Being an African-American in the USA is a tough job. You are discriminated in every possible field you can imagine.
Disproportional police brutality, disproportional criminal sentences, being locked up in a ghetto, living in poverty and poor educational system.
However, if the government appears not to care you have to seize your opportunity. And I don’t mean being hustlers, drugs dealers, or criminals.
The fact of a matter is you live in capitalism and Al Capone said: “This American system of ours, call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you will, gives each and every one of us a great opportunity if we only seize it with both hands and make the most of it.”
As I said before, I don’t really mean you to be the thugs and there are, of course, limits like IQ, talent, creativity, emotional intelligence and so on but you must try and do your best and reverse the system’s effect.
If the majority of Americans would talk African-American Vernacular English and African-Americans would talk General American what language would sound weird? Yes, the General American.
Your dialect preserves the ancient element of the English language but it is considered under par. So I urge you to talk General American even if it means defying your ancestry.
You should blend with the majority of society, try to self-educate as much as you can, have strong willpower and build up a strong work ethic.
And you have your idols that already made it in the American system. And again, I don’t mean rappers or sportsmen. I mean engineers, scientists, activists or politicians.
You are truly disadvantaged but doing nothing and blaming everyone and everything is really counter-productive.
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