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In Reply to: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters posted by Dave_K on June 29, 2020 at 11:36:26:
I shared this story before but I think it is instructive.
We had a fair number of technicians on the high tech manufacturing lines, one in particular that helped me with a computer issue, shared his story with me. I've never forgotten it because I was so surprised by it.
He got really good with computers and computer machine control and we hired him. He was a great asset to our manufacturing lines. I asked him how he got so good at it. Basically he wanted to be able to earn money and buy nice things. Novel concept. When he took the job and started earning good money, his friends and some of his family disowned him. He told me they called him an Uncle Tom and he was working for "da Man". The pressure was for him to quit and become dependent on government handouts, like they were. There was a lot of crime in this neighborhood and at one time it was known as the crack capital of our area. Tony refused and ended up leaving his home neighborhood, buying a home in a nice part of town.
The point is, there is pressure on these potentially upwardly mobile black youths to not participate in meaningful work. Thankfully, Tony made the right choice and is doing very well because of it.
Why is there this cultural push to not work for the white man and stay dependent on government handouts? It doesn't make any sense.
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- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 16:34:04 06/29/20 (5)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 17:50:59 06/29/20 (4)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 18:17:59 06/29/20 (3)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 18:36:56 06/29/20 (2)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - Dave B 18:54:17 06/29/20 (1)
- RE: Obviously, these things are meaningful to the protesters - rivervalley817 19:23:11 06/29/20 (0)