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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sundiata: [QB] [QUOTE]Originally posted by osirion: My answer to that: The first Indian-American Governor and new Governor Elect of Louisiana., USA Bobby Jindal (Rep).[/QUOTE]Point? Jindal is a conservative Christian with American core values. More importantly, Deval Patrick is the first African American and current governor of Massachusetts, while the current governor of New York, David Paterson, is also African American. Also, Jindal isn't Somali. In other words, your point is moot. [QUOTE]Background: Black Americans have the mark of slavery on their psyche that will take a few more generations to remove.[/QUOTE]As a community maybe, but individuals excel much easier and this is self-evident given a lot of the high ranking positions AAs hold over other minorities such as Latinos, NAs, Arabs and other non-white minorities. [QUOTE]This impacts their self-esteem, interdependency with others of their own community, lack of cultural identity and so on.[/QUOTE]The "lack of cultural identity" is the uneducated assessment of an obvious outsider. AA culture is well-defined and is how such a community kept pride and survived what was initially a nightmare. Much of American culture is west African derived actually. [QUOTE]Impact: Difficulty in transcending issues of race without internal conflicts.[/QUOTE]Culturally, one can argue that by generalization, though it has nothing whatsoever to do with the perception of an INDIVIDUAL running for office and how he conducts himself as an American. [QUOTE] Opinion: It is easier for a Somalian to become President than a Black American. Of coucomingrse, the Somalian would have to be Christian and not a Mulsim. So, much easier for a Coptic Ethiopian than a Somalian. Problem for both of them is that they are not legally capable of doing so.[/QUOTE]Your opinion is an extremely sloppy one, I must say and is based on nothing whatsoever, neither is it a response to me, which is why you change the criteria and fantasize about a Christian Somali somehow becoming president of the United States. The same Somalis who never even won a city council position, let alone become runner up in the primary for president and actually winning states (Jesse Jackson), or becoming Supreme Court Justice (Marshal), or Governors of Mass and New York, or being 3rd highest rank in the House of Reps (Clyburn), or Secretary of State (Powell AND Rice), and the list goes on. I couldn't imagine a Somali, Muslim or otherwise, becoming any of those in the near future, let alone president of my country. Knowing what I know, that's laughable. Obama's an AA, but for sake of argument I didn't mention him since he's not an AMERICAN slave descendant. [QUOTE]The point from me was that many African people have a clear identity which provides clear cultural values. [/QUOTE]Sorry, Americans don't care about Somali cultural values. They detest them, by and large. What's of chief concern is your American values, which an African AMERICAN manifest. This is why I stress affirmatively that AAs incorporate much easier into the American framework. They're more nibble and adaptable here. [QUOTE]can most naturally This provides for a character that is less likely to be broken by the white supremacy model found in America. The "I CAN" attitude is more prevalent. [/QUOTE]White supremacy affects everyone who lives here, rather emotionally, physically, or financially. Either it gets to you, you have to work harder to achieve the same, or you don't work hard and achieve nothing. Either way, you're affected which is why in America, emphasis is placed on the American dream and the individual who understands best how to attain it. Black Americans have more variability in what it is they have and can achieve more frequently than 1rst or 2nd generation Blacks. All this talk about potentially being broken, yet no one else has overcome as many obstacles in this country, besides Native Americans maybe. [/QB][/QUOTE]
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