years since then, Ace.  40 Years of some general REAL freedom. Get your facts strait.


Are you saying you, as in me personally? I hope not, because I've never dated anything but an African-American, Afro-Caribbean and or African female in my life, Ace. In fact, my soon to be wife is a Nigerian. As for the vast majority of the rest of the African-American males, well I still have no idea of what you're talking about in regards to them either. Statistics show that white and black Americans have the lowest ratio of mixed partnerships out of all other American groups, while Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans are involved in such couples at a much, much higher rate. Only 6% of African-Americans are involved in interracial relationships and 5% of white Americans, and when one talks of only those in married relationships the numbers go even lower. Once again, get your facts strait, Ace. 


  Where in the hell are you getting this shit from? Stormfront or something? Ace, light, medium or dark,  we are all of the same stock,  yet mixed a bit differently here and there. You act as if the lights are a totally different group from the rest. We all come from the same families and raised together with the same parents in the same homes so-on and so forth, yet come out looking all different ways, get that through your head. 

Ace, I'm one of those light skinned members of my clan, as you say, and I am in network with tons of African-American professionals of all fields and I can assure you that there isn't anywhere close to a shortage of any one type of skin complexion within this group  of very successful African-Americans, and if I had to guess, I would say that African-Americans of a medium brown were the dominant complexioned group of the bunch by far, yet that is to be expected as from my observation most African-Americans period seem to be of that comparable complexion.

Is Oprah Winfrey light? Sean Combs? Bill Cosby? Westley Snipes? Bob Johnson? Denzel Washington? Michael Jordan? Magic Johnson? Al Sharpton? I mean, I can go on and on with the common successful African-American names here--- just to name some  of the common few of the the overall massive listing of extremely successful powerhouse African-American professionals in this world today. Perhaps you should dig up my Black History Month thread on this site to view this massive display in which had folks around here like  to see it laid out before them. Again, get your facts strait, Ace?



  We do all the time, we've been doing so since our very first presence here in English North American in 1609, Ace. How do you think we've survived all these years, Ace. We should be extinct by now; it's been our unity, strength and creativity in which has allowed up to come this far. What exactly are referring to?  How come Africans don't stick together to better Africa?

Why do they always try to run away to the west instead of staying home to fixed up their dilapidated nations. Capture their nations from the corrupt leaders that run them? Do something useful with their economies and stop massacring each other in barbaric tribal conflicts? So on and so forth. Don't worry about what we're doing worry about your own shit hole of a mess back over in Africa. We are in the top 2% of the worlds most affluent people, we generate a Trillion $ in economic profit 2 times as much as African as a whole, not to mention East Africa, Ace!! 73% of the group are middle to upper class citizens. See my BHM thread for more cool facts.
 

It's definitely you. Again, get your facts strait, Ace.

Hey drusilla. Pardon me to say but i personally think that most not all of the things u called lies are true. I know u know better than i do 'cause u're obviously an african-american but i do go to school here in the states in a black/latino school and i see stuffs. About the education thin', Most black kids in my school really don't care about education which is why a lot of 'em are in danger of goin' to summer school this summer.and i understand about d "blingbling" rap, I enjoy it myself but why is that d only thin' they sing about? I ain't never heard no white person singin' about blingbling or diamond or money, etc. and they're actually d rich people in this nation. don't mind me but these rappers are stinkingly rich also but their music tells these teenagers that u can be rich without goin' to school which is total bull. See why i think they don't care about education? Honestly, i don't know when slavery stopped but i know it's been long. As u said, it's like 42 years ago but that is no reason why they are still not powerful in the community. At least, they are now free, right? i think. So, why aren't they usin' this opportunity to pursue their goals after bein' deprived of it for so long?

Chiogo,

I believe that African Americans have made tremendous strides in all area's of life. The two greatest problems African Americans still face.

Education of our children.
Legal System.

Which shouldn't be surprising.

1. Educationally Blacks were ourlawed from reading.
2. Legally it was always the sheriff or police who gave blacks to be lynched to mobs, for crimes such as spitting.

Those are two areas of American life that are still due to have more racial upheavels.

42 years has shown some progress in those areas but their still our toughest concerns.

Chiogo,

Well, you say what you want. I will keep adding the facts:


Read it again. This black man did not care if parents were involved, he actually believes that teachers are in the education business and if they are not educating black kids, then they need to get out of the education business instead of trying to make black parents become the educators, so they can blame black parents!