----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan Minette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 9:09 AM Subject: African not "black" enough?
> My "daughter" Nelli and I had a long talk last night about world politics, > Africa, Europe, the US, land mines, Iraq, etc. Toward the end of it we > discussed multi-generation African Americans. She said that that she has > been told repeatedly that she wasn't "black enough" because she takes hard > classes, goes to model UN, etc., instead of "chilling." She noted that > first generation African Americans do much better than muli-generation > African Americans. > > I've got a couple of questions about this: > > Is this a reasonable sample? > > Why? My intended Susan works with a young lady who is from Nigeria (I believe). This very subject is a continuing topic of conversation between Lydia and Susan during work and Susan and me after work and on odd occasions the three of us when Susan and Lydia are on the phone (with Susan passing messages between Lydia and me). Basicly her story is the same as Nelli's. She gets treated differently and is somewhat isolated by Americans of African descent, mainly because she is well spoken and educated. Lydia has been known to describe her A/A co-workers (in private) as "low class niggers" because of the extreme difference in value systems as compared to the enviroment she grew up in. (I suppose she has picked up this americanism in America). Lydia seems to me to be quite frustrated by all this. She even refuses to date A/A men. She doesnt trust them, and instead dates any other race. Not exactly what I expected. xponent Kamehameha Wave Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
