rjrcin Turned down for an IRS job hiring eighty people. Very insulting. No way are that many people better than I am. - February 27, 2011 add/view comments (0)

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End of the World

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Last week everyone was seeing if the world would end at 6:00. Earlier this week I was thinking about how much it would suck for me personally and for blacks in general if the world actually had ended last Saturday.

For me personally, the world would have ended before I ever got the chance to enjoy the good things that life has to offer, and experiencing what it is like to have a life that I choose for myself, as opposed to one that is dictated by taking whatever I can get.

For blacks in... (continue reading)

I have what she needs, but she doesn't want it from me

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A few months ago, I was just minding my own business at my job tutoring fellow students. The student I was scheduled to help was not at the center, so another student who was in the room and knew that I tutored math asked me to help her. So I did. Didn't think anything of it. Good way to kill time as I still had to stay there because I had another student on the way, so I couldn't leave.

After a while, I would notice that she would notice whenever I wasn't tutoring anyone, and... (continue reading)

My black empowerment suggestion

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I have come up with my political/economic philosophy, based on things I have read and would like to see tried, and things that are being done that need to change.

 

First off, after learning about an organization called Republic of New Africa and their efforts in the ‘60’s to convince blacks to exercise self-determination, I believe that black Americans should want to govern themselves and control their own political jurisdictions. I don’t think we will... (continue reading)

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WE ARE OUR OWN WORST ENEMY

I started noticing this reality at a much younger age than most people. It first became apparent when at my all-black elementary school, I started noticing that I was basically the only person there who was smart. I also seemed to be the only person who attempted to follow the rules. I don't know why black people, particularly young blacks in the inner-city, think that it is bad to be good, I just know that as someone who was being taught at home how to be successful, it was the worst possible environment for me to have been raised in.

It is hard to maintain a focus on success when everyone around you keeps distracting you with irrelevant stuff like rap, basketball, fighting, and certain clothes.

When I got to high school, I thought I would finally have a break from ghetto %#&@$! when I earned admission to the best school in the city. Unfortunately, many of the black kids there were just as ghetto as the ones I had left behind, didn't seem to be all that smart, and were so numerous. So I didn't get the psychological break I needed that was necessitated by being around niggaz for what seemed like 24/7. I didn't get the experience of being around people for whom "ghetto" wasn't "normal."

I still managed to earn a full college scholarship, and I thought I was on my way. Unfortunately, when I got to college, it became apparent just how much normal development I had missed out on by having to be around niggaz all the time. It probably kept me from having the type of access I needed to information that would have helped me make sure I picked the right school for me, and the right major to study, and I missed out on the social development that I would most likely have gotten had I not been mostly around ghetto kids I didn't fit in with.

So I just decided to finish my degree and everything would take care of itself. No one told me that while I was in the process of escaping the ghetto, employers had changed the rules so that everything I was working for would end up being worthless. I accomplished my goal of getting my degree, but I'm still stuck around these ghetto-%#&@$! niggaz because employers decided that now only certain degrees matter. So I put up with all that %#&@$! for all those years for what? So I could end up working at a Greyhound Station because after trying for almost 5 years I couldn't get a real job. So I could end up going to community college, which takes everyone, including ex-cons, hoping extra education will eventually get me a real job.

So it is frustrating to succeed where others not only failed, but in some cases, didn't even try, and my reward is to still be stuck around the same %#&@$! that I invested time and money into education in order to flush from my life. A good-paying job was part of my strategy to get over my past, but someone must have decided I don't deserve a good life despite my hard work.

It seems like the least likely path to success for a black American is to surround himself with other blacks. How can we improve as an entire race, so that we are no longer on the bottom of all the good categories and at the top of all the bad categories, when so many of our people don't care about school, don't care about how they act in public, think the ghetto is cool, basically just aren't trying to improve themselves? And what can be done so that people like me, who didn't want anything else but get away from these clowns, not slip through the cracks when it really matters, getting a job that pays well, after making it to adulthood without becoming a teen parent, gang member, or ex-con? If anyone deserves good things to happen in life, it's people like us.

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